When a set of artful men pretended, through the medium of oracles, to hold intercourse with the Deity, as familiarly as they now march up the back-stairs in European courts, the world was completely under the government of superstition. ❋ Unknown (2010)
When we got to the Castle I followed Hutton smartly through a side-door, up some back-stairs, and along to heavy double doors where a burly civilian was standing guard; I gave my whiskers a martial twitch as he opened the door, and stepped briskly in. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I had a glimpse of his towering bulk, with the smoky glare beneath him, and then the chorus of yells and screams from the hall redoubled, there was a rushing of feet, a splintering of timber - and East and I were doubling down the back-stairs at speed, Valla sobbing against my chest as I swept her along. ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)
He plumped down on a chair, mopping at the shaving-soap on his cheeks - I'd practically had to manhandle his valet to be admitted, and I'd left a trail of startled minions on the back-stairs in my haste to get to his room. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Chase told Fessenden that Secretary of State Seward had obtained an evil ascendancy overthe mind of the President, and that his “back-stairs influence” effectively controlled the executive. ❋ MICHAEL KNOX BERAN (2007)
I have known its back-stairs, and I have discerned, in the march of events, a Power which you call ❋ Unknown (2007)
Above stairs and below, waste tracts of passage intervened between patches of fertility represented by rooms; and there was a mouldy old well with a green growth upon it, hiding like a murderous trap, near the bottom of the back-stairs, under the double row of bells. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In the end, though, the Lords are likely to cave in, led by the Tories who will extract maximum political advantage and then make a back-stairs deal. ❋ Richard (2007)
At the foot of the narrow back-stairs that descended from my room, I met M. Pelet. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So she would have had us come to amuse her, and go in and out by the back-stairs. ❋ Unknown (2006)
If you choose not to see the general, or my father or mother, should they step in to make their morning compliments, you can walk down the back-stairs into the garden, or into the next chamber. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The next you can find yourself in some seedy back-stairs or damp, forgotten store-rooms of which even the most under-funded FE college would be ashamed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
And I wended my way up the back-stairs, wondrously the wiser for my inquiries. ❋ Unknown (2006)
[Alex] didn't want to [come to] the [Foxy Lady]??? What is he, dragging pork up the back stairs?!?!?!? ❋ Dasword (2006)