In that day and in that hour I bid thee remember how we stood together erst at the stair-foot of the ❋ Unknown (2007)
While she ironed she heard him coming down stairs; he stopped to put on his boots at the stair-foot, where he always left them, and then came on into the living-room where she was ironing, passing through it towards the door, this being the only way from the staircase to the outside of the house. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But, once at the stair-foot, she threw aside the spell and recovered her sensible and workaday self. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The servants in the kitchen, hearing the strain, stole to the stair-foot to listen: even old Helstone, as he walked in the garden, pondering over the unaccountable and feeble nature of women, stood still amongst his borders to catch the mournful melody more distinctly. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then the knights parters of the lists took up Sir Mador, and led him to his tent, and the other knight went straight to the stair-foot where sat King Arthur; and by that time was the queen come to the king, and either kissed other heartily. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She went up the brick step into the front room, that still had its little shop counter and its bundles of goods, and she called from the stair-foot. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Beyond the stair-foot was a hall, and going down from it a sunken shrine. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)
He jumped for the stair-foot, and closed the door behind him; and as he snatched his candle and fled upward, the stillness of the night was broken by the sound of urgent footsteps approaching the house. ❋ Unknown (1955)
Over him in the darkness poured his assailants, too close upon each other in their eagerness, and while they struggled at the stair-foot he drew softly back. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Miss Mary, in great tribulation, was waiting on them at the stair-foot, her face, with all its trouble in dark and throbbing lines, lit up by the lamp above the merchant's door. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Olivia had come down to the corridor; aloft Annapla had renewed her lamentations; the four of them stood clustered in the narrow passage at the stair-foot. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
With our pack-ropes we hauled the various articles first into the little room at the stair-foot, and then toilsomely carried them to the heights above. ❋ Thomas Allibone Janvier (N/A)
A princess, mind you, and she looked all the more that because her uncle met me at the stair-foot as I was going in. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Mungo, with a bold aspect well essayed, but in no accord with the tremour of his knees and the pallor of his countenance, stood, in dragging pantaloons and the gaudy Kilmarnock cap cocked upon his bald head, at the stair-foot with a flambeau in his hand. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
The Cornal put the boy in front of him and pushed him towards the stair-foot. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
It was a strange and romantic spectacle he made moving thus through the darkness, the lamp swaying his shadow on the stairway as he descended, and he could have asked for no more astonishment in the face of his jailer than he found in Mungo's when that domestic met him at the stair-foot. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
'Aweel,' murmured the listener with pricked ears, who sat beside gong and tea-tray at the stair-foot, '_I'm thinkin if the Meenister's ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
However, without staying for the light, he got to the stair-head in such haste, that stumbling against the corps, he gave it such a kick, as made it tumble down quiite to the stair-foot, and with difficulty saved himself. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
I think I hear her stir, (_goes to the stair-foot and looks up_) ay! her door now stands open, place yourself just here, and you may view her plainly without being seen yourself; her face is turned towards us, but her eyes are fixed upon a writing in her hands. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
We could hear at the close-mouth and far up and down the street the shouting of the burghers, and knew that at the stair-foot they were trying to pull out the bottom-most of the marauders like tods from a hole. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
wheelchair foot stairs is [1337] [rock paper scissors] ❋ Atlec (2006)
