THE TIDE was rising on the Thames as the Gowan women descended the public water-stairs. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)
He always turns down the water-stairs, comes up again, and then goes on down the Waterloo Road. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Then he went softly down the water-stairs and sneaked past old Minna's and Tonio's and Maria's empty gondolas all tied up at the bottom. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)
Then Benito squirted out again and scrambled up the water-stairs and on over towards Cannaregio. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2002)
Saddening me more, I saw too from several points the dark towers of the Citadel on the opposite bank, and on the second or third such sighting it came to me that when I had swum from the eastern bank, diving from the water-stairs and fighting with the tenement children, I had once or twice noticed this narrow line of white on the other shore, so far upstream as to be nearly beyond sight. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)
Cheers sounded across the water as the ships moored by the water-stairs. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)
I showed her, under the water-stairs of Ortygia, where the spring of Arethusa comes up fresh into the sea. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1966)
She was so dear, it seemed, to Dionysos, that his vine-grown ship would glide by starlight to the water-stairs, and he would come to her in the shape of a black-haired man. ❋ Renault, Mary (1962)
A rowing-boat landed us on green seaweedy rocks, and we walked up the old shell-encrusted water-stairs, and under the arch of the Water-port Gate, above which is carved in Arabic, "The glorious King, my lord Mohammed, ordered the building of this gate by his servant Hamed, son of Hammoo, 1184." ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
Long before the hour appointed I reached the water-stairs at Fane ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
"Well!" said Lisbeth as we glided up to the water-stairs; "I wonder what mischief you have been after together?" ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
So once more we stood upon the old water-stairs, she on the top stair, I on the lower; and again I saw the little foot beneath her skirt come slowly towards me and hesitate. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
It set off the captain's vast breadth of shoulder and massive limbs, and as he stepped into his hired boat the idlers at the water-stairs gazed upon him with an admiration of which he was well aware, for besides being very splendidly dressed he looked as if he could have swept them all into the canal with a turn of his hand. ❋ Unknown (1881)
A few minutes later the launch ran alongside of the Vinegar Sellers 'Landing on the Stamboul shore, and the kaváss came aft to inform the brothers that the carriage was waiting by the water-stairs. ❋ Unknown (1881)
What were petty joys and absence of petty fears to her, the raising of whose hand could hurl armies, or draw to the water-stairs of her palaces the commerce of the world! ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)
The iron gate at the top of the water-stairs was seldom locked, nor were the boat-houses often shut, as boats were being taken in and out at all hours, and, for the rest, neglect and carelessness might always be reckoned upon in the Fareham household. ❋ Unknown (1875)
At the last moment, as Connie and Ellen scrambled to board the wherry at the Shene water-stairs, Jane pressed a piece of paper into Connie’s hand. ❋ Posie Graeme-Evans (2010)
I asked Waterloo if he had given his mind to the possibility of this particular customer going down the water-stairs at three o’clock some morning, and never coming up again? ❋ Unknown (2007)
a cellar leading under our house and the next, and opening on a back street -- this, that his steps might not be traced to the front door; and it was well that he went, for on the quay, hiding behind a stack of timber, he saw two men in uniform posted at the head of the water-stairs. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Spanish for that is) tugged at the anchors, the sails filled with the morning breeze, and while the people of Palos watched them from the shore, while the good friar, Juan Perez, raised his hands to Heaven calling down a blessing on the enterprise, while the children waved a last good-by from the water-stairs, the three vessels steered out from ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)
