newel-post

• “By means of the newel-post I drew myself upright and listened.”

  CHAPTER XLIX

• “Taking advantage of favouring spells, I managed to effect my exit and gain the newel-post ere the next series of rolls came.”

  CHAPTER XXX

• “I missed a frantic clutch at the newel-post, flung up my arm in time to save my face, and, most fortunately, whirled half about, and, still falling, impacted with my shoulder muscle-pad on Captain West's door.”

  CHAPTER XXX

• “Annabel was struck by a confusing and downright disgraceful sense of loss fit to make her grasp the newel-post at the foot of the stairs.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE VOW

• “He was leaning against the newel-post, smoking the inevitable cigarette, and as I came hesitantly down the stairs he looked up and gave me a sardonic good morning.”

  Madam Will You Talk

• “He paused and leaned against the huge newel-post at the foot of some one's outer steps.”

  Dreamland

• “Lottie Pilgrim was standing under the hall burners with her elbow on the newel-post, looking more vividly charming than he had ever seen her before at Mrs. Cramcroud's sociable or elsewhere.”

  Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

• “Miss Pilgrim had just come to the newel-post of the staircase, and, when she looked into Daniel's face, blushed like the red, red rose, losing her self-possession perceptibly more than Daniel.”

  Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

• “And into the hall Mrs. Hilliard masterfully bundled the Culture Club of New Babylon, grouping it theatrically around the newel-post and up the winding stair.”

  The Henchman

• “Lottie Pilgrim was standing under the hall burners with her elbow on the newel-post, more vividly charming than he had ever seen her before, at”

  A Brace Of Boys 1867, From "Little Brother"

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