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  • The stairway was spiral, like the ascending passage-way to the place where the movable floor was.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • But this passage-way was very narrow and much steeper.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • After much hard work a passage-way was thus opened, and by noon the command was crossed to the south bank, and after thawing out and drying our clothes before big fires, we headed for a point on the Washita, where Clark said there was plenty of wood, and good water too, to make us comfortable till the blizzard had blown over.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • The entrance is through a sort of passage-way beneath the floor of the second story, in which two or three coaches had room to stand.

    A Start in Life 2007

  • A tolerably wide-paved lobby, a kind of passage-way, led to the public office.

    Eve and David 2007

  • A tolerably wide-paved lobby, a kind of passage-way, led to the public office.

    Eve and David 2007

  • Francie bowed low, left the room, closed the door behind him: and then turned him about in the passage-way, and with a low voice, but

    Lay Morals 2005

  • But neither the architecture nor the friends seemed to be the central thrust of the dream, for sooner or later, in dim stone passage-way or brightly windowed corridor, we would come to a door, silent and undemanding, and I would finger a key in my pocket.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

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