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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
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But this passage-way was very narrow and much steeper.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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A tolerably wide-paved lobby, a kind of passage-way, led to the public office.
Eve and David 2007
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A tolerably wide-paved lobby, a kind of passage-way, led to the public office.
Eve and David 2007
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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
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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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