stair's

Every second he expected to see the blaze of a gun from the trapdoorlike hole that gaped at the stair's head.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

Sharpe, reaching the stair's head, found himself shrouded in a fog of dust and smoke.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

Every second he expected to see the blaze of a gun from the trapdoor-like hole that gaped at the stair's head.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

Sharpe, reaching the stair's head, found himself shrouded in a fog of dust and smoke.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

"The secret stair's like a sound tunnel," Antryg whispered as they reached the far end of the gallery.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Now, standing at the stair's head with Captain d'Alembord, he felt a surge of affection for these soldiers whose life was so hard and whose pleasures so few and who knew how to take both hardship and pleasure in their stride.

Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985

Then he heard the friendly challenge from the sentry at the curved stair's head.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

Sharpe had thought that the room with the food must be the main room of the Palacio, but he was shown, at the stair's top, through a door and into a hall that took his breath away.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

Then he heard the friendly challenge from the sentry at the curved stair's head.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

The head seemed to bounce up, light brown hair flapping, the blood already dripping, and then the head slumped down again and Harper's body slipped until it was caught on the stair's bend and he lay, spreadeagled and bloody, head downwards, on the scrubbed stone stairway.

Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983