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  • I experienced the seeping cold that comes from the broken windows in the stair-way opposite the door to my apartment, and the not-so-charming effect of the wind blowing under my linoleum-floor-covering making small rolling-hill-like air pockets for me to trip over.

    Archive 2004-11-01 Eric Wiley 2004

  • I experienced the seeping cold that comes from the broken windows in the stair-way opposite the door to my apartment, and the not-so-charming effect of the wind blowing under my linoleum-floor-covering making small rolling-hill-like air pockets for me to trip over.

    The Snow is Falling Now Eric Wiley 2004

  • Two men led my mother down a steep and gliddery stair-way, like the ladder of a hay-mow; and thence from the break of the falling water as far as the house of the captain.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • He caught the attention of a steward and shoved the life jackets at him, then followed Carey toward the nearest stair-way.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • He caught the attention of a steward and shoved the life jackets at him, then followed Carey toward the nearest stair-way.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The circular stair-way was twice as wide and as elaborate as the one in the House of Dumas.

    All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995

  • The circular stair-way was twice as wide and as elaborate as the one in the House of Dumas.

    All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995

  • She started down the corridor, toward the cells farthest from the stair-way.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • This was a terraced mound, faced by buildings on three sides, leaving an immense stair-way occupying the fourth side.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • Ascending an oaken stair-way within the door, I come upon the living-room of the

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

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