back-stairs

When a set of artful men pretended, through the medium of oracles, to hold intercourse with the Deity, as familiarly as they now march up the back-stairs in European courts, the world was completely under the government of superstition.

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When we got to the Castle I followed Hutton smartly through a side-door, up some back-stairs, and along to heavy double doors where a burly civilian was standing guard; I gave my whiskers a martial twitch as he opened the door, and stepped briskly in.

Fiancée 2010

I had a glimpse of his towering bulk, with the smoky glare beneath him, and then the chorus of yells and screams from the hall redoubled, there was a rushing of feet, a splintering of timber - and East and I were doubling down the back-stairs at speed, Valla sobbing against my chest as I swept her along.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

He plumped down on a chair, mopping at the shaving-soap on his cheeks - I'd practically had to manhandle his valet to be admitted, and I'd left a trail of startled minions on the back-stairs in my haste to get to his room.

Fiancée 2010

Chase told Fessenden that Secretary of State Seward had obtained an evil ascendancy overthe mind of the President, and that his “back-stairs influence” effectively controlled the executive.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Chase told Fessenden that Secretary of State Seward had obtained an evil ascendancy overthe mind of the President, and that his “back-stairs influence” effectively controlled the executive.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

I have known its back-stairs, and I have discerned, in the march of events, a Power which you call

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

Chase told Fessenden that Secretary of State Seward had obtained an evil ascendancy overthe mind of the President, and that his “back-stairs influence” effectively controlled the executive.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Above stairs and below, waste tracts of passage intervened between patches of fertility represented by rooms; and there was a mouldy old well with a green growth upon it, hiding like a murderous trap, near the bottom of the back-stairs, under the double row of bells.

The Haunted House 2007

Above stairs and below, waste tracts of passage intervened between patches of fertility represented by rooms; and there was a mouldy old well with a green growth upon it, hiding like a murderous trap, near the bottom of the back-stairs, under the double row of bells.

The Haunted House 2007