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  • After descending a handsome flight of banistered stairs and slipping through an unbarred but guarded door, he arrived in the royal mounting-yard.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • The banistered stairway that led up to the door was aluminum also.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • The banistered stairway that led up to the door was aluminum also.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • The banistered stairway that led up to the door was aluminum also.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • The banistered stairway that led up to the door was aluminum also.

    Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley 1998

  • I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up to the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keepbiographies and fiction.

    Dancer Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1986

  • After a spell of indecision in the corridor, he turned and proceeded up the dark-banistered stairs to the second story.

    The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart

  • When she departed from her father’s house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowing as a woman’s body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set high from the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; a dim, rich house, gracious but aloof.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • When she departed from her father’s house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowing as a woman’s body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set high from the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; a dim, rich house, gracious but aloof.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

  • When she departed from her father’s house forever, she had left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowing as a woman’s body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stucco house built in the French colonial style, set high from the ground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs, banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; a dim, rich house, gracious but aloof.

    Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996

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