fire-escapes

Faded advertisements and rickety fire-escapes cloak street facades.

Simon Jenkins: Only One Scar of 9/11 Has Failed to Heal 2008

I was told the delivery folks know to climb up the fire-escapes and be met at the windows.

Marilyn M. Machlowitz: Nothing Says Home for the Holidays Like Take-Out 2008

EscapeRail, a gallery of arty photos of fire-escapes, is soliciting submissions.

Boing Boing: September 8, 2002 - September 14, 2002 Archives 2002

And then he recited the old formula of his world, the one his mother had taught him as she knelt beside him at the bedroom window, both of them looking out at the evening star which rode the oncoming darkness above the rooftops and fire-escapes of Brooklyn: "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight; wish I may, wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight."

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Mr. Braidwood was meanwhile improving the fire-escapes, and when new engines were added to the force, he procured better workmanship.

Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood

Then, with hair-starting war-whoops, the savages began dropping down through the trap-door, which opened from one hall to another in the capacity of fire-escapes.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 Various

The football team, trained to meet emergencies, forgot their cruel play and scattered, over seats and railing, everywhere, to fire-escapes and doorways, taking command of wild, stampeding people, showing their training and their courage.

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

"Why, the quill-drivers at Somerset House and those damned fire-escapes."

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

Did you know they 'ain't got' nouf fire-escapes to get half of us out ef anythin 'happened?

The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

I was told that instruction as to what to do in case of fire in the building is carefully given, but saw no fire-escapes, except the stairways.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton