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Through the uneven lighting dotting the stairlike catwalks, Serri could discern a form moving on a platform about two levels above.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Through the uneven lighting dotting the stairlike catwalks, Serri could discern a form moving on a platform about two levels above.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Through the uneven lighting dotting the stairlike catwalks, Serri could discern a form moving on a platform about two levels above.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

From the turn in the road, in front of the house, a footpath leads down the bank of the river to the cliff, and, climbing stairlike up the face of the steep bluff, zigzags down the easier slope of the down-river side, to come again into the road below.

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Harold Bell Wright 1908

Curiously, Brian watched the deformed mountain girl as she made her way up the narrow, stairlike path, and her cutting words came back to him:

The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Harold Bell Wright 1908

And that the Egyptians were a nation of mast-head standers, is an assertion based upon the general belief among archaeologists, that the first pyramids were founded for astronomical purposes: a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stairlike formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

a theory singularly supported by the peculiar stairlike formation of all four sides of those edifices; whereby, with prodigious long upliftings of their legs, those old astronomers were wont to mount to the apex, and sing out for new stars; even as the look-outs of a modern ship sing out for a sail, or a whale just bearing in sight.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855