The secretary had turned the latch-key in the door, only to be hauled back by the collar as the door stood open, and the light from the inner room was seen streaming upon the banisters at the foot of the narrow stairs.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
It cost him more than he may know until I tell him. There was the wide part of the landing between us; we had just that much start along the narrow part, with the walls and doors upon our left, the banisters on our right, and the baize door at the end. But if the great Guillemard had not stopped to live up to his sporting reputation, he would assuredly have laid one or other of us by the heels, and either would have been tantamount to both. As I gave Raffles a headlong lead to the baize door, I glanced down the great well of stairs, and up came the daft yells of these sporting oafs:英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
Ma'ame Pelagie had been conversing with her brother and his friends. Then she turned and walked away; stopping to listen awhile to the music which La Petite was making. But it was only for a moment. She went on around the curve of the veranda, where she found herself alone. She stayed there, erect, holding to the banister rail and looking out calmly in the distance across the fields.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
He turned over again and put his ear to the ground--Indians could hear things coming ever so far--but he could hear nothing--only the concertina! And almost instantly he did hear a grinding sound, a faint toot. it was a car--coming--coming! Up he jumped. Should he wait in the porch, or rush upstairs, and as they came in, shout: "Look!" and slide slowly down the banisters, head foremost? Should he? The car turned in at the drive. It was too late!英文原著 · 《Awakening & To Let》
"Well, it shall not rest where it is," she added, tapping the banister with her yellow fingers. "I shall inform the Countess."英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
A slight tendency to dizziness obliged her, after a provisional clutch at the chimney against which they had been leaning, to follow him down more cautiously; and when she had reached the attic landing she paused again for a less definite reason, leaning over the oak banister to strain her eyes through the silence of the brown, sun-flecked depths below. She lingered there till, somewhere in those depths, she heard the closing of a door; then, mechanically impelled, she went down the shallow flights of steps till she reached the lower hall.英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
- I'm sorry. Did you need a compliment? - That's-- Oh, I loved the part where you got your head caught in the banister.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
was the handiest of all handymen. you could ask any of his customers, and they would tell you, there was nothing he couldn't fix. whether it was a broken vase... a leaky pipe... or a shaky banister, eli always knew how to get the job done. but sadly, the man who had fixed so many things for the resi美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Joey got meat sauce on the banister again.美剧 · 《Friends》