I ran towards the staircase, followed by our women. The murderers left the heyduc to come to me. The women threw themselves at their feet, and held their sabres. The narrowness of the staircase impeded the assassins; but I had already felt a horrid hand thrust into my back to seize me by my clothes, when some one called out from the bottom of the staircase, "What are you doing above there? We don't kill women." I was on my knees; my executioner quitted his hold of me, and said, "Get up, you jade; the nation pardons you."英文原著 · 《The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette》
Farther back, staircase leading to a little room under the roof, the entrance of which is visible through the open shutter. In this room a table is laid. A small Flemish luster is alight. It is a place for eating and drinking. A wooden gallery, continuing the staircase, apparently leads to other similar little rooms.英文原著 · 《Cyrano de Bergerac》
"That's her room," he said, pointing to a door opposite the head of the staircase, half a dozen steps up, and so saying, the yellow-faced man walked quickly downstairs and left him. Desmond heard his feet echo on the staircase and the door of the tap-room slam.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
The side-door led into a little white passage with a green baize door at the end. A staircase, which from its white-washed treads, Desmond judged to be the back stairs, gave on the passage. Calculating that the men in the garden would be certain to use the main staircase, Desmond took the back stairs which, on the first lauding, brought him face to face with a green baize door, similar in every respect to that on the floor below.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
Ten minutes later the whole school was assembled in the library, from which one flight of stairs led to the upper storeys. The staircase was shrouded from view by a dark curtain hanging from a Gothic arch; it was through this curtain that the headmaster used dramatically to appear on important occasions, and it was up this staircase that boys guilty of cardinal offences were led off to corporal punishment.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》
Presently a rustle was heard, and the headmaster swept down the staircase and through the curtain, robed in the black silk gown of an LL.D. He stood at a high desk which was placed opposite the staircase in front of the boys, who sat, in the order of their divisions, on rows of chairs. The three assistant masters walked in from a side door, also in their gowns, and took seats to the right and left of the headmaster's desk. There was a breathless silence.英文原著 · 《Orpheus in Mayfair and Other》
Yep. This is not a "Nude descending a staircase," this is a "Nude vacuuming a staircase." Okay, Manny. Joe's asleep.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
All seven of my sisters and brothers-- we line up on the staircase in our brand-new Christmas PJs美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
A little over the sweater, under sweater, a little front door, back door, a little secret staircase?美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I happen to find that particular staircase picture very glamorous I happen to find that particular staircase picture very glamorous演讲 · 《On glamour ~ Virginia Postrel》