STAIRCASE

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staircase substantiv

scară, casa scării;

corkscrew/ spiral staircase scară în spirală;

principal staircase scară principală.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“How came you here? How came you up that staircase?”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Several of the back windows on the staircase had been darkened or wholly blocked up.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“They cannot have been sitting long,” cried Mrs. Grant, “for when I went up for my shawl I saw them from the staircase window, and then they were walking.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

In a short time Elinor saw Willoughby quit the room by the door towards the staircase, and telling Marianne that he was gone, urged the impossibility of speaking to him again that evening, as a fresh argument for her to be calm.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Consequently Mr. Micawber was soon so overcome, that he mingled his tears with hers and mine; until he begged me to do him the favour of taking a chair on the staircase, while he got her into bed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She would not stir farther from the East room than the head of the great staircase, till she had satisfied herself of Mr. Crawford's having left the house; but when convinced of his being gone, she was eager to go down and be with her uncle, and have all the happiness of his joy as well as her own, and all the benefit of his information or his conjectures as to what would now be William's destination.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

But I know that when I saw her turn round, in the grave light of the old staircase, and wait for us, above, I thought of that window; and I associated something of its tranquil brightness with Agnes Wickfield ever afterwards.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The lower part of the house had been now entirely shewn, and Mrs. Rushworth, never weary in the cause, would have proceeded towards the principal staircase, and taken them through all the rooms above, if her son had not interposed with a doubt of there being time enough.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Miss Dartle saw you pass a night or two ago; and I was to sit at work on the staircase, and when I saw you pass again, to ask you to step in and speak to her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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