"Back stairs" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... among rivers of mud and mazes of shifting sand. With difficulty I recovered my steps, and finding my way back to the building was forced to content myself by an exit among the crowd of Senators and Representatives who were thronging down the back stairs. ...
— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope
... back stairs, as if the house was falling, Mrs. Hardway went to see what the trouble was, and opened the kitchen door just in time to receive a full glass of ...
— Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier • Frances Trego Montgomery
... to influence the King and his ministers. He might have taken warning from the royal speech attributed to the Queen Mother in reply to the Kaiser: "The House of Savoy rules one at a time." He should have kept away from the back stairs. He should have known Italy well enough to realize that the elements of Roman society with which he was affiliated do not represent either power or public opinion in Italy any more than good society does in most modern states. Roman aristocracy, like all ...
— The World Decision • Robert Herrick
... internally; and they proceeded softly down the back stairs and out of the garden gate. Montraville and Belcour were ...
— Charlotte Temple • Susanna Rowson
... time he came Hazel saw him descending from the coach, and without a word to any one, although it was almost supper time, and the early winter twilight was upon them, she seized her fur cloak and slipped down the back stairs, out through the shadows, across the road, where she surprised good Amelia Ellen by flinging her arms about her neck and bursting into tears right in the dark front hall, for the gust of wintry wind from the open door blew the candle out, and Amelia Ellen stood astonished ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
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