How To Use Stairhead In A Sentence
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A ballad flying from voice to voice across the country, sung at the ingle-neuk, repeated from one to another in the little crowd at a "stairhead," in which the grossest humorous view was the best adapted for the people, represented popular literature.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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Cam's own table was at the stairhead, the better to greet and farewell his guests, and to ask a favoured one occasionally to join him for a quick drink.
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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He is a little timid, 'he proceeded, stiffening himself, and walking trimly to the stairhead.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Bloomsday 2010: 'Ulysses' Celebrated Around The World (PHOTOS, POLL)
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The stairhead cludgie door was ajar, which it hadn't been when I'd left.
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The man who comes to paint the stairhead is frightened, but I am not supposed to overhear about that.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Antoine took up his position at the stairhead, so that he could see all the clerks as they came in under the arched gateway.
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The four porters have now come up and are waiting at the stairhead to be paid.
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There was a time when people did not report domestic violence, for example, and I'm quite sure that not every scuffle at a stairhead would be reported.
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Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
"Hence we shave our beards that we may seem purified by innocence and humility..."
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The figure passed on to the stairhead, where it was limned momentarily against the faint glow that came up from below, and at the glimpse of that vague black image against the red, she almost fainted.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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TEXT: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
Miguel Cohen’s “Ulysses,” Part 1 : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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Joyce of course, "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed," and I am a sucker for the opening of both The Wind in the Willows and The Hobbit...
Archive 2008-09-01
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She didn't even gasp; after a second her mouth opened wide, and when I drew her in with a hand on her rump she clung like a good 'un while I kneaded avidly and breathed in her heavy perfume ... and then the blasted butler's step sounded at the stairhead, and she broke away, flushed and laughing, and quickly drew herself up, mock demure.
THE NUMBERS
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Sue let out a terrific shriek and leapt out of the way at the stairhead.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
