Y'know, an old man came here once to see his dear departed niece. Fell down these stairs. It was really quite amusing. He came to ...pay his last respects, and he remained to share them. Quite amusing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stai...rs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a t...endency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Well!" thought Alice to herself. "After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave they'll all... think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in t...heir old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourse...lves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down,... Looking back over her shoulder at some fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When they sometimes Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed... Behind the door and headboard of the bed, Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers, With sounds like the dry rattling of a shutter,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, s...oldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »