She swallowed dryly several times during the arduous trek up the stairs to her apartment, but she was sleeping soundly again by the time Nately undressed her and put her to bed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The sound of him staggering up the stairs to our apartment told us all we needed to know. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Arya would wait until she heard him snoring, then creep barefoot up the servant's stair, making no more noise than the mouse she'd been. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then, one noon in August, Marie- Laure leads her great-uncle and Dr. Geffard up the long stairs and out into the sunlight and asks if it is safe to cross. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I race from my room and down the stairs to the kitchen. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

From memory I knew how my feet would land on each stair. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Slowly, Lyddie climbed the flight of stairs to the weaving room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rogers came out of the dining room and slipped halfway up the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The nutty aroma floated up the back stairs and into my room through the transom window above my door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs were the two bedrooms where the four of us would sleep. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The elevator stops on the second floor and he bursts out, running down the stairs, losing cell service as he does so. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone applauded as the bride was led up the stairs to the salon by Senator Mendoza. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like an eternity before I finally find my way to the stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’ve attached a wire to the heart, which rims to a loudspeaker, so you can hear the heart beating throughout the entire room, agonizingly slow, like an old man walking up stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs empty into a narrow hallway, and the scent of something powerful rotten hits me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The stairs were wide and I could see down the stairwell pretty good. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As he lay in his bed, he heard Karen’s door opening and the sound of small, frantic feet on the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, Chess felt like his feet got ahead of him as he climbed down the porch stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She patted his shoulder as she left the kitchen and took the stairs two at a time, hurrying so she could get back to him quickly. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I helped her up the stairs and got her onto the couch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I haul myself to my feet, push past him and run up the stairs, then slam the bedroom door behind me and lock it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amelia throws her bedroom door open and pounds back down the stairs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the Vanderbeeker apartment buzzed with kids and parents going in and out of bedrooms and bathrooms and up and down the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the phone ring and, after a minute, Reverend Buckminster hollering up the stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As they went down the stairs to the living room, Oliver remembered something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I grab a box and run up the stairs to my room because I have to do this fast, like, maybe it's already too late. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting one foot after the other, I chug up the stairs, my arms and legs starting to burn as I drag my body up to the fifth floor. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A burst chandelier sprawls across the entry stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the black-skinned girl led him up the stairs, she said, "Poor Dancy. She has a fortnight to get my lord to choose her. Else wise she loses her black pearls to Marei." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Adam swarmed on him as he came down the narrow stairs into the lobby. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I crept out of the room that no longer belonged to Jesse, and stood at the top of the stairs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As we hit the stairs, we can feel the bass under our feet. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I descended the stairs to street level, I had the persistent and disturbing sensation of floating above myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ron marched through the common room and out of sight up the stairs to the boys’ dormitories. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Turning, I saw Miss Kenton glaring up at me from the foot of the stairs. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Morning, Mr. P,” I said, climbing up the stairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The pallet looked soothing and cool, and the thought of climbing the stairs again made me weary. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo yelled, and he ran for the stairs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hears the German limp out of her room and go down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inside, I dropped my books on the stairs. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They took small, fast steps down the hill until they reached the stairs, doing their best to dodge tourists and pedestrians. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Annie and Luke were already in the kitchen cooking spaghetti when the boys’ bus dropped them off and they came rampaging up the stairs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She saw me at the top of the stairs and put her finger to her mouth again. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw Hela go down the stairs, so I thought you must be well. Finally.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

What a relief it was to climb the stairs and leave most of the racket two floors behind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, Ekon was surprised to find that what he’d always assumed was just a broom closet actually contained a set of narrow, inclining stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I ran down the stairs and into the parlor where Weylin lay on a sofa, ominously still and silent. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally reach the top of the stairs, our chests heaving, it is five minutes to midnight. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I turned without another word and raced back up the stairs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But instead, Bloody Juan escorted me down the stairs and outside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tired from hauling stuff up the stairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The man Jack followed his nose down the stairs through the middle of the tall, thin house. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Stevens blew out the lamp in the dissection room and ran up the stairs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

María Santiago’s footsteps came up the creaking stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

My parents followed me up the stairs, walking when I wanted them to run. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs, stepping long over the two that tend to creak. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did what we were told, stepping over the miserable crowd and up the stairs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs to the front entrance, doing my best to ignore all the eyes my suit attracts. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the stairs Gandalf and the king dismounted. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I take an elevator up to the third floor, and then walk to the other wing of the hospital and use the back stairs to get to the cafeteria. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

With each step up the winding stairs, the whispers faded away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

About how I tripped over my cat on the stairs and fell. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He started to descend the stairs but then he turned and leaned and kissed the child on the forehead. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They walked down the stairs to the dungeons and then into Snape’s office. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs is another door, with a frosted window on which the word “Office” is written in black letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And how should she be up there, without coming through the door, or in at the window, and up the stairs?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We climb the stairs to Italy and get the fire going and it’s cozy when we have our tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later in the day as I came around a corner, she tripped me so that I fell down a flight of stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs to the basement in case he was doing laundry, but the machines were silent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mum and Aunt Gloria’s voices called up and down the stairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had run down these same stairs as a little girl, with her nurse. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I said it, she had dashed up the stairs of her building. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hike the stairs back up to the fifth floor, and I don't even have to hold on to the railing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you might try this flight of stairs,” he suggested, opening another door and pointing up. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew tugged her ponytail as he passed by and headed down the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They slept beneath a set of stairs in an alley behind a tavern, tucked between a discarded stove and bags of kitchen refuse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It seems easier to do that than it does to climb up these stairs that I have climbed every single day since I was a baby. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They hear footsteps coming down the stairs, and then his father enters the living room, along with a uniformed man holding a clipboard. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Toby caught a flash of her breasts as she came running down the stairs, yelling Luke’s name. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He ducked into the hallway and bolted up the stairs into the apartment, where he found Aarfy pacing about uneasily with a pompous, slighdy uncomfortable smile. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Every day, whenever I could, I took the back stairs down to the deserted washroom and shut myself up for at least half an hour. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Raising his arm, he pointed at the stairs behind Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

They climbed the six flights of stairs easily—laughing and planning for the dance recital. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had always come down stairs that way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never, never forget what it had been like to see it rushing down those stairs like some kind of living beast. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I reach the bottom of the stairs before I realize that I’ve still got L. Roy’s book tucked under my arm. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She was waiting for him at the top of the stairs when he came home early one morning. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That just means you can walk up six flights of stairs without risking a heart attack. Where’d you pick that up?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But when he reached the top of the stairs, panting heavily, Scipio was already leaping down the last steps. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl walked up the stairs so quickly that Victor hardly got a chance to look around. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hallway, staircase, cloister, hallway, stair—I was getting dizzy and fearfully afraid that I was lost. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Grammy is yelling up the stairs to me, saying it’s Lobster Roll Sunday, which is a holiday that Henry made up once where we all go to Chatham Pier for lobster rolls. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Where the stone steps ended, a rickety set of stairs made from two-by-fours— more like a ladder than a staircase—took you up to the front porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper tells him that Vincent is in his room, number five, on the top floor, opposite the stairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was running down the hotel’s stairs, out through the kitchens, out back past the Dumpsters and through the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An indoor ladder grew stilts, turned into stairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went away from all the people, up the stairs. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard steps coming down the stairs and Mrs. Trek calling their names. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up, and my body moves forward in a jerk, then another, and then I’m flying down the stairs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Each of the two upper tiers had been built so they staggered outward, reversed stair steps. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Were he to drop here and happen to fall backward, down these few stairs he’d go. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A black figure stood waiting for me at the head of the stairs, the hollow eyes watching me intently from the white skull’s face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As Sophie descended the stairs, Hans hurried to help with her suitcase. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Down a flight of stairs, through a concealed side door and a second hidden corridor, there is a small room full of chairs and tablecloths and one old, abandoned tennis racquet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The tunnel at the bottom of the stairs is wide and dark, with only the strange light to guide us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When we pull up at Edie’s stop, she climbs to the top of the stairs. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We came to the head of the stairs looking down upon the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Derrick ran down fourteen flights of stairs to try to save his brother—he thought he could catch him before he hit the ground. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘First stair’s past. Clever hobbits to climb so high, very clever hobbits. Just a few more little steps and that’s all, yes.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the stairs we passed a girl coming up with a covered tray. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Good luck to you, too,” Ash replied, and then she went quickly down the stairs and out the kitchen door, ignoring the cook’s questions. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed the stairs to Mabel's room and she shut the door. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs was a little area with a fireplace and two small couches that faced each other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Toby helped Luke carry them up the long stairs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And when they were at the bottom of the stairs, Hannah laughed. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Moss hoisted his bike up on his right shoulder and ascended the stairs, glancing at the posters for concerts and plays from decades past in San Francisco. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

See her react to the sirens, rush to help the patients, nod as they gesture for her to descend to the bunker, and then hesitate with her on the stairs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Wearily Matthias the Warrior descended the spiral stairs, sword in hand. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Climbing the stairs to the apartment, I feel sure that I can see shadows above me, hear footsteps ahead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gwen ran up the stairs to grab her hand and pull her down. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take you to school and ask for a volunteer in your class to arrive early and leave early with you every day. You’ll have plenty of time to go up and down the stairs.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon scampered before her, flowing up the stairs to the very top, where Lyra’s bedroom was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They move aside as I crutch past them, and in a flurry of whispers they escape up the stairs to Kaylee’s room. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I am at the bottom of the stairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Up the stairs I went, jumping quite easily from one to the other, keeping well in against the wall all the time. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I grab Kelton’s backpack, empty out the school stuff, then, making sure the coast is clear, I go to the bookcase near the stairs—the entrance to the safe room. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We went down the stairs one flight to the fourth floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The long hall at the top of the stairs was paneled with a honey-colored wood, the same as the floorboards. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He should’ve carried her up the stairs to her room and tied her to the bed and touched that left knee all night long. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I descended the tower stairs to the kitchen, where I put two half-eaten venison shanks in my basket. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As I climbed the stairs she backed under the archway and disappeared. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I heard my mother thundering up the stairs. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The last group held Reverend Buckminster, who separated from them and came up the stairs, then went by Turner silently into the house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We marched down salt stairs, we crawled along salt floors, we passed stalagmites formed from salt water dripping off the ceiling. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frank put his arm around Hazel’s waist and helped her to the stairs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Rémy leaves in search of food, and I watch his back disappear up the ship's stairs to the surface. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She climbs the stairs and stands next to him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She ran through the kitchen, ignoring Mama’s and Cook’s yelps of surprise and shouted censure, grabbed the saltshaker off the prep table, and climbed the stairs, her short legs pumping hard up the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After the warmth of the king’s solar, the turnpike stair felt bone-chillingly cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

From my perch on the cushioned chair I see the wooden footrest with its floral needlepoint cover in front of her rocker, the small shelf of books— prayer books and poetry, mainly—by the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bed rolled out into a stair step of one bed below and another above. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to call up to Papa to help them get the tree up the narrow stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dove into the nearest room, and stayed hidden until she’d limped past me and down the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I went up stairs and got the bank book out of her desk and went back to town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Helena comes bounding up the stairs, also with her cheeks blushing, because the air is brisk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At bedtime Moonie Drinker follows me up the stairs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, I only yawned, and shook myself from the momentary daze that had come upon me, and went on my way down the stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She heard Mother getting up and then the sound of footsteps down the stairs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A guy had been arguing with someone in a room near the stairs on this floor. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Good-night,’ and raced for the stairs, before the questions could begin. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” she said quickly, and the three of them marched out of the kitchen and up the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Malachy runs from me, up the stairs, and now I hear Dad and Mam laughing till they see he can choke on the teeth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Toulouse-Lautrec stays for lunch, and he and Vincent have a big laugh together over an undertaker’s assistant they had seen earlier on the stairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He steps out, dancing down the stairs, one foot forward, one back, a hand in his pocket. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I protested as he carried me easily down the stairs, but he ignored me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We say thank you and good-bye to Deb and take the stairs, giggling all the way to my floor. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I saw the stairs. I thought they might lead to the toilet.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Finally I reach the bottom of the stairs and we hear the bell sound. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs slowly, the third one creaking, the fifth one slanting downward. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the stairs, my stomach flip-flopped like a fish out of water. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“There’s a ghost that sits at the top of the tower stairs. You go all cold if you walk through him by accident.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A man who worked as a tailor at Marx & Haas tried to use the elevator instead of walking up six flights of stairs to the workroom floor. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Right. See you later,” said Polly and clattered up the attic stairs. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She slid the metal bars back in place when we were through, and we made our way quietly down the dark stairs of our apartment building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I naturally felt older—I began at that point the emotional examination to note how far my convalescence had gone—I was taller, bigger generally in relation to these stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the streets was so steep the sidewalk had been shaped to form stairs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had lost thirty-four pounds and was exercising five times a week and taking subway stairs two at a time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even inside it, the agents seemed happiest if we took the elevator instead of the stairs, to minimize the risk of a stumble. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Once inside, I go up a few stairs to find a room with three desks squeezed in, surrounded by big happy posters of kids. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Her dad was a big man, and he swooped Ivy into his arms, balancing her on his hip down the next flight of stairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maya thought of her own home, her parents, her bedroom, the photos on the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I would even take the stairs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was worried about rushing up the stairs, as if Trina had put the infected into some kind of trance and that any hurried movement might break the spell. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I was ready, we slipped out the door and down the stairs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the stairs leading to the gallery nearly twenty small boys were clustered, shoulder to shoulder, and the solid ranks undulated with the constant jerking of restless elbows straining under tight woolen jackets. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He bounded down the stairs, thumping with each step. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He took the secret underground stairs four at a time. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Object came up the stairs to the master bathroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at Ms. Perez’s home, Moss couldn’t bring himself to climb the stairs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Brandy yells, bolting up the stairs in a frenzy. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It turned completely over to reveal a dark opening with a downward flight of stairs running off into the blackness below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was standing at the top of the stairs, looking down icily on the crowd gathered in front of Malalai Hospital. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I hear her footsteps on the stairs, the squeak on the fourth tread. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A monk was coming down the dormitory stairs, and God forgive me, I shoved him to one side. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tío Ermenio pauses and appears to get lost in his thoughts before he takes off again up another flight of stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

My mother tended to move up the stairs in a sprint. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then she’s the one to get the company, the Wives rustling up the stairs, clucking and cheerful; she gets the cakes and pies, the jelly, the bouquets of flowers from their gardens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows around us deepen as we climb up the stone stairs, toward the crest of the hill. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

When the doorbell rings, I take a last look in the mirror, then take a deep breath before walking down the stairs. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“But I will miss coming down the stairs to see you right away in the morning.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She hands me a bill and I’m off running, down the stairs, up the street, as fast as I can. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking fast, he ran diagonally, catching up with the thief at the foot of the stairs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He thumps up the stairs and plays with the mirrors, then walks up the aisle, surveying all the passengers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming down the stairs he was surprised not to hear his wife and Mario calling out the newspapers. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everywhere, except in the dormitories, the floors and stairs were of smooth, slick marble, more treacherous even than the icy walks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got one last look at the mess before Dad yanked her in front of him and propelled her down the stairs to the second floor. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I listened to my heart beat, faster, faster, as footsteps came one by one up the stairs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When someone came up the stairs toward her and bowed, she did not realize that he was bowing to her until he asked, “Would you like to dance?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all trundled after him up the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I push myself off my bed and take my time going down the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hayes asks as we slowly go down the stairs. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The brownstone stairs whimpered all the way up. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid stood blinking on the stairs, hanging tightly to the railing for old people. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Leo, even from up here, I’m sensing bad stuff at the bottom of those stairs. Something . . . large and dangerous. You sure you don’t want me to come along?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The fire was moving down them, closer to the second-floor landing, but the stairs going down to the first story were still clear of flames. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Together, we go down the stairs, but as we are about to go out the door, she grabs my shoulder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And now,” he says, “we get to walk up a million flights of stairs.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We walk to a door beside a wholesale suitcase store, he takes out a key, and we go up the stairs in the dark. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She winked at me as she pulled him through the crowd toward the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set it on the locker and carried the sheetmetal over and put it in the trash and went to the stairs to check the weather. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs to the wooden platform where Four pulled me to solid ground and grab the bar that the net is attached to. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dad hurried down the front stairs and out the front door. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started down the stairs, and I was close behind, shifting Fern to my other hip. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We flew down the stairs, but I stopped at the landing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As he drank, I explained what had happened to Cleveland after he’d thrown Miles down the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then Babi was in the hallway, calling her name from the top of the stairs, asking her to come up quickly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as Hazel chose a path, the stairs split again. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Tyrion fumbled back into his clothes again and groped his way to the stair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were down the stairs before Mrs. Murdo could ask any questions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ben turned and walked toward the stairs, pausing on the landing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clothespress at the bottom of the stairs was untouched, the bed linens and tablecloths stacked in it as neatly as if Mother had set them there a moment ago. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still wondering where Sister Redempta had come from and what the dictionary might have to say about what manifest meant when I opened Miss Sadie’s gate and plodded up the creaky stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stretcher had been designed to be carried down the White House stairs while keeping the patient horizontal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” says Grace, who has come up the stairs behind me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed up the cellar stairs, freezing with every groan of the old wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t stand to see the hatrack in the front hall and the long flight of stairs he had climbed so many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what she wants.We’re almost to the west stairs now and I’m not even sure how we got here. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and followed Tamika up the inside stairs, then bit back a twinge of sorrow as she bounded through a very familiar doorway. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I climbed the stairs to your room, and you weren’t there.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Nat closed the shop and went to supper, then climbed the stairs to his room. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the door at the bottom of the stairs slammed shut so hard that the glass raided around him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But of course, she’s waiting at the bottom of the stairs, probably so she can smell me for sunscreen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I went down the hall and toward the stairs slowly, wondering why I hadn’t tried to defend myself—at least tried. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I go into the studio and climb the stairs to Oscar’s room, where there’s a computer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They're too far away for me to reach from the stairs themselves. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Hermione asked as Harry descended the staircase, but before he could respond, Xenophilius reached the top of the stairs from the kitchen, now holding a tray laden with bowls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I rode across Morningside Avenue and struggled with the bike up the stairs as fast as I could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They came to the foot of the stairs, and Theodora crossed the great dark hall and put her hand confidently to a door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stoked the fire in her hearth before returning down the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lino extended past the stairs to a door with a frosted-glass window which probably opened onto the kitchen out the back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He pulled her from the bed, dragged her down the hall, pushed her down the stairs, and thrust her into the library while Clara shouted from her bedroom doorway, not understanding what was going on. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellow caution tape was strung in a wide perimeter around stairs descending underground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finn thought, and he climbed down the stairs walking alongside her. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But it’s too late to think about that now, already their feet are on the dusty-rose carpeting of the stairs; a heavy muted tread, pulse in the forehead. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

From it rose a flight of stairs, taking their time in their rising, taking all the space they needed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was heading for the stairs because he didn’t know where else to go but up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

After I dumped the wash water at the base of the cherry tree, I dragged up the stairs, ready to fall into bed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and followed him down the stairs. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I run down the back stairs and I push through the emergency exit door, hoping that there’s no alarm. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was halfway down the stairs to gym when I heard him: Chip Cusumano. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was going upstairs—where else did the stairs lead? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He went down the stairs and past the little shepherdess. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

When she saw me looking at her, she bolted down the stairs too fast and tripped the last three steps. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

So I watch as the doors close again and then I head to the stairs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We walked through the front doors and climbed the stairs to the main office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I release Bryce and follow Fuchsia down the stairs to help. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The stairs reached a landing, turned left, then came upon a railed hallway leading to several rooms. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take the stairs,” I say, as if there’s some other option to get outside, like a rope hanging from the hallway window or one of those aircraft emergency slides. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His friends half-lifted us half- roughly, and we were hustled down the stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not wait for Ana’s reaction but went down the stairs quickly, her heart racing with fear and exhilaration. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two women went up the stairs and Lombard and Blore came with them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Three men scrambled down the stairs knee-deep in the water and pulled the boat close with long hooks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It had also demolished the stairs—the steps I had climbed only seconds before the blast. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She began to mount the stairs, toiling heavily. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a very ugly old woman, Bran thought spite-fully; shrunken and wrinkled, almost blind, too weak to climb stairs, with only a few wisps of white hair left to cover a mottled pink scalp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next came Professor Snape, drifting creepily along, his toes hitting each stair as they descended, held up by his own wand, which was being pointed at him by Sirius. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She focused on her feet, on keeping upright as she bounded down the stairs, making for the landing below, illuminated by moonlight leaking from the tomb. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The stairs were also notoriously loud, so I pleated up my white cotton nightgown and slid down the banister as I’d done my whole life. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The penguins all loved to climb the stairs that led up to the kitchen, and never knew when to stop unless they found the kitchen door closed. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

A path of broken rectangles and rhombi spilled crazily down the stairs, coming to rest on the heads of the wooden monkeys at the base. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Painfully childish, with its bright colors and padded stairs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She would rush me up the stairs and sit on my bed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad asks from the bottom of the stairs when he hears me open the bathroom door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the Meecham house, Ben descended the stairs carrying his gym bag. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Filch both looked down at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She tosses me a folded-up white paper bag, and I sit down on the stairs next to her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was lying on the brick path at the bottom of the stairs with a surprised look on its face—which was now several inches away from the rest of it. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I found an extra mattress down in the basement, but I need help getting it up the stairs.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He left the land of cigar smoke and perfume and books and gentle light and ascended the stairs, talking, talking with Edward. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the stairs in the Morales house gave off a friendly little squeeeak like the stairs back home. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I admired the immense, steppelike expanse of the lady's wool-clad bosom as she retreated a few inches from my eye, down the creaking wooden stair, a sort of Siberian bitterness on her vivid lips. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Peggy moved from his side toward a light that swung from the ceiling at the far end of the room near the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pause at the bottom of the stairs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas stops us at the bottom of the stairs. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She walks up the stairs and straight for me, and coming upon the steps behind her is the white woman in her dressing gown. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Milton heard the sound of feet running down the stairs and then Tessie’s voice saying hello. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Trembling with weakness and anxiety, I run up the stairs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When Katie made her a bed in the basement, she wouldn’t even go down the stairs. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I refilled the warming pan, carried it up the stairs, and warmed her bed. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the sound of T. Ray’s boots on the stairs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took him fifteen minutes to negotiate the stairs, but he wound up safely in the office after having entered from the outside. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I quickly throw off my wet clothes, put on some sweats, and creep down the stairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe down the back stairs, go through the kitchen and dining room to the den. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias jumps out after me, but I don’t give him a chance to catch up—I walk straight into the building, down the stairs, and back into the Pit to find a place to sleep. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the stairs was built into that wall. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The final steps of the journey were actual stairs carved out of the mountain. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The building had been completely drenched with water and the stairs had become little waterfalls. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I met him on the stairs, and took one of the bags. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I stride forward, push through the knot of students, and trot up the stairs to the stage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” he said, and descended the stairs to the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His poor old heart went pit-a-pat as he staggered down the attic stairs and he kept on dabbing at his forehead with a handkerchief. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

So I shoo her to the stairs, take off my catering clothes, throw on some clothing and pop my head into Mom’s office. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the head of the stairs the door opened and he saw Britten. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he heard footsteps on the stairs, but his uncle didn’t appear. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Shady called from the bottom of the stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bieber whimpers from the top of the stairs, and there are footsteps above us, and Abby’s telling a story about Taylor. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Fell down some stairs,” he said brusquely, and ate his doughnuts in silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walk up one of the paths that lines the Pit walls, toward the stairs that lead us to the Pire. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just when she grew tired of so much walking, she reached the bottom of a set of stairs and stopped. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One stop after Copley, we get off at Arlington Station and take the stairs up. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you really hate those pictures on the stairs?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I run up the stairs to the top decks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t see her, nor did the man, and when I knocked into him she tripped him up, and he fell right to the bottom of the stairs.... The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dizzy as I walk up the stairs to my aunt’s place. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She said it was like a dream, seeing these two women who looked so much alike, moving down the stairs together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him upstairs, losing ground as I made my way up slowly, stairs not being a field of expertise for my lungs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The two were on their way down the stair as Ranofer entered the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wait till the nurse is gone and then put on my clothes and stroll out of the room and down the stairs and out the door. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had not heard him come up the stairs, and besides, I did not think he would come up because the church council meeting was still going on downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our classroom was at the bottom of the stairs, and had long wooden racks outside where we left our schoolbags. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time, trying to be quiet, and flew into my room, closing the door tightly behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then to Briony, “I’ll be quite honest with you. I’m torn between breaking your stupid neck here and taking you outside and throwing you down the stairs.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They climbed the stairs, passed down the cluttered hall, and mounted the steps to the attic. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This time the page clattered up the stairs with the usual noise, in the way of pages, bringing light with him at the same time. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along one edge, a set of cement stairs descended into the water. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for the rain that fell hard and sudden, we wouldn’t have gone up those stairs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This way!” cried Mr. Wonka, turning left at the bottom of the stairs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I don't dork out, don't drop my tray in the cafeteria, trip on the stairs, nothing like that. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, to get to your room all you have to do is go up these back stairs. Come on.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like an hour passed dragging her suitcase up the stairs, during which all three of her family members passed her going up or down and none offered any help. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When Mom says that, I tiptoe to my room, pull off my clothes, and hustle down the back stairs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the very same stairs, reader, that the mouse Despereaux had been pushed down the day before. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Through the opening a shadowy stair could be seen climbing steeply up; but beyond the lower steps the darkness was deeper than the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I took an old butter knife and my cane and hobbled down all three flights of stairs. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I stumbled down the stairs, I had the disconcerting impression that I was entering the bowels of the earth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Katie grabbed Francie’s hand and tried to pull her up the stairs, but the child’s hand was frozen to the spoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long flights of stairs led to front doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A nightlight shone at the top of the stairs over the pool of blackness which was the hall. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A wall, a flight of stairs, an open road. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I take a taxi back to the studio, climb the four flights of stairs, dimly lit as they are at night, resting on the landings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This stair was unknown to her, however, and that made it perilous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A slow dread sinks into my bones with every step up the stairs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are stairs in our house, but they’re ordinary hallway stairs, and the house has only one washroom. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was real cold outside, like it was tonight, he sometimes slept in the stairs. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We walk to Millennium Park, where the mammoth bean sculpture reflects the moonlight, and then down a set of stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I held Miss Wren’s arm, steadying her as we climbed the stairs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Brandon flipped on the light, and they headed up the rickety stairs. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Gebu was very drunk; he stumbled and half fell down the stairs, cursing at the top of his voice. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They all climbed back down the stairs and went into the little room that was shut off from the rest of the basement the same way the Boring Room was in the Greystones’ basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the right pocket, hidden in case they should encounter anyone on the stairs, was a rat with a spoon on his head and a cloak of red around his shoulders. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Stanton, just behind Welles, charged up the stairs to Seward’s bedroom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get back, I tromp up the stairs to our apartment wondering if Theresa’s family has a radio that works. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shadow behind fell black and headlong down the stairs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I released her, and she dashed up the stairs to my room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I got the idea that maybe he wanted to push the Nguyen siblings right down the stairs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“The toilet’s on the next floor up, and my office, then bedrooms above that. Keeps you fit, all the stairs.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She went up the stairs and along the passage to her room. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I make my way to the foot of the stairs and take a seat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She opened her own door instead and trudged up the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But when I got to the top of the stairs, I saw him ducking through the crowd toward the back of the house. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If Mama was home, I would take the comics down to the first floor and hide them far underneath the stairs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As we approached the stairs, we were greeted by taunting catcalls and the kind of behavior students had not dared to exhibit in the face of the 101st. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hallway I pass his school pictures, his eyes following me as I run down the stairs so fast I nearly fall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kendra raced up the stairs and dashed across the chapel to the front door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It was getting harder to creep down the stairs in the dark now, as people were sleeping there. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I was not in terrific shape myself and had a hard time hauling him up the stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I ran back down the 105 stairs, past Stan, who was still saying “You’ve got mail!,” back up the 72 stairs, and into Grandma’s apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Biddy punch her tape off and clomp to the stairs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

About one hundred spectators, mostly blacks, settled into seats behind a rail on the main floor, and about one hundred more took the stairs to seats in a balcony above. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I only remember falling down the stairs that led to Trapis’ basement, my purse of money clutched tight in my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The footsteps had definitely passed his door going to the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Sierra strengthened her resolve, willed her legs to stop feeling so gooey, and rushed toward the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Three girls pile out of the train and clack down the icy stairs. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama’s furious voice drifted up from the porch, and pretty soon Papa came to the bottom of the stairs and hollered for me to get down there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I could hear the door slamming in the living room and him and Aaron running down the stairs, taking them two at a time the way they always did. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

All of that had happened eight years ago, but still, just that one sniffle last night had made Chess move his foot back from the stair below. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With my dollars bills in hand and Madrina’s skirt still around my waist, I race up the stairs, past my apartment, and quietly slip up to the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We walked up the stairs to the stage, where we sat in cold metal chairs. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The circular stairs were still there, at the end of the long porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, Jalil led her to the left, down another long, carpeted hallway. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One of the guards knocked into her on the stair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mama was gasping before we got there, but I wanted to run down the stairs just to climb back up them again. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A woman with one arm was sitting on the stairs telling a story to a group of people. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The raft has a little spot where they can cook their food, stairs going up to a loft where they can sleep, and great views of the sunrise. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I headed across the room and up the stairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He is surprised to see how many garbage bags he’s managed to fill up, how many trips up and down the stairs he’s had to make. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs creaked with every shift of weight as they descended the dozen or so steps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At three-thirty she climbed the stairs to the offices over the Farmer’s Mercantile and went into the consulting room of Dr. Rosen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s gait on the stairs sounded heavier, more awkward, than usual. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going against the flow of people, and am almost at the bottom of the stairs when I stumble and a man says, “Watch it!” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the door swung open, and Dell and Quang-ha emerged, I got to my feet and followed Mai down the stairs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had a vague sense of climbing a lot of stairs before he entered a large diamond-shaped room. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I passed the gallery and came upon the tower stairs that led down to the apothecary. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He did not move from his place beside the wall; he watched Peggy walk back up the stairs and close the door behind her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He ran up the stone stairs to the privies. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I can feel her glaring at my back as I go up the stairs, but I don’t care. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The door to the building with Fuchsia’s apartment is only partway closed, and I push through it and head up the rickety stairs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She will come up the stairs and into my room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But at nine o’clock, when Mom and Robin return from walking Justin to the bus stop, I hear her climbing the stairs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He stepped out from a small recess under the stairs that had an entrance to the cellar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of hundreds of people marching toward the Room of Requirement grew louder and louder as he returned to the marble stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Our entire public performance will be staged outside on what Effie refers to as the verandah, the tiled expanse between the front doors and the stairs that’s shaded by a roof supported by columns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You ever hear of dengue fever?” he asked as he went down the stairs. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every step deeper bewitched him further, and deeper he did go, from room to room as though guided by instinct, down secret stairs to a sublevel where dust lay thick on books undisturbed for years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was now a harsher light at the top of the stairs, for she had never had this difficulty with the mirror there before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I saw a huge black giant of a man, dressed only in white shorts, swaying on the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marble stairs lead down into the palace garden for Sophia's birthday game. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then she disappears up the stairs, like she was never here at all. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Waren’t no candles nor lamps burning so I looked up the stairs to check their bedroom next. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Oliver opened the basement door just as Mama came down the stairs with a big box in her arms. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“If you go up those stairs, I’m calling the police!” he shouts. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We drank the second grappa, Rinaldi put away the bottle and we went down the stairs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

On her way up the stairs to bed, Susan stopped and contemplated Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the corner near the stairs, Karen awaited her orders, still clutching the shot putt with both hands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran down the stairs and out the door, only to see the girl standing there by herself. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I run along the platform and down the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

CO Greene came up the stairs from R-and-W to take a look at my gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She eyes me, but I push past her and head to the stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He turned and fled down the stairs, with the chocolate growing sticky in his hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Impatient to be out, he skipped up the stairs three at a time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Grandma slept in a room downstairs to save herself the stairs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He carries his bike down the stairs, and then we swipe our way in, catching the A train right before it departs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The slave-girl stands in the shadows near the stairs, and as Marcus passes her, he reaches out and yanks her close. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Make the beds, will you? It does look messy to leave ’em unmade all day, and I’m not much on running up and down the stairs.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Instead, they drag him almost in a circle, to a door underneath the stairs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Using an iron shovel from the Dalton basement, Buckley showed how the bones had been raked out; explained how Bigger had “craftily crept up the stairs during the excitement and taken flight.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he left, I got up to check myself in the small bathroom under the stairs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The halls were kind of dim and the tin on the stairs rattled as we went up, Peaches going first and me behind her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cora stepped into the hallway again, the woman summoned her up the stairs to the attic. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gerald wiped his stinging eyes and saw that the stairs were smoky, but not yet on fire. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended in a long, flat surface, and then the crowd bottlenecked through a pair of narrow doorways. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We walked back three blocks, and I went up the stairs and brought her wheelchair back to the stairwell, and they talked up and down the stairs for a while. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her father wraps the largest in cardboard and uses an ancient wheeled dolly to thump it down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But just as she turned to climb the stairs, a man came out of another corridor, startling her so much she nearly dropped her briefcase. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quietly, they went down the stairs and into the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this occasion, we nine ascend the stairs amid a group of reporters and dignitaries gathered here for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually when someone got a little hurt and Alex’s mom came running down the basement stairs, telling everyone it was time to go home before someone got really hurt. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We walk down the stairs to the dock. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until he fell asleep and then I got up quietly and went outside, down the stairs and into the dark courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just when I thought we were going to go on down and get back to the block party, Peaches started back up the stairs again. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the other girls pulled their chairs from the table and scraped them about to form little circles in the parlor area, Lyddie dragged herself from the table and up the stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Muffliato,” she whispered, waving her wand in the direction of the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We found the stairs and ran up to the third floor, bumping into students and professors who gave us strange looks as we passed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was the only one who stood out, the only one who wasn’t pale with freckles and amber-colored red hair, the only dark brunette stain in every single family photo that lined the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I follow Rufus up the stairs, and it’s only the second floor but I’m already out of breath. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The stairs swung left and right and pulled down into a tight spiral into the edge of the central room of the prison floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He took the servants’ steps, not the grand stairways of veined marble, but the narrower, steeper, straighter stairs hidden within the thick brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I can tell that one of her slippered feet holds up most of her weight, but I’ve never seen her have the energy to come up the stairs before. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had taken her arm at the top of the stairs, but she had tried to pull away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

On one side of the stone floor, a set of stairs had been excavated, leading down to a modern iron gate with a padlock. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house gave ground as the fire in ten billion angry sparks moved with flaming ease from room to room and then up the stairs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering who stood beside him, he glanced at Dorian, who was still staring, wide-eyed, at the stairs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anborn grunted and led the way down the winding stair to the landing, and then up the other stair, until at last they came to a narrow opening shrouded with thick bushes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

On the stairs he met Ellen, the housemaid, and as he passed her he knocked the hot-water jug out of her hand. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Though the old stairs sagged beneath us, the stairwell was draped in a filmy light from the open doorway to the floor above. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

That was how he could see the progress of the lizard drone as it moved the rest of the way up the stairs and onto a part of the stage completely cloaked in darkness. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was standing at the head of the stairs, shaking his head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the time I get to the bottom of the first flight of stairs, I know who it is. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Claire walks through the front door just as I reach the last stair. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I heard him run down the stairs, go out the front door, and pull away in a loud car. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richardson galloped back first, jumped off the horse, bounded up the stairs three at a time, and muddied up the stewards’ stand carpets. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the automatic doors swallowed him up than the first officer stomped up the stairs of the bus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Was he half- expecting to hear the creak of a stair or the swish of a cloak? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He reached the foot of the stairs and stood there winking, his bulk dwarfing the boy, who was thin as a reed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He led them up winding alleyways and down ancient stairs to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher he'd been telling them about for years. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised she made it up the stairs so fast. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I am sure my brothers are asleep, I take off my scarf and go to sleep on the ground at the bottom of the stairs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reach the bottom of the stairs, I see Brandon’s head pop up from the other side of the couch. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Deborah stared at him from the top of the stairs, feeling nothing—no fear, no emotion. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We went in, up the stairs, flashing our lights. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bypass the nurse and climb the stairs to the top floor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And it was in my mother’s handwriting, like this And then I heard Father come up the stairs and walk into the room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each of us stood in front of the moving stairs for a few minutes before we had the courage to step on. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

About Scooter making it up the stairs—I was surprised, but I wasn’t. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Hua-hua was sleepy and did not want to play patty-cake or any of our usual games, but we stayed at my Fourth Aunt’s apartment until we heard the footsteps going down the stairs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hinge of the door at the top of the stairs creaked loudly, the door banged back against the wall, and Gebu came violently down the stairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

People were stampeding by, tumbling down the stairs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

At this moment there was a quick step on the stairs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The kids watched her rush up the stairs, then heard her say, “Yes, Ms. Mitchell, thank you for calling. We’re very interested in that apartment you listed—” followed by her bedroom door shutting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“They appear to be seven ordinary broad stone steps; nothing special; quite the same as any other set of stairs in the Abbey, wouldn’t you say?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then, with not another word, she fled back down the wooden stairs. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was the clatter of boots on the stair treads, then boots on the marble steps outside, and then the crash of the front door slamming. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sonny and Henry speed down the stairs, and we are right behind them. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No piano could be gotten down those narrow steep stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember crawling up a set of stairs bathed in sunlight. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He considered going right now—just get up from this table, climb the stairs, two minutes to pack a suitcase, and gone. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth pushed past him and took the stairs three at a time, Hazel right behind her and Frank trailing, still gasping for air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were constant streams of people going down those stairs in the mornings and coming up them in the evenings. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They made their way down a short flight of stairs to the main deck, where David and the Committee agents were already hog-tying their new captives. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Moving quietly, I crept halfway down the stairs and listened. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And he pointed and said, “Through the underpass and up the stairs. You’ll see the signs.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She only heard Hannah’s words, and the pronouncement sent her flying up the stairs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This, however, had not prevented Beans from climbing the stairs to the bathroom no fewer than three times during the party. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

After glimpsing them on the flats, I pulled open the brakes to release the cell doors and then waited till they made their way up the end stairs to the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Has everyone got a flashlight, by the way?” the doctor asked, and they nodded, more intent upon sleep than the waves of darkness which came after them up the stairs of Hill House. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her feet tangled, and she grabbed the arm of a rocking chair so she wouldn’t fall down the stairs. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He passed on and ascended the stairs, still holding my hand, and still beckoning the gentlemen to follow him, which they did. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dicey reached for Maybeth’s hand and they tiptoed down the hallway and down the stairs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One in front, one behind, they escort me down the stairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feet of the Greater Being—oh, they heard them, they heard them, coming softly down the stairs, coming nearer and nearer down the invisible stairs. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz heaved a sigh as he braced himself for three painful flights of stairs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He left the boy sitting on the stairs holding the coats while he went up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They passed a room with a huge piano and another with a dining table, each sight a spectacle, before turning and heading up a set of stairs that made Ophie’s thighs ache. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I could jump off couches, and jump up and down stairs and crawl around the backyard. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was after eleven o’clock, so I left my door ajar, hoping to hear Mother go out, or the creak of Bailey easing up the stairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark carefully removed himself from the stairs and went to the basement door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, they continued through another door, turned a corner, and found themselves backstage. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He climbs the cement stairs to the back door. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed the stairs to the white man’s room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the stairwell, the floors and stairs below were a white-water river, a vortex of cascading waves. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She considered bolting for the stairs, but when she turned, the doorway had disappeared. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I made my desolate way back to the stairs, my wise self took the opportunity to berate me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But what was the point of splitting a house when you could just make it flat and not have any stairs at all? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A cold, damp breeze blew the hair out of Anya’s face as she reached the bottom of the stairs. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Up the stairs I went, squeezing my way past those who first blocked my path and then shouted hurtful words at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and walked up twelve steps, counting as he went. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down the stairs and into the lot and found the girl's plants. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe you imagine a dude from the grounds crew with a mustache and those orange ear protectors counting a wad of cash at the bottom of the stairs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They landed at the bottom of the stairs, fists clenched and in fighting stances. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Cora heard Ethel descend the stairs, and when her host returned she handed Cora food, a jug of water, and a chamber pot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then they danced through the kitchen, back into the Perfect Living Room, out onto the front stoop, down the stairs, and past the embarrassed azaleas. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She nodded toward the stairs, her gold hoop earrings waving along. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

My brother says there’s nothing special about the stairs inside, they’re plain ordinary stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throat tightened at the thought of five days without Papa s voice, without his footsteps on the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then they headed down the stairs and to the left of the chamber where that poor old Grisha amplifier had tested him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I went back to the stairs and realized for the first time that there was another set of stairs going up, even though this was the top floor. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Mrs Compson and he went down the stairs and met her. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he started down the stairs he saw a white man carrying a large paper sack and he drew close to the banisters so that they could pass each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Oliver swept the gifts into his desk drawer, then grabbed his earphones and put them in, hoping that his mom would be too tired to climb the stairs in search for him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Just to prove my point, I walked back down the stairs, right up to them, and put a hand on each of them. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed the three wooden stairs and opened the door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman carrying a giant ring of keys passed their bench and headed up the stairs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A second later he heard a body fall and he ran to the door of his apartment, looked out and saw the kid running down the stairs and out of the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waddles down the stairs and onto a cement patio enclosed on all sides by other apartments. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started up the winding stairs inside, only to be stopped at a ticket booth by some caretaker who yelled at him in Italian. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dad paused the show for a second and glanced up the stairs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They passed through the showers and, instead of continuing to the holding area, turned down a tight flight of stairs and the long dark hall that led to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They told Manny to have Billy leave from the corner without stairs and he had to jump from the ring. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back as Mike stumbled up the stairs and saw Cohn putting his glasses on again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went up the great stairs towards her, and she waited motionless, her hands folded before her, her eyes never leaving my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie ducked under a bunch of wires to look at the mess that used to be the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was just about to screw the top back on when she heard Evan coming up the basement stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you do that?” he said, catching up to me at the stairs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

This could be humiliating, he thought as he followed Alayaya up another stair to the turret room. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Adrenaline burst through me as we raced back down the stairs of Sever Hall and back outside. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She took the stairs two at a time to the lower deck and raced through the opulent yacht, marveling at its wonders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So who do you reckon Katie was supposed to give the necklace to?” asked Ron, as they climbed the stairs to the common room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Old Stew might rant, he might take you by the collar, become belligerent, even stumble on the stairs when going to sleep, but none of it was a surprise. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are stampeding and pushing down the stairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I may kill you,” Danuta whispers as footsteps come running back up the stairs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I was dripping wet when I got to the last stair.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As soon as they were up the stairs and on the next landing, he let go of Koffi's arm and finally dared to meet her eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I passed a little girl on the stairs smacking a child even smaller than herself, telling it to stop crying. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thomas, so terrified by the ordeal that his body shook, turned and followed Teresa up the stairs and into the aisle of the bus. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

My skin crawled as I cut a path through the thicket of bodies at the foot of the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Going down the last flight of stairs, she heard a hoarse guttural scream. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She half runs down the stairs to the dock and disappears inside the storeroom. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two parts I remember best: One, the moveable bookcase that hid the stairs up to the secret attic where the Frank family stayed. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I stood there trying to contain it as they brought Tod Clifton's coffin into the tower and slowly up the spiral stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards smiled at him from their niches as he wound his way down the turret stair, carrying the sword in his good hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They wind all the way up the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Just before dusk, he rouses Booth and helps him down the stairs and up into the saddle. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Littlefinger led him into a tower, down a stair, across a small sunken courtyard, and along a deserted corridor where empty suits of armor stood sentinel along the walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“No choice,” his heart beat out to him as he went down the stairs, “no choice, no choice, no choice. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At first light, he got up and quietly scrubbed away the mud Jen had tracked in and up the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the lunch bell rang, we flew down the stairs in a big huddle, not knowing exactly how to get to the cafeteria. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Merriam was waiting for us at the bottom of the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She ran up the stairs into her room. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’s waiting on the top of the stairs, light of the house shining through the screen door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out the door, up the stairs, down the hall to one of those multidirectional elevators, and finally we arrive at Special Defense. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In his hand still Andúril gleamed, and the terror of the sword for a while held back the enemy, as one by one all who could gain the stair passed up towards the gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And when I carried and tugged the trees up three or four or five flights of stairs, I laughed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A tongue the length of a stair carpet encircled the flask as he popped off the lid and tossed the whole contents down. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Silently they followed her up the staircase, watching her little affectionate dabs at the stair rail and the carvings on the walls. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do that again, and I’ll throw your precious sister down the stairs,” said the She Elephant. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The winged guy. Where do you think those stairs lead?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Before they could say anything, I bounded down the stairs and took off, sprinting back toward the minivan. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

His bow was bent, but one gleaned arrow was all that he had left, and he peered out now, ready to shoot the first Orc that should dare to approach the stair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They’re back at work and I’m down the stairs to the next part of my life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I take the stairs two at a time, my clumsy feet stumbling twice, my hand gripping the railing to keep me from a free fall. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She smiled down at him until Josiah reached the top of the stairs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tiptoeing down the stairs to the kitchen, she saw that the embers had burned low in the hearth and none of the servants was yet awake. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside, he paused several times on the stair to remark upon scraps of debris that the janitor had missed, feebly kicking at them with his foot. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He thought of going up—because maybe they were not there—racing up the stairs, grabbing the cereal box, racing back down. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yellow caution tape was strung in a wide perimeter around stairs descending underground. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I went into the First Building, walked up the stairs where Finny had fallen, and joined my 11:10 class, which was in mathematics. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way up the stairs he began to feel sick. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had just started to pray over the food when I heard Jaja bound up the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slide off my bed and go down the stairs. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The handy-for-hijacking box cutter I shoved in my pocket bit into my thigh all the way up the stairs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And with Taylor and TeeTee trying for the millionth time to get the whole chandelier in the shot, I followed behind Becca as we walked up one of those round-and-round stairs to her room. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

At the top of the winding stairs four doors opened upon rooms lit with sunshine. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kitten and box in hand, Hyacinth led the way out of the alley and back up the brownstone’s front stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sunday,” she announces when we’re settled in our private spot at the top of the west stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the sound of my graceful children coming down the stairs. Delightful,” Papa called from the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Eliza headed straight for the stairs that led to the bedchambers overhead, but I stopped in the front hall to stare. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put a finger to his lips and beckoned to Lyra, and led her to the stairs and up to the next floor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean Wilkins walks briskly into the room and mounts the stairs to the podium. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Many joints of harness, no longer under the necessity of precaution, clanked on the stone stair. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muffled voices echoed down the hallway as Fadi came up the stairs to the family’s apartment. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Do she and Rita know what I’m up to, creeping down their stairs at night? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs to the roof smell like old paint. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I started in, past the stairs I had seen so often in my nightmares. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled me back to the stairs, where Alice stood, a small leather bag in one hand. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But at that moment we heard Mrs. Croft’s electrifying voice rising up the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The people coming out of the station move like a swarm of bees and bump against us as they climb the stairs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Double stairs that swept up to the columned portico. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Mam calls from the bottom of the stairs, Frank, come down and have lemonade and a bun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She glanced up at me, and then said, “Children’s floor is down the stairs to your right.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I go up the cellar stairs, which have black rubber stair treads nailed onto them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The man leads us to the coal hole under the stairs and tells us take what we can carry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The dogs surge, pulling the boy down the stairs, and the door slams shut behind them. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I’d crept to the top of the stairs by this point. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the stairs, Oliver turned around, climbed back up to the third floor, and placed his own bag of cookies down next to the one he had just left there. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I walked away from the children, step by step up the stairs, trying to focus my eyes on nothing but the Diamants’ door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hoisted it up by its peaked roof and took it into the house, up the stairs to my room, and shut the door. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was almost out of the house when she hit the bottom stair and ran straight into Lauren. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I can’t think what your daddy’s up to,” she said, still panting from her rush up the stairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned away from the smug and glowing Mary Ann and climbed the stairs to her room, holding Ulysses gently, carefully in her arms. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tom could be heard about the house, clattering in the kitchen, and up and down the stairs, and singing here and there outside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Scipio turned and ran up the stairs so quickly he nearly stumbled. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I clattered down the stairs, screaming, “Fire! Fire!” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel climbed the stairs as quietly as she could, in case her mother had a customer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The players had set a ladder on the uppermost landing of the outside stairs, and several of them were now on the roof, beating at the smouldering thatch with their capes. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stairs at the end of the passageway, nudged open the trapdoor, and entered the area that ran lengthwise between Ford’s and the saloon next door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were footsteps on the long flight of stairs, or a door closed suddenly, they jumped up, trembling, nostrils distended, eyes wide open. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bella?” my father called out when he heard me on the stairs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He ran up the stairs two at a time even though his short legs weren't meant for the stretch, and then pulled out his key and opened the door. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She raised an eyebrow to punctuate her point then walked down the hall, and I heard her descend the cellar stairs to the laundry room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Good training, that; it brought home how hard it was to fight your way up a spiral stair against determined opposition. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were footsteps on the back stairs, and the voice of one of the other maids on the other side of the wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t say anything; he just followed her up the spiral stairs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Steadily Eleanor turned and went to the top of the stairs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hurry up, Daddy,” Karen pleaded from the bottom of the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he mounted the stairs and stepped outside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and went back down the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The passage twisted and wound, and Celaena found herself descending a narrow set of stairs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We see a flight of stairs in the building’s hall. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her that was proof even a single stair could present peril. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

With a sharp gasp he fell backward down the stairs and crashed his head brutally against the hall table. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the stairs and opened a bottle of sly blue nail polish. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Minute,” Mrs. O’Toole said, and shouted up the stairs, “Phone for Zizmo!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She went into the living room, where she straightened a sofa cushion in passing, and climbed the stairs to the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He raced for the stairs, stumbling over toys on the porch as he went. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When the sled accident happened, Matt was the first one down his cellar stairs. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In a few moments Gebu came in the gate, banged it carelessly with no regard for noise, and climbed the stair to his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I follow behind, noticing how she holds the stair rail tight on the way down, like she’s afraid she might fall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to tell Dennis and Lily!” he says, charging down the stairs as we reach the elevator. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They came running down the stairs, both of them still holding their backpacks. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t argue his point; he was right Instead, I went ahead of him down the stairs and bade to the living room, arriving just as my big brother, Matthew, stormed in from the kitchen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Valley pulled a complaining Edgar up gently, and Seven bolted up the stairs to Valley’s place. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Moving as silently as possible, she followed Joe’s shadow down the stairs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I ran for the stairs to the bridge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the gong sounded, Philip Lombard came out of his room and walked to the head of the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The noises grew as the guards clambered down the stairs, loud Fjerdan reverberating off the walls. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The noise from the mixer’s motor made it easy for him to race up the stairs without Mama noticing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Thereupon, Jamie held out his arm, Claudia rested the tips of her fingers on the top of his hand, and they descended the stairs. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed the stairs as quickly as they could without splashing the hot water and tiptoed down the highly polished wood floor of the upstairs hallway, searching for Mrs. Derby’s room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I creep down the stairs of our building as if I’m hiding from the bad guy in a scary movie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His face turned red and he bolted from the table and fled up the stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She looked inside their doorway at the endlessly long flight of stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was this empty box of Kolynos toothpaste outside Leahy and Hoffman's door, and while I walked down towards the stairs, I kept giving it a boot with this sheep-lined slipper I had on. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Doc walked quietly down the stairs and into the cellar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here, Craig figured he could probably slide my dad's body down the stairs and out the side door to safety. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then he figured he could either run down the stairs and out of the house and let whatever was going to happen, happen, or he could pull open the door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We untangle ourselves and are just at the bottom of the stairs when there is a firm knock at the door. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The answer to that was waiting at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They walked the old man back into the house, up the stairs to his room. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At this moment, Katie was walking down the stairs quietly with the bar of yellow soap in her hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I walk down the stairs to the fourth floor—slowly, hanging on to the handrail. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windy shouts from the top of the stairs. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dungeon door slammed and the two rats watched a man being led by a king’s soldier down the stairs into the dungeon. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ms. Morales and Finn were already out of the room, headed for the basement stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The doorway to the stairs was on the second floor at the end of a long hallway in the vacant western wing, the door itself narrower than the rest and the knob rusted from disuse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We walked up the stairs to the room she’d shared with May. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Jack crossed through the empty doorway into the rotting shell of the first floor and trod gently up the stairs, stepping over the ones that had already given themselves to the rot. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stairs coming up from Tata’s room on the first floor were marble, with a landing in between, and a colored glass window with bunches of grapes and twirling vines. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Ophie’s shame at being discovered only lasted as long as it took for her to unwrap the snickerdoodles and devour them as she climbed the stairs to the attic. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her warnings were followed by the sounds of feet stomping on the stairs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the first set of stairs, they spotted Mrs. Norris skulking near the top. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

So it’s back downstairs, to the market and back again, her wide behind swinging in my face all the way up the stairs with me dragging a heavy cart step by step. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I say, “And so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never liked.” The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Queen led them out of the Hall of Images into a long corridor and then through a whole maze of halls and stairs and courtyards. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bigger looked up and saw Mrs. Dalton at the head of the stairs, standing in white as usual and with her face tilted trustingly upward. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stair cracked and splintered in glittering sparks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The preacher murmured to Hickey and got no response, so took him by the hand and led him to the wooden stairs that led up to his fate. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been so involved in their conversation that they hadn’t heard him come up the stairs and open the door. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

We were going up the stairs, and I decided that, when his back was turned, I would pretend that I was trying to kick him. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The stairs are impossibly narrow and cramped, and we have to walk single file. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Suitcases and boxes threw shadow stairs up the walls and across the floor. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I pick up the phone in the hallway, sit on the bottom stair and listen, the handset in my hand, waiting for the right moment. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donna bursts out of her room and only stands at the top of the stairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He exhaled, ran to the side door, let himself in with his key, and ran up the stairs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We ascend the red-carpeted stairs, passing silver sailing trophies and the oil portrait of the hydroplane racer Gar Wood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I sneak partway down the stairs and peek under the banister. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was really a shame, he realized as he mounted the stairs after the Prince. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I almost run down the hall, the stairs are like skiing, the front door is wide, today I can go through it, and the Guardian stands there, saluting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first guard stops at the top of the stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there at the bottom of the hayloft stair, waiting for him, would be the incredible thing. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his head growing dizzier, Joseph shut the door behind him and climbed up the stairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I sprint for the stairs, but the giant snake doesn’t give chase. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I lugged my duffel bag up the stairs and unlocked the door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Thank you so much,” Jennifer said, turning away and starting down the porch stairs with me in tow. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was a giggle at first that soon erupted into legitimate, unconscious laughter that spilled through the house and up the stairs like an endangered music. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Smith goes up the stairs to her classroom and we head out into the evening for the silent walk home. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He climbs the stairs and breathes heavily as he sits on the stair below us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He tried the stairs and saw the water reached to just a few inches below the second floor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At last, I stood at the bottom of the once grand flight of stairs that led to the upper floors. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Right at the bottom of the stairs, right before she started to climb, Raymie was struck with a sudden, piercing moment of disbelief. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

She climbed the stairs next to the yarn shop two at a time and burst through the door of the apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Theo,” she said as they came to the top of the stairs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried through the office to the hall, and up the stairs to Dr. Fielding’s door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hope, Dell and me sitting quiet on the stairs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They took small, fast steps down the hill until they reached the stairs, doing their best to dodge tourists and pedestrians. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The red-dot officers were coming down the stairs with two inmates in handcuffs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Humbug took one horrified look back over his shoulder and quickly started up the stairs. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around and head back up the stairs as he runs off to join them. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She took it to the bottom of the stairs and showed it to her stepmother. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every brother I saw coming from a doorway or walking up a stair I thought, at first, was Michelangelo. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She walks up the eight flights of stairs and picks me up at my door. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Lucy ran down the stairs in her nightdress and opened the door. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s at the bottom of the stairs by the time I get back to the house. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a two-story brick house with black clapboard shutters and a trio of narrow cement stairs leading to the front door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached the bottom of the stairs like a slow-moving train of caution. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In a graceful swivel, Kamau moved around him and headed up the stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I saw someone heading down the stairs into the Canal Street station. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We were at the top of the stairs now, in another paneled hallway. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

If only she had not come back up the stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

And when the time comes for Daniel to finally hand over Asher’s bags to an attendant, Asher heads for the jet’s stairs without saying good-bye. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s footsteps raced back up the stairs seconds later. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

One kid wearing the same exact costume as mine, long white skull face oozing fake red blood, high-fived me as we passed each other on the stairs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He took his time walking down the stairs, and then slowly made his way to Harvey’s. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Celaena watched her walk up the stairs, and didn’t tear her gaze away until the princess was gone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Far away from those men carrying Mama down the stairs while Miss Roberts held me and cried. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Your fists go stiff and you stagger up the cement stairs to your door in the unmarked halls to your cement room and you lie down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had no problem finding other people and other things to occupy him—men were always climbing the stairs asking for him, and he was happy to accompany them, leaving her alone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started down the stairs, stopped, turned back. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Shoulder to shoulder, they tiptoed down the stairs into the basement, where Redemption’s training room had been built. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I slip out the door and down the stairs to the kitchen. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you go up the stairs and open the door at the top, you’re surprised to see such a large, light and spacious room in an old canalside house like this. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I said, “Hold on,” and I ran down the 72 stairs, across the street, right past Stan, even though he was saying “You’ve got mail!” and up the 105 stairs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Grin had just come up the stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just then, Lily came gliding down the stairs, flawless as usual, from her shiny long hair to her own sleek black tights. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

One man did not get up, but lay awkwardly across the stairs, his legs higher than his head, and screaming hoarsely, almost inaudibly, as though in a panicky dream. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was kicking and screaming as they tried to carry her up the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Take down the Pope and hide him in the coal hole under the stairs where he won’t be seen and he’ll be out of harm’s way. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When she was assured that not even a jump through the air could snap the heel, she approached the top of the stairs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Bod threw himself down the stairs, bouncing into the walls, almost tumbling headlong in his rush to reach Scarlett. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Isaac turned and ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I slipped away from the door to the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She sprayed the entire basement thoroughly, under the stairs, in the fruit cupboards and in all the protected areas around ceiling and rafters. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I followed him down carpeted stairs to a huge basement bedroom. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t let them say anything else, because I hurried down the rest of the stairs and outside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the top of the stairs long enough to spot Julian waiting for me but not long enough to irritate Mrs. Korshak. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a milk bottle from the bottom of the stairs and started back up to. his attic flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Late at night, when the castle was dark, the serving girl Miggery Sow climbed the stairs to the princess’s room. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I press mv hands against the sides of my thighs, breathe in, set out along the hall and softly down the stairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grip the key, stepping on the first stair. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The closest security guard bounded up the stairs from the sixth floor and onto the roof, in time to see the scythes stepping out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Ice layered the marble steps leading up to the Capitol, making the stairs treacherous. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“The girls will not go to school today,” she said to Ultima, “what’s one day. Deborah, Theresa!” she called up the stairs, “stay in bed! The snow has covered the goat path!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thoughts returned to his boy Yunus, who had once built snowmen in this yard, whose feet had pounded these same stairs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

At last the stairs were empty of clattering feet and the shrill laughter of young women at the end of a long workday. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We walked to the stairs and then ran down them. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tad kicked something that went flying into the wall with an echoing crash as he ran toward the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And up the stairs into the box came the seven defeated Bulgarian players. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We wind up the stairs, passing a wall of framed photos. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Grace yelled, and was about to turn around and run back up the stairs so she could change her outfit for the eleventh time, when Joaquin’s car swung into the driveway. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I take the last few stairs two at a time. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then I turned quickly and shut the door of the west wing behind me, and came out again through the archway by the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

While he was upstairs, Dr. Zamborska returned home, and Branwell came flying down the stairs to see him but stopped short, halfway down, for his father was not alone. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver stealthily slipped the letter under the door, then snuck back down the stairs, quiet as a mouse. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and saw a big, lathered-up mongrel cornering a little black kid of about five or six against the monument. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need rest, and I don’t want to go, but before I know it, my feet are taking me up the stairs and I am closing my door behind me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stairs and walked through the bedrooms. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The white marble stairs glow through the darkness as we approach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Baudelaire children listened to his heavy footsteps go up the stairs to the tower they were forbidden to enter. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Isa hitched Laney on her back and started up the groaning metal stairs to the REP, otherwise known as the Roof of Epic Proportions. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Helena played on the stairs and in the street with the children who had moved into our building, and we saw Emilika most days, though she had stopped sleeping in my room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the stairs where we had taken him abroad, and ever since, I had looked warily for any token of our being suspected. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they're done, I follow them down the back stairs to the kitchen, but I don't go on down to the basement with them. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called out: for I now heard her descending the great stairs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

They walked out the front door arm in arm, down the stairs, and to the driveway at the side of the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read the numbered plates, then looked up to the stairs curving up to a second floor from either side of the great room. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It seemed that an army was thundering up the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Approaching the stairs, he felt himself pushed from behind and he pitched forward, off balance. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a lot of gasping and blinking back tears, she crawled over to the wreckage of the stairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It took them twice as long to get up the stairs as it had the week before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I hear her deliberate and heavy steps as she walks away and down the stairs. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted to lead the Thief Lord toward the door, but Scipio pulled away and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of Lord Ashton’s voice boomed through the house, up the stairs, and into Penelope’s room at the far end of the corridor, all the way from the first floor drawing room. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Neither of us says anything as we walk down the stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them fight back, but most run for the stairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Up those stairs and out the first door you see,” he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The bottom of the stairs soon appeared, and she came to a halt before three equally dark and imposing portals. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Down the stairs to the terrible green room that makes the noise and lights of this morning seem like a quiet walk in Prospect Park. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

"This boy, Curtis Weintraub, that's in my class, pushed me while I was going down the stairs in the park," she said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He refused to return to the hotel, and I carried him on my back up the stairs to the president’s office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped in its side door, climbed the stairs, and walked down a dim cinderblock hallway until she reached the door labeled Flight Research Laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I ran down the stairs, through the dining room, and to the back door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We head up a set of stairs—slowly, so Baba can keep up—and Father Masego ushers us through a well-polished wooden door. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Once or twice I heard heavy footsteps on the stairs, but then Dad’s voice would float up to me, booming and terrible, yelling words I didn’t like or understand. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I waited for the clapping and the laughter that would follow as I walked slowly down the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A guard would go to the head of the stairs every so often to see what it was like outside, then he would come down and whisper to the other guards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took me all day to read the article, a few sentences at a time, dashing up and down stairs to do more chores in between. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He fell on the couch, hopping and stumbling, almost landing on Mary Anne, who joined the frenzied stampede of siblings for the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here, my Aunt Kay memories end. moving again After the falling the stairs were all wrong to us. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They walked together down the steps in Mr. Frost’s high narrow house, to the little entrance hall at the bottom of the stairs. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Caleb and I climb the stairs and, at the top, when we divide to go to our separate bedrooms, he stops me with a hand on my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I put on my skirt and made my way to the bottom of the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled her toward the door and hustled her down all three flights of stairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once Grammy leaves for work, I run up the stairs and get the Strong Shoulder jar I got at the tag sale and unscrew the top. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Just walk off and stomp up the stairs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to show me where the shark books are,” I said, walking up the stairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jasmin crawls down a steep flight of stairs to a tiny bodega below. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jessie inched down the stairs, glancing around as if waiting for something with venomous tentacles to drop on her head and inject poison into her bloodstream. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You all mind Caddy, then. When they are done, bring them up the back stairs, Dilsey.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the foot of the stairs, Mr. Clutter switched on lights that lighted the hall above, and as we were going up, he said, ‘I don’t know why you boys want to do this. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m off,” she said brightly, and she went back up the spiral stair as the closest Sister rose and unlocked the door marked “5.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s eleven thirty when we sneak down the stairs. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She got out of bed and went down the darkened stairs and past the little shepherdess. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She said she had just thought of something, and fled up the stairs. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger went behind Peggy down the stairs and back into the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the act of running down the stairs in pursuit, he paused. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He nods as the bodyguards take over for their hurt friend, then watches as they lead him to a set of private stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she opened it they could see the back stairs beyond, and Mrs. Dudley turned and closed the door behind her before she started up. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, Mr. Bykovski came down the stairs into the living room, yawning and stretching his suspenders over his shoulders. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings’s voice drummed up the stairs, sounding as commanding as General Robert E. Lee’s at Gettysburg: “It’s nine o’clock! Visitation’s at three! Let’s move-move-move! Where are the hedge clippers, Mama?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I watch my little brother jump up the stairs and disappear behind the glass doors. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I put on my robe and followed her down the stairs. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the second gravedigger, the hefty old man who had blocked my way on the stair. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The command was entirely unnecessary, for the moment he began to speak everyone but Milo, Tock, and the distraught bug rushed from the hall, down the stairs, and out of the palace. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He moves into a tiny room at the top of the stairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I crept around the back of the stairs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stomped up the stairs past the open kitchen door from which came the definite smell of chocolate chip cookies. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But at the top of the stairs I stop and sit, watching my father at the piano as he lifts his fingers from the keys and presses them down again. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That good feeling lingered as I entered the front door of Central and climbed the stairs to my third-floor homeroom. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were blurred images all around me as we moved up more stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim and I said nothing as we passed on the stairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We will be down as soon as we can,” said Jane; “but I dare say Kitty is forwarder than either of us, for she went up stairs half an hour ago.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Tee said from the top of the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I felt like I floated up the front stairs, then I made sure the screen door didn’t slam and took my shoes off and went in and sat on my bed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom tiptoed up the stairs and ducked her head into Eleanor's room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Zach planted students out there to give him bogus directions: “Make a left at the music room, down the stairs, through the double doors, then two rights and a hard left at the furnace....” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

When they came to Lina’s street, Lina ducked her head in the door of the yarn shop and said hello to Granny, and then they climbed the stairs to the apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time he acknowledged the presence of the three women by one brief embarrassed glance up the stairs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled up off the floor pretty quick, hit the stairs at a trot, with my mom calling after me, sounding tired and annoyed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Alex gave Lorraine an awkward hug, and raced down the stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The crowd of Dauntless leading us go to the stairs instead of the elevators. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, I turn. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We mounted the stairs gently, trying not to creak them under our feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Following a sudden shout, several men fell backward down the stairs onto those waiting below. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her vision blurring, she left the tomb and staggered up the stairs, clutching her bleeding hand to her chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Something in the stairwell above snapped and cracked, and a flaming board crashed down the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As the men passed Somkit's room and started down the stairs, he heard it: the soft tink-tink of glass on glass. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Rocket came galloping toward them from the opposite direction, streaking down the stairs and then around the corner toward the basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, we kept one car open for the thud of Madam’s feet on the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man Jack walked up the stairs, his feet silent on the carpeting. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She drove Madame Williams wild with her sudden sensitivity to footsteps on the stairs. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stairs, not even bothering to wash off the dirt and dried blood. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He opened the screen door, stepping down the stairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once we reach the top of the stairs, and Daddy leans against the railing with his eyes closed to catch his breath, I have to ask: “Dad, when’s the last time you were up here?” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The boy on the stairs must have sent this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For eight years, I lived in the White House, a place with more stairs than I can count—plus elevators, a bowling alley, and an in-house florist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she’s embarrassed about sliding down the stair rail and blames me for encouraging her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rested his hands on Hodov's shoulders as they descended the winding stair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He ran forward, pushing past people who didn’t quite seem to know what they were supposed to be doing, and leaped onto the ledge running up the outside of the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Dad wrapped the blanket around me and picked me up, then ran down the stairs, leading Lori and Brian with one arm and holding me in the other. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a quiver in the stone and the stairs trembled, but the doors did not open. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad says he found Michael on the seventh step of the stairs to Italy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Filch said quietly at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Ready?” she says, turning to head up the stairs as soon as Molly crosses the threshold. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ruth was above stairs, standing by whilst Madam prepared herself for company. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quiet as a shadow, she moved back down the stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They opened that door and saw a flight of stairs leading very steeply down. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I scampered down the stairs from the sidewalk to the street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Lily appears at the bottom of the stairs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I sat on the stair and stared at the picture of me handing her something. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I bounded down the stairs and out the front door, wondering how long this bizarre routine would continue. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Staying close to the floor, he snaked himself down the first flight of stairs, gently dragging the limp, unconscious body of Angel with him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being with the Commander I would go upstairs in the usual way, but then I would go along the hall and down the Marthas’ stairs at the back and through the kitchen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the elevator would save me time, I sneak to the back stairs to avoid curious eyes through the elevator’s open glass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Versh, can you get them up the back stairs quiet. You, Jason, shut up that crying.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs were high and steep and winding. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Her rubber slippers never made a sound on the stairs, but I knew she went downstairs when I heard the dining room door open. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

After that they took him along a corridor, where the stone floor felt beautifully cool to his hot feet, and up some stairs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Be a dear and build me some stairs.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Soon I had to use my hands to grip the stairs above me, or I'd’ve fallen back. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I let her go ahead, as I need to cover my bandaged hand with a glove before I follow her down the stairs. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

James pounded back up the stairs and shook her arm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The stairs that led back up to his room and his family were steep, but the door to the street was open and inviting.... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

As Shadow ran he saw Constance dash across the grounds at an angle which cut him off from the stairs up to the ramparts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes fall upon the stairs that lead up from the subtrans concourse just as the screams erupt—countless, countless screams and the blur of panicked movement in the crowd. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The entire group tumbled down the stairs in a tangle of arms and legs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then I moved quickly, my body like glass inside as I skipped downward off the edges of the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way they could force her up the rickety stairs. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I streaked down the corridor, went through the Lounge and the Reading-Room and the Library and the Drawing-Room and came to the stairs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and put his shoes back on. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the dark at the bottom of the stairs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I immediately run to the back of the closet and down the stairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Scattering fallen leaves as he rushed down the tree-lined street, thirteen-year-old Bobby vaulted up the red-carpeted stairs of the Marshall Chess Club two steps at a time and entered the Great Hall. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then the creak of a stair, and feet wearing thick socks came into view, and a flash of bare skin, and a blue silk dressing gown that she recognized. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walk up the stairs with Christina, and the crowd chokes me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We zoomed up the stairs because that was faster than the elevator. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After Frederick Seward accepts the vial, Powell takes three steps down the stairs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin said, putting his bowl in the sink and taking the stairs two at a time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As he turned to mount the few stairs to the stage, Kira could see the broad blank expanse across the Singer’s back and shoulders, the blank that she had been picked to fill. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he rolls, stands, and takes off up the stairs, with guards hot on his heels. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are no stairs in this house and that means no angel ever on the seventh step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We climb the stairs instead, following him unquestioningly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Exhausted and annoyed, he walked down the stairs muttering to himself, “Who in the world ever got this guy into this business? Does this poor baby know what the heck he is fooling with?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A firm handshake, but not a squeeze,” she says, passing me on the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I got dressed and came down the stairs quietly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the stairs and burst into tears. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet he could hear furtive footsteps creeping down the stairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In the living room, at the base of the stairs, the little shepherdess lamp was waiting, a pink-cheeked smirk plastered on her face. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bast tended to their needs, explaining his master’s knee was swollen quite badly and he didn’t feel up to taking the stairs so early in the day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The one in yellow took the winding stairs, the woman in green went to explore the rest of the first floor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As I went up the stairs, I could hear my parents’ voices in the dining room, my mother’s raised in outrage, my father’s rumbling in placation. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs and try the door, but it’s locked. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

But up the stairs came the smell of bacon frying already, and when she almost fell downstairs, the kitchen was bright and full of laughter. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

We went along a broad, carpeted passage, and then turned left, through an oak door, and down a narrow flight of stairs and up a corresponding flight, and so to another door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 2002, she fell down a flight of stairs and was paralyzed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They strode down corridors, up flights of stairs, and around and around until she hadn’t the slightest chance of finding her way out again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I walk the hallway with its rainbow of lights and go up the stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You go out through the door and turn right. There’s another door, it’s open. Go up the stairs and knock, he’s expecting you. No one will see you. I’ll sit here.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she went to the head of the stairs and called. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, Mom,” Grace says, coming down the stairs with the sweatshirt draped over her shoulder. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He unlocks his car from the top of the stairs, and I walk around to the passenger side. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Most nights after supper and prayers, Ethel heard her father going up the crooked stairs, guided by the bobbing light of the candle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Streamers of colored paper are taped to the walls, with arrows of construction paper at intervals, along the halls and up and down the stairs and into the different rooms, to show the way. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slink past them and up the stairs, dragging my sword behind me, too exhausted to do anything else. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I went down two flights of stairs, and the scent of pancakes drifted from a door on the right. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At last he heard his parents’ footsteps coming up the stairs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

His diaper had worked itself loose on his journey on his bottom down the stairs, and when he reached the last step, when he reached the little hall and stood up, the diaper fell off. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Come whenever you feel like it Be careful; the stairs and landings are dark; don’t stumble.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark opened the door and bounded up the stairs that led to Luke’s room proper. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hit the wall and had to catch myself before I fell down the stairs. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce stood watching from a place under the stairs, unwilling to be part of the scene, for the sounds and smells were all too familiar and spoke of her failure with Emma Blunt. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was queer; the young maester had his cell only a half turn down the stair, within easy earshot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I clambered up the mountainside to the rear of the house—the stairs had completely rotted through—and climbed through the back window we now used as a door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He raced up the stairs before them and at first they were very afraid he was heading for his attic and meant to hide his remaining magic rings. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She stopped at the back stairs, the servants’ stairs, the ones my mother used after Mrs. Willis died and Miss Lilian took over. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If I can’t help, can I sit on the stairs and watch?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Much longer stair. Rest when we get to the top of next stair. Not yet.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Except now all George could see was water, green water swirling halfway up the stairs, foaming and churning like a stormy river. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything, but follow her back along the hall and down the stairs. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs I hear a sound—a soothing horn sound echoing off the station walls. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair, and looked out of the window, which opened south. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and grabbed Rosaleen from behind, stopping her with one foot poised in the air, searching for the next step. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heads down a set of basement stairs so grimy that they look like the inside of a chimney. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And certain sounds returned—a silver dollar rolling across a floor, boot steps on hardwood stairs, and the sounds of breathing, the gasps, the hysterical inhalations of a man with a severed windpipe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads him along a spare white hallway and down a small flight of open stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her dress has got a tear She waltzes on her way to Mass And whistles on the stair... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expect us to go up the stairs, but we stop at the elevator bank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I then dashed down the stairs to the machine shop to warn them that I was about to draw up plans for models wanted within a week. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Dari led us out of his living room and turned to me as we climbed the stairs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Snape looked up the stairs, straight through Harry, and then down into the corridor below. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then she took me by the hand down the stairs to her basement, which is where the party was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs and went back into my room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Bod, grabbing her hand and pulling her down the stairs, into the hallway. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I heard the whole thing from the top of the stairs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lightning lit up the room, empty but for Alyce under the stairs and the woman, in tears, in pain, in labor, and none to help. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk across the shaded verandah until the roof runs out and we’re standing at the top of a big flight of marble stairs in the glaring sun. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least now I know they're here,” he grumbled as he limped up the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled her along as we ran up the stairs to the shopping center on the pier. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A constrained trio lingered after Rachel had climbed the stairs behind her husband. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He paused at the top of the stairs to read it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then Morgan called up the stairs to say that it was babies in the box, two babies. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they opened the door to sneak down and spy on the festivities, Lena was always seated at the foot of the attic stairs, reading a book. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Then he clomped down the stairs, carrying his basket of food. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She walks into the hallway, down the stairs, and to the kitchen. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I started up the stairs to fetch the fan, moving slow as possible to overhear their words. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in bed for another minute or two, then went to the foot of the stairs. wHey, Linda?” he yelled. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, he started to cough, a racking, deep, wet hack. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Terry leads the way to the third floor, bustling up the stairs, with Vivian moving more slowly behind her and Molly taking up the rear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Guys with prison tattoos tied the tree to the roof of the car, and we heaved it up the stairs ourselves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even the grandmothers sweeping the stairs closed their eyes and held their heads back as they celebrated their sweet desolation. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and went limping down the stairs and opened the front door and went out into the street backward watching the house. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I squeezed myself into a corner on the other side of a short set of stairs to an apartment building and tried to disappear into the shadows. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Lissa rushed past me, her feet thudding on the stairs. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the landing on the stairs was a tall palladian window and the faintest shape of it headlong on the stairwell wall in the day’s last light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At Mr. Jacquel’s direction, Shadow carried the folded aluminum gurney up the narrow stairs to her bedroom and unfolded it next to her bed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I stare into the steam until I know she’s down the stairs. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

We had a dilapidated blue home with two stories, four bedrooms, and creaky stairs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Studio, darling!” she yelled back, and they heard Aloe’s feet crash up the stairs. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then, extinguishing the lights, he hurried up the stairs and into his new bedroom. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I follow Marlena, watching her sculpted calves as she climbs the stairs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a little while Mr. Henry came back down the stairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dashed down the stairs, his anger turning into power for his running feet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I began to make my way back up the stairs. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard them passing down the stairs and the closing of the door below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like an hour passed dragging her suitcase up the stairs, during which all three of her family members passed her going up or down and none offered any help. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wish I could take Jason to Elliot’s Antiques and show him all the bottles and old things, but there is a long flight of stairs, and the aisles are too narrow for a wheelchair. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pushes her way through the crowd and runs up the stairs. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Ray,” I say when we get to the top of the stairs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She looked like a little snowman as she walked down the stairs carrying four ridiculously full tote bags. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She asked Ikejide to serve drinks and went down to the living room and from the top of the stairs where he stood, Richard tried to hear what was said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he licked his knife, and put it between his teeth, and catching up the bundle he came loping towards the near door of the stairs. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They heard his slow footsteps going up the uncarpeted stairs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, on my pallet in that dark hall at the foot of the stairs, rubbing my feet together for warmth, I am frightened. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ranofer could hear him moving about in his room at the top of the stairs, but he did not come down. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I walked down the stairs from our bedroom with the dogs following on my heels. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Up the stairs and to the right. End of the hall.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In Monterey he climbed the stairs of the Central Hotel, registered as John Vicker. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Who wants to see the new addition?” she sang out, pouring herself some chardonnay before marching a troupe of relatives up the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Until we reach a room at the back of the house that we have to go up a small flight of stairs to enter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I ran to the top of the stairs and looked down. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Once, An Yi said, Grandma had to sit on the stairs and scoot down step by step with An Yi on her lap. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the twisting stairs held no terror for him, because he had learned to place the crutches carefully and swiftly where they would hold and balance him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Isa called down to her preoccupied parents as her siblings made a hasty exit up the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I went on up the stairs carrying my phantom suitcase. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jason climbed the stairs to the middle deck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could scarcely believe that last night I had stood there in my blue dress at the bottom of the stairs, shaking hands with five hundred people. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Calder! Calder!” she whispered at the foot of the stairs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I head up the stairs, Nat scuffing along behind me, pulling at her sweater like her shirt sleeve is caught up inside. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood peering up the stairs into the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There the stair was covered by a small domed chamber in the midst of the roof, with low doors facing east and west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was Violet, walking down the stairs in her house. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprint up the stairs, the others on my heels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She made her way down the stairs, jumping down one at a time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I give him a surprised look as he pulls me out of his bedroom, past a sleeping Layla, and up the stairs leading out of the basement. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The pair made their way quickly down the flight of stairs and to the door of the room where Jo slept. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment after that she was through and pulling it quietly shut, and with Pantalaimon a goldfinch again, she ran for the stairs and fled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I run down the stairs and up to O’Connell Street, the main street, where the lights are on and people are going home from work, people like me with wages in their pockets. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ana had twisted her ankle and couldn't manage the stairs. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is chamber after chamber, Legolas; hall opening out of hall, dome after dome, stair beyond stair; and still the winding paths lead on into the mountains’ heart. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway, he climbs a set of stairs, and at the top there is another hallway, equally crowded and loud. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, I’m embarrassingly winded, but I refuse to let it show. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Locked in the cupboard under the stairs, and I can’t get out of this room —” “No problem,” said George from the front passenger seat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I had help,” she said, reaching the bottom of the stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Clumsy with his stubby legs and oversized feet, the puppy couldn’t manage the stairs at Leader’s homeplace. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I was walking back toward the stairs, quietly inhaling the smell of the thirty-two freshly copied diagrams of the New York City water system, when Marcus came out of the stairwell reading a book. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, after a long moment he turned toward the stairs and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The dance was in the lounge between the two dorms, and so, when I heard the band start up, I wandered down the stairs to a landing where I could watch, unobserved, the partiers. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Violet heard the door lock behind him, and then listened to his footsteps fading away down the stairs. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe down the dark stairs to search for some. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly we came to these stairs that moved and we didn’t know what to do. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted toward the stairs in the shallow end of the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I climb the stairs carefully, stopping just before my head emerges. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He looked more serene than he appeared at the bottom of the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He sits down on the stairs and wraps his arms around himself. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Up here,” James shouted, and the three raced up the stairs and onto the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Esme was at my side in half a heartbeat, swinging me up easily into her arms, and dashing up the stairs before I could gasp in shock. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We spilled up the stairs and flooded into the car. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Faster even than the time she flew down the stairs having seen for the first time what the disease had done to her grandfather. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We follow the boardwalk and see a set of stairs leading deeper into this blooming rain forest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A wall, a flight of stairs, a road ahead. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

No, it couldn't be; she ached all over from the tumble down the stairs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, he mounted the stairs and stepped outside. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert was breathing heavily by the time they reached the bottom of the stairs, his face red in the lantern light as they stepped out into the darkness of the crypt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As we painstakingly descended the stairs, they kept up a steady stream of small talk. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There’s a door leading to a steep set of stairs, and at the top is a wide landing and a large metal door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thomas followed Newt as he hurried down the stairs and out of the Homestead into the bright light of midafternoon. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, she left her room and made her way along the gloomy paneled corridor to the head of the stairs where she paused to listen. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I began to rock back and forth where I stood, yanking on the railing and stomping my feet, sending shockwaves up the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Mom is out like a light, and we have to let her rest, okay? Don’t make a lot of noise going up the stairs. I’m in the guest room if you need anything.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“All right,” I say, jogging down the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Grammy calls as she grabs the railing and pulls herself up the stairs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The basement stairs are hidden behind a group of kids taking shots. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got two hours before we leave. Have some fun. Mingle,” Kristina says as she disappears up the stairs with Donna. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In steep places stairs of stone had been hewn, but now they were cracked and worn, and split by the roots of trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The three of them trooped to the back of the restaurant where the maître d' had directed, and down a narrow flight of stairs, lit gloomily by little lamps hung in archways. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He extends his arm toward the stairs as if to say “after you.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I stepped down the stairs with my head held high and my back straight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The television was on; Laurel and Hardy, obscured by a blizzard of electronic snow, were trying to move a grand piano up a great many flights of stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A squad of legionnaires pours down the stairs, and for a second, I’m confused. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I put a foot over the threshold, then another, and another, until I was hurrying down the stairs, out the front doors, and into the quiet courtyard, where no children played. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They took off the Cloak and climbed the winding stair to their dormitory. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He gave the stairs to their left a cursory glance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I groped for the stair railing in the dark and felt a warm hand take mine. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, gaining his bearings, and went to charge up the stairs again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For the second time in our relationship, as a kind of closing frame to our first meeting which had ended in my flight out of the classroom, I fled up the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Dad!” he says, practically throwing himself down the stairs. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mary Anne rose and ran for the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs went down into the dark and T. P. took my hand, and we went out the door, out of the dark. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear his peculiar limping progress all the way down the stairs. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I walk so slowly up the stairs, I can hear my own breathing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On weekends they wander naked from room to room, up and down the five flights of stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the house, I went straight to the well, got a bucket of water, carried it up the stairs somehow, then washed, spread antiseptic on my new cuts, and put on clean clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He is sitting at the top of the stairs. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

My job was to ferry the food up the stairs and the dirty crockery down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the stairs the hall narrowed, and at its end there was a back door that we went through. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and headed up the stairs—just like that, as if he’d checked Hazel off his “to do” list and had already forgotten her. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had lost sight of Emilia on the stairs. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They padded through the hall past their parents’ bedroom door and down the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as fast as her two old legs could carry her, she hurried down the stairs. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The most exercise I get is the short steps in front of the house and the stairs at school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Three more trays needed to be brought up the stairs, but I allowed myself a quick peek at the company before I fetched them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger sat on the edge of the bed and heard Jan’s feet run down the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted up the stairs and left Connor in my wake. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

"Put one man in the sickroom, night and day, one outside the door, two at the bottom of the stairs. No one sees Bran without my warrant or my mother's." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door closed and he heard footsteps on the stairs he would shut the book on his finger and lean forward, agitated and blinking. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can see the top of the stairs from where we stand. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Making sure to position themselves between him and the stairs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs to the roof, and across the rooftops to a building on the corner. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was a pale figure hurrying away in and out of the shadows of the pillars, and it had nearly reached the stairs to the tower-door. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

From his seat on the stairs, Luke had to hold himself back from going to fish the edge of the letter out of the chicken gravy and looking at it himself. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fingerprint-smudged glass walls and electronic gates separated them from the escalators and stairs that went down to the level where the trains came and went. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They seem fairly obvious, too. Between Great Hall and Cavern Hole there is a flight of stairs. Come on, old mouse.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“But considering your limp, I think we can make an exception. The stairs wouldn’t be easy.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As she went up stairs to get ready, Mrs. Bennet followed her, saying: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In a minute or two the inmates from the flats would be streaming up the stairs, over the third-floor bridge, and into the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went out then through the dining-room and the hall and up the marble stairs to the room where I had lived with Rinaldi. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Christopher was supposed to meet him after work to get him down the stairs out front, but Lucas decided he would take them himself. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of ways to go; both involve a lot of stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our long hike up the stairs, minutes behind the regular officers, few of us had anything to say. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corners, on the stairs, ducking beneath the laundry strung on ropes from door to door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Heavens, I’m too weak to get back up the stairs,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before Harry could move, Dobby had darted to the bedroom door, pulled it open, and sprinted down the stairs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As I climbed the stairs to our room, Sander came up behind me. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish to make my way down the stairs,” said he. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My hands shake as I climb the stairs. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As if on cue, we heard the unmistakable sound of Miss Peregrine limping up the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When the door was shut behind William, Matthew turned to the women on the stairs. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I heard light footsteps on the stairs, so I started watching the second-floor landing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stair railing is decorated in red, green, and silver tinsel. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The younger boys, who had never been up this late, responded to the generalized slackening of discipline by either tearing up and down the stairs or falling fast asleep on the parlor rug. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But I climb up the stairs with Amara to the classroom. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I walked up the creaky stairs to the second floor, down a dim hallway to the last door on the right. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pecola climbed the porch stairs and hesitated there, afraid to follow him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s father, Leaf Laroux, walked down the floating spiral stairs at the center of the bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I grabbed it, headed for the stairwell. It was filled with smoke and dust falling like water, down the stairs and over the rails. “ Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she manipulated herself down the long flights of stairs, two crutches under her left arm, the right hand grasping the banister. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Give him his small comforts,” shouted a voice at the top of the stairs, and a red cloth was thrown into the light. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

At my building I sit on the stoop and catch my breath, waiting before I have to climb the broke-down stairs and walk hallways smelling like two-day-old garbage and fried onions. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But I’d only made it halfway up the stairs when it happened again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She gestured toward the stairs, so I walked up, but didn’t pause to examine the assemblage of recycled trash at the top of the staircase. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She watched their shadows as they walked out of the room and up the stairs. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Seven red cement stairs led up to the front door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few blocks away, Klaus Fuchs climbed the concrete stairs of a Manhattan subway station and stepped up onto the streets of the Lower East Side. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitated, one foot already on the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the stairs, Mr. Frost led the way. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I yanked off my nightgown, threw on a dress, and flew down the stairs without my shoes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the stricken look on Ash’s face, her stepmother smiled and then continued up the stairs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head down the stairs of the apartment building until I get to the door I’m looking for. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She looked paler than she had before, and she moved slowly down the stairs as if she’d finally noticed her load up front. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Maria was busy picking oranges from the trees and rolling them down the stairs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the doorman and security guard, and he’s always cracking jokes while he’s waiting to carry suitcases up and down the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Morgun was an Apprentice, he was walking down the stairs when the Apprentice Soldier shoved him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ours was by the stairs going down to the lobby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving more silently than the men were, he left his bedroom and tiptoed to the spare room at the top of the stairs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m walking on air as he leads me past the indoor garden, down the stairs, to a small, windowless room in the basement. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given her size and her difficulty with stairs, she seems the wrong person to live in the apartment next to the phone, but nobody asked me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the pirates running down the stairs, waving tiki torches and sticks of celery. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned without so much as another look, walked up the stairs and vanished behind the balustrade on the first floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalene called Lena, hearing her shouts, ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the garden is a sunken lily pond with little mossy stairs that curve all the way around it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

"And no nibbling on the flan," Mama warned as Frankie’s stomping turned into a full sprint down the stairs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs is a landing, with doors on either side. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We were just at the top of the stairs fixing to go down again, when the first cop stopped quick and I looked to see what he was looking at. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so it was that the overwhelming stench of despair and hopelessness and evil was not at all discernible to her, and she went happily down the twisting and turning stairs. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I trudge down the stairs for breakfast, trying to stomp out the self-hate and the doubt. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then they laughed because it was silly—the three of them acting like wise philosophers, standing on the stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Hurry, hurry, inside,” the Uncle instructed as Thorn and Seven made their way up the stairs and into the cottage. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once she spotted my sister in our yard, opened the gate, and chased her up the stairs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down a half flight of steps and across the hall of the keep to the winding stair, making their way quietly among the sleeping servants. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lyddie tried to speak to Diana on the stairs, but she seemed hardly to hear the greeting. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He caught himself in time and hovered about a foot off the stairs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He sat on the top step of the stairs and opened out the paper, but for quite awhile he did not read. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thrust the bundle deep into the chest and with shaking hands scattered the shentis and headcloths over it, shut the battered lid and sprang for the stairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She could hear them as she walked down the back stairs, her hand sliding down the polished wooden banister. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Stay! Stay!’ cried Gandalf, springing forward to the stone stair before the door. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We watched white people eating in the mezzanine, but we never asked why we couldn’t go up those stairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The childrens are taking turns up and down the creaky stairs to bathe in the big tub and to wash their hairs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But then I notice the faint sound of two voices at a table in a far corner, tucked behind a pair of bookshelves that make them almost impossible to see from the stairs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s barreling up the stairs and into the trailer to see for himself what’s inside—and what isn’t. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked again at the boys, who had not ceased to watch him, and hurried up the stairs. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Stepping outside, I nearly trip down the stairs because lake is standing by my front door and totally startles me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As Father led me up the stairs, I forgot about the demons, for I began to wonder again about his name, Windrider. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were shoved up the stairs, through a door and into strong daylight, onto the roof. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The address was a large green building, so noisy, children running up and down the outside stairs and hallways. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother comes out of her bedroom and down the stairs ready to drive us to the market. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My legs nearly gave out as we reached the stairs, but we took them one at a time, with excruciating slowness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I run to the top of the wooden stairs and look down at the beach. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It’s strange standing outside at the top of the stairs, fully costumed, brightly lit, but with no visible audience to deliver my speech to. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There was nobody there, but they seemed to hear something hurrying away down the stairs. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of pushing his way through to the other end of the hallway, he decides to climb another set of stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He climbed the stairs and put his worn key in the lock of his office door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He heard Jessie stop at the top of the stairs, but she didn't come down. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I run up the stairs to the eighth floor and knock on 806. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Together we wait for Pa, sitting on the stairs, staring at the path that took him away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two bouts of Danuta boiling her lower regions in a pot and one vigorous run up and down the stairs, I ask Emilika what time she’s supposed to be at the photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All of the men followed Britten up the stairs and Bigger was left alone. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Just try not to drop them on the way down the stairs.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A tiger roared as it bounded to the bottom of the stairs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I heard him take about three steps and then jump down the rest of the stairs. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

At his step on the stairs, the rattlesnakes ran out their tongues and listened with their waving forked tongues. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gebu came down the stairs again almost immediately, carrying a packet of bread loaves which he had evidently bought on his way home, for they smelled deliciously of new-baked crust. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We hustled out the door and down the stairs, the Chases right behind us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

They met each other’s gaze for only a second before breaking into a sprint, skipping stairs two at a time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, before I realized what was happening, these bullies dragged my father out of the apartment, down the stairs, and into the night. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A litde later, the front door opened, and finally footsteps made their way up the stairs and into her room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He whistled an old song, and as he descended the narrow stairs the tune left a broken echo behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Arabella knows every stair and turn and pathway through the darkness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She looked at the partygoers moving with her up the slippery stairs and through the cleft between the dragon’s tail and mouth. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There were rapid footsteps on the stairs, followed by a loud banging at the door and a delirious burst of Italian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My family stood holding its breath at the bottom of the stairs, in case it might be necessary to drag them apart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He kicked and struggled like a madman even as Earl dragged him across the lot and up the stairs into the privilege car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Calpurnia,” Granddaddy called up the stairs, “will you come out to the laboratory with me? I require your assistance if you’re not otherwise engaged.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We came to the top of the stairs. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He spun around, ran up the stairs, and darted out the door. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She came to the top of the stairs with a bottle of hairspray in her hand. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I carry things up the stairs and stow them in the garage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They heard her a long while on the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they set off again, they sang a song about marching to Pretoria and pretty Peggy-o running down the stairs, letting down her golden hair. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we went out to go up the street and climb the stairs to the station it was very cold. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Moody took a step closer to the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He transformed back into the great black dog and walked with Harry and Dumbledore out of the office, accompanying them down a flight of stairs to the hospital wing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She hears Dimitri’s footsteps on the stairs, then the clean sound of his key in the lock, slicing sharply into the apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hall and down the wide thickly carpeted stairs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, go sweep the stairs, little girl. This doesn’t concern you,” the mustached one said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We passed on through the dining room, and stopped at the bottom of the stairs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wobbly with dread, I walked up the hallway and rasped up the twisted stairs, “Hello?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even portraits turn the other way when he comes up the stairs. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time, aware that if I hadn’t wounded him fatally, he would be waiting for us above. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she reached the top of her stairs, she found her brother skulking about in the hallway and guessed he might have overheard her conversation with Ms. Lee. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was one of Gregory Powell’s favorite platitudes that nothing was to be gained from excitement, so when Mike Donovan came leaping down the stairs toward him, red hair matted with perspiration, Powell frowned. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She pictured him puffing up the stairs, squeezing through the door, looking dis-approvingly at the clutter in their house, recoiling from Poppy’s sticky hands—no, it wouldn’t do. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was waiting for me on the stairs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexa runs down the stairs and ambushes me with a giant hug, too. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He led me down the stairs like a lamb on a string. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wealtheow, seizing her chance, wanting to die with the man she loved, flew down the stair and flung herself on her husband's unconscious body. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs she and Jalil took were wide and covered with a similar carpet, nailed down at the base of each step. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be right back!” she called to her dad as she thundered down the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As they reached the top of the stairs, a guard said, “Line forms to the right. Single file, please.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just slide your cool self right on up those stairs to your bedroom and wait for him, Daddy-o.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused in the well of darkness at the foot of the stairs and turned to look back up at her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly I climbed the stairs, stopping every time one creaked. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped down the stairs to look at his gallery; the picture was the same. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and went up the stairs, two steps at a time. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As some of the students continued their catcalls, I fought back tears and headed down the stairs to the principal’s office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Betty was coming up the stairs, calling to them as she came, a little too harshly perhaps, given Jackson’s ordeal of the morning. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I count the lockers, the stairs, the doors, everything. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside she nearly managed to slip up the back stairs unseen, but the cook spied her from the kitchen and cried, “Aisling! Whatever are you doing? We were certain you had run away.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By December he had returned to his parents’ house in Alipore, carried through the courtyard and up the red clay stairs like a corpse, hoisted on the shoulders of his four brothers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then their footsteps creak noisily up the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"The boy will clean them. I won't have you tracking mud up my stairs. Mind the bell. Those who come late to meals don't eat." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Can you and Mustafa grab the rest of the things from the trunk while I set up the kitchen? I’m not doing those stairs again.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He sprinted for the back stairs and was already kneeling at the Queen's feet, while Lancelot was raging round the Porter’s lodge, demanding the Queen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny, I thought, as I shot up the last flight of stairs, but I’d had a premonition they’d be on the top floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Joseph grabbed his notes, ran up the stairs, and slid under Frankie’s bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We walked down the stairs to the lobby together, Ximena and me, and then headed down the block toward Main Street, where she would make a left turn and I would make a right turn. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“All right then, boys,” says Cecil, clapping his hands and climbing the stairs to the stage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After tipping the doorman to get access to the dressing rooms, he climbed the stairs to the third floor. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Before they could regain their feet, I had picked the locks on the ankle cuffs, snapped them onto the men’s wrists, and bounded down the stairs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He started to gasp for air and turned around to face me at the bottom of the stairs...trying to speak. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs and walked down a corridor to find room 217. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Afternoons he repairs things around Etienne’s house—a loose cabinet door, a squeaking stair board. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He went back up the stairs, crawled along the second-floor hallway to avoid the windows, then climbed the stairs to the attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Donald says, coming down the stairs with a platter of spaghetti. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s first concern was to rush the frightened Deborah and Theresa up the stairs to their room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at home, we called out hello to Mom and Dad and scurried up the stairs to our bedroom before they could ask us what we were carrying. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You will find, Karen,” Mary Anne said as she watched her mother climb the last stairs, “that poor taste is a lot more fun than good taste. Good taste is real boring.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we first opened its door at the top of the creaky narrow stairs we smelled the fresh veneers of pine oil and bleach and lemon balm. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peggy, still dressed in the kimono, ran up the stairs, the same stairs up which he had half-dragged Mary and the same stairs down which he had stumbled with the trunk last night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The backpack toppled down the stairs in an awkward but amusing sort of way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Silent they stood now above and spoke no word, until Gandalf stepped out upon the paved terrace at the stair’s head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With a secret smile, Father disappeared up the stairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something inside me just went crazy, like a heavy panic thing, and I tried to run up the stairs after her and J.T. put his hand right over my face and started pushing me back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The terror on the stairs had been brief—a bare three minutes in time—and terror had served as an anesthetic. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next nine years, Desdemona complained of the cramped quarters and of the pain in her legs when she descended the stairs; but every time my father offered to move her downstairs, she refused. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Emily heard a careful tread on the stairs—Cecilia at last taking the flowers up to the guests room, a simple errand she had been asked many times that day to perform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pong would look at the kids playing on the stairs and sometimes think about Tanaburi Village School, and about the basket babies whose families must not have had a place like this to turn to. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

After numerous runs up and down the stairs to retrieve food and flatware and dishes, the table was finally set. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I know full well that the thing I can’t stop thinking about is literally down the hall, through two doors, and up a flight of stairs. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

We look up to see Mrs. Byrne at the top of the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Going up the stairs I heard a voice from the Butt Room say, “Funny, he came all the way down here and didn’t even have a smoke.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despereaux stood at the top of the dungeon stairs and peered into the darkness that waited for him below. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, his door banged open and I heard him thumping down the stairs almost as if someone was chasing him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I inch back away from the stairs and hope that no one calls me down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rudi and Arthur follow, clambering behind, up the narrow stairs, groping their way to the rooftop. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When at last I felt like I could move again, I came unsteadily down the stairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Delia, help us down the stairs, please. I think I can get her the rest of the way by myself.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the stairs, someone was muttering, “If it’s not butter, it’s bacon.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A is for Amy who fell down the stairs,” says my best friend, Jenna Davis, as we climb farther down into the steep, parched ravine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She ushers us through a heavy arched wooden entryway, through an empty courtyard and up the stairs to a door. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had been walking up some stairs when he was jostled by a warder, causing his hat to fall to the floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned then to descend the stair, her heart in tumult. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sits on the stairs, watching me while I work. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“C’mon back to the old Meecham Mansion any time you want to,” he said, ascending the stairs with an ursine heaviness, his footsteps an intentional warning to his children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Miss Lilian descending the very same stairs, dressed in gray, one thin hand grasping the rail, her head high, her eyes scornful. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My cousins have come up the stairs, too, and they’re pulling my body in the other direction. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth took the letter from his writing-table, and they went up stairs together. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I run down the stairs, leaving more and more distance between Nat and me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started quickly up the stairs to his bedroom. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the men on the stairs were motionless, watching him. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the stairs, Njemile demanded that Bits lift her into the air and they did so, holding her small frame aloft before setting her down. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Abandoning the remaining condolences, Celia takes the card in hand and leaves the room, ascending a winding stair that leads to the upstairs parlor. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He dashed up the rest of the stairs and burst through the door at the top crying out, “Hello? I’m lost! Whoever lives here, can you tell me where we are?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I busted up the stairs but stopped like I hit a brick wall. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When we made it to the third floor, we stood in front of big glass doors, in the tiny space between the stairs and elevator and the lab. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a lungful of air, and his gaze drifted up to the top of the stairs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She glanced back as she mounted the stairs to the rear porch. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Their footfalls were loud on the attic stairs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, and a door beside it that opened on to a narrow flight of stairs, carpeted in a bright floral pattern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw her waiting at the door for him; he put on his coat and cap and they walked slowly down the stairs, saying nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of someone descending the stairs and then the rattle of him sitting in one of the chairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The stair rail was an open spiral, perfect for sliding. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was worried I might have difficulties getting to the bathrooms, which were up a long flight of stairs from the grade-one classrooms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Down the stairs she tumbled, seeking out each of her siblings and whispering, “Family meeting, NOW!” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs slowly, and he greeted me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Watch out for the bottom stair — it creaks,” Harry whispered back as the twins disappeared onto the dark landing. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I made my way up the station stairs, veering slightly to the right as I did so. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went down the long halls, down the wide stairs, through the rooms to the bar. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She sees me too and waves hello and waits for me at the stairs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The security guard, hand over his bleeding nose, stumbles down the stairs and makes his way toward us. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then I ran up the stairs to my room to wash up before dinner. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, the boys would not go in the kitchen because they were terrified of Betty whom they had seen on the stairs grimly carrying red rubber sheets toward their room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We go up a flight of rickety wooden stairs to the second floor; when I stumble, Nino Carlitos puts his hand at my back to make sure I don’t fall. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan kept up his wheezing for the drive home, and as he raced up the Pink Mansion's stairs toward his room. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The stocky greybeard at the foot of the stairs shook a finger at me, as if to say he'd deal with me later, then hastened away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in the dark cavern of stairs, giving ourselves time like we are a starfish regenerating an arm and learning how to move again. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I ran straight up the stairs to my room on the second floor of the new house, and Ah- juhma called after me in her dialect, “Come, there is enough for you.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Marly felt them watching her as she started up the narrow little stairs after Joe. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She always thought she’d spray the most gasoline on those family portraits on the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Harry, what’s happening?” said Lupin, meeting him at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Turner lay in his room, shivering even though he was still dressed, listening to the familiar sounds of his parents moving around in the room below him, coming up the stairs, closing the door. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

For him there was the back door, and the dark stairs, and the kitchen or the basement. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

My books and papers spilled down the stairs, but at least my tablet stayed Velcroed in. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I slip past Mother in the dining room, invisible Pascagoula dusting pictures in the hall, up my steep, vicious stairs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was on the downhill side of the street, and we had to descend a set of stairs to get to it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lacy lamps, pottery milkmaids, and paintings of African grasslands you buy on the stairs at Littlewoods, if you really want to. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I pulled our heavy front door open and slipped out into bright sunshine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She raised a hand goodbye and went down the stairs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered the pail back down, grabbed the note, ran down her stairs and out the front door to their building’s landing, and pounded on the Lees’ door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I find the door that leads to the stairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper began to come very slowly down the stairs, putting one foot out delicately before the other, and stopping, for a moment, each time. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then at the top of the stairs they were pushing against the man and I saw the old woman fall backwards, and the crowd exploded. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I had the chance to elaborate, there were footsteps on the stairs and somebody banged at the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jimmy lit another cigarette and began wobbling down the stairs. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We heard her quick, light steps on the stairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs proved to be too broken to manage. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She heard him shout to the guards outside the room, heard them descending together in a wild rush, taking the stairs two and three at a time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted a house that had stairs in it—two floors for one family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They passed a marble stair that spiraled up from the mud and ended jaggedly in air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He made his way up the metal stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Will leapt up the stairs and, with the ease of somebody who has been losing himself in curious places for six long years, Will—click-click-clackl—slunk his way aboard the train. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I heard the sound of the guys coming up the stairs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m leaving, Dad. But I want you to know I can see through your gruffness,” she said, reaching the first stair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the stairs two at a time, stride through the main doors, and head for the front desk. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We hurry down the hall and up the stairs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Number twenty-three,” he says, before descending a small set of stairs near the proscenium and hovering by the edge of the front row, pen poised over his open notebook. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He may have gone down the back stairs, not wishing to be seen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my satchel and make my way fast down the stairs, through the school yard, past block after block of the cracked sidewalks of Chicago’s South Side. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I asked if you could also take the stairs down. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Rachel, I’m sorry, but I just don’t want to know. 1 cannot have this in my house. I cannot have . . .” She tails off, but she’s looking back down the hall, towards the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs are narrow and difficult for parents to climb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

December . . . orphanages . . . the schottischeI To the beat of this ominous refrain, she trudged up the stairs to the nursery, one heavy footfall following another, like a condemned prisoner climbing the gallows. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He extended a hand to help her descend the steep metal stair. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He pushed open an emergency-exit door and sprinted down the stairs and out to the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were lights in the shop windows and we climbed the steep stone stairway to the upper street, then up another stairs to the station. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It glanced off the iron rail, even as Saruman left it, and passing close to Gandalf’s head, it smote the stair on which he stood. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It took her forever to get down the stairs, turned sideways, gloved hands gripping the flimsy railing, booted feet groping for every snowy step. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He got up at dawn just for the chance to sit on the stairs and watch the rest of his family eat breakfast. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Garfield was gently lifted onto it and carried up the stairs to a large room on the station's second story. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I bolt from the room and down the stairs toward the front door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

On day three, Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I’m doing up there all day and I holler down, Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But the manager must have suspected something, because he made a leap down over a few stairs and disappeared, still shouting "Huh!" The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen also found a mangy fur stole that looked like it was made out of four hundred Angora alley cats so, needless to say, she was quite the sight coming down the stairs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

They ran up and down the stairs and ate their lunches squatting against the banister poles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They crept along the wall and took the stairs to the upper deck to make sure it was clear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He closes his eyes and steadies himself against the banister at the bottom of the stairs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I thought I’d kill myself coming up your stairs. Why didn't you tell me they were so narrow?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In through swinging doors I reached a marble foyer, and stopped at the foot of a long white marble flight of stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let’s back out and go up the stairs, dropping the bison on the half-landing as you go past. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

They passed through the mouth of the wolf and up the stairs, and dragged her down the walkway through the corridor with its giant glass enclosure. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She ran down the stairs, through the kitchen, and out the back door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have climbed the two flights of stairs, but she had no memory of it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I bolted down the stairs and through the museum entrance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He pauses at the foot of the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If she ran, she thought, perhaps she could make it to the stairs before he caught her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I fight that, his feet advance from the basement stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Matthew tugged her ponytail as he passed by and headed down the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was sore tempted to sneak down the stairs and watch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas tried not to think about it and pointed up the stairs, from where the moans of the sick kid echoed through the building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The footsteps on the stairs renew my panic from last night. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus came down the stairs in sweats and a hoodie, his sneakers silent against the concrete. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“In about one second I’m going to roll you down the stairs.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time James Bevel gave the signal, the next group poured out the front door and down the stairs—some fifty children at a time—and continued the peaceful protest march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd diverged at the bottom of the stairs, most heading to the World’s Fair, some going in the direction of the Wild West Show. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had half expected that the instant she put a foot on the stairs they would leap from their beds and surround her with accusations. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then a sudden fanfare of trumpets sounded and he jumped to the floor, bowing deeply as Gertrude and Claudius, arm in arm, descended the processional stairs into the great hall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then they heard the clock again, and Dilsey slow on the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t two minutes later we hear footsteps trompin’ up our stairs and then a knock at our door—“Delivery for Biddy and Quincy”— and then footsteps back down the stair. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I worked to make my tread sound slow and tired as I walked up the stairs to my room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Aragorn picked up Frodo where he lay by the wall and made for the stair, pushing Merry and Pippin in front of him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She climbed the stairs, and though she could spot Jalil out of the corner of her eye walking parallel to her she did not look out the window. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned and took the stairs up to the Promenade Deck, again two at a time, but this time as if in rather a hurry. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

They had gone up and down stair after stair; up to the watchtowers and the belfry of the chapel. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I need to get back up the stairs. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She punched me in the arm so hard I nearly fell down the stairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bed was as empty as the stairs, its sheets frayed by mice. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was lifted up the stairs and deposited at the top, and the applause rang out again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The caption explained that she fell down stairs in her rush to escape when she heard that the poisonous smoke had reached Times Square. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My brother and I used to play hide and seek in the long, narrow hallways, and on and under the stairs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard him creep up the stairs and then I started thinking all over again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Henry shuffled part of the way down the stairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I last saw him and David drinking grape sodas on the stairs. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I folded the map and pass, blew out the candles, and crept down the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally dropped the book and dashed for the stairs, leaping a flight at a time until she reached the back exit of the dorm. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“No. Papa always sings coming up the stairs so we know it’s him.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need my stuff,” he said, bolting for the stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“This” She steps to the side and points at the bottom of the stairs—at Peck and his wrecked face. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They ran downstairs, moving with color and life against the dark woodwork and the clouded light of the stairs, their feet clattering, and Mrs. Dudley stood below and watched them in silence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever that centaur did must have worked, because there were no agitated Mud People racing down the stairs, waving primitive gunpowder weapons. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

We head up the stairs, the smell of delicious pork lips wafting through the air, and enter a tiny officelike shop. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

And in the third place the stairs were absolutely straight. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Robin waits for me at the top of the stairs, stubby tail wagging, but I don’t move. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At breakneck speed he dashed down the stairs and handed the stick to another soldier, who sped away. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the beats from the radio he could hear Tony’s white Air Jordans pounding down the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tommy, who was in the stream coming down, had stopped dead on the stairs with a big open smile that immediately irritated me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, old, white building with four tall columns and a row of stairs leading to a tall doorway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried up and down the stairs with the remaining trays of soup, then the roasted tongue and mushrooms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We reached a flight of stairs and Fela turned to look at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs there’s a hat-and-umbrella stand, the bentwood kind, long rounded rungs of wood curving gently up into hooks shaped like the opening fronds of a fern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dashed up the stairs to my room, Yuki bounding after me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I race out of my room and down the stairs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were up the stairs, peeking out the door, and in the front hall in seconds. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the hall and had just started toward the stairs when I heard Miss Peregrine’s voice behind a half-closed door. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At exactly 7:30 the teacher again picked up the brass bell that sat on his desk and swung it over our heads, while we charged down the stairs, our cheering magnified in the stairwell. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then when Mum got home, she ran up and down stairs with cups of tea, flowers and magazines and Mum said she didn’t know how she’d have coped without her. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That little attic bursting with magenta and aquamarine and gold for five minutes, and then the radio switches off, and the gray rushes back in, and her uncle stumps back down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Down, up, down, up, a hundred miles of stairs in one night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turner would push a wheelbarrow up to the front steps, go into the house, and grab whatever she had piled at the foot of the stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The printing press blocking the stairs was vibrating: Xenophilius was trying to shift it using a Hover Charm. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Lying at the foot of the stairs with her head turned backward,” finished a third bristling with porcupine quills. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then the time would come once more when I no longer listened for the steps on the stairs and felt lonely and cried into my pillow every night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I began to think of them down at the church, going through that door and down the flight of stairs to the crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But as I followed Mama and Papa down the stairs, I wondered would he let her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The switchback stair was buried almost to the first landing, Jon saw, and the wooden doors of the ice cells and storerooms had vanished behind a wall of white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So the whole party set off to climb the narrow stairs of the Pele Tower. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it in a nice thick envelope and clattered down the stairs, determined to get it in the post that day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As she climbs the stairs, Ma puts a hand on Mama’s shoulder, but Mama doesn’t respond. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He began to fall, the stairs slanting dangerously before him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, as Mia was setting the soup bowl into the sink to soak, another set of footsteps came thumping up the stairs and Izzy arrived. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luke locked the door behind him and pulled the bag over his head as he went down the stairs, punching holes for his arms on either side. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the stairs, then glanced back to see if anyone would notice. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t yet 8:40, and I was already the victim of a dousing with raw eggs from someone standing on the stairs above my head. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are stairs that lead straight down to the pavilion, but I veer off onto the side path instead. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When Mom faces the stairs again, someone is standing right in front of her. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Then she removed her apron and hung it up and went to the foot of the stairs and listened for a moment. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we heard what was definitely Madame’s voice coming down the stairs, saying: “Yes, you’re quite right. Quite right.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landing at the top of the stairs ended in a single door painted red, with a peephole in it. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He went down five flights of stairs to G deck and practically skipped along the long hallway toward the front of the ship. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

They went up the stairs and turned and went down the hallway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He started toward me as in a dream, trembling like the needle of one of the gauges as he pointed toward the stairs, his voice shrieking. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called her name, and started up the stairs, and Nancy Ewalt followed. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her own door instead and trudged up the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“She fell down the stairs and bit the inside of her mouth. I think it got infected!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn’t was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I heard her thump up the stairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As you climbed the stairs around and around, the outer windows would shine colored light through their stained glass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When I’ve almost reached the top of the stairs, I feel a hand on my arm. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Max says, and charges up the winding narrow stairs, and Jutta huffs along behind, each quarter turn presenting a narrow window of blue sky, Max practically hauling her up the steps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She looked up the ladderlike stairs, and as the sound of falling water tightened around her she knew her quilts were turning into yogurt. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They passed between fluted, white pillars to a porch with wide stairs leading down to a driveway. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My attention goes to the stairs leading to the second floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They took Mama Lessie down the back stairs into the bowels of Princeton Hospital and placed her on a small bed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She bounced up the stairs, her light steps barely touching them. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lit out, running full tilt down the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Helvi carried the cat up to bed with her, and he draped himself with familiar ease over her shoulder as she climbed the steep ladder stairs leading up to her little room in the eaves. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winking vindictively, he made for the stairs and vanished up them, taking the torch with him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She leaves, and I hear her tromp down the back stairs to the garbage. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tell me if Thomas was following her up the stairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joined me on the stairs and we both listened together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“We must consult as to what is to be done,” he said as we descended the stairs. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, Connor’s dad, the last to go up, looked at me, looked at the stairs, and the lightbulb came on. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Alone, with sword in hand, he ran from house to house, smashing down doors, racing up stairs, leaping from roof to roof, as his ears rang to the sound of distant bells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 2004, while carrying one up a flight of stairs on his back, it slipped from his grasp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Without waiting a second, Malcolm stepped through and Asta followed, and then they shut the door and tiptoed back towards the stairs. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then, with a guard holding him on each side, he was marched out of the room and up a flight of stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The library knows its own mind,” old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They both remembered meeting as soon as they could after school, at the top of the subway stairs, and the excitement they felt, one waiting on the sidewalk, one sprinting up the steps. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Milo bounded across the room and started up the stairs two at a time. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The three skeletal warriors who’d been chasing me in the turbine room now appeared on the stairs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She dropped the camera on the bed and we ran out of the room and down the stairs. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud bang cut through the air, coming from the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

We came to the top of the stairs and I found myself in another large sitting room. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was rude,” I whisper as we climb the stairs to her room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Emmett had stayed at Henrietta’s so long, he had his own bed in the hallway at the top of the stairs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Going up, the stairs didn’t creak and the walls were freshly painted. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

After they had gone up stairs Mother lay back in her chair, the camphor handkerchief to her mouth. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is at the base of the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I run to the nearest open door and close it, my heart hammering like it’s fled down hundreds of flights of stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Mama nodded, then went up the stairs two at a time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I take two steps down the stairs before a scimpoint meets my neck. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chess shoved Finn toward the basement stairs and screamed, “Don’t stop until you get to the other side!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I picked myself up to face a group of boys who then chased me up the stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd began chattering as Chaol led her from the stairs, and they disappeared into the throng. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the stairs hard and stared ahead. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter backed down the porch stairs, staggering under all this new material. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not the voice of last night when I stood at the head of the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, no,” Grace said as she headed for the stairs. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We go up the stairs, single file, being careful not to step on the trailing hems of each other’s dresses. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girl walks down creepy stairs in the back of a smelly storage closet, and she is never seen again. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was just a matter of climbing more stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow stair and only one man could get up at a time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw Mom coming down the stairs from the second-floor office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trucking up and down those stairs at least four times a day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I walk through the kitchen to get to the stairs, I look into the living room and see that Mom is still ironing. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It would be awkward if I met them face to face on the stairs or somewhere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bookcase was half open, and behind it was an even steeper set of stairs, only wide enough for one person. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She bounded up the stairs, leaving the voices behind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This technique resulted in a number of doors that lead nowhere and stairs that go inside walls like secret passageways. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At last they set to work, but Eurycleia climbed the stairs to her mistress’s chamber. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I make my own way down the stairs and out the door hoping my pals won’t see me with boys who wear kilts and girls with white teeth and fancy dresses from olden times. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I got up and started walking down the stairs toward the hallway and the door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had reached the bottom of the stairs now. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him to a flight of stairs that lead to the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Waves of it poured down the stairs located smack in the middle of the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Elevators are only for executives. You take the stairs.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And so did I. “Good night,” I said, and climbed the stairs with my satchel. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Doors slammed, there was a landslide on the stairs, and we started skidding into the parlor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the stairs two at a time. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mama bumped a garbage bag down the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The stairs ended at an opening in the stone landing above our heads, through which I could feel the snapping chill of night air and hear the whistle of wind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

People gather their belongings and shuffle to the stairs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She broke off at the sound of footsteps on the stairs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stairs were made of stone, as if leading to a dungeon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“The stairs are completely blocked. Could try clearing it? Might bring the place down.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She squealed with laughter and ran back up the stairs with me right after her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

His dad is yelling for him from the top of the stairs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They walked down the stairs slowly, the song following them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the two detectives conferred in the study, out of sight, I climbed the stairs to the long hallway in my parents’ penthouse suite. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

While he stood there with the receiver to his ear waiting Dilsey came down the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says he got up, went out into the hall, down the hall to the front door, opened it and looked out just in time to see the boy racing down the stairs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I return to the stairs, and as I sit here in a slice of winter sunlight, two small birds find their way down to the honeysuckle planted next to the bamboo. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And right where the stairs came up to this room, the Large-Billed Puffins were hanging. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, it seems that the more money you have, the more stairs you have to climb to your home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once, when he felt that he could pump out no more breath, nor force his knees to bend again, the stair ended. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

You get older, you puff on the stairs, you enter the body of your father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Setting the flashlight on the dresser next to the truck, she took the candle, gave Ernie a hug, kissed Genie on his forehead, and headed down the stairs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and paused before I entered the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the second house and ran up the three flights of stairs, calling “Mama!” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy got up, took the flashlight, and went to the stairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I started up the stairs the concierge knocked on the glass of the door of her lodge, and as I stopped she came out. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The stone knocked Merlyn’s hat off as clean as a whistle, and the old gentleman chased him featly down the stairs, waving his wand of lignum vitae. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the curving back stairs to the downstairs kitchen, where casseroles lined the counters. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he slung his backpack over one shoulder and jogged down the stairs. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She could only recall climbing the stairs, then concealing the secret door behind the tapestry— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She yelled up the stairs, “June, come down here. I found a note from May.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not ready for the trip up those clanging stairs to the empty roof where he had no animal. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a light at the top of the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs, hoping I could find my way back to the office. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go up,” said Hermione with a frightened look at the same spot, and she led the way up the creaking stairs to the drawing room on the first floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on the third floor, and we climbed the stairs quickly. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

While everyone scattered, I crept into my favorite hiding place, the little closet tucked under the stairs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I floated down the stairs, clean, fresh, and hungry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about that, about shooting stars, as I climbed the stairs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took a few steps toward the stairs but didn’t want to be alone in her room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The inner door is propped, so I just head for the stairs and start climbing. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He pushes me back playfully, and I almost fall down the stairs. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He took another enormous bite and walked out of the kitchen and down the basement stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He scampered from the royal chamber with the news of forgiveness, went spinning down the circular stairs like a tee-to-tum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong set his mop aside and followed Somkit up the stairs to the top floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Finn made himself concentrate on tiptoeing silently down the hallway, then down the stairs behind Natalie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

So all night long, I am going up and down the creaking stairs with the childrens to protect them. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mama hastily placed a napkin on the spot, and when she raised the reddened napkin, I remembered her blood on the stairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She charged the rest of the way up the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The boy swung his legs off his bed, raced down the stairs, slapped open the back door, and loped onto the grass. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

They took the right side, climbing the stairs cautiously. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Without even saying goodbye, he finally followed Minho and they went up the stairs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s ask about the sleepover again,” Rabiya whispers when we get to the top of the stairs. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The guards slam me to my knees on the stairs leading up to the thrones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The stairs are steep, and I’m walking too fast. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the drawing room there was a sense of relief, of relaxation almost, as they heard her go up the stairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione joined the Gryffindors streaming up the marble staircase and, very tired now, along more corridors, up more and more stairs, to the hidden entrance to Gryffindor Tower. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She found a place in an alcove for the men with crutches to sit, told them not to move, and took the rest up by the stairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Straight and sturdy stairs led up to a little porch and I could see red and white gingham curtains in the windows. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She put her foot on the lowest step of the carpeted stairs, changed her mind, and went to the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he sees me, he turns without expression and bounds up the stairs, vanishing around a corner. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without the stair, there was no way to reach the top of the Wall save by winch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After they had retreated back down the stairs, Octavian wheeled on Reyna. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pollard leapt from his back and ran up the jockeys’ room stairs, shouting, “Hail the conquerin’ hero comes! Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She passed up the stairs swiftly and silently and disappeared through the door leading to the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She nods and races back up the stairs. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were forced down a steep flight of stairs, still tied back-to-back and in danger of slipping and breaking their necks at any moment. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Miracle of miracles, I didn’t rush down the stairs, but waited quietly until he rang the bell. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z