Then she bolted down the stairs and I quickly gathered up my books and followed her, careful to walk on the other side of the street. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hall and down the wide thickly carpeted stairs. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I pushed the outside door open and headed up the stairs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

My parents were good enough to take a time-out from arguing to answer it, and my mom hollered up the stairs that the call was for me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He looked steadily at himself for a moment; then we moved quietly down the silent hall and up the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He throws his jacket in the hall closet before bounding up the stairs to his room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was actually a queue forming up at the bottom of the stairs, and soldiers struggling down with heavy horsehair mattresses. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She squealed with laughter and ran back up the stairs with me right after her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If she wanted to escape, she simply had to turn left at the next hallway and take the stairs down three flights. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We spilled up the stairs and flooded into the car. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She followed Penelope down the stairs and back into the bedroom she’d been cleaning earlier. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She bounds up the stairs, two at a time, and sees me and Tim and the way Tim is kind of glaring at me. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, Lillian bestowed a long holiday kiss on each one of her children and wished them a Merry Christmas. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight curving stairs to the bottom; the second and fifth steps creak. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

I may be good at running on flat ground, but walking up stairs is another matter. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the stricken look on Ash’s face, her stepmother smiled and then continued up the stairs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I caught my breath as I heard Papa coming up the stairs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

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

They live on the second floor, since it’s cooler up here with a gallery running all along the back and stairs going down to the garden. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“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

Downstairs again, he gathered the girl’s clothing together, stuffed every piece into the suitcases, then labored back down the hall once again and up the stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

I placed them outside on the stairs overnight to dry and air out. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

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 woman held a glass of red wine and scowled up the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was just a matter of climbing more stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t hush, and when she went away I followed, and she stopped on the stairs and waited and I stopped too. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push open the door and speed down the stairs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

All four of them walked through the empty basement and up the stairs in a clump, almost like a single creature—an amoeba, maybe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Behind the velvet rope rises a flight of stairs edged with blinking lights. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He found it bundled in the corner of the hold, took a hunk, and stomped back up the stairs, still grumbling under his breath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to climb the stairs just for that. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bod walked down the narrow stone stairs for the first time in six years. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

I eat the rest of the cabbage this way, listening for Mrs. Byrne’s foot on the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

His shouts kept coming up the stairs: “Nancy! Telephone!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We run up a dozen flights of stairs until we reach the wide, empty roof. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I ring again, and then a third time, and finally I hear footsteps on the stairs and the door opens. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Foreign Secretary rushed for the stairs, calling out to the guards she passed, “Patrol submarines! In the lake! Warn them!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was like that going up the stairs in the hotel. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Does Anker charge a penny every time you use his stairs?” she asked as I neared the ground. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a moment I hear her walking up the stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Within an hour or two, the holiday would come bounding down the stairs and squealing ’round the tinseled trees of Two Mills. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was partway across the quad, and I peeked back—four guys from the hockey team had surrounded him at the foot of the stairs behind David Hall, sucking him into their swarm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to hear if anyone was coming, standing first at the bookcase, then at the top of the stairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ll take the stairs,” I tell Valerian, hoping I don’t seem half as shaken as I am. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I wake again, Tom’s not at my side, but I can hear his footfalls on the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rich aroma of simmering tomato sauce floated up the stairs. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The elevator would have made too much noise, so we chose the stairs instead, pushing the door to the stairwell open, holding our breaths as we clicked it shut. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Mr. Pirzada handed me his coat, for it was my job to hang it on the rack at the bottom of the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The basement stairs are hidden behind a group of kids taking shots. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I trod to the top of the stairs with their meals, I noted only the sentinels’ air of watchfulness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Him carrying me on his back up the stairs. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The four Masks march me up the platform stairs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In their haste the residents practically carried Boori Ma up the stairs to the roof, where they planted her on one side of the clothesline and started screaming at her from the other. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally we heard steps on the stairs, and we all held our breaths while we watched the door. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a creaking on the loft stairs and Jesse was looking down at her, very beautiful and eager in the faint blue moonlight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s feet, running down the stairs from Clairmont to the boathouse. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My classmates’ chattering returned to me then, and I hurried back up the stairs to the touch tank room where I’d left them. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

He dashed down the stairs, his anger turning into power for his running feet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He threw on some dry clothes and ran down the stairs. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Abdulrahman and Ahmad often ran up the smooth stone stairs of the lookout tower by their home, pretending they were spotting invaders, sounding bells of warning, planning their defenses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now they were creeping down the stairs in hopes of glimpsing the aftermath of the night’s revelry. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

I descend the stairs, and when I get to the bottom, I hear Marcus hit the net with a groan. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But somebody sure is yelling up there, and so I sneak up the stairs and I don't even have to put my ear to the door, that's how loud it is. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were just coming down the stairs when Mollie was discovered to be missing. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

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

I bolted down the stairs and through the museum entrance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Visitors walked up three flights of stairs, growls echoing around them, and into a long, windowless passageway. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I figured out how to save some money, and Annette fell down a flight of stairs. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 scampered down the stairs from the sidewalk to the street. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Then these separate sounds collided into the general tumult of his body falling clumsily down the white marble stairs. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to fall, the stairs slanting dangerously before him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watched by Mrs. Jarvis, Briony began to follow her sister up the stairs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I bolt from the room and down the stairs toward the front door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We knew it was my father because of the way he ran up the stairs—two at a time. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes led his visitor down the stairs to the first floor and from there down another, darker flight to the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper, who had followed the penguins up the stairs, stopped when he saw that it led to the orchestra pit. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

"More stairs," said Sam miserably as they started up. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, he whispered, “I wish you hadn’t done that,” and walked past me up the stairs, leaving me to contemplate the carnage of my brief command. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I make my way down the stairs, taking note that I'm at the Eighty-Sixth Street station. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Down the long length of the wide hall I heard someone unseen skipping down the stairs singing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this time, instead of slamming the gate and stumping noisily across the courtyard as usual, he had slipped as silently as his hulk would allow up the stairs and into his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Rosy’s triumph all too soon filtered up the stairs to Bragg. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

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

“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

She turned and began to climb the stairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The man Jack walked up the stairs, his feet silent on the carpeting. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The door opens from downstairs, and we listen for the slow, shuffling footsteps on the stairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

And with that, we all follow her up the stairs and into the playhouse. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

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

He took a taxi to Darling Street, paid the driver, and bounded up the stairs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened and he was led down the hall to the rear stairs and up to the second floor, to the door of Mary’s room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe track. Maybe gymnastics. I saw you come up the stairs. Maybe weight training. I have a feeling you might be able to do a whole lot of things that you don’t think you can.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Without another word, he made for the stairs, only because they were close, only because he had no idea what to do or say. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

None of us was allowed to use the front stairs, because Dad wanted to keep the varnish on them looking nice. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was comparatively quiet while leading the three through a long corridor and down a flight of stairs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Then Mary Anne rose and ran for the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hooper went away, down the next flight of stairs and then along the corridor leading back into the main part of the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Your stairs are equally unacceptable,” Grandma said firmly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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

“I’ll be right back!” she called to her dad as she thundered down the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One, two, four, five, eight, ten flights of stairs. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

Jemmy and the prince took the stairs in leaps. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Grandpa Sorenson followed them up the stairs, down the hall, and up into their bedroom. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hearing footfalls on the stairs, I straightened myself and tried to look as though I had been up for hours and awaiting my master's call. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

His colleague was already dragging Hornet down the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then about two days after this snub in Room 20, I was coming down the stairs of the main house when I found Moira B. just behind me. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

On the last set of stairs to the top floor, Joseph ducked beneath faded, tattered laundry that hung from lines like ghosts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I follow him to a flight of stairs that lead to the roof. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

His laser tube thrust out, Rick spun and sank onto his haunches facing the flight of stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Alex gave Lorraine an awkward hug, and raced down the stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. Unless you’ve gone deaf in your old age, you had to hear me coming down those stairs. Dinner’s ready.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finn made himself concentrate on tiptoeing silently down the hallway, then down the stairs behind Natalie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ears straining, even in sleep, for the sound of footsteps on the stairs, not even footsteps, just the creak of the stairs, and she was awake, because it meant Miss Susan was coming home. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s heavy footsteps rush up the stairs, home from her college classes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luke snapped off the radio and bolted for the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gilly smoothed her hair and tugged again at her shirt as she went down the stairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The security guard was standing at the foot of the stairs, speaking into his telephone. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

She wrongly thinks she must get out of this bathroom and this house, and she is at the top of the stairs when she hears a pop-pop-pop. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

I turn quickly on the stairs, aware that I’m in a basement with the door closed again, with a guy again, and music so loud. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs slowly, and he greeted me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It may be that he will learn that I was there and stood upon the stairs of Orthanc — with hobbits at my tail. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

In answer, she leaped out of her chair and raced for the stairs. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

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

“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

There was a set of metal stairs going up to the plane. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often he would look up the stairs to my sister’s room, then back down at his lima beans. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The heaviness in the air seemed to increase as they got closer to the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just walk off and stomp up the stairs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights on this floor had burnt out, meaning I had to be careful climbing stairs in the gloominess. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

Tamika and I climbed the stairs to the second level of the Orlando Science Center, headed to the Journey to Space traveling exhibit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She sits at the kitchen table talking to herself, What am 1 going to do? till it’s late and Dad rolls up the stairs singing Roddy McCorley. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I think of climbing the stairs with the Abnegation, our feet finding the same rhythm, all of us the same. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Louis Napoleon had led them up a flight of stairs, down a corridor past a room alive with the thunk, hum, and tremble of a printing press, then up another flight and then another. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Hermione was panting slightly, hurrying up the stairs; one hand clutched her bag, the other seemed to be tucking something down the front of her robes. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He lunged for the stairs and bounded to the top. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

“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

We had a dilapidated blue home with two stories, four bedrooms, and creaky stairs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Taking Poppy with her, Lina went out of the shop and climbed the stairs to their apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

But Agnes was waiting for her in Trotter’s hallway, lounging against the stairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

After they had passed the passages and stairs they felt the cool morning air, fresh and sweet, about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

As we ascended the stairs, the air in the passage grew thicker, chillier, so cold that I found myself shivering. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These days Molly slips into Vivian’s house, ducks her head with a quick hello to Terry, sidles up the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Before he goes to bed, Volkheimer descends three flights of stairs to the atrium to check his mail. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As I went down the stairs he was standing by the windowsill on the landing, looking out, blind and unseeing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I uncurl my legs from beneath me and head for the stairs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bottom of the stairs, I glanced up the way I’d come. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We reached a flight of stairs and Fela turned to look at me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It had a cellar that one could enter only from the outside under a metal door that slanted away from the house and opened onto stone stairs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for creaks on the stairs, and I wonder what it would be like to be imprisoned again. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“You guys,” Simon bellows up the stairs at 7:44. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Megan came running down the stairs carrying bottles of nail polish. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

I tripped through the wreckage and stumbled blindly across the stinking basement to the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then Mom and Mrs. Van Dorn come down the back stairs with the blanket, and we all follow Dad back to the front parlor, me still lugging the oscilloscope. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Lyddie’s head pounded too much for her to insist that they take her up still another flight of stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

But you know what happens when you’re trying to be quiet—the old stairs creaked twice as loud. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Vera, the little soldier clasped in her hand, began to mount the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We took turns, one holding the bag while the other dodged about the furniture and up the stairs in pursuit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked questioningly, reproachfully, at his mother, who laughed, watching him, and said, “Johnny want to hear some more of that music. He like to started dancing when he was coming up the stairs.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

Luke was halfway down the stairs when his mom followed him outside and called his name. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Down the two flights of stairs, out back to the parking lot. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I can see her again, she’s left her can behind and is coming down the stairs, looking this way and that in the roaring noise of the train. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

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 look down at the run of stairs and feel an overwhelming sense of triumph. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron climbed the stairs to their dormitory, still discussing the match. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

I was so disgusted to find such a man in charge that I turned without a word and started back up the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Employees were running up and down the stairs like seasick rats and the President’s private guard were pushing furniture against the windows and distributing pistols to those who were closest to him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Wes didn’t hear the door close behind Tony, he took one final bite and ran down the stairs to slam it shut. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mosca put a warning finger to his lips as they passed the stairs that led to the second floor. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stairs that mirrored this set down the front hallway on the other side of the school were their best shot. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

She caught sight of the little shepherdess standing at the bottom of the stairs. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

The pantry door stood wide open, giving the sight and smell of goodies on the shelves, and Black Susan came purring down the stairs from the attic, where she had been taking a nap. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wanted to hear her coming up those stairs singing that "Me and Bobby McGee" song the way she always did. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

They walked as softly as possible down the stairs and past the wide triangle of light that lay on the floor in front of the kitchen door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He followed her out of the room, around the corner, and up a flight of stairs to a landing with a statue of a naked woman, some Greek goddess, in the corner. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He took my arm, and I walked with him to the elevator, grateful to have an excuse to avoid the stairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He says he doesn’t want to go up any more stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

The metal stairs leading down to the pavement screech with each of my footsteps. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

I run up the stairs, two at a time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ishmael went up the wom-out stairs to the room he’d slept in for so many years and dug the book on boatmanship out of its box in the closet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We walked through the hall and down the stairs without a word, but once downstairs he stepped close behind me and, catching my arm, pulled me into an empty card room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Up the stairs and to the right. End of the hall.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Down stairs the furnace groaned and made the steam radiators ping, but it was still cold. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only place they couldn’t access was DEIGN, because the sign pointed up, and there weren’t stairs or anything. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was almost a block away, but suddenly Smith and the other men turned from the main hallway and began descending stairs into passageways that became more and more dim. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of stairs real quick and braced myself on the last one. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I can’t help, can I sit on the stairs and watch?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dashed up the stairs and into his dormitory, where he flung open his trunk and pulled out the Marauder’s Map and a pair of balled-up socks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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 truth was that Mom saw it too: the peeling paint, the cigarette butts on the stairs, everything. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, they saw Jessie and Laney barreling down the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

“I shall have to get ready. But you can stay a little longer. The men have to bring the thing down two flights of stairs. Marie-Claude will see they don’t damage it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keenan opens the door at the base of the stairs before Sana can knock. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But as I followed Mama and Papa down the stairs, I wondered would he let her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The hall was dim, lighted only by the small nightlight over the stairs, and all the doors were closed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

At the top of the stairs, the hall opened into a ballroom. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He opened the postem door and led her into the castle, his burned face twitching and his eyes brooding, and he was one step behind her as they climbed the tower stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, old Sally started coming up the stairs, and I started down to meet her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He spoke in a stern voice, nodding towards the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s feet, running down the stairs from Clairmont to the boathouse. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

She finishes mopping and scurries down the stairs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

She climbed the stairs to the second floor and went directly to the Lawrences’ apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She went to school late so she could see him come down the stairs on his way to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

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

Less than five minutes later she stormed back down the stairs, with her cheeks all puffed out, and flung her apron on a chair. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Finally she couldn’t bear it any longer and got up and crept softly down the stairs. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

The strange threesome made their way down the golden stairs of the castle. 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 need to rest,” she announces, and scrambles up the stairs two at a time, shuts her bedroom door, and thrusts her fingers into the miniature city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally I force my way back down the stairs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Together we go down the stairs, our footsteps thundering as they never would have been allowed to in my parents’ house. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She put her hand to her heart and explained vaguely, “Those stairs.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

These were the things, a rat and a knife and a candle, that Mig carried with her as she climbed up, up, up the 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

The two girlfriends climb the stairs, led straight to the right place more by the stride piano pouring over the door saddle than their recollection of the apartment number. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie kicked his shin with all her might and raced away down the stairs, but Basta soon caught up with her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

She liked the airiness of the living room, with its large windows, and the narrow flight of stairs that led to a tiny verandah charmed her, but, most of all, it was in Ikoyi. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

“I never had any trouble with my heart. Just a little short-winded when I climb the stairs.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I run; Carlos follows, tripping up flights of stairs. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

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

Mother found him there, hours later, still crouched on the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalene called Lena, hearing her shouts, ran down the stairs and into the kitchen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She did not hear the sounds from below, of a chair being overturned, of a door opening, of men's feet running up the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A man climbed the stairs from the sidewalk up to the park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

At the sight of the rat Warlord, he released the rope and scuttled underneath the stairs, where he hid trembling. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“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

He had made a sliding board that went down the stairs so the children could play inside when the weather was bad. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Prosper didn't answer immediately, he turned abruptly and ran up the next flight of stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I walked slowly up the stairs, one step at a time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then I tiptoed down the stairs and threw myself into his arms. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Dad!” he says, practically throwing himself down the stairs. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

Groups moved in color patterns across the yard, up the stairs, down the hall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The overseer led us back to the stairs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In a little while Mr. Henry came back down the stairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guests with drinks in hand were chatting in the hallways, smoking on the stairs, leaning against doorways. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs complained loudly at the slightest pressure, an efficient alarm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

They crossed the vestibule and went down the stairs and on to Parker Head. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

James pounded back up the stairs and shook her arm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

If it had been anybody else but Peaches, I would have been down the stairs in a heartbeat, but I couldn’t leave her in no danger. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Row by row we marched single file out the door, down the stairs, and into the free world where the sun was shining. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He sprang to his feet, started up the underground stairs, stopping only long enough to snap commands. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the lead singer of the Flap-Jackeroos saw me, he told the audience they had a special accompaniment, and I walked up the stairs to join them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

I pull the laptop from beneath my shirt, and he quickly takes it from me, setting it down on a small empty table near the stairs. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then one evening, she realized that Brigid was not beside her on the crowded stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maria was busy picking oranges from the trees and rolling them down the stairs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down the stairs, through the dining room, and to the back door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

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 packed our picnic in my backpack, then ran down the stairs and out the back door, whistling for Dismay. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs and picked him up by his pajama tops outside her door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

A heartbeat later, the police officer flies down the stairs, his feet barely landing on the steps. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The cameramen, pursuing the prisoners and the police into the courthouse and up three flights of stairs, photographed the door of the county jail slamming shut. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go up the stairs to the studio, slowly, so we won’t get out of breath: neither one of us wants to be caught out by the other in a middle-aged wheeze. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the stairs she opened her binder and took out Aron’s postcard. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Watching with sharpened eyes for someone to appear suddenly at the head of the stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Yossarian walked out of the office and down the stairs into the dark, tomblike street, passing in the hall the stout woman with warts and two chins, who was already on her way back in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

The stairs proved to be too broken to manage. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t let myself turn around again until I hear her footsteps on the stairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He listens and then he climbs the stairs and clomps down the hallway, stopping at each room and briefly gazing in. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mama nodded, then went up the stairs two at a time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

As I tiptoed up the rotting stairs, they creaked and groaned, cussing me for stepping on their aching backs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the remaining live limbs brushed against the porch railing at the top of the stairs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Janina was screaming as I raced down the stairs to the courtyard and the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The throne room was reached by climbing one last wide flight of stairs that culminated in grand redwood doors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

To distract himself from thinking about the agony of walking up twelve flights of stairs, he concentrated on what might have happened to his sister. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

A pyramid of stairs leads up to four thrones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Shadow carried the heavier bottom end of the gurney down the stairs and out onto the street, then he wheeled it along the icy sidewalk to the hearse. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here?” a man barked in English from behind me as I descended the final set of stairs to the ground floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“My father made me promise never to lie, and not once in my life have I even been tempted,” and he started down the stairs. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

I walk the hallway with its rainbow of lights and go up the stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

As I come up the cellar stairs I can hear Aunt Mildred and Mrs. Smeath, who are in the kitchen doing the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mother started up the stairs to take off her hat. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I stepped down the stairs with my head held high and my back straight. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

What kind of landowner ended up sweeping stairs? Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I went on up the stairs carrying my phantom suitcase. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

I looked out and, seeing no one in the schoolyard, ran outside to climb the fire escape upside down, hanging on to the metal stairs with fingers and toes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led him down the stairs and picked up the bottle and held the flame aloft. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A cab rolled up to discharge a passenger and I was about to take it when the woman came up the stairs and stopped before me, smiling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 father, uncle and three other men lifted it up the stairs, then had to remove the door to get it inside. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

A couple of the younger neighborhood kids sat on the stairs that overlooked the front hall and the living room. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to be told twice, and I headed for the stairs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Baba’s footsteps descend the stairs, muffled by the carpet. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Russians go into the closet, and they hear the handles of mops being kicked drunk- enly and a crate of dictionaries go thudding down the stairs, and then someone rattles the knob. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

I have to clear the stairs so we can make it to the top of the tower. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He had entirely forgotten the moment when he had carried Mary up the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She moves slower now, and stairs are a challenge. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mount the stairs and find it packed with the television crew and equipment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then she hurried Aunt Elizabeth down the stairs to the basement. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I asked Farley if she was there, and he said he thought so, so I went up the seventy-two stairs. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Erin and I slide through my bedroom window and jog down the stairs. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back down to the basement and hung it up beneath the stairs again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took the spool of thread from Louise and made her way up the golden stairs to the princess’s room, talking to herself as she went. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the herald's voice dismissed the court, she fled the balcony, only to find Joffrey waiting for her at the base of the curving stairs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We walk down one of the tiled corridors, nearly empty now at the end of a workday, and down a flight of stairs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look at a framed photograph of my dad on a mantel by the stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

I’m better at the stairs now but still very careful. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“This morning, when I left the apartment, I found a dead lizard right at the bottom of the stairs.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He trailed off, then scurried up the stairs two at a time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

I listen to her footsteps move toward the stairs, and when she speaks I know she must have run into my brothers. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“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

I descended, minding carefully where I went, for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

To climb these stairs you must pay a separate admission of five dollars. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I raced up the stairs two at a time, praying that there would be a door above, a solid one that I could lock tight and hunker down behind. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Polly hurried down the stairs and out to the kitchen, desperate to avert a tragedy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

At the top of the stairs, I spot some sheet lightning in the distance, which is one of my favorite kinds. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I took the stairs two at a time and opened the first door on the right. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter heard no more of what he was saying, because he was already halfway down the stairs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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 came forward to the head of the stairs and stood there, smiling, my hat in my hand, like the girl in the picture. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for the clapping and the laughter that would follow as I walked slowly down the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Plush carpeted stairs lead up to the Belle apartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

While Mr. Rochester and the other gentlemen directed these alterations, the ladies were running up and down stairs ringing for their maids. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

As usual, he opened the door from the back stairs to the kitchen only a crack. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She walked slowly to the stairs up to her family’s flat, and then stopped and looked around. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Alright wasn’t the word she would use, but Sierra kept up her smile and waved as she headed down the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Up, up, up the stairs she went with the baby boy in a blue blanket, the man carrying her suitcases, her lavender hatboxes, a dozen boxes of satin high heels. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Citra asked as they reached the top of the stairs and stepped into the entry vestibule. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

It seemed to come from one corner, next to the stairs that led up to Forty-second Street. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Bo immediately made for the big staircase, but the girl gently held him back and pointed toward a stone bench at the bottom of the stairs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stairs wound down and ended at a doorway without a door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But he’d already left and at that moment was still tiptoeing down the stairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, I squat down and scoot like a crab under the windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I ran down the stairs two at a time and got to the office as soon as I could. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mam says she has trouble climbing the stairs and she’s moving her bed to the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Back at the White House, Crook hears feet thudding up the stairs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She lets me go ahead of her at the basement door, then shuts and locks it before scrambling down the stairs. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Cedric looked as though he didn’t want to say whatever it was in front of Ron, who shrugged, looking bad-tempered, and continued to climb the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In the act of running down the stairs in pursuit, he paused. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

It was a lot of climbing up and down stairs. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

Aunt Pearl waited until they had clattered out of the apartment and down the tenement stairs before she turned back to Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She pulled her veil down and we went down stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We scrambled down the stairs, through a corridor, and past a guard’s station—out into another block of prison cells. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

All four of them trooped down the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She could only recall climbing the stairs, then concealing the secret door behind the tapestry— Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

He got away from Mr. Charrington and went down the stairs alone, so as not to let the old man see him reconnoiter- ing the street before stepping out of the door. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They dressed quietly, used the bathroom quickly and tiptoed down the stairs into the dark hall. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Putting one foot carefully before the other, he went down the hall, down the stairs, then through another hall to the kitchen and paused. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large white guy in a gray suit is headed up the wide stairs at the front of the building. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

The sound of footsteps coming up the stairs brought Violet out of her thoughts, and soon the hook-handed man opened the door and thrust a very tired, confused, and scared Klaus into the room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

As he began to saw it in half, he said the stairs worried him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As I was going up the stairs, he stood up, went over to stand between the stairs and the wall, grabbed my arm and tried to stop me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

I climb the iron stairs to the first one shabby enough to house working men and slide the door open so violently it bounces closed again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I creep out onto the landing and tiptoe down the stairs in the half-light. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the top of the stairs that led to the beach Dri and I found Stef s phone, along with her jeans. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed through the door and went down the stairs with no set purpose before me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Please try to get up the stairs. I’ll find help. I promise.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Running down a flight of stairs and then out into the alley, she shouldered the pack and pushed her way through a group of people lined up for a magic show. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We could hear Golan’s footsteps as he bounded up the stairs, but it was too dark to tell how far he was from the top. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs, Ethel stopped and pointed to the washroom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

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

She fell down the stairs and broke off one of her front teeth. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She led the way down a flight of stairs. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

He got up, tried to get to the door, heard someone racing down the stairs, and assumed it was the boy. 6TH JUROR: I think that’s possible. 3RD JUROR: Assumed? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I go down, I pause at the top of the stairs, feeling slightly embarrassed about the way I’ve handled the news of the Quarter Quell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Switching direction, he made for the next set of stairs, silently cursing the badger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Following a sudden shout, several men fell backward down the stairs onto those waiting below. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My face felt like it was on fire while I walked back down the stairs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

To reach the Council chambers, she had to climb a lengthy, circular flight of stairs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Groups of people begin to peel off into marked doorways and still Boggs directs me downward, until finally the stairs end at the edge of an enormous cavern. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

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

As Marti descended the stairs, three men in white shirts appeared from across the road, moving quickly toward her. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

I hit the wall and had to catch myself before I fell down the stairs. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without another word, Breuer went up the stairs to the hospital and closed the door so quietly they could not tell when it was finally shut. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than five minutes later he was back, and he sneaked up the stairs like a thief to visit us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She began to walk up it, step by step, climbing ever higher, as though there were invisible stairs cut into the grey sky. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I race out of my room and down the stairs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

She grabbed my arm and pulled me farther inside, to the one place Golan’s gunshots couldn’t reach us— directly under the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Flora went halfway up the stairs, and then she stopped. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Charlotte commanded from the top of the stairs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

But he could only keep trudging forward and up the stairs, partly carried along by the crowd, partly pulling the others along. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trotter didn’t even try to come in, just stood in the doorway slightly swaying and smiling, her breath short from climbing the stairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Climbing the stairs, my knees hurt, as though they’re tired of carrying me everywhere. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sprinted toward the stairs in the shallow end of the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Flying around the first floor, screaming my name, before pounding up the stairs two at a time. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

They carried her up and down the stairs, sang her songs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I padded down the stairs and saw my mother waiting for me, still seated on the couch. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He joined me on the stairs and we both listened together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Going back down the stairs she overheard some words not intended for her ears. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Turner left his father’s study, climbed the stairs to his room, and put on another perfectly white and starched shirt. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the stairs, and we began to talk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m Colin,” the boy said, before darting a glance up the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

You have to see this, Teresa said to him just as Newt dismissed his helpers—they clomped up the wooden stairs, a couple of them grumbling about doing all that work for nothing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I climb slowly down the stairs and back to the third floor, making sure no one is in the hallway before sneaking back in and down to my room. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

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 would stagger up the stairs to sleep. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She sits on the stairs, watching me while I work. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Frank took the quickest possible shower, put on the clothes Hazel had set out—an olive-green shirt with beige cargo pants, really?—then grabbed his spare bow and quiver and bounded up the attic stairs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She has even less luck than I do, and as soon as I step into the living room, Shoji turns for the stairs with his book still in his hand. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“Tom Nugent’s here. Save your breath to climb the stairs and tell us both when you get there.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As I climbed the stairs, I longed to sprint to the front door and escape. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart jumps when I hear loud footsteps coming up the stairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He walked to the alley and began to mount the outside rear stairs, his feet softly crunching in snow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He lets me drag him into the hallway and up the stairs before Cathy unlocks the door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the top of the stairs, the two men watched the women go into their respective rooms and shut the doors. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We climb a flight of stairs and travel at the same rhythm down four corridors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Ivan stumbled down a moment later, tripping down the stairs, and he landed hard at the bottom. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was afraid Father would come up so I slipped away from the top of the stairs and began to climb the ladder up to the loft. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I am sitting beside her on the front porch swing, Hope and Dell leaning back against the wood beam at the top of the front porch stairs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Hassan smiled with great satisfaction, pulled down his shirt, and headed down the stairs. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

I tiptoed down the stairs out the front door and stood on the porch, clutching my gown around me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Charlese jumps up and runs down the stairs, Juju’s yelling and screaming at her in front of everybody. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

She said she had just thought of something, and fled up the stairs. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the back stairs of this temple that Desdemona found herself climbing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She turned away and he shut the door; he stood listening to the soft whisper of her shoes die away down the hall, then on the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The squeak of the third board in from the stairs annoyed him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Our old pipes notify me as Mom begins to do the dishes after work, and the floorboards announce her as she climbs the stairs. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

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

The sound of his boohooing followed me up the stairs and all the way to my closet. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Walking up those stairs is like walking into the mouth of the beast, and yet it doesn’t scare me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well I” said Arthur, and he went off sadly down the two hundred and eight stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach the top of the stairs, knock on the door there. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was used to carrying weight up and down stairs by this point, but the attic stairs were much steeper than those of the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had only just reached the upstairs landing when the doorbell rang and Uncle Vernon’s furious face appeared at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I ran up the stairs to my room and flung myself on my bed. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

She passed up the stairs swiftly and silently and disappeared through the door leading to the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Seven opened the door, revealing stairs leading to a basement. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, they came out into the main tunnel and walked down the path to the west until they came to the marked rock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Halfway up the stairs, she stopped and shouted, "And I am not a baby!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Out, along the corridor to the stairs, turn, nock, loose, and another man fell; and already a loud jarring bell was filling the ship with its clangor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scuttled out of the kitchen and looked to the top of the stairs just in time to make out the Owner s surly face. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Up here,” James shouted, and the three raced up the stairs and onto the bus. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They climbed up four flights of stairs, twisting past closed doors. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk in the door and up the stairs to first period. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The demon haint bellowed and then rushed down the stairs and out of sight. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I had help,” she said, reaching the bottom of the stairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

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

Then she stormed past him with the others, and down the stairs into the building. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She is hot and out of breath from the walk up the stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood on the stairs, feeling as though my bowels had been flooded with acid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that we climb a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I am plunging into the earth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It’s too hot down here,” she said, walking to the stairs at the end of the long porch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s only a matter of time before he goes down- stairs for the extra set of keys. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have fallen, but my stupid feet caught me, and I started going up the stairs. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There was only one small bathroom at the top of the stairs, which I would have to share with Charlie. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Your room is at the top of the stairs, by the bathroom,” said Jacquel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

We had to climb three sets of stairs to get to the apartment were setting up and are each carrying an armload of bedding. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

We hear Mrs. Byrne rustle down the stairs, undo the heavy locks, open the squeaky door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

I flash my second light down the stairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

After her strange mother climbed the stairs, Flora pulled back Ulysses’s chair. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

She was looking for the end of a loaf of bread when she heard footsteps come down the stairs and saw a light coming closer to the kitchen door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stormed out of the house, slammed the door behind me, sat on the front stairs, and cried. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Megan leaned against the banister of the stairs and crossed her arms. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I walked slowly down the stairs to meet them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I’m drying my hands, his footsteps sound on the stairs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I headed to the stairs, eyes on the floor lest anyone try to catch me in a conversation. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The white raven screamed and went flapping away to perch on the iron railing of the rookery stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

First I hauled the TV and VCR from my parents’ bedroom, where Ruth had been sleeping, up the steep stairs to my own. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

A woman of any age past thirty answered my ring and said Bailey Johnson was at the top of the stairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rush into the house, up the stairs, and into Chantal’s room. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After a moment, Danny appeared at the head of the stairs, wearing his black caftan, black pants, and a black skullcap, and told me to come on up. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Then the very decided sound of someone mounting the stairs—doors opening and shutting—feet going up to the attics overhead. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

She thinks better of it and runs back down the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to succeed in this world,” she said as she marched up the stairs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

So like an unstoppable mob, like a tidal wave, like an avalanche, we rushed into Camillo Junior High, up two flights of stairs, and to the doorway of our classroom. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

William Bell ran down the stairs and into the street, shouting, “Murder!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doors are blue, the stairs are blue. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A second passes before she heads back to the stairs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

It made him uneasy just to look at her and that white cat; he was about to close the door and tiptoe softly back down the stairs when she spoke. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

One second I was at the top of the stairs and the next I was at the bottom. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He hurried up the stairs as briskly as he could. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

Hallyne lifted the lamp and led the way back to the stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Just as he’d expected, when they got closer, he made out two figures standing at the top of the main stairs with their backs turned away. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As he heads down the stairs and disappears from view, I close my door and place a quiet call to Hideo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he picked up his doctor’s bag and hurried down the stairs again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now they were through the door and climbing the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

These men and women they passed on Sunday mornings had spent the night in bars, or in cat houses, or on the streets, or on rooftops, or under the stairs. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His grip relaxed, and he pushed me roughly toward the stairs. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went to the foot of the stairs and listened, but there was no sound. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard my father coming down the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

When my father refused to give them the key that had been entrusted to him, they simply raced up the stairs, broke in, and ransacked the place anyway. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“With my mother up stairs. She will be down in a moment, I dare say.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ron came to an abrupt halt, but Hermione took him by the elbow and tugged him on up the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was Violet, walking down the stairs in her house. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With a secret smile, Father disappeared up the stairs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of hiding in his room as he’d been ordered, Fadi crept down to stand at the top of the stairs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Leo raced down the stairs and found Frank and Hazel safe under their table. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I peer inside and see a set of old brick stairs leading down. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

And sure enough, presently he led them up another set of stairs into an empty cellar, then through the cellar doors onto a quiet street lined with elm trees and old houses. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Instead, after a long moment he turned toward the stairs and disappeared. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When I got to the base of the stairs, I hesitated. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Wearing his new sandals, he descended the stairs silently. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion greeted them pleasantly, and grimaced before starting up the stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the pale ray of the wizard’s staff, Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches, and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dark on either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I climbed up a set of stairs marked p-12, where the green sign said, MRS. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel my way up the stairs, crawl under the covers, and fall asleep at once. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He opened the screen door, stepping down the stairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He walked clumsily down the stairs and crossed over and walked up the lot and up the chicken walk to the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"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

But she went to the head of the stairs and called. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The stairs emptied into a small back room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She made her way down the stairs, jumping down one at a time. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

And inside it would have real stairs, not hallway stairs, but stairs inside like the houses on T.V. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

We have both relished and dreaded this moment when we would again walk up these stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

They heard her a long while on the stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we heard our mother and father’s voices from the top of the stairs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Candice’s father used to always complain about their house in Atlanta—the uneven garage, the creaky stairs, and the backyard that flooded every time there was a downpour. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then one Sunday when he climbed the stairs he saw that Singer’s door was open. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We could get out of either window onto the roof and down, or go down the hay chute if the stairs were impractical. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

He took me up the stairs to the courtroom. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Bonnie?” she called, and ran up the stairs, ran down the hall to Bonnie’s room. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

His dad is yelling for him from the top of the stairs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He dressed quickly, wrote a note for his sisters saying he was going out to see how conditions were, then walked down the twelve flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

On Saturday morning, Robin Hood waits for me at the bottom of the stairs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

But I am quaking as I make my way up the stairs to the stage. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed down the stairs and into the moonlit courtyard and into the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Quietly he entered the room at the top of the stairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He put the letter away in its box and went down the stairs again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every joint that wants to sweep me up the stairs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Mama’s high heels clicked against the floor tiles as she came down the stairs. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

Then all three climbed the stairs to one of the hotel rooms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I climbed the stairs to my old floor and crept down the hall. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she got down to the end of the stairs, they both stood there looking at each other. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Dad says he found Michael on the seventh step of the stairs to Italy. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the top of the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

I count the stairs as we walk up—18—and don’t touch the handrail. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She scooped Laney up and crashed down the stairs, the destroyed breakfast left abandoned outside the Beiderman’s door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She had climbed the stairs to a vine-covered palace across the street and stood peeking through the towering front gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two newcomers crept up the stairs and entered quietly. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I imagined him walking up to the verandah, holding his soutane in one hand so he could run up the short stairs, smiling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She followed him and her Mama up the stairs and watched him poke the mattress on the bed and roll up the shades to see if they worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her father was walking down the stairs near us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

“Okay!” he said, but he shot up the stairs toward her room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

At last he heard Singer’s footsteps on the stairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He pauses at the foot of the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Alec has reached the stairs, has grabbed the iron railing, takes two steps up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They wondered why he never rang their doorbells, or climbed four flights of double-flight stairs to deliver anything to them. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Klaus walked down the tower stairs, he felt a heavy sinking in his heart as all hope left him. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He knocked and waited what seemed like an interminable while until the door was opened with a tug on a string that ran from the door-knob to the top of the stairs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although they were old stairs, the worn moons in the middle of each step were not very deep. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the way down the three flights of stairs I wouldn’t believe it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The front door opened the next morning as I walked down the stairs carrying Madam’s chamber pot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just made a picture of a girl rolling down the stairs tangled up in her crutches. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

He stood and pounded, then sat back against the stairs and kicked at it with both feet. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Lion Head turned and stormed down the stairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He finds a place where the stairs go down into the basement and he pulls away the boards and planks. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I followed Mom down the two flights of stairs, keeping my head lowered so that I wouldn’t have to look at anybody. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There were eyes scrawled along the windowsill, and one big eye painted on the knob of the door that led to the stairs. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He looked out the front window to where the cart lay in the street and then he went up the stairs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Butterflies of different vivid colors danced from petal to petal, and they seemed to cloud around Ishtar as she ascended the stairs to the front door, still on her call. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The big man Archer had helped on the stairs pushed through the ring of sailors—Horse, the ship’s carpenter. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wind up walking into the banister, and then almost fall down the stairs because I’m craning my neck to see PopPop’s closed bedroom door. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I made it up the stairs half walking, half on my hands and knees. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He crept up the stairs and poked his head into Eleanora’s room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When I ran into him on the stairs, Salamano was swearing away at the dog. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt raced up the concourse stairs, searching for a way out of the smoke. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped back to the stairs and softly began to ease myself down them a step at a time. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Nana saw me coming down the stairs, dropped her knitting, and rushed out of the car. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe down the dark stairs to search for some. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Out of the train, she ran like a deer, circling the crowd to be the first up the stairs leading to the street. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to go up and down stairs yet. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just then, someone else comes down the stairs, a man in a baseball helmet holding a vacuum cleaner. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

They raced up the stairs and peeked into the Electronic Learning Center. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She bounced up the stairs, her light steps barely touching them. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I ascend the metal stairs that will carry me above the glass ceiling, I wait in darkness and watch the light cast on the Pit walls by the sun. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

She brought Mrs. Caruthers her oatmeal, and then her tea, huffing and puffing up and down the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they think you’re upset with them. Anyway, listen, I figured out a way to make it easy for you to go down the stairs.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She stumbled down the stairs and across the yard, nearly falling at last into the door of Number Five. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then they were at the bottom of the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Water had leaked in and dripped down the stairs but he thought the bunker itself seemed pretty watertight. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Suit #1 turns toward the stairs, narrowing his eyes at me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It’s raining again and small children are playing in the hallway and up the stairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, she had stumbled going up the stairs and almost fell on Paganini and squashed him, and Laney did not want that to happen again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was at the top of the stairs now, holding Frolic, who still couldn’t manage the staircase on his own. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Jack Will, Julian, Charlotte, and I went down a big hallway to some wide stairs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

A while later, I hear the cellar stairs creaking. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Got a wig or a hat and snuck down the back stairs into a taxi. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

Her letter fluttered to the bottom of the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran up the stairs to the stage and took the document from Justice Strauss. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Joey stood up and ran up the stairs screaming, “Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs creak and groan on the other side of the wall—though Freddie stays mum—and I imagine the two pairs of massive feet tromping up to lead me to my doom. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We each checked into a room, made ourselves comfortable, and then trudged back down the stairs to grab our gear and bring up the other candles. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

When I come down the stairs wearing the white server’s coat, Ella could not be more pleased. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A loud bang cut through the air, coming from the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

I heard light footsteps on the stairs, so I started watching the second-floor landing. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He just stood there with his weapon aimed down the stairs at the man with the match. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The stairs led up to the hall with its huge painting of Judgment Day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

I watch my little brother jump up the stairs and disappear behind the glass doors. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

I could hear the sound of Madam’s voice from the bottom of the stairs, but not the words she was saying. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother barreled up the stairs a couple minutes later. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

J.T. slipped on the stairs and somehow Peaches pushed him down a little and ran past him up toward the roof. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then abruptly on the third rotation Natalie breaks off and heads to the west stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Before you know it, they arrive, panting up the stairs, Uncle Bill and Aunt Sylvia following behind in the elevator. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

Then he would pluck and dress the body, working with such speed and authority that his boss no longer came muttering down the stairs, but only shouted from the landing for a count. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run up the next flight of stairs to the terrace, where I keep the bucket and mop. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If she wants this date to last longer than an hour, there is no way we’re about to walk up those stairs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There are a couple of ways to go; both involve a lot of stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every fourth or fifth Haitian would come to a stop at the head of the escalator and look down at the moving stairs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Chess shouted from the top of the stairs. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I reluctantly mounted the stairs, wondering how it was that Falconer knew this playhouse so intimately. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

To get to Mr. Lewis’s office, you had to walk across the third floor and up the stairs into a corridor Hazel had never been in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The big, crowded house was in darkness, but he felt his way carefully up three flights of stairs and did not stumble. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now I could hear him sprinting up the stairs. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We sit on the stairs and watch as people arrive home. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

Suddenly there was an angry roar from the men back near the bar and I saw them rush the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My jeans and underwear sit next to it in a crumpled pile; I can smell the urine from the bottom of the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

No more could Milkman run up the stairs to his room to drag him off to a party or a bar. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of us set off up the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Always before, in any building with more than one floor, she insisted on taking the stairs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the top of the stairs I had a vantage point into the heart of our home, my mother’s kitchen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the stairs, the cement stoop cracked under the man’s feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Someone kills the lights on the stairs, leaving me in the protection of shadow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She started up the stairs to the porch, leaving Genie and Ernie in the yard, unsure of why she’d called them home in the first place. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I climbed the stairs to the second floor and went around behind the foreign language section to the reading room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Matthew said as the three stood at the base of the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She lumbers out of the kitchen and up the stairs. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Soon it would be filled with people, like the bishop’s wife had said, and Maxim would stand at the bottom of the stairs shaking hands with them, as they came into the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With every turn of the stairs, she anticipated an ambush. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I carry things up the stairs and stow them in the garage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luke pulled the garbage bags off his legs as he climbed the stairs, dropping them in a sweaty pile in front of the apartment’s door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I hopped out of bed, put on my overalls, and headed down the narrow wooden stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She entered, pulling the door shut behind her, and descended the steep stairs to her bedroom, which, as her parents had planned, had gone unnoticed and untouched. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I mounted the stairs to a door that was lettered: The Chicago John Reed Club I opened it and stepped into the strangest room I had ever seen. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I didn’t want to take the elevator because taking the elevator is a Last Days kind of activity at Support Group, so I took the stairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

It would be awkward if I met them face to face on the stairs or somewhere. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her screaming continued as she disappeared down the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As I’m walking into the language arts wing, this football guy I hardly recognize almost runs directly into me coming down the stairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She tore down the stairs like a tornado, probably straight into the arms of her Putti. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I flew up the stairs and burst into my grandmother's room and threw myself into her arms. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

That's where she picked up the billiard cue she had carried up the stairs as a weapon. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the ghetto reverberated with sounds of the Aktion, the roundup: gunshots, shouts in German, doors banging, and heavy boots on the stairs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

As Rabiya and I climb back down the three flights of stairs, I try not to notice the stains on the steps or the musty odor that smells faintly of overripe fruit. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Inside the building Lyra found a wide desk at the foot of the stairs, with a porter behind it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

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

“Juliet!” he shouted, his sister’s name hanging in the air long after he had disappeared down the stairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was no way they could force her up the rickety stairs. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ready?” she says, turning to head up the stairs as soon as Molly crosses the threshold. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was loud in my ears, echoing as I stumbled down the stairs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He got up with the flashlight and climbed the stairs and raised the hatch and played the light across the yard. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“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

I listened to the sound of his boots going down the stairs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She jumped up and put the room to order, danced down the stairs, balancing the tray high on one hand, and skipped into the kitchen. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

And I squeaked like a frightened baby mouse and hurried for the stairs. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I started up the stairs to fetch the fan, moving slow as possible to overhear their words. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead are the stairs and what looks like a hallway to the kitchen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I make a show of walking calmly in the other direction, but when the next bell rings, I take off down the hall and up the stairs like I’m on fire. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I carried the tray back down the stairs to the kitchen and thought about Nabila. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The frightened mouse dived back underneath the stairs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The sound drifted down the back stairway and pulled me up the stairs toward it. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

They ran down the stairs to a kiosk that sold the early edition of Sunday’s New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

Down, up, down, up, a hundred miles of stairs in one night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We say goodbye, and then Nora and I take the stairs one floor down to the basement level. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on the third floor, and we climbed the stairs quickly. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She left them and climbed the stairs to her own bed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed across the room to the stairs that led up to another door. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

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

They came to a long flight of stairs. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Soon she would sound the gong at the foot of the stairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth led her siblings out the first-floor exit into the main hallway of the brownstone, where the stairs rose to the other two apartments. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I waited until he was out of sight before turning my attention to the final set of stairs leading to the cellar. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Inside, I contemplated taking the stairs but decided to wait for the ancient creaking elevator. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Usually don’t work, so you got to use the stairs.... Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

We walk down the stairs and out to the street together. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ranofer’s eyelids were drooping and his head nodding when he heard the upper door suddenly open and footsteps come down the stairs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She points to the steep flight of stairs leading from our sixth floor to the fifth floor below. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ella comes down the stairs, bundled in her housecoat and slippers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stumbled wildly up the great stairs beyond the door. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I went out the doors and started down these stone stairs to meet her. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

From the threshold to the beginning of the stairs she counted fifteen roses, sixteen snowflakes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Heavens, I’m too weak to get back up the stairs,” Mother said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sprint up the stairs, the others on my heels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had jumped through the air like he was taking invisible stairs upward. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Robin was sitting on the stairs that led up to the second floor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mike must have been in bad shape," she said on the stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of an hour they had gone a mile, or maybe a little more, and had descended many flights of stairs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the three men descended the stairs he moved a step or two forward. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

He moved cautiously toward the stairs, glancing up and all around lest he see her or miss her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I pinched all the way up the stairs to Kyle’s bathroom and closed the door and that’s when I remembered the problem. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Up a set of stairs, and they were standing outside the prison warden’s office. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Kate runs down the stairs, swipes her car keys from the counter, and says, “Later, loser.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When we reach the top of the stairs, he takes my hand and squeezes it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

Then he walked away from the foot of the stairs toward the kitchen and I closed the door of his room very quietly and went into my own room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He extends his arm toward the stairs as if to say “after you.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally he leads me down a short flight of stairs, and I realize we’re in what must be his and Willem’s apartment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Matthew was halfway down the stairs before Emily or James could say another word. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was waiting at the foot of the stairs, closer than I’d thought, and I bounded right into him. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Are we supposed to believe that he didn’t get up and run to his door and see the kid tearing down the stairs fifteen seconds after the killing? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And as he reached the foot of the stairs and turned to his right he saw a dreadful scene. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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 and Tad were in the hallway nearest to the front of the school right now, but both sets of stairs leading down were blocked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then, “Her room is the one at the top of the stairs,” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She heard the scampering of a four-legged creature coming down the stairs—the twins, wanting the pool and about to be disappointed that it had been taken over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

It was hard to be patient with him on the stairs. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We hurry down the hall and up the stairs. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Lorraine yell from the foot of the stairs, and the split second in which I turned my head gave Norton the chance he was waiting for. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

He buzzes me in, and I head for the stairs. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I take the stairs two at a time to get to my room. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

Before I opened the door to the stairs, I caught the porter’s eye. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” breathed Hermione, as the broken printing press blocking the top of the stairs began to tremble; Xenophilius was feet away from them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mark came jogging down the stairs, a little out of breath. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

He gets up and comes up the stairs a bit to draw her away from humiliation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

He wasn’t the one Will had knocked down the stairs: he was the one who’d appeared at the door of the living room as Will ran down and jumped over the body. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andy Beast swoops over their heads, folds his wings, and sets himself between the girls as they start up the stairs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

And there he was, entering the room now from the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He took another enormous bite and walked out of the kitchen and down the basement stairs. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

"I met him on the stairs. He told me it was a fine restorative and stiffener, and it would provide us with a night we should never forget." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They found a set of fire stairs that led down, but they ended after only one flight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ascending the stairs to my room I passed a large four- color poster titled “Himalayan Trilogy,” depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse—the planet’s highest, second-highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

He’s the one who helped me to my feet, who led me up the stairs, who guided me into his windowless church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She reached the bottom of the stairs, and Dorian took a step forward. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But then it hits me: if we’re not headed to my side of the stairs... Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa Bellini came up the stairs from the lower level of the station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It caught me in the hip so bad now I cant scarcely move. Climbing them stairs all evening.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at the top of the stairs when she arrived. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The world begins at the bottom of the stairs. Now I am free to discover life as I please.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Winking vindictively, he made for the stairs and vanished up them, taking the torch with him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the stairs, the rat Botticelli sat waiting, and when Despereaux stepped from the last stair onto the dungeon floor, Botticelli called out to him as if he were a long-lost friend. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Up and down more stairs, and now they were in a long, long room, made of glass, that protruded, needlelike, out over the leafless black-and-white countryside hundreds of feet below them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

The mother’s feet, plump and polite, descended like white pigeons from the sea of pillow, across the linoleum roses, down down the wooden stairs, over the chalk hopscotch squares, 5, 6, 7, blue sky. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I climbed the stairs, found Emilika gone, and washed my feet while I thought. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Soft footsteps padded down the upstairs hallway and paused at the top of the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I focus on matching my rhythm to his as I reach the top of the stairs, passing another Dauntless leader. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The black cat sprang out of Belet's arms and onto the marble stairs to join his half a dozen or so companions on the landing. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I asked if you could also take the stairs down. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Together, followed by the dog, the three started down the corridor toward the stairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he descended the stairs he did not carry the sack of beers any longer, and he walked away thoughtfully without seeming to notice where he was going. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Sweet dreams, Mr. Gideon,” I say over my shoulder as I climb the stairs. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was then that I heard footfalls on the stairs—not the outside steps I had used, but a steep, narrow flight rising from behind the stage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I lean her against a railing, in front of somebody’s brownstone stairs. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I got to the stairs that I realized I was being followed. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly he left Briana, then ran up the stairs to the third floor. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are no stairs up to the loft—just a ladder. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Thorn was halfway up the stairs and running after a vendor when Seven realized she’d been left alone with Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were up the stairs, peeking out the door, and in the front hall in seconds. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Parvati was waiting for Harry at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She leads him along a spare white hallway and down a small flight of open stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

No, it couldn't be; she ached all over from the tumble down the stairs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Instead of backing down the bus stairs, I squeezed inside, pulling close to the rail between the people getting off, and dropped my quarter in the money slot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone at the window went pelting down the stairs and out to the runway. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

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

Lauren threw her a mock salute, then climbed the stairs as Maya slipped out the front door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I close the door behind me to keep in the steam, look over my shoulder twice, and then pretend that Jenna is standing guard for me at the top of the stairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs that lead to the gardens, a squat man is watching us. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

And then it was time to creep back down the stairs, clutching the laptop that had been shoved into his suitcase. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

As I ran up the stairs, I heard the phone ringing in the church office. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

Mabel sighed and stormed up the stairs, and I found myself still standing before them, wearing the same dress as their daughter and waiting for them to tell me something. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We zoomed up the stairs because that was faster than the elevator. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I expect us to go up the stairs, but we stop at the elevator bank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

Momma looked tired when she came down the stairs, but who wouldn’t be tired if they had gone through what she had. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They locked Lucia up in her dark room again when they heard the father’s step on the stairs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank was still below, but Leo almost wished the big guy would come up the stairs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A little soft laugh floated down to her, and she ran, breathless, up the stairs and stopped at the top, looking to right and left along the hallway at the closed doors. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had just untied the last teddy bear when I heard Richie clomping up the stairs. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We hurried down the stairs and back into the foyer, where Angela waved to us from the living room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, we kept one car open for the thud of Madam’s feet on the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

After Hemme dismissed the class I ran down the stairs and caught him just as he was leaving through a lower door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Bod, grabbing her hand and pulling her down the stairs, into the hallway. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

“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

“This is gonna sound ridiculous,” Two Step said, “but we could always, you know, climb down the stairs like normal people and then walk across the street to the next block.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I put on my robe and followed her down the stairs. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the stairs would return her to the corridor above, where she would find her room and Thomas’s. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Quintus came down the stairs, holding his sword at his side. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

In Monterey he climbed the stairs of the Central Hotel, registered as John Vicker. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tad looked at Rashid, then back at the blocked stairs and the hallway near it, which was hazier than it had been before. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boy came back and took his book up the stairs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kote leaned on him with every other step as they made their way through the doorway and up the stairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take these out the servants’ stairs and to the boat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

As she went up stairs to get ready, Mrs. Bennet followed her, saying: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He walked toward the stairs and then turned back to us. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads the way up a narrow set of stairs and past a room with curtains hung as partitions. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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

From up the stairs we could hear the querulous old voices of the boarders demanding to know what had happened. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman walked down the stairs behind them and straight through the fare gate, like she did this all the time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I see Mom come in just as I’m running up the back stairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The other day, walking back down the stairs to my place, I thought about how quiet and gone Vega had been. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

If you jumped in on that side, you’d crunch your bones on the stairs that were only a few inches underwater. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Bigger went behind Peggy down the stairs and back into the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Now climb the stairs,” he said, “even if you have to go on hands and knees. You’re too big for me to carry.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying sewing machines up and down factory stairs no longer wore him out. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

For a long time I believed—and I don’t know why—that to get to the guillotine you had to climb stairs onto a scaffold. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And yet she took the key from his hand; and smiling, unlocked the door, and flew up the stairs to fetch her scarf. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Not mine. They belonged to my brother, who gave up fishing when he was injured. It’s not easy to wear waders with a prosthetic leg. If I sit on the stairs, perhaps you could...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She tells us good night, and we start back up the stairs. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Neither of us says a word until I see him approaching the stairs that lead to the second floor, aka a place he never really goes because climbing is so painful for him. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Brian came back up the stairs, blood trickling down his cheek and onto his T-shirt and a pump knot already swelling up above his eyebrow. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Chantal greets me at the top of the stairs as Pri sets down the bag and goes into a small bedroom. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!” came a flurry of women’s voices as they swept down the stairs to lift Matt from Steven’s and Emilia’s arms. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clambered down the stairs and exited the apartment complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Father tramped up the steep stairs, bending his dark head where the roof slanted, and stood with his arm around Hab’s shoulders, smiling down at Nat. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb quickly up the dark stairs from underground, with its stinky smells and hissing subway cars, and cross the street onto the plaza. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

I stomped past her and my mother, who had come to the kitchen door, up the stairs to our bedroom and slammed the door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We stood there listening and could hear Newcharlie crying all the way down the stairs. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The massive staff sergeant Frank Volkheimer comes down the narrow wooden stairs and ducks his head beneath the beams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I did not speak to her, I went down the stairs blindly, and turned the corner and pushed through the door that led to my own rooms in the east wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I retraced my steps through the great room, went up the stairs, and turned right. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's hard for one person to carry a sofa down three flights of stairs, so, seeing as I had nothing better to do, I offered to help. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

I run up the stairs and slam my bedroom door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

I jumped off Toby’s bed, still sniffling, and headed down the stairs for the living room to find Chester, to see if he could smell it, too. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She went through a white gate, past a row of rose bushes, up the stairs to the house. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph grabbed his notes, ran up the stairs, and slid under Frankie’s bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It wasn't until we ascended the stairs that I was finally able to take in the crowd, or at least try to. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As George walked up the stairs to Room 205, she listened to Kelly’s tune still echoing in her mind. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s on his hands and knees and she drags him to the coal hole under the stairs and locks him in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Had Helena said something to a friend on the stairs? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I carry my bike down the stairs by its handlebars and seat. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He makes his living forging wrought iron items like garden gates and fences, railings, stairs, and fireplace tools. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What else is important about her? How come you think I’d help her down the stairs and walk her home?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

She didn’t notice my seat belt wasn’t fastened, and neither did I. She traveled up and down the stairs doing several loads of laundry—I’m awfully messy—and I guess she had started fixing dinner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

To the right of the stairs is a windowless washroom with a sink. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“June, absolutely not,” Dr. Somerset said, turning and pointing to the stairs that led to the house’s second floor. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I run up the stairs, nearly falling face-first on the edge of a step before I catch myself on the railing, hovering an inch away from what could’ve been my death. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Then I grab the banister while my body is stretched out on the stairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The front door banged open and heavy footsteps were on our wooden stairs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

I can hear footsteps coming up the stairs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I meandered down the stairs to check out the basement. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I took to the stairs and noticed right away that I was finding it a little difficult to breathe. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

“Didn’t you see—” I start to explain, but she cuts me off, grabbing hold of me and hauling us toward the stairs, toward our landing of shimmering stone, where we can hide. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t wave, but just started walking, taking her time, marching up the stairs to the overpass and then back down to the street. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be right back!” she called to her dad as she thundered down the stairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The inmate continued to struggle as he was carried up the stairs. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Sounds like a good idea to me,” I agreed as I headed up the stairs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of quick footsteps coming down stairs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emma took the stairs three at a time, right alongside Chess. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

While she was fighting off thoughts of death, they heard Papa coming up the stairs singing softly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chandresh leaps up to the stage, taking the small flight of stairs in only two steps. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of a hill of stairs, we look up. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He heard her clomping up the steep stairs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She thought a mob might burst into the house and she wanted to hide me, but I wasn’t sure that she knew the best places or would even think of the closet under the stairs. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I might have thrown myself out the window, but I lived on the first floor and didn't have the energy to climb the stairs to the roof. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Dilsey reached the top of the stairs and took the water bottle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The dress was blue with white ruffles at the shoulder and Mary Anne made her way down the stairs cautiously, afraid of tripping. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

I was counting the numbers off as if I was running down a huge flight of stairs, and staring at the color photos of a car crash on the front of the newspaper. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I selected that one and headed to the backyard, grabbing a ragged old quilt from the linen cupboard at the top of the stairs on my way down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jasper lapped noisily at his drinking bowl below the stairs, the sound echoing in the great stone hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He waited until he was halfway down the stairs to the kitchen, out of earshot of Mrs. Black and clear of the dust cloud, before calling, “I’ve got news, and you won’t like it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

And then I looked up and over at the stairs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr Hooper carried him back to bed, going up the stairs and along the corridors very slowly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Up the stairs, he found the office of Gaylyn White, the counselor his mother had asked him to see. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

I climbed the stairs, and went directly to the officer at the information booth and said I was looking for my parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The coin dropped from his hand to the stairwell with a clatter and bounced down half a flight of stairs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Bill and Fleur were standing at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But I can't hide here, I thought, heading back for the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They ran up and down the stairs and ate their lunches squatting against the banister poles. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Emily thundered past them and down the stairs with James at her heels. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

He made his way up the metal stairs. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

At the foot of the stairs stood the only person who could make Harry’s situation worse: Snape. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

Slowly, still holding his doctor’s bag, he climbed the stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She remembered that as she mounted the stairs with John’s heavy weight in her arms, and as she entered the door, she heard music, which became perceptibly fainter as Florence closed the door behind her. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Waves of it poured down the stairs located smack in the middle of the hallway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

“Chuck!” someone calls out from the stairs above us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You should have a railing put on these stairs,” I say. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of advancing on Hazel and Leo, he marched up the opposite stairs and faced his comrade. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I go up the stairs, lifting my feet heavily from one step to the next, holding on to the banister. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we moved here after the fire, I noticed that some staffers balked when they first reached the bottom of the stairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time she got to her bed someone was bounding up the stairs after her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Cora worried about one of the white people who worked on the twelfth floor questioning her when she got off the elevator, Martin told her, she could take the stairs for the final flights. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her violin from the console next to the front entrance, jerked the door open, and took the stairs two at a time up to the Beiderman’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s feet, running down the stairs from Clairmont to the boathouse. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

He got up on the stairs and looked over the banisters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At five the next morning Grandma was at the foot of the stairs, banging a spoon against a pan. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Flustered, I jumped up the stairs and tried to get on. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Get on this ride or go back down the stairs. You can’t stand here. It’s against the rules.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

The stairs spiralled downward about sixty feet before opening into a chamber as large as Bunker Nine - which is to say, ginormous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She charged the rest of the way up the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

I climbed the stairs and went back into my room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron looked at each other, then leaving Wormtail’s body on the floor behind them, ran up the stairs and back into the shadowy passageway leading to the drawing room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I slipped back into my nightshirt and ran up the stairs to Ma and Pa’s room. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I descend the stairs and step from the gutter up onto the curb. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

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

Grandma was already at the front door, and Mary Alice was hanging around the foot of the stairs that led up to the bedrooms. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The twins heard little feet run up the stairs and then up and down the hallway. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He didn’t eat again until after Mass on Sunday, and he used the twelve flights of stairs he climbed by Bri’s side to meditate on the twelve stations of the cross. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ellis clomps down the stairs behind Mom and sits in her chair in the kitchen, then flops her head down into her arms and tries to continue to sleep. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he is finished, instead of returning to the dining room, he walks up a flight of stairs, to check out the renovations. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee rolled up the Life magazine, but before he could raise his arm, Chipper was gone in a flash, halfway down the stairs toward the safety of Mom in the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ill • He walked down the three flights of stairs, and rang the doorbell to 1 IF twice before using the keys to get in. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough dad sleuthing for today,” my mom says, rolling our suitcase to the stairs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“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

For the third time that day, a Vanderbeeker kid climbed the stairs to the top floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She walked up the stairs into the store, and we all followed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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 turned and stalked the rest of the way up the stairs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I call after him, but he’s up the stairs and away. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

He grabbed a couple of wrenches out of the toolbox and headed for the stairs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she got to the stairs, Gilly began to run and, cursing creatively, ran all the way home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mr Hooper came up the stairs, two at a time, Kingshaw watched his long, thin legs, opening like scissors, and saw his long, thin arms reaching down for him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

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 was just about ready to pass out from the anxiety when Barack came trotting up the stairs, wearing his big old confident grin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

Hermione was stomping up the stairs, looking disapprovingly at the package in Harry’s hand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her words sliced through the air and the cries and shouts and grunts coming from everyone in the tangled mass of bodies fining the stairs from top to bottom went silent. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Abbey was waiting at the top of the stairs. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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 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

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

But I’d only made it halfway up the stairs when it happened again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

Her meals were left covered with a colander at the top of the stairs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

At the foot of the stairs by the door the porter sat behind his desk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

Grandfather was waiting for us at the bottom of the stairs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carrying it down the stairs, I worry that Jason will see me in the parking lot with the guitar, so I race to our car and quickly put it in the backseat. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slid into place so we could take them off to go out, but so that no one from inside the stairs could push through. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

She was all alone here on the stairs. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

The worst harm that could come to you might be that you would slip on the stairs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a clearing at the top of the stairs, Terry, panting a bit, puts her hand on her hip and looks around. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

All the way down the stairs, and out the door, and the short walk down the block to the theater, Violet thought and thought and thought, harder than she had in her entire life. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

I take the stairs up the two flights to the fourth floor and ring Elena’s doorbell. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

But before I knew what was happening, we were headed out the door, down the hallway, and up the stairs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

I feel nauseous and a little dizzy, slowly making my way back downstairs, hoping Lidia understands, and hating myself so much I race down the stairs faster and faster.... They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Newspapers rustled and there was cigar smoke, and footsteps always on the stairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Thorn’s father, Leaf Laroux, walked down the floating spiral stairs at the center of the bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I dreamed about the stairs again that night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

He thought about taking it for the three floors down, but decided it was safer to use the stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The guards slam me to my knees on the stairs leading up to the thrones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The 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

He pulled the shirt over his head and pushed his arms through the sleeves as he heard a parade of feet charging up the stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Coming? Coming?” she heard far away, somewhere else in the house, and she heard the stairs shake under their feet and a cricket stir on the lawn. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I was almost to the stairs when I heard tires squeal. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

Before he can grab me again, I’m up the stairs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I moved up the stairs, my heart pounding. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

But when he got to the bottom of the stairs the basement was empty and there were no doors. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stairs went on forever—narrow, steep, and slippery. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As he headed up the stairs for his fourth trip, Palmer’s mother grabbed his arm and announced, “Okay, boys, party’s over. Time to go out and enjoy the summer sunshine.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“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

Pecola climbed the porch stairs and hesitated there, afraid to follow him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I sat up in the bed after a while and reinserted my cannula and breathed for a while before going up the stairs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

They ran down the dark stairs, and when they finally found a light, they were met with a disaster of a room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As I was walking up the stairs to my dad’s old room, and I was looking at the old photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren’t memories. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Will ye get out of the way, will ye? and I could hear Dad laughing out in the kitchen till Grandma came down the stairs and he had to tell Malachy be quiet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Quick heels coming down the stairs, and his mother, large, soft, and gentle-looking, quivered at the entrance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go wash your face,” he said and he went out and down the stairs and across the street to Lee Chong’s. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow Zoe up another set of stairs, this one connected to a hole in the side of the plane. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Food makes me sleepy again, and I just about crawl up the stairs. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

They press the buzzer, peer through the glass door into the empty, carpeted foyer, at a big vase of flowers at the foot of the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The backpack toppled down the stairs in an awkward but amusing sort of way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

As he heard Bull’s footsteps on the stairs, Ben staggered toward the bathroom. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was ahead of Theodora, at the top of the stairs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried down the hall, past the grandfather clock, and up the stairs to the drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena stared as Ruth hurried past and when she heard her mother running up the stairs, she put her fingers to her lips in disbelief. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we got near the top of the stairs, he stopped. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Basta was still standing on the stairs, playing with the rabbit’s foot he wore around his neck as a lucky charm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

Lily appears at the bottom of the stairs. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

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

Arranged around the columns on other wooden chairs, and sitting here and there on the stairs, are seventeen women. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I find the door that leads to the stairs. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Laurie went off two stairs at a time, and Jo laid her wearied head down on Beth’s little brown hood, which no one had thought of moving from the table where she left it. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run down the stairs, wondering if Mr. Ram is all right. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

They watch him disappear up the stairs and then return their attention to the front door and to the patrons returning late from intermission. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

But I have no idea, of course, just how far down these stairs will take me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately Boori Ma had been thinking that the stairs were getting steeper; climbing them felt more like climbing a ladder than a staircase. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

When we finish eating, I run up to open the door for Bieber, who almost trips down the stairs and then flings himself into the room like a cannonball. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They could hear the barman down below, rebolting the door of the bar, then climbing the stairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She balanced the milk bottles in her arms and stepped carefully down the stairs into the cave-cellar. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The map flew up into the air, slipped through Snape’s outstretched fingers, and soared down the stairs into Moody’s hand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He went backwards out of the rest room and up the stairs the way Bill “Bojangles” Robinson used to dance going backwards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was up to Barry’s waist by the time they reached the stairs—and it kept getting higher. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

He dove into the plane just as the stairs started to rise. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We walked down the rest of the stairs hand in hand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

I try to escape down the stairs, because I really want to hear the conversation Mom is having, but Dad gently grabs my arm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Moses cackled like a old witch in the darkness while I continued climbing stairs. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

We were directed down a long corridor that led to a flight of stairs that took us deeper inside the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

As she climbed the stairs ahead of me, I whacked her from behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

I take a breath and continue down the stairs, a prayer on my lips. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"It’s cold out now. Nobody’d notice if you pulled the shades. Why can’t I sit at the table with all of you?" he asked when he reached the bottom of the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It gave Lyra time to dart out, slam the door shut behind her, and run full tilt for the stairs. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the short one was climbing the stairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In an instant, Powell turned and rushed up the stairs. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I take the stairs to the first floor and find Nora in the hallway next to the storage closet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

A nervousness settled into the pit of my stomach as I took the stairs to the highest level of the Eolian. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The stairs leading to Father Olufemi’s office were down a corridor only a few yards away; she just had to find a way to get to them unseen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He stomped up a flight of stairs, muttering to himself. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

Donovan had time for one startled gasp as he felt himself lifted from the floor and carried up the stairs at a pace rather better than a canter. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I walked up the stairs slowly, a heavy stupor clouding my mind. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Sarah stopped hollering, I crept down the stairs to see the babe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door slammed and I could hear Charlie banging around under the stairs, putting his tackle away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the danger of the surging crowd, Stanton pushed through, up the stairs and into the back bedroom of the Petersen house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days he could run down stairs, get on and off his pony by himself, and wield a wooden sword good enough to knock Prince Tommen in the dirt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Eleanor followed Theodora up the stairs; she had not realized until now how worn she was, and each step was an effort. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After another year of slow and patient practice, one day my mom took me by the arms and helped me up our front stairs. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

I wanted her blood to splash the paintings, soak the wall and the wooden stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I climbed the stairs like a thief, slow and quiet, alert and scared, one shoulder dropped back, fingertips trailing the wall. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the head of the stairs, in the door leading to the kitchen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She passed through a loudly clanking doorway and went down two flights of concrete stairs that reeked of clove cigarettes and perfume. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I felt like someone—something—was looking for me right now, maybe pounding its way up the stairs, growing long, horrible talons. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He walked up the stairs and rang the doorbell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You asked about my knee earlier, and I didn’t say a whole lot, but after all of those stairs, my sit-down timer is ticking. And we got one more set to get up.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Then I shoved him down the stairs and sent him tumbling to the next floor. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Down the cement stairs, there is nothing but an entryway. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We held hands in the hallways, on the stairs, in the courtyard. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

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

Wobbly with dread, I walked up the hallway and rasped up the twisted stairs, “Hello?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“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

She climbed down several flights of stairs and through a maze of corridors and shelves to find the only section of stone wall in the entire building that wasn’t lined with books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“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

She drove him out of the room and out of the house; and Digory came running down the stairs just in time to see the front door dose behind them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

A girl a few years younger than me, petite, fine-featured, comes down the stairs carrying an armful of linens. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He reached the end of the hall, descended the stairs, and stepped outside, onto what had once been a terraced path, garden-enclosed. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hannah went off to the kitchen, her old man’s slippers plopping down the stairs and over the hardwood floors. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

I caught Jack’s eye as we were going up the stairs to homeroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m not letting them stop me either,” Kaisha said, and she marched up to the stairs, defiant. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He trotted down the stairs into Cavern Hole. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Fewer soldiers accompanied us up the front stairs. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see another set of stairs, going down. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

Fuchsia calls to me from the bottom of the stairs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

“I heard he was a dreadful coach and a fool of a man,” she continued as Ben continued to walk up the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearily they climbed the stairs to Palmer’s room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Joe went down the stairs, and Marly watched from the window. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The secret stairs to his dusty sublevel were too narrow to accommodate great beasts like these, but they slipped down them easily. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The night-watchman opened the door for us and we sat outside on the stone slabs beside the stairs down to the driveway and waited for the taxi. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I unlocked the door and pushed past Charlie roughly, struggling with my heavy bag as I ran down the stairs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He often lingered in the building long after practice was over, and more and more he found himself drawn to the back of the room and the stairs that led to Pocock’s workshop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Over the hedge and hydrangeas that separated the road from the stairs, they could see the tan car had joined the parade inching down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I slowly and gracefully climbed the stairs, entered the cafe, and sat down at a table. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A water jug we had brought up earlier tumbles down the stairs and bursts across the floor. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, the panel at the top of the stairs slides open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“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

I’ve been trucking up and down those stairs at least four times a day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I turned and saw Mom coming down the stairs from the second-floor office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It takes ten minutes to get to the west stairs on the parade grounds. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for him to come, listened for his heavy footsteps on the stairs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He bounds up the stairs to the bathroom. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Wednesday led them all up some stairs, past life-sized models of the four horsemen of the apocalypse hanging from the ceiling, and they followed the signs to an early exit. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mr Jason said for you to come right up stairs. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Isobel stands near the shadowed stairs of the one she called home for almost a year, what now seems like a lifetime ago. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

I clomped down the stairs, which were draped with bodies by this time. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

With a dainty gesture, she lifted her skirts as she started down the stairs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ours was by the stairs going down to the lobby. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“One minute you were right behind us, the next moment, you were back at the bottom of the stairs again.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could see the girl's face still, below the short flight of stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led him out of her office and up the stone stairs, calling out instructions and admonitions to helpers and children as she passed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

Taking the stairs two at a time, he didn’t even notice me following behind. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Howard panted, winded from bounding up the stairs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard Bull give a piercing wolf whistle from his vantage point on the sofa and they knew that Mary Anne was coming down the stairs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone climbing the stairs to the press box. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I ran for the nearest stairs while all around me monsters and demigods shouted orders and strapped on their weapons. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Butler’s little sister, Juliet, was sitting at the foot of the stairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t stop running until he reached the apartment complex, sprinting up the stairs and throwing the door open. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He pushes me back playfully, and I almost fall down the stairs. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

As Colin came down the stairs to breakfast, he saw Lindsey sitting at the oak table sipping a glass of orange juice. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

With trumpets blowing in the courtyard, the dignitaries of Church and State began to filter up the stairs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a matter of minutes before they’d be climbing the stairs, only a matter of minutes before the spotlight would shine on them and Mom together. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

With that, she continued on down the stairs. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“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

He wasn’t a mountain goat, but he found a set of stairs at the back of the temple and raced to the top. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

I look out to the street from the study at the top of the stairs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trudged up the stairs and could hear Father starting the blessing again from scratch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The first time we were there we saw the hallway when we came in and the stairs that went to the upper floor—and the living room that was really lived in. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Groaning at the thought of all the stairs she now had to climb, she picked up her candle and yarn and hurried toward the comfort of higher ceilings, rolling up the string as she went. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was sore tempted to sneak down the stairs and watch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The stairs slanted at an awkward angle, making them even more difficult to climb. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She bustled out of the kitchen and they heard her climbing the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

No point in worrying about creaking stairs when you’ve just sent the intestinal equivalent of Hurricane Hal scurrying around the corridors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Werfel stomped down the winding stairs after the Foreign Secretary, knees high. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

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

His eyes were darting back and forth at the fines of people on both sides of the stairs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She must have climbed the two flights of stairs, but she had no memory of it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Now, I followed Weylin up the stairs to a bedroom—not the same one Rufus had occupied on my last trip. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

When I’ve had the signal but can’t make it, down the stairs or along the hall past the sitting room, the Commander understands. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, feeling out of sorts and reckless, I crept up the stairs, it was after midnight, and Lockton and his wife slept heavily. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there are rescue workers trying to come up through the stairs from below. I need to find Z and tell him.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was already 2:32 P.M. when I finished walking the 1,860 stairs down to the lobby, and I was exhausted, and Mr. Black seemed exhausted, too, so we went straight home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

James pounded back up the stairs and shook her arm. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“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

A cold sweat dewed on my neck as I descended the stairs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

We slip up the cellar stairs and out to Blackcliff’s funereally quiet grounds. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

I imagine him racing down the stairs to the fourth floor. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Don’t think that your brief taste of civilized life means that you’re worth anything more than a life below stairs.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth took the letter from his writing-table, and they went up stairs together. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

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

I’d pretend to be asleep whenever Mom called up the stairs, telling me to come to dinner. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her house was pretty nice, except it had too many stairs. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then I started walking up the stairs to the principal's office so I could give the note to somebody that would bring it to her in her classroom. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

We pass eighteen, nineteen, twenty; I’m out of breath more because I’m surprised at her than because of the stairs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I was hiding at the top of the stairs and Moxie—my cat, Moxie—she came out of the bedroom. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You go on back up stairs and lay down.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Alexa runs down the stairs and ambushes me with a giant hug, too. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But the cook’s expression did not convince her that she would keep quiet, so Ash ran up the stairs to Gwen’s room, not waiting for a response. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When we heard the real newsboy calling, we hid, dragging our newspapers under the stairs or into the cellar, where the Well Ghost lived in the black water under a lid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull on my powder-blue sweatsuit, my disguise as a non-artist, and go down the four flights of stairs, trying to look brisk and purposeful. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our previous maid, Constantine, used to stare those forward-sloping stairs down every day, like it was a battle between them. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

Then he sped back down the stairs and into the common room, skidding to a halt where Ron and Hermione sat, looking stunned. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

There was a loud bang and a squeal, followed by the sound of Wormtail scurrying back up the stairs. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

Papa was shouting at me before he got in the house and had his belt off before my feet could drag me down the stairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Alex was startled at how much energy it took simply to walk down a flight of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

She turned around and ran down the stairs. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the men roared in approval, I carried the tray loaded with the dirty supper dishes down the stairs. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she shifts on the stairs so that we’re sitting face to face. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They went along many paths and climbed many stairs, until they came to the high places and saw before them amid a wide lawn a fountain shimmering. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“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

I stumbled down the stairs, trying to take too many at once, flew through the entryway and out the door that was barely hanging from its frame. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

He went down the stairs and found the merchant waiting on a foreign couple, while two other customers walked about the shop, drinking tea from crystal glasses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kissed again on the stairs and as I called for the cordon the concierge muttered something behind her door. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ron was standing at the top of the stairs, looking bewildered at the sight of Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As the two men took the stairs to the second-floor balcony. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I repeat this to myself as I climb the stairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Harlem had wonderful rooftops, and sometimes I would take the stairs to ours to sit near the edge overlooking Morningside Avenue and read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

The crowd of Dauntless leading us go to the stairs instead of the elevators. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the mention of the word Halloween, Teddy zoomed down the stairs, ignoring me and yanking on Adam’s wallet chain. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Number 1, a mousy blonde who identifies herself as Marie F, climbs the stairs beside the stage and slouches to a microphone. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Moody could see through Invisibility Cloaks. . . he alone could see the full strangeness of the scene: Snape in his nightshirt, Filch clutching the egg, and he, Harry, trapped in the stairs behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

No footsteps were clomping up the stairs of the tower. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One of the officers escorted Mary out of the house and sat her on the stairs outside. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

We walk up the stairs at the side of the building, and I unlock the doors to the studio. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“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

"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

I walked up the stone stairs to see the front door open and my grandparents waiting there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

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

Now and then a person or two would come down one of the many stairs that led from the street and dart through the station. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run up the stairs to the eighth floor and knock on 806. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Quiet as a shadow, she moved back down the stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“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

Mom stormed out of the kitchen and up the stairs. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the rickety stairs leading to the first floor, my skin was clammy and my legs were shaky. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

The boy on the stairs must have sent this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

He lopes toward the second bus, takes the stairs in one leap. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

As we pushed our way through the hall toward the stairs, I heard somebody ask where was the poor fatherless child. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks are flushed from the walk up three flights of stairs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He points down the left side of the porch from where he stands on the stairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just for instance, the next Sunday while she was helping Mama and Queenie take up dinner, Campbell Junior fell all the way down our stairs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Her office is on the third floor, to the right of the stairs. Her name’s on the door.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Winnie crept out of her room and crouched in the shadows at the top of the stairs. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the stairs opens easily, and I wonder if Violet was here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She ran up the stairs two at a time to join her family. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stairs themselves seemed more or less unharmed, save for some carpets kicked askew and the ribbon bows untied and thrown everywhere, but the second floor landing was, as they say nowadays, trashed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Why the hell are you out here spying on me, Ray?” she yelled back, quickly regaining her composure as she walked down Wes’s stairs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She puts her palms over her eyes and runs past us, out into the hallway and up the stairs, where she slams the door at the top. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had said as much to Septa Mordane as they descended the stairs from the gallery, but the septa had only told her it was not her place to question her lord father's decisions. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

As the professor, he was the last one down the stairs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Dale was heading up the stairs with some of the bags. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He hated the thought of climbing the twelve flights of stairs, but he hadn’t taken the bottle of aspirin with him and he had to get it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Stay there!” she said, and she sprinted up the stairs to the girls’ dormitories. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

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 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

When I found him he was under the stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, I walk up the stairs to the apartment. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I throw my hood over my head and hurry up the stairs. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The contestants raced down the stairs to the Rotunda Reading Room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Even the dim sight of it, mostly lines and edges of shadow descending into blackness, brought back to Mark the memory of the flood and their mad clamber up the stairs of the skyscraper. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z