Cook puts on fancy manners away from the servants' quarters

Usage examples of upstairs.

Barnboard and half-portion of a barn door in the small bedroom upstairs, on the south side, was a happy afterthought, stumbled upon along the eastern seaboard on a buying trip.

He would wander upstairs, Alan knew, to his pitch-black, book-strewn bedroom, where he would lie on his elegant four-poster until the fragment of another chapter came to him.

Retreating hastily upstairs, Alec found his new bedchamber brightly illuminated.

I went downstairs, locked the house, turned off the lights, and came back upstairs to where Amrita was waiting in bed.

I went upstairs, she following, and I began to undress, apologizing for doing so before her.

Titus headed for the kitchen and some minutes later crept across the reception area on his way upstairs, carrying a large ashet on which lay the carcass of the goose.

Well, dragging Baldric upstairs to provide verse was absolutely out of the question.

Cimarus and Cletia had remained upstairs on guard over Balin and the other circle.

Evidently all the Bander kin from upstairs and down have come to fill it full, and every window of it has eyes on this stairway.

The beeper went off while I was still a few blocks away from my apartment, and when I glanced down and noted that the number on the lighted display was unfamiliar, I decided to wait until I got upstairs to return the call.

I went in, and the pastrycook told me that the house belonged to him, and his pretty wife, who was suckling a baby, begged me to come upstairs and see the room.

He told me very politely that his excellence begged me to step upstairs.

So after being perfectly outmaneuvered by committee and bumped upstairs to Commander of the new Starflight Agency, there was nothing left for him except bitching to Oscar and Anna about losing crucial people at critical times because they were needed to establish a duplicate facility at High Angel.

There was no sign of Andrew, or of Bitten, but from upstairs came the mournful adagio Bitten had played this morning.

Space, off Carnaby Street, that was done out like a spaceship, the doors to the sound booths were like airlocks and all the speakers were housed in swoopy blobby cabinets that looked like they were in the middle of a flashback, and there was this other very weird studio called ADR round the back of Kings Cross where there was a stream running half-way up the walls, all the seating was made out of the boots of cars, Minis converted into couches, and you got upstairs to the recording suites through a door opening out of a large tree in the corner of the reception.