Staircase element

Usage examples of riser.

He was a habitual early riser, like Bayle himself--a relic from military days, it seemed.

I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.

As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus.

If you let me at a drawknife and spokeshave, and a bit of hardwood for the risers, and a little glue.

Sarafornia is pleasantly homey, a clean, bright, cheery bastion for late risers who prefer to eat their huevos rancheros or salmon and eggs at noon.

Now the kayak hung under a delta-shaped parasail, supported by a dozen nylon risers that rose from strategic positions along the upper hull.

The parasail rippled and tore at the risers as heated air and imploding vacuums battered us.

I was sure that the risers were going to collapse, the kayak and I were going to fall into the parasail shroud, and we would fall for minutes -- hours -- until pressure and heat ended my screaming.

Keller stood beside the command riser, Lumellen hovered near Shucorion, hungrily eyeing the helm as Quinones struggled to get something to use.

The earliest risers in Little Arcady found him already busied, and those abroad latest at night would see or hear him about the little unpainted house in the big garden.

I shake my traveling risers loose from my full-body harness, slide my hands over the crowded gear sling that we call a rack, find the two-bearing pulley by feel, clip it on to the riser ring with a carabiner, run a Munter hitch into a second carabiner as a friction-brake backup to the pulley brake, find my best offset-D carabiner and use it to clip the pulley flanges together around the cable, and then run my safety line through the first two carabiners while tying a short prusik sling onto the rope, finally clipping that on to my chest harness below the risers.

Wee Jock had said that the fracture of a riser containing gas was a critical danger which could sink a drillship in minutes if the fracture occurred at the mud-line.

Yet, habitually an early riser, I liked to take advantage of the pristine morning solitude, often abroad in the still unfamiliar village environs to discover a housefront to sketch, a river view, a tree, whatever might catch my fancy.

On either side and around the back were steplike risers, each also covered with tatami.

Lyasa, Riser, Teras, and Suzdyal about the necessity of the precaution.