What is "bannisters"

Usage examples of "bannisters".

George Bannister and her housekeeper Tina spoke of witnessing, from a kitchen pantry at the rear of the Bannisters' house, a episode involving Jerry Bozer, drunk and disheveled, turning up morning to ring the Hearts' doorbell and to call out piteously for Mrs.

He and his wife and the Hearts' other nextdoor neighbors the Bannisters complained bitterly at their clubs to whoever would listen--"Why don't terrible people sell!

We might have been in the mansion still, burning the trees and the furniture and the bannisters and the paneling for warmth, and drooling and babbling when strangers came.

Worse yet, these strangers dared to ring the doorbells of the Thruns, the Bannisters, the Kaisers, the Johnstons.

Then the Dowager tottered over to the staircase, clutched at the bannisters and sat down rather heavily on the bottom step.

On the bannisters of the high stoops the mounds of snow which had formed such beautiful white pads were now beginning to slide, to disintegrate, leaving dark patches of the brown stone which was then much in vogue.

Again I experienced the strange delight of spadousness of that luxuriousness which was now somewhat faded but still redolent, still assertive in a patchy way as once the brown stone bannisters had asserted themselves through the melting snow.

But getting up several flights of stairs, even helped by the bannisters, was more, with his particular complaint, than he seemed to feel himself inclined to venture on.

I followed him out, and found him half hanging over the bannisters, trying to get upstairs.

Together they ran back into the corridor and raced down the stairway, saw Hardman swinging around the bannisters four floors below, hurling himself from one landing to the next in a single stride.

As they left the deck a squad of men were lowering an ancient ornamental gangway to the water's edge, its bannisters of peeling gilt shaded by a white clapboard marquee painted with gold tassels and drapery, creaking about on its pulleys like a funicular gazebo.

She began to go slowly upstairs , with her hand on the bannisters , as if she had left a party , where now this friend now that had flashed back her face , her voice .