What is "stairways"

Usage examples of "stairways".

The smell of cabbage soup and the good coffee even the poverty-stricken sometimes manage to get hold of hangs in the air, along with the marvellous inexpressible smell of the scarlet geraniums that explode over balconies and on walls above narrow stairways, and against a sky tangled with washing and pigeons.

There were two stairways into the after house, one from the large after deck where the wheel was, and one from the starboard side, forward.

And leading on from that, continuing the direction of the ladders, are three enormous stairways, which go all the way down to the plain.

And no comparison at all was possible with the other two stairways, Beta and Gamma, which slanted up into the sky and then curved far out over his head.

This was demonstrated in the airlock system, the stairways at the Hub, the artificial suns.

And if that was the case, where were the entrances, the stairways, the elevators?

Nowhere along its entire circle was there a flight of stairways or any other means of access.

Here was no triad of stairways, no series of narrow, concentric plateaux, no sweeping curve from hub to plain.

Even the three giant stairways were barely visible, as a faint Y etched on the dome that closed the world.

He then investigated the stairways in the three corner towers they had not visited the evening before, finding them more or less identical to the first one.

Tiny stairways led from the floor to the top of the crypt of the Sleeping God of Gorgzid.

I have followed so many women up stairways like that, always thinking, if only some nice lady like this one would offer to take care of me and feed me warm tasty food and lay out clean stockings and shorts for me to wear, I would accept.

And if there was such a tradition, it did not connect them with the stairways themselves.

He said he had memories of twisting passageways lit by grease lamps, and rickety old makeshift stairways going up and down into darkness.

Those dark little doors admitted onto a maze of cells, stairways, and corridors, whose haphazard windings were as dark as the labyrinths below the earth.