Usage examples (10)

• The rain was tipping it down stair-rod style and here was the best bit, as we left we were each escorted to our cars by the porter holding an enormous umbrella, not a...
• Up I went with a glance at every step for the table which now hid the brute's form from me, and never a creak did I wake out of that staircase till I was almost at the first...
• Half-way up the servant girl was stooping over a stair-rod, pretending to clean it.
• I declare that for a few seconds after I rattled the stair-rod you might have cut the silence with a knife.