Rachel would use it as a stepping-stone towards heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference

True is the saying that evil is the stepping-stone to good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference

He just thought it a stepping-stone, but it was a tombstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

Conseil General was only a stepping-stone to a seat in the Corps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Higher education in industrial art is the stepping-stone to this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference

Defeat has been accepted but as the stepping-stone to new endeavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

"Then do you believe in journalism as a stepping-stone to literature?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Thus the little figure of the butter lion proved to be the stepping-stone to fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Deeds Stories from History] Reference

Borgias; he permitted himself even to become Cæsar's stepping-stone to greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

He laid the stepping-stone to his fortune when it one day occurred to him to accept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

Abolitionism is simply a stepping-stone to the perfection of the Idea in our society.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference

Even menial work is interesting if we regard it as a stepping-stone to something better.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

It was the precursor of free trade -- the stepping-stone to commercial liberty in these regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

Their little green vines, with their countless green stepping-stone leaves were outstretched like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference

The doctrine cannot therefore be regarded as more than a helpful stepping-stone to the true answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference

Adversity comes to all, but if it is met in the right manner even failure can be made the stepping-stone to success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Within You is the Power] Reference

Historically, he forms a stepping-stone of transition to a somewhat similar nineteenth-century name, that of Joubert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

The town is charmingly situated, but it is unlovely, and, for the tourist, is only a stepping-stone to somewhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

Next she betook herself to the district school, the usual stepping-stone for all aspiring men and women in New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

And full well Joan realized that in this big venture of hers the old, except as a stepping-stone, was separated forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

Indeed, his political career had scarcely begun, since the governorship became only a stepping-stone to continued honours.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Cyprian and Justina, instead of, as here, using the ruin of a poor girl as a stepping-stone in his career of self-salvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Here was political diet to satisfy the cravings of all parties; a stepping-stone to popularity in which all ranks participated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference

Smyrna a bore, as was likely with those who in coming thither had been bent on using it only as a stepping-stone to get farther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847] Reference

When one considers the power of a leading senator, one would suppose that that was the natural stepping-stone to the presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Friendship with them means a stepping-stone to higher things; your means and your position must give them a leg up in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Ireland as to exile, hoping that it was merely a stepping-stone to some great appointment in England, whither he longed to return.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

The cigars were not missed, and I thought how easy it was, but this beginning proved to be just a stepping-stone to what followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Ranney] Reference

As a rule, however, the cause will be found by the man who is determined to make every failure the stepping-stone to future success.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference

Billy and I both have nice tastes, and we know what we want; and we feel that the grocery store is just a stepping-stone to better things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gay Cockade] Reference

I could not help laughing at the notion of my pining for Mr. Glengelly's arrival, and a laugh is an excellent stepping-stone out of the sulks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the White-Rock Cove] Reference

The chrysalis secured an independent foothold (using as stepping-stone the skin itself), spun itself from side to side, and cut the threads that bound it.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

The Prince is possessed of a stepping-stone by his bedside, which answers his question night and morning, and enables him to detect the supposititious bride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series] Reference