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 drop touched me. From Wordnik.com. [52 entries from October 2006] Reference
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 landing, when my toe caught a loose stair-rod, and rattled it in a way that stopped my heart for a moment, and then set it going in double-quick time. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
Half-way up the servant girl was stooping over a stair-rod, pretending to clean it. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
I declare that for a few seconds after I rattled the stair-rod you might have cut the silence with a knife. From Wordnik.com. [I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales] Reference
Want to host a Twenty-four hours of solid, stair-rod Cornish rain had given way to an afternoon of patchy, wind-streaked blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Coco Key Resort a great place for a winter mini-vacation] Reference
A day later though McIlroy ballooned to an eight-over 80, blown away by the 40mph gusts and stair-rod rain that circled St Andrews like a golfing typhoon. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
No one had ever known the pure pleasure it had given him when Raymond Green, his wife's novelist protege, had tripped over a loose stair-rod one morning and fallen an entire flight. From Wordnik.com. [Piccadilly Jim] Reference
'Why, as far as I can make out, there was a stair-rod missing, and she never mentioned it, and the poor archdeacon set his foot quite on the edge of the step -- you know how slippery that oak is -- and it seems he must have fallen almost the whole flight and broken his neck. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference
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 landing, when my toe caught a loose stair-rod, and rattled it in a way that stopped my heart for a moment, and then set it going in double-quick time. From Wordnik.com. [I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales] Reference
At the foot of the stairs the horror, caught by something -- a banister -- a stair-rod -- stopped. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic World] Reference
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