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1 Marcadel, who had remained at the stairhead, was calling to him in a voice that could no longer be resisted—a voice of despair.

2 I found that the hook, if pressed upward, allowed the door to swing outward, over the stairhead.

3 The jingling crash brought a howl from the stairhead, but he broke a gap with his bleeding fists, wrenched out the crosspieces....

4 We've powder enough—you said it, sir,—laid there at the stairhead, to blow the bridge to hell.

5 Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed.

树林的阴影穿过清晨的寂静,从楼梯口悄然无声地飘向他正在眺望着的大海.

6 "Quietly," he said, and as they crept towards the stairhead, he slid the sheathed knife into the pocket of the tweed jacket.

7 "Wish ye merry Christmas!" said Chauncey unexpectedly to some one who called him from the stairhead.

8 But Sir Randal had met her between the door and the stairhead.

9 It was Christmas eve night, and General Basil Prince, who had hurriedly changed to evening dress after his arrival by a late train, halted for a moment at the stairhead to look down.

10 The stairhead lay a short two yards from me, to be reached by one bold leap.

11 When this intoning ceased, trumpets blared again; the curtains at the stairhead parted.

12 Lavender and the Bow Street officers now withdrew; the officers who had gathered about the stairhead were desired to return to the ballroom.

13 A great burst of sound roamed, vivid and alive, from the distant stairhead.

14 From the first landing a dark narrow passage led towards the front street while three or four ricketty, cracked doors were crowded at the stairhead.

15 Then, above the stairhead, across the longer hall, appeared the helmet of a policeman.

16 He opened his door, crept out on to the stairhead, and listened.

17 The gentleman, going up, found his wife at the stairhead, all disordered and fearful, and said to her, 'What is all this?

18 A short gallery communicated from the stairhead to the private chamber of Constance.

19 Honoria had strolled into the room from the stairhead, her attention arrested by the all-too-familiar sound—since sorrowful happenings often of late had brought him to Brockhurst—of the doctor's voice.

20 Varney cast a look of despair at the stairhead and felt for his sword, but it was not there, he had lost it.

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