Why don't I take the stairs? Why take the stair when I could take the escalator? Why take the escalator when I've got a perfectly good canoe?
Niçin merdivenle gitmiyorum? Yürüyen merdiven ile gidebilecekken neden merdivenden gideyim? Mükemmelen iyi bir kanoya sahipken, niye yürüyen merdivene bineyim?
Clair's story, he was known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime.
I turned to run down again towards the vault, where I might find the new entrance, but at the moment there seemed to come a violent puff of wind, and the door to the winding stair blew to with a shock that set the dust from the lintels flying.
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. Phyllis McGinley
What could be the reason of his overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small brass box, like a cashbox, in the other.