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Sentences ending with steps

She approached Pierre with slow, quiet steps. [2]
Noiselessly, skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogel flew first across the hall with Natasha, who, though shy, went on carefully executing her steps. [2]
He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. [2]
It would be wiser to meet the prince at the foot of the steps. [10]
Mrs. Holt's lips were tightly shut as she descended and made her way up the steps. [9]
The great houses were closed and blinded, and in the evening the servants who had been left behind chattered on the front steps. [9]
Yes, there he was, ascending the steps. [9]
Presently a command was given, and immediately all living creatures vanished from the steps. [5]
In the right wall of the entry there were also two small doors, reached by a flight of steps. [10]

Short sentences using steps

Melissa's steps were winged. [10]
They had reached the steps. [9]
They paused upon the steps. [11]
She hastened her steps. [9]
I climbed the steps. [9]
It quickened his steps imperceptibly. [11]
Jack's steps were again arrested. [4]
Steps! [9]

Sentences containing steps two or more times

But now steps were heard at the door, steps so rapid that they could hardly be his mother's. [2]
As I stood there on the great steps, I chanced to look along the plain, bare front of the palace to an annex at the end, and standing in a doorway opening on a pair of steps was Voban. [11]
I reached her steps, the long steps still guarded by the curved wrought-iron railings reminiscent of Nathaniel's day, though the "portals" were gone, a modern vestibule having replaced them; I rang the bell; the butler, flung open the doors. [9]
For instance: The steps (two feet thick--lava blocks) that lead up out of the school, and the same kind of steps that lead up into the dress circle of the principal theatre, are almost worn through! [5]
Twenty steps in front of the platforms was another--a table-topped pyramid of stone, built up in retreating courses, thus forming steps. [5]
These increased as a man appeared on the steps of the Court House, looked round for a moment in a dazed kind of way, then seeing some friends below who were swarming towards him, gave a ribald cry, and scrambled down the steps towards them. [11]

More example sentences with the word steps in them

Yet I watched your steps as the hunter follows the trail of the game. [10]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
Supported by the young Englishman, Hilary climbed the stone steps and reached the porch, declaring all the while that he needed no assistance, and could walk alone. [9]
What steps will you take to hinder a single one from escaping? [10]
Holgate, the young Yorkshire engineer, pulled himself up to the deck two steps of the ladder at a time. [11]
We feared you would be anxious unless you knew from ourselves what steps we intended to take, and therefore came to you before we stirred in the matter. [12]
When it got within thirty steps of Higbie I was so excited that I fancied I could hear my own heart beat. [5]
The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
And Miss Lucretia, with that stern composure with which celebrities accept public situations, follows up the steps as of right and takes the chair he assigns her beside the chairman. [9]
At that moment, with soft steps, the countess came in shyly, in her cap and velvet gown. [2]
Leaving the spot with slow and cautious steps, and skirting the ruin for a few paces, he came at length to a door. [12]
She went in with rapid steps, pausing at the door for an instant as if struggling with herself, and then ran to her mother. [2]
Here he was, with mystery and peril to hasten his steps, loitering at the spot where the light of home streamed out upon the roadway. [11]
And after him, with measured steps, a third came with a smoking censer,--the sacred fire with which to kindle the pipe. [9]
He felt intoxicated with lofty, pure emotions, but suddenly checked his steps before the sutler's stand and pointed to the pastry gradually disappearing in a chest. [10]
Peter played backgammon with her on the front steps, and later on--chess. [9]
An aide-de-camp approached with gliding steps and offered him a gold snuffbox, which he took. [2]
Low and wide-roofed, with dormer windows and a wide stoop in front, and walls three feet thick, behind, on the river side, it hung over the water, its narrow veranda supported by piles, with steps down to the water-side. [11]
Or one, perchance, with clouded brain From some unholy banquet reeled, --And since, our devious steps maintain His track across the trodden field. [6]
If you meddle with "Shimei," he steps out, and next week appears "Rab-shakeh," an unsavory wretch; and now, at any rate, you find out what good sense there was in Hezekiah's "Answer him not. [6]
He heard them willingly, but did not let them discuss the matter; then, though with some difficulty, he quickly mounted the steps, down which Bent-Anat came towards him. [10]
No doubt it will be hard to you to crave a boon, but ought you to shrink from those few steps over sharp stones? [10]
It had a wide, brownstone front, with a basement, and a high flight of steps leading up to the door. [9]
Fortunately for Victoria, who would not in the least have known what to reply, steps were heard on the porch, and Euphrasia opened the door. [9]
The young fellow, who usually had behaved no worse than the other Ephebi, had always returned from such festivities with a flushed face and unsteady steps, but to-night he had not even reached his room in the upper story. [10]
He felt intoxicated, while he was alive to the fact that during the descent of the few steps she was suffering great pain. [10]
He was "soldiering" when we came upon him, but he hopped up and chipped out a couple of steps about big enough for a cat, and charged us a franc or two for it. [5]
He told me, when he was teaching me the steps, that his heart was buried in Seville. [4]
In April, 1579, when Gilbert took active steps under the charter of 1578, diplomatic difficulties arose, growing out of Elizabeth's policy with the Spaniards, and when Gilbert's ships were ready to sail he was stopped by an order from the council. [4]
At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs' box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard. [2]
We know not what produces the numberless slight differences between the individuals of each species, for reversion only carries the problem a few steps backwards, but each peculiarity must have had its efficient cause. [1]
Before I realized what he was doing, Nick, instead of retracing his steps towards the house, started forward. [9]
Two young men were standing on the steps, and one was Clarence Colfax. [9]
At last all were seated, the carriage steps were folded and pulled up, the door was shut, somebody was sent for a traveling case, and the countess leaned out and said what she had to say. [2]
If the danger were pressing, there was a door, known only to the initiated, which led to the steps and out of the building. [10]
But the steps were not those of a messenger. [10]
But their steps were no sooner heard upon the road than the landlord, who had been at the outer door anxiously watching for their coming, rushed into the kitchen and took the cover off. [12]
Then stealthy steps were heard, and a voice said: "Ah, mademoiselle! [11]
And while they were all chattering on the steps I jumped in, and off we drove, and you will be the most talked-of man in London to-morrow. [9]
After supper he went, as usual, to sit on the steps of his porch, and to cut his piece of Honey Dew, which never varied a milligram. [9]
The doctor, however, went into the laboratory with wavering steps, and in the next half hour prepared more of the elixir into which he mixed some of his own blood. [10]
The steps are well worn, and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. [4]
From the cistern we descended twelve steps into a large roughly-shaped grotto, carved wholly out of the living rock. [5]
Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch. [2]
He knew he was within five steps of the stile leading into Widow Douglas' grounds. [5]
To remember him was what I best loved, and I earnestly desired to guide my steps as would have been his wish and will. [10]
The dark shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. [2]
The cantor house was only a few steps from the Red Cock, and Wolf knew every stone in the street, which was named for the tavern. [10]
Barop, the head-master, was already hastening down the steps, welcoming my mother and ourselves with his deep, musical tones, in a pure Westphalian dialect. [10]
Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
Ten steps away was a little wickiup, a dim and formless shelter of rags and old horse-blankets, a dull light showing through its chinks. [5]
This act of war in fancy, dress, with its two steps forward and one back, and the singing of a song, is one of the most fatal to the masculine peace of mind in the whole history of carnage. [4]
The dear members wanted to greet me with escort and the ringing of bells, but I declined, and went alone in my carriage to the church, entered it, and knelt in thanks upon the steps of its altar. [5]
The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance. [2]
She could already walk firmly enough to mount the few rough steps which led to the opening in the rocks and, obeying the tameless yearning of her heart, she rose from the arm-chair and walked as rapidly as her feeble strength permitted toward the frigidarium. [10]
It outlasted their walk and detained them long on the steps of the 'Every Other Week' building. [8]
They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
She had been visiting Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, but by the physician's advice had been removed to the comfort and quiet of her own home, only a few steps away. [5]
Its steps and vestibule were, however, immaculate. [9]
But at that very instant a cloud of smoke spread all round, firing was heard quite close at hand, and a voice of naive terror barely two steps from Prince Andrew shouted, "Brothers! [2]
The multitude gave vent to their impatience by shouting, singing, and quarrelling; but the priests and magnates on the steps preserved a dignified and solemn silence. [10]
Sloping planes for vehicles, and flights of steps for pedestrians led up to the gates. [10]
A fig-tree concealed us from the fugitives, but we could distinctly see them, as they passed us at a distance of not more than four steps. [10]
Great nobles walked upon each side of him, making him lean upon them, and so steady his steps. [5]
This sanctuary rested upon a lofty foundation, and a long flight of steps led to the cella. [10]
Several times, waking up, she heard his groans and muttering, the creak of his bed, and the steps of Tikhon and the doctor when they turned him over. [2]
Behind it slanted up, in giant steps, a forest-clad hill of a thousand feet, and in front of it the stream was dammed and lined with cane. [9]
The footmen looked up with surprise as she came up the steps, and their eyes followed her as she ascended the staircase with marked deliberation. [11]
Even the steps up which I groped my way to the deck above were filled, while on the deck there was standing-room only and not much of that. [9]
The carriage drew up to the steps, and presently three ladies and a brusque gentleman passed into the hall-way, admitted by powdered footmen. [11]
The burros pattered up the trail with little hollow-cracking steps. [13]
She crept softly up the stone steps. [11]
Then she hastened up the steps. [10]
Then he went up the steps, followed by Jacques. [11]
Mr. Bentley walked up the steps, and took off his hat as he went through the battered doorway. [9]
As he came up the steps she felt herself pointing to the pack, and heard herself speaking words that were meaningless to her. [13]
As Philip went up the steps of the Mavick house at the appointed hour, he met coming out of the door--and it seemed a bad omen--Lord Montague, who seemed in high spirits, stared at Philip without recognition, whistled for his cab, and drove away. [4]
While he marched up the steps of the Grand Stand, the choir struck up,-- "The whole wide heaven groans, And waits to hear that voice. [5]
The path lies up the steps from the new Massa carriage-road, now on the backbone of the ridge, and now in the recesses of the broken country. [4]
When we got up in the morning, we found that the fire had burned small pieces of drift wood within six feet of our boat, and had made its way to within 4 or 5 steps of us on the South side. [5]
Venters, sighing, gathered up an armful of pottery, such pieces as he thought strong enough and suitable for his own use, and bent his steps toward camp. [13]
It lay; still untouched, on the table when the throbbing of drums sent them to the front steps. [9]
Myrtle Hazard waited until the steps of Master Byles Gridley had ceased to be heard, as he walked in his emphatic way through the long entry of the old mansion. [6]
Slowly the cortege uncoiled itself to one long unbroken line from the steps of the Cohue Royale to the porch of the church. [11]
Parpon went up two steps of the chancel quietly and caught the arm of the Cure, drawing him down to whisper in his ear. [11]
Then she took two steps forward and stopped with a cry. [9]
The front and two sides are elevated, the galleries being reached by flights of steps, and affording room underneath for the large billiard and bar-rooms. [4]
Then our talk turned to the interpretation of the seven pillars and steps of the Temple, the seven sciences, the seven virtues, the seven vices, and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. [2]
At length we turned into the avenue through the forest, lined by wild orange trees, came in sight of the low, belvedered plantation house, and drew rein at the foot of the steps. [9]
He did not trust himself to speak at once, but went down the steps with her to the curb, where Hastings Weare was waiting in the runabout. [9]
Nay, more, the traveler steps into a car--which is as comfortable as a house--in Boston, and alights from it only in the City of Mexico. [4]
The monks had torn the desecrated block from the niche in the Serapeum, hauled it through the courts on to the steps, and were now taking it to the arena where it was to be burnt. [10]
Then he hurried to the steps, and by a significant sign informed the sculptor that something important required his attention. [10]
When I got to the steps I saw no one there. [5]
Mounting the steps to the knoll Pierre looked at the scene before him, spellbound by beauty. [2]
I came again to the castle the next day at noon, and was conducted to the great dining-hall and seated by the side of the governor at a small table which was raised a couple of steps higher than the general table. [5]
Several steps led to the anteroom, supported by Ionic columns, which adjoined the naos. [10]
His impatience began to rise, and it seemed like a welcome diversion, when he heard steps approaching and a man's figure entered the house. [10]
He was about to open the window, when he heard a door shut below, and the thud of heavy steps outside the house. [11]

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