Word: stair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tower is covered by a revolving copper dome containing a wide slit which can be turned to any part of the heavens. The main building, situated at the east end of the tower, is 43x27, and 25 feet high. The roof is flat and is reached by a stair case which leads also to the tower. The building contains one large and two small rooms for a library and other uses, a photographic room, and apartments for clocks and minor instruments. The whole structure is substantially made of brick and stone and is not only well adapted to its purposes...
...main floor are Turkish baths, sponge-baths, shower-baths, vapor-baths and a magnificent plunge-bath, which is 75 feet by 30, and 15 feet deep; it is lined with encrustic tiling, and is constantly kept supplied with fresh water; a private stair-way connects the dressing-rooms with these paths. Down stairs is a bowling alley which is very well patronized...
...always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures, approach within a dangerous distance of the ridiculous...
...clock struck twelve, - hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when I heard a brisk, firm step on the stair, and the missing man himself entered. He came in radiant and glowing with exercise...