water-stairs

THE TIDE was rising on the Thames as the Gowan women descended the public water-stairs.

The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

He always turns down the water-stairs, comes up again, and then goes on down the Waterloo Road.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

Then he went softly down the water-stairs and sneaked past old Minna's and Tonio's and Maria's empty gondolas all tied up at the bottom.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Then Benito squirted out again and scrambled up the water-stairs and on over towards Cannaregio.

The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002

Saddening me more, I saw too from several points the dark towers of the Citadel on the opposite bank, and on the second or third such sighting it came to me that when I had swum from the eastern bank, diving from the water-stairs and fighting with the tenement children, I had once or twice noticed this narrow line of white on the other shore, so far upstream as to be nearly beyond sight.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Cheers sounded across the water as the ships moored by the water-stairs.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

I showed her, under the water-stairs of Ortygia, where the spring of Arethusa comes up fresh into the sea.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

She was so dear, it seemed, to Dionysos, that his vine-grown ship would glide by starlight to the water-stairs, and he would come to her in the shape of a black-haired man.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

A rowing-boat landed us on green seaweedy rocks, and we walked up the old shell-encrusted water-stairs, and under the arch of the Water-port Gate, above which is carved in Arabic, "The glorious King, my lord Mohammed, ordered the building of this gate by his servant Hamed, son of Hammoo, 1184."

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Long before the hour appointed I reached the water-stairs at Fane

My Lady Caprice Jeffery Farnol 1915