Lexicographical Neighbors of Stairheads
Literary usage of Stairheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1914)
"From out my breast ft called whilst the dark house slept, the stairheads creaked ;
From within my breast it screamed and made no sound; And wailed . ..."
2. Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by Oliphant (Margaret) (1893)
"The streets were meant for such fine shows; its stairheads and strong deep doorways
to relieve the glories of sweet colour, plumes, and jewels. ..."
3. The Makers of Modern Rome: In Four Books: I. Honourable Women Not a Few. II by Oliphant (Margaret) (1897)
"... but we do not doubt that the destruction of the porches, and stairheads, and
balconies must have greatly diminished the old-world attraction of a ..."
4. Electrical Engineer (1891)
"... consisting of only 15L EPS plates, and used simply for a 25-ampere emergency
circuit, including the newsroom, stairheads, etc. DISTRIBUTION OF CURRENT. ..."
5. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"... each a wilderness of close-ranked windows and the home of the hundreds of
crimson-clad dwarfs who sun themselves at the distant stairheads, ..."
6. On Heaven, and Poems Written on Active Service by Ford Madox Ford, Herbert Cyril James (1918)
"From out my breast It called whilst the dark house slept, and stairheads creaked;
From within my breast it screamed and made no sound; And wailed. ..."
7. Space and the Architect: Lessons in Architecture 2 by Herman Hertzberger (2000)
"... a strategy that transmutes the entire building into a single capacious staircase
with the prefatory spaces of the classrooms as its stairheads. ..."
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