Lexicographical Neighbors of Staired
Literary usage of Staired
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Sidney Lanier: Selections from His Correspondence, 1866-1881 by Sidney Lanier (1899)
"staired " will not do, especially after " hundred- terraced" As you are looking
down, why not say " climbing " — but never " staired." 7 and 8. ..."
2. Letters of Sidney Lanier: Selections from His Correspondence, 1866-1881 by Sidney Lanier (1899)
"As you are looking down, why not say " climbing " — but never " staired." 7 and 8.
I think you can get two better lines : " where " has not a good effect, ..."
3. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"... many of them very steep — a few staired all across, and almost all, in some
part or other, if not the whole, having the footway on each side BO staired. ..."
4. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"... all at right angles to each other, each having from twelve to fifty houses ;
but many of them very steep — a few staired all across, and almost all, ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"With his glas in his i, he staired at every body. He took always the place before
the fire. He talked about "my carridge," " my currier," "my servant;" and ..."
6. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The thirty-staired Seats all round our Amphitheatre, get instantaneously slated
with mere umbrellas, fallacious when so thick set: our antique Cassolettes ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"... 4- " 111 staired -f-, though brave, did no visions foreboding, Tell you that
Fate had forsaken your cause" Ah ! were you destin'd to die at Culloden f, ..."
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