Sentence examples for great staircase from inspiring English sources

59. "On the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor" [art original] / D.E.

"On the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor" [art original] / D.E.

The great staircase has Saarinen's fluidity of plastic composition, but the rest of the house is dim.

The only objects left untouched in the refurbishment are the four long handrails that adorn the great staircase of the old building.

One night there, in a dream, he saw a giant mailed fist "on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase" in a castle.

Stothard revived his designs for The Seasons late in life when he was commissioned to decorate the great staircase at Buckingham Palace.

It is in the tradition of great staircases that lead to art: we mount a formal staircase at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, for example.

The government is now engaged in a new expansion of dams in great staircases, reservoir upon reservoir — some 130 in all across China's Southwest.

On the northeast face were three great staircases, each of 100 steps, one projecting at right angles from the centre of the building, two leaning against its wall, and all three converging in a gateway between the first and the second terrace.

Lurking (inexplicably) almost out of sight behind the great zigzagging staircase is a menacing Soviet T-34 tank.

He adored the great wide staircase, cantilevered out from the walls, with its richly carved oak balustrade.