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UP THE STAIRS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On a floor above
Example:
they lived upstairs
Synonyms:
on a higher floor; up the stairs; upstairs
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Context examples:
One dirty-faced man, I think he was a boot-maker, used to edge himself into the passage as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and call up the stairs to Mr. Micawber—“Come!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It was necessary to give the reader this information, without which he would be at the same loss with me to understand the proceedings of these people, as they conducted me up the stairs to the top of the island, and from thence to the royal palace.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Then I rushed up the stairs, only to find two other rooms empty and deserted at the top. There was no one at all in the whole house.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Martha, with an astonished look, repeated her former action, and softly led me up the stairs; and then, by a little back-door which seemed to have no lock, and which she pushed open with a touch, into a small empty garret with a low sloping roof, little better than a cupboard.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I recognised in an instant that the thief must have come up the stairs from the side door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But there I always found her, the same bright housewife; often humming her Devonshire ballads when no strange foot was coming up the stairs, and blunting the sharp boy in his official closet with melody.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I look from Mr. Chillip, in his Sunday neckcloth, to the pulpit; and think what a good place it would be to play in, and what a castle it would make, with another boy coming up the stairs to attack it, and having the velvet cushion with the tassels thrown down on his head.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Upon which, Janet came running up the stairs as if the house were in flames, darted out on a little piece of green in front, and warned off two saddle-donkeys, lady-ridden, that had presumed to set hoof upon it; while my aunt, rushing out of the house, seized the bridle of a third animal laden with a bestriding child, turned him, led him forth from those sacred precincts, and boxed the ears of the unlucky urchin in attendance who had dared to profane that hallowed ground.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
