However, he did not let her fall, but took advantage of the support of the handrail to imprint a kiss upon her lips--lips in the daytime scorned.
Across it was a narrow foot-bridge; but now the autumn flood had washed the handrail away, leaving the bare plank only, which, lying a few inches above the speeding current, formed a giddy pathway for even steady heads; and Tess had noticed from the window of the house in the daytime young men walking across upon it as a feat in balancing.
First peeping over the
handrail and allowing the head-dress to disappear in the darkness below, he groped his way down, and arrived at the door of a back kitchen immediately after Miss Brass had entered the same, bearing in her hand a cold leg of mutton.
Looking out accordingly, and stretching her neck over the
handrail, she descried, to her great amazement, Mr Tappertit completely dressed, stealing downstairs, one step at a time, with his shoes in one hand and a lamp in the other.
Arrested by a whispering above, she paused in the doorway, and looked up the stairs along a broad smooth
handrail that swept round in an unbroken curve at each landing, forming an inclined plane from the top to the bottom of the house.
But downstairs is the charitable Guster, holding by the
handrail of the kitchen stairs and warding off a fit, as yet doubtfully, the same having been induced by Mrs.
Men," I said, stepping forward to the
handrail and looking down into their upturned, bronzed faces, "you are anxiously awaiting information as to the ship's position.
As the weather grew warmer the dogs were forbidden to run beside the cart, but sat at my side on the seat, Vixen with her head under the crook of my left elbow, and Garm hugging the left
handrail.
The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, the bridges were strong and had
handrails.
For a full minute neither of us could do aught but cling with the proverbial desperation of the drowning man to the
handrails of our swinging seats.
One of these wells was spanned by a flimsy bridge with iron
handrails that felt warm to the touch as Raffles led the way across
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handrail - a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling