Citations:step

English citations of step

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• 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

  One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

• 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

  Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.

• 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

  Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

• 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:

  Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.

• 1969, Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first person on Moon, 21 July 1969

  That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.