Here, he entered a dilapidated building, and ascended a flight of dingy stairs.
Harry Vincent was perplexed as he accompanied the old man down the dingy stairs.
But Janice had started up the dingy stairs before the lantern began to blink in a fashion that would have given her qualms.
A long splotch of blackness projected upon the floor of the outer room, coming from the doorway that led to the dingy stairs.
He ascended a pair of dingy stairs; then came to a hallway on the second floor.
At their destination, she reluctantly followed him inside and up the dingy stairs, wary of betrayal.
They went into the building and climbed a flight of silent, dingy stairs.
His slippers padded again up the passage and up the dingy stairs to the first floor.
He was waiting for sounds of the street door opening below, for creaks from the dingy old stairs.
From Westminster to the City you can climb dingy stairs to offices whose ramifications cover the entire living globe.