His figure showed in spectral outline as he passed a single light and moved upward on the gloomy stairs.

It slid aside to show a wide, dark landing, with a flight of steep, gloomy stairs beyond.

He descended rapidly by a pair of gloomy stairs.

The chemist ascended a flight of gloomy stairs and reached the top.

That left the attic rooms and I looked up the gloomy stair in trepidation.

They thought that they saw someone on the gloomy stairs; but as they drove forward to investigate, the figure was no longer there.

Going up a flight of gloomy stairs, she found Apartment 24 at the back of the second-story hall.

He moved through the darkness of the adjoining room; reached a hallway and descended by a gloomy stairs.

She'll be down directly," said the serving woman, and flicked a hand at a rank of gloomy stairs.

Harry followed him into the house and up a long flight of gloomy stairs.