1.   A china light-switch, finger-flicked, showed her a narrow wooden staircase.

2.   Baptiste was standing on the bottom step of the wooden staircase, affecting surprise at the sight of her.

3.   Chewing on her lower lip, she trundled after him along a flagged passageway and up an ornate wooden staircase.

4.   Ranulf scooped his dice into his leather wallet and they went down the spiral wooden staircase and into the hall.

5.   Some one clattered down a wooden staircase.

6.   Standing on top of the wooden staircase she hurled herself to the ground, landing in a heap at the bottom.

7.   The space age escalator and exposed metal piping of the foyer segued into a spiraling wooden staircase and crinkly old master prints.

8.   A winding wooden staircase led to an open-sided wooden shack perched precariously on the rocks, whence came a savoury smell and some aromatic smoke.

9.   Becky led her partner up the wooden staircase to the first floor and began a guided tour.

10.   The fellow wandered over waving a broomstick and the cat, its quarry still swinging from his mouth, fled up the spiral, wooden staircase.