The blind thing flailed its way out of the kitchen, following the odor of its spoor, returned to the broken staircase, and dropped into darkness.

Culver looked towards the broken staircase and was puzzled by the sound he heard.

It may be a leaning banister or broken staircase or an obscure or missing safety sign.

We climbed a narrow and broken staircase towards the top of this building, the boy now at the rear, an Iraqi army captain leading the way.

They had started descending a broken staircase of rock that lined the edge of a slim buttress, extending far out from the chasm wall, like a fold of drapery in a marble statue.

He ascends a broken staircase, opens a door, looks into a dark stifling room, and says: 'Are you alone here?'

A craggy track, up which the mules in single file scrambled and turned from block to block, as though they were ascending the broken staircase of a gigantic ruin, was their way now.

He carried her through the door and lowered her unconscious body to willing hands beneath the broken staircase.

Carfilhiot shoved them up the sagging and broken staircase, out into afternoon sunlight, where they stood cowering in expectation of another projectile.

Alice steps outside of the abandoned house, which the pair have settled into, and decides to try to get upstairs, beyond the broken staircase, in the hope that she will find medicine.