How To Use Banister In A Sentence

Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
All the floorboards, bannisters and doors were missing, the electricity, gas and water pipes were all gone, the ceilings had collapsed and there were two gaping holes in the roof. Life in a Victorian terrace
Slowly, I made my way downstairs, gliding my hand along the smooth wooden banister.
It was followed by one from Janet who discovered a pencil-shaped parcel stuck beneath the bannister with Sellotape. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
I have a feeling from a half remembered lecture from a zillion years ago, that Rossetti used to slide naked down the bannisters, and kept a menagerie in his house. Desperate Romantics

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Wood bannisters and staircases, rooms with curved windows, doorknobs that were made out of glass. August 2006
“Fell…?” said Vera, coming slowly down the stairs, holding onto the bannister. My Sweet Audrina
Carpet, bannister-rail, laundry basket on the landing.
I leaned on the polished wooden bannister until his head was level with mine and our eyes met.
Placing a foot on the bottom step, he paused and looked up, his hand firmly on the worn banister rail. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Beyond this the entrance hall includes ceiling cornicing and a dado rail as well as a stripped pine staircase and banisters.
Cut the oldest out and train the bendier ones into swirls against walls or swagged around banisters. In the garden this week: Tulips and roses
Kyle vaulted the banister and landed on his toes, letting his heels land second.
She leaned over the banister
There is an intricate Victorian tiled entrance hall with a splendid banister and staircase leading to the upper floor and which is well lit by a large skylight.
Another childhood experience influenced the meal: Mayonnaise was banned because Fallon once got his head stuck in a banister at his grandparents' house, and they smeared mayo on it to squeeze him out. Jimmy Fallon's Top Chef Birthday Bash
She's leaning there, supported by the banister, swaying slightly, keys clutched leaving imprints in her right hand.
Big Butch Brewster, to whom the billet-doux was addressed in T. Haviland Hicks, Jr.'s, familiar scrawl, tore open the envelope, and while the squad listened, he read aloud the message left by that sunny-souled youth; "DEAR BUTCH: "Coach Corridan will have to use the alarm clock from now on! I'm called away on business. See that my stuff gets to Bannister O.K. Stow it in the room next to yours. I'll be back at college some time in the next century. Give my adieux to Coach Corridan and the squad. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
The living room kept its unexpected adobe-style fireplace, the great-room its unusual green onyx banisters.
The other concern about the stairs are the banisters.
Bannister (1-1) scattered nine hits over 6 Zc innings and Jose Guillen provided the support with his seventh homer and two RBIs. Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
“The banister is an especially interesting piece,” Lowell said as they continued the tour. Mind Games
He descended the stairs slowly in the dark, his hand holding tightly on to the banister rail.
Becky, slim and small, with her hair peaked up to a topknot, Becky in pale blue, Becky as fair as her string of imitation pearls, Becky in the golden haze of the softly illumined room, Becky, Becky Bannister -- the name chimed in his ears. The Trumpeter Swan
Bannister was born in the town of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, and was educated and grew up there. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising
Maybe you right, my frien's settin 'down by de do', an 'my frien's leanin' 'gins' de choir banisters, an 'I ain' gwine say no mo '. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
But it's so crowded, loud and smoky that even the intrepid Milica gasps for air, and we reascend the stairs to lounge against the bannister near the entrance.
At another property, only a singed wooden bannister was left standing. Tehachapi Fire Burns Dozens Of Homes, Threatens 150
As she was mounting the stairs, keeping a tight hold of the banisters, she realised that there had been five half full cups of tea on the table.
Captain Bannister told us we would feel a nudge as he engaged the reheats and we also felt something when we looked at the lunch menu.
A jury has recommended that hand rails or banisters be installed in houses at an inquest into the tragic death of a former member of Dervish on Christmas Day.
We decided to take a short cut through the neighborhood yards playing follow the leader over hedges, fences, porch banisters, etc.
It's all tiles and smooth banisters - architecture that was designed to weather well and last.
Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
But except for that sort of thing that always has to be done, even the floor in the piazza and the bannisters are the original wood. Oral History Interview with Edith Mitchell Dabbs, October 4, 1975. Interview G-0022. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Of course, there is no question that Bannister ran the full distance and clocked the historic 3min 59.4sec.
As her hand hit the bannister, a second, more urgent plan voiced itself. The Rat Eats Last
He is seeded No 1 for this tournament and his action starts on Friday when he takes on the winner of the preliminary round between Bannister and Pearson at 12.45 pm.
Years of working as a master carpenter had sculpted his body as cleverly as he had sculpted the banisters on the staircases in their home.
Carpet, bannister-rail, laundry basket on the landing.
Stair spindles and a banister had also been ripped out and used as firewood while glass carpeted the floors.
Through the kitchen door, I see her round the bottom of the stairs and lean against the banister.
I pray that in those quiet times God will give you peace to know that Joey is walking on those streets of gold, looking over the bannisters of heaven watching you and your children, smiling as the proud husband and father he was. October 2006 glimpses
The three sets include two with solid splats and one with a back comprised of three molded slats, or banisters.
They proceeded down a wide staircase with intricately decorated wooden banisters and thence through another corridor.
It was difficult but I was too tall to use both bannisters to swing my legs up or drag them, and I didn't want to do the bump-bump-bump, one step at a time thing. Hawaiian Adventure Day 8: Akaka falls, woodwork and the best breakfast in the USA
I stepped past the hallway closet and the banister we used to slide down as kids.
He heard his name called timidly from upstairs, and looking up saw his wife's golden head over the banisters. By What Authority?
I should feel no desire, so I was assured, to do another angel's "dags" by sliding down the heavenly banisters. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
At the conference many papers dealt with a visionary drug called ayahuasca, a harsh-tasting thick infusion often made by boiling Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis leaves. Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
Still steadily reposing against the bannisters, he worked hard at refining his paragraph, persuaded, since not summoned by Miss Margland, he had bestowed upon it but a few minutes, though he had been fixed to that spot near an hour. Camilla
The banister shook under his grip as he pulled himself up the stairs. Raven
The large room opened upwards to the right to a large set of stairs, the banisters and railings of which had been covered in ribbons of light green and deep red.
Hand on the oak banister, she found she had to pull herself physically up the stairs. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
Wrap foliage around the banister and add nonbreakable baubles and battery-operated lights. The Sun
The attic steps creaked loudly every time Rayne stepped on one, and she frowned slightly as she clenched the banister tightly.
Among other absurdities, the ship has a $60,000 bannister, a master bedroom that opens only to a fingerprint and a secret room designated specifically for "nookie," which any owner of a ship like this surely has no shortage of. Aboard Russian Billionaire Andrey Melnichencko's $300 Million Yacht (VIDEO)
Carpet, bannister-rail, laundry basket on the landing.
Her fingers tightened on the banister rail, as she paused in her descent.
She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister.
The staircase still boasts its original wrought iron banisters and the original green tiles still adorn the walls.
From here, an elegant stone staircase to the first floor has cast iron bannisters and a polished mahogany handrail, and it leads to the landing lit by large cupola.
This effect also would be pretty on a porch rail or stair banister.
Shake the stair banisters and rail - are they loose?
You are warned not to touch the banisters in the empty, crumbling flats of Craigmillar.
I started so badly that I nearly struck the banister when Michaela returned, balancing five tankards of doppel bock beer on a tray.
The floors and banisters had been varnished and polished till they gleamed, the frames of paintings had received a thorough cleaning.
The execution ended a 14-year battle to have Bannister's death sentence overturned.
The banisters were painted in white gloss and ingrained with dirt.
In the hallway are two bicycles (to avoid the congestion charge) and that emblem of childfree living, the banisterless staircase. Times, Sunday Times
She looked from the basket containing the few remaining branches to the banisters of the great staircase, which were now nearly covered in waxy green holly and pretty red ribbon.
She reached out to the left and right of her and caught hold of the banisters. GALILEE
Within days we had a safety rail on the bathroom wall, another banister, raised lavatory seats and other helpful things.
So they fastened boards on either side of the banister and caulked and painted to fill in.
As she panted towards her second floor apartment, she clenched her palms against the banisters, as she had done in the parlour.
Three women peered over the banister of the mezzanine.
You cannot assume airs and graces when you are stuck behind a stripped pine desk, with a wee stalk of a microphone in front of you and the media hanging over the banisters waiting to detect the first signs of pomposity and expose it to ridicule.
All the doors and knobs are at the right height," ex - plained the kender, stopping to trace a finger over a par - ticularly intricate carving of a rose on the banister. Stalling
Fifty years on, Britain's milers have dropped Bannister's baton
The couple also restored some of the brownstone's original features, such as the five marble fireplaces, the exposed brick and stone and the banister of the staircase, which has recycled carpeting. Healthy Bent In Bed-Stuy
Banister installs him in a broom closet upstairs.
By clinging to a bannister he miraculously managed to land safely.
He remembered how he would take Mina to the hotels to trash them or slide down the long stairway banisters.
That was about 6 years ago and to this day nobody will admit that it was them chewing blue gum and then leaving it stuck to the stair bannister where Mom leans while putting on her shoes. Beware The Jabbergum - Her Bad Mother
Her hands slide down the wall as she uses the column of the banister to help her up. A Prince of Darkness
I turned over to find I had fallen down the stairs, and I had also hit my arm against the banister as I tumbled down.
And Fred never comes downstairs save on his stomach -- and on the banisters -- and lands on the doormat like a load of brick out of a dumpcart. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air
I went out naked on the landing and looked over the banisters.
Dr Roger Bannister clipped a second off the world record in a legendary 1954 race in Oxford.
Andy put his hand on the huge wooden swirl at the bottom of the banister rail. SANDS OF TIME
Two steps, and the staircase seemed to melt like jelly; she had to grip the banister with both hands.
Dr. Bender takes off his overcoat and hangs it on the newel post of the banister.
Strands and strands of golden, crimson, and ginger leaves dangled in delicate arches from the stairs and banisters.
She looked down the stairs to her mother's moon-white, but not so luminous, face at the curve of the bannisters. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
She had heard her parents discussing the effects she had on them before but only when she crept down the stairs and stuck her head through the banisters to hear their clandestine conversation.
Shake the stair banisters and rail - are they loose?
She ran out into the hall and peered over the banister of the stairs, just in time to see her mother race out of the master bedroom.
Yet despite this, both consulates were rather attractive buildings: cool and breezy, with intricately carved banisters and fine teak panelling.
Each girl sat on one of the banisters of the staircase, sliding down the long flight of stairs, landing a few seconds before Nick in the grand hall.
Over the banister, visitors saw the top of an elegant structure, narrow at the base, with an inner hexagonal column.
She was at the head of the stairs, kneeling and peeping through the bannisters like a child. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
The floors and banisters had been varnished and polished till they gleamed, the frames of paintings had received a thorough cleaning.
Bannister had wangled a continuance of the trial, but unless he could produce Pike, Hardiman's chances looked slim.
Philip Montgomery for The Wall Street Journal The couple also restored some of the brownstone's original features, such as the five marble fireplaces, the exposed brick and stone, and the banister of the staircase, which has recycled carpeting. Healthy Living in Bed-Stuy
The vine Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as "the vine of the soul," contains a group of compounds called harmala alkaloids. FOXNews.com
Then there are long strands of beads and weird exotic flowers in deep colours to wind around trees, banisters, mantelpieces and even table napkins.
She hated walking down stairs, sliding down banisters was so much easier.
A toilet seat that is regularly cleaned has far less germs on it than the bannisters in a staircase, for example, which are being touched all day long by everyone's hands and which are not cleaned as often as the toilet. Dirty things
I spot it on a banister: the glossy silks of its opened fan, each edge scalloped.
When we got in Dad had put on a clean shirt and was mending the broken banister.
Shake the stair banisters and rail - are they loose?
I went out naked on the landing and looked over the banisters.
‘As soon as the sled is brought out,’ wrote Bannister in the Alaska Geographic Quarterly, ‘the dogs gather round and, fairly dancing with excitement, raise their voices in about a dozen unmelodious strains.’
She struts peacock-like from one side of the stage to the other, gripping the pole like a chair-lift banister.
The staircase gleamed, and the banisters and railings all around the gallery gave off the same sheen.
White lights entwined with silver ribbon draped the window sills, door frames, and banister, bunched with clusters of holly and mistletoe.
John spun on his heel and ran back to the banister, his fist closing on empty air behind the moving figure.
Stairs rising to first floor with exposed timber bannister.
From the entrance hall, a staircase with carved bannister rail and balustrades leads to the first floor return.
Roger Bannister re-wrote the commonly held belief held about an athlete’s physical, and mental, ability.
He could go outside, get down the stair by somehow working hand over hand on the bannisters, and hang out the doorway. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
We had scaffolding instead of banisters for three months, and we were living here.
What was once an elegant foyer now served as a lobby, complete with bannistered staircase, sconced walls, and chandeliered ceiling. Break No Bones
Before I knew it, I was happily slurping my delicious pea and mint soup one-handed, left arm hooked blissfully over banister.
As Tony leaped over the last banister and landed on the rug at the foot of the stairs, Joe ducked into the study and crossed his fingers. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
The house retains many original features, including the mosaic floor in the reception, and there is art-deco detailing everywhere - in architraves, panelling and banisters.
She went up the stairs, holding on to the bannister for direction. For the Sake of the Boy
He probably also knew that Banister had offered to channel cash from the New Orleans rackets to maintain the team of shooters.
Resting her head wearily against the hard banister rail, she fought down the momentary surge of panic.
Yet despite this, both consulates were rather attractive buildings: cool and breezy, with intricately carved banisters and fine teak panelling.
Jane, think it's Byron that you're thinking of - he had a house full of wild animals and slid down the bannisters. Desperate Romantics
I think they pushed someone down the stairs and are watching from the bannister. And you thought it was gravity | My[confined]Space
Next you'll help Stan in the gardens and dust in all the rooms, even the library, and you'll be sure to shine the banisters of the stairwell.
Check the width between railings, banisters and balconies and board them up if necessary.
A staircase with white oak bannisters leads to the large first floor landing which has recessed ceiling lighting and access to the attic.
His design for a spindle blade, which turns pieces of timber into the spindles that link staircase banisters to the floor, is very fast: ‘As far as I know, it's the fastest in the world.’
There was a banister hand rail that ran up the center of the steps, making two lanes.
She moved toward from the foyer to the study, pointing out the tinsel that lined the banister of the staircase and bannered the arched walkways, ‘Don't you like the decorations?
The pandemonium that erupted around the university track in the aftermath of Bannister's run may have also contributed to undermine the rules.
They saw that against Tampa Bay, when Rouen skied a punt to the 4-yard line and Bannister caught it before it hit the ground.
I suppose it had jigsaw work on the porch banisters?
At 6 p.m. the wind subsided and Bannister gave the go - ahead to make the attempt to break the record with friends Chris Basher and Chris Chataway as pacemakers.
Minwax's water-based Latte stain on the banister and stairs complements other natural shades in the wallcoverings.
She noticed an intricately carved, roaring lion's head was at the end of the banister.
Not a word had the Head Coach, Captain Brewster, the football squad, or any of the collegians received from the blithesome youth, since the billet-doux he left with old Hinky-Dink at Camp Bannister. T. Haviland Hicks Senior
They paced Roger Bannister while the doctor broke the four-minute barrier for the mile.
The staircase was beautiful, with dark oak banisters and ornate carving.
BALUSTER (through the Fr. from the Ital. _balaustro_, so-called from a supposed likeness to the flower of the [Greek: balaustion], or wild pomegranate; the word has been corrupted in English into "banister"), a small moulded shaft, square or circular, in stone or wood and sometimes in metal, supporting the coping of a parapet or the rail of a staircase, an assemblage of them being known as a balustrade. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
So instead I walk to the top of the stairs and put my hand on the top of the banister there, where the finial is formed into a pineapple shape. The Kitchen Daughter
It had two stories with porches, with banisters and such things.
Who needs it?" called the unabashed Fran, looking over the banisters. Fran
Maybe you can persuade Charlie Brickley, a < i > fair sort of dropkicker, to quit coaching Hopkins, and kick a few goals for old Bannister! T. Haviland Hicks Senior
He hugged the banister, counting its bar-like wooden rods until he reached the turn where it met the wall.
The stair banisters had excrescences shaped like pew ends every few treads.
He and Chris Chataway were the pacemakers as Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute barrier for the mile.
So they fastened boards on either side of the banister and caulked and painted to fill in.
Your cautious movement down the banister suggests a desire to move from an intellectual plane to a less cerebral level.
A couple of spindles in the banister were hanging loose.
Imagine a room ten feet by twelve feet on the top floor of a crumbling building where not even the banisters are stable enough for you to put any weight on.
She won't admit it, though, and laughs and kisses her hand over the banister, which is all the closer we have seen her yet. Mary Cary "Frequently Martha"
Dangling from the banister was a cardboard notice, which read: Maigret and the Madwoman—Simenon, Georges - 100
I ran into the hallway and almost somersaulted over the banisters.
They started down the stairs, using the banisters to guide them.
John spun on his heel and ran back to the banister, his fist closing on empty air behind the moving figure.
The staircase banisters gleamed with finely varnished cherry wood with midnight-blue oriental rugs running down the center of the steps.
I whirled to see Sylvia tripping awkwardly down the stairs, babbling to herself as she tried to hold onto the bannister and the prisms at the same time. My Sweet Audrina
The only plant in South America that contain harmine is the jungle vine Banisteriopsis caapi, also known as ayahuasca. Softpedia News - Global
Years of working as a master carpenter had sculpted his body as cleverly as he had sculpted the banisters on the staircases in their home.
Again and again he interrupted her to express his doubt on that point, and when dinner was over and Mrs. Bannister had retired, and we were smoking in the room which he called his den, he unmasked to me a mind weary of working over nothing. David Malcolm
A staircase with ornate pine bannisters and rail leads up to a large landing.
She stopped to stare at every little thing from the banister to the flowery wallpaper to the family photos ascending the stairs.
I stepped past the hallway closet and the banister we used to slide down as kids.
She grasped hold of the banister to support herself.
For the banisters and balustrades, Garnier gave full vent to his love of rare stone in combination—pink granite, pink marble, onyx, scagliola and superb mosaic designs on the floors. Architecture as Allegory
The staircase is flanked on both sides by the scaly snake-like bodies of the nagas, whose fierce multiple heads form the banisters' bottoms.
De Maria quoted the Doge's Palace from the top down, starting with what Sir Banister Fletcher described as a "lace-like parapet of oriental cresting" ... the ziggy-zaggy crenulation on the top of the facade. The House With Three Eyes
He probably also knew that Banister had offered to channel cash from the New Orleans rackets to maintain the team of shooters.
The angel - namely Lenore - was a daredevil, could swear as well as any man, liked sliding down banisters and preferred riding bareback with no side saddle.
The dollar case has always been there but it is only now that it has become sexy to seek the green outcomes," Paul Bannister, managing director of energy solutions firm Exergy, Australia.
He descended the stairs slowly in the dark, his hand holding tightly on to the banister rail.
The wood floors were highly polished as was the banister of the staircase.
She leaned over the banister, watching the entire ordeal with cloudy eyes.
El señor Lázaro se ha dedicado toda su vida a la carpintería, empezando como aprendiz a muy temprana edad y el buen ahorro le permitió abrir su propio taller de ebanistería, comenzando sus trabajos en la reparación de muebles, ahora su demanda ha crecido, gracias a su buen prestigio que le permite nuevos clientes y nuevas solicitudes de trabajo que aportan en gran medida a su economía, con el negocio en pie solicita un préstamo para la inversión destinando Kiva Loans
If bannister was dangerously loose, obviously Smith would have a duty to warn Jobe aboutit. The Volokh Conspiracy » Stalking Victims’ Duty to Warn Employees, Lovers, Visitors, and Others?
They had a big fish tank in one corner and he was trekking back and forth between that and a bannister by a flight of stairs way across the room.
Sir Roger Bannister, former Master of Pembroke College, is unusual among heads.
A fine oak staircase with barley sugar bannisters leads out of the stone flagged hall and the south-east facing sitting-room is panelled.
There were potted trees with lights in them and there were garlands of leaves, flowers and tulle wrapped around the banister on the staircase.
Big Butch Brewster, his pachydermic frame draped in his gown, and his mortar-board cap on his head, for the Seniors were required to wear their regalia during Commencement week, was bellowing through a megaphone, as he stood on the steps of Bannister Hall, and Mr. Hicks, with his cheerful son, listened: T. Haviland Hicks Senior
He slung them on the banister in a casual manner.

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