Not you, I think, who, though you judge only too favourably of all I do, are not fond of such Subjects.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2 by Edward FitzGerald

Inside Ronan could see no sign whatever of any festivity, but on being told that Sir Hector was awaiting him in the ball-room, he allowed himself to be conducted along a bare, gloomy passage and down a narrow flight of steep stone steps into a large dungeon-like chamber, piled up in places
— from The Banshee by Elliott O'Donnell

When raised, it disclosed a narrow flight of stone steps, at the bottom of which the most perfect obscurity reigned.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

They followed her into a black passage leading Heaven knows where,—down into the bowels of the earth, the young girls believed for a moment; for they now descended a narrow flight of stairs so dark and narrow that they could touch the wall on each side.
— from The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Katherine Stokes

At daybreak a new feeling of sadness seized us at the sight of our steamer, deformed and blackened by the fire.
— from In Search of a Son by William Shepard Walsh