" "Ten years ago," declared the friend, "I was spending about the same every week for the same things, and paying thirty dollars a month for five inconvenient rooms up four flights of stairs.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Here I am, a doomed man—booked for a fever, in this gloomy room, up four flights of stairs; nothing to look at but one table, two chairs, and a cobweb;
— from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series by Fanny Fern

"Behold the road," said the chief, showing his white teeth in a rare smile, as he caught in his hand a trailing vine that swung clear from the neighbouring growth, and reached up forty feet or so to a thick branch.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

They were huge and ran up for fifty or sixty feet without a bough.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Once, meeting Rafe Scott on the lower floor of the HQ, he had turned frantically and plunged like a madman through halls and corridors, to avoid coming face to face with the man, finally running up four flights of stairs and taking shelter in his rooms, with the pounding heart and bursting veins of a hunted criminal.
— from The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley