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Updated: July 10, 2025
Then the object of their wrath took to the stairs, stopping at the rail of the first landing and gesticulating savagely over the heads of his audience, Velasco and the others returning amid a knot of fellows to bay round the newel post. His voice, full-throated, cried them all down Ekstrom's deep and resonant voice, domineering over the uproar, hectoring one after another into sullen silence.
When the men went there to 'do it up' they found the interior of the house in a state of indescribable filth: the ceilings discoloured with smoke and hung with cobwebs, the wallpapers smeared and black with grease, the handrails and the newel posts of the staircase were clammy with filth, and the edges of the doors near the handles were blackened with greasy dirt and finger-marks.
It's lucky for you that the law doesn't let the cats come into this house." She put the cage on the flat top of the newel post and, taking Miss Carter's package in her arms, she went up as fast as she could.
Martin stood leaning on the newel post, and from the few words I heard I knew that he was telling her about the proposed dedication, so I went out and joined Evan, for it seems as though we had had little leisure outdoors together of late, and as if it was time to make it up as best we might.
Scroll work is conspicuous, as are rosettes, but a touch of individuality is given by a Grecian band instead of the more common evolute spiral above the diaper pattern. The pineapple, emblem of hospitality, was attractive in cast iron and as utilized at Number 1107 Walnut Street provided a distinctive newel.
A maid in aproned black admitted them into a narrow hall, from which stairs mounted with a carved rail terminating in a newel post supporting an almost life-sized bronze nymph, whose flowing hair was encircled by a wreath of electrically lit flowers, and who held a dully shining sheaf of jonquils.
Jack had neatly joined a hollow iron globe, taken from the newel post of some old iron staircase railing, to the two prongs, and covered it with a coat of red fireproof paint.
She threw back her shawl from her head, and under the low-burning gas-light held aloft by the spelter statuette in the newel post, she confronted Mr. Dickerson. He had his hat on, and had the air of just having let himself in; his gripsack stood at his feet. "Why, Nelie! Miss Saunders! Is that you? Why, where in the world Well, this is something like 'Willy, we have missed you'; I've just come.
"Oh, very well," said Hortense. "It would be more polite to make Andy It," said Owl. "Always be polite to ladies." "I'll choose between Andy and me," said Hortense. "Eeny, meeny, mona, my Barcelona bona sky, Care well, Broken well, We wo wack. "I'm It. I'll count to a hundred, and the newel post in the hall will be goal." There was a hurrying and scurrying while Hortense hid her face.
What will you bet me he hasn't shot more than one brace of partridges on those fields about Melton when he was a boy? So he christened your three fields afresh, and the new names took; likely he made a point of it with the people in the village. For all that, I have found one old fellow who stands out against them to this day. His name is Newel.
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