up-stairs

comparative further up-stairs · comparative farther up-stairs · superlative furthest up-stairs · superlative farthest up-stairs

1. archaicArchaic form of upstairs.

   So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]

   1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78

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   In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.

   1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180

   “Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.

   [1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society; […], page 55

   Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2