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English citations of step
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1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
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- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:Through the open front door ran Jessamy, down the steps to where Kitto was sitting at the bottom with the pram beside him.
- 1969, Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, first person on Moon, 21 July 1969
- That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.