Citations:step

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.

1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
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.