library steps


noun(used with a plural verb)
  1. a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.

Origin of library steps

1
First recorded in 1755–65

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How to use library steps in a sentence

  • When at length he emerged on the library steps the tune changed, as was right and proper, to 'God save the Queen.'

    Hyacinth | George A. Birmingham
  • Long before one o'clock I was to be seen on the library steps, waiting for the door of paradise to open.

    The Promised Land | Mary Antin
  • He found Felicia in the library next morning, sitting high on the library steps, a pile of dusty volumes on her knees.

    Paths of Judgement | Anne Douglas Sedgwick
  • Daily, on the library steps or in the hall of the Main Building, the co-eds talked of "What shall we do when we finish college?"

    Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
  • Two stalwart girls came down the library steps and out through one of the iron gates.

    O Pioneers! | Willa Cather