Out of the dead toad's boudoir, along the trash-packed upstairs hall, to the bottle-decorated back stairs and down.

He skipped quickly down the narrow back stairs.

Aware of her muddy sneakers, Drew went up the uncarpeted back stairs.

Beyond, the narrow back stairs led up to the bedrooms above.

She led the way down the steep back stairs.

He climbed slowly up the narrow back stair and paused in front of the nursery door.

However, she balanced the tray with sufficient expertise and edged up the narrow back stairs to the ground-floor dining room.

We ascended by a narrow back stair to the second floor, where a very young and frightened-looking maidservant was waiting.

"I'm afraid you're right," I agreed, shepherding the children up the narrow back stairs.

These were the old back stairs of the Colonial period, and they were no longer used.