"Newel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... standing ajar; and an intermittent flirtation in soft male and female tones could be heard going on inside. Picotee's lips parted at thus learning the condition of things, and she leant against the stair-newel. ...
— The Hand of Ethelberta • Thomas Hardy
... occupied the greater part of the north side of a cloister called "petit cloitre" or Farmery Cloister, from the large building on the east side originally built as a Farmery (fig. 33, B). It was approached by a newel-stair at its south-west corner (fig. 35). This stair gave access to a vestibule, in which, on the west, was a door leading into a room called small library (petite bibliotheque), apparently built over one of the chapels at the east end of the church ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... leaving the remainder for retainers, and causing the clergy to inveigh against the new custom of the lord of the manor "eating in secret places." The staircase developed from the early winding stair about a newel or post to the beautiful broad stairs of the Tudor period. These were usually six or seven feet broad, with about six wide easy steps and then a landing, and the carving on the balusters was often very elaborate and sometimes very beautiful—a ...
— Furnishing the Home of Good Taste • Lucy Abbot Throop |
