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A Bend in the River
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- I took the brazier to the landing of the external staircase at the back of the house, squatted and fanned.†
p. 26.2 *external = outside
- And all the time Daulat's friendly African loader was coming up the external staircase with luggage—not much, but in many small, awkward pieces: a few bundles, a wickerwork laundry basket, some cardboard boxes.†
p. 31.5
- He had the bedroom just across the passage from the kitchen; it was the first door on the right as you came in from the landing of the external staircase.†
p. 33.3
- You entered this passage directly from the landing of the external staircase, which hung at the back of the building.†
p. 40.9
- We dug a hole in the yard just at the bottom of the external staircase—it was easy: no stones in the red earth—and buried the crate there.†
p. 70.1
- Late sunlight, trees, cooking smoke: that was all we could see when we went out to the landing of the external staircase to look.†
p. 77.9
- It turned out, when I examined it later, to be a bundle of foreign bank notes; and it went, as soon as it was dark, into the hole in the ground at the foot of my external staircase.†
p. 92.8
- And then it was over—the corridor, Metty's dreadful kitchen, the landing, the yellowing afternoon light, the trees of back yards, the dust in the air, the cooking smoke, the active world, and the sound of Yvette's feet pattering down the external staircase.†
p. 176.9
- It was unusually loud, and as I went up the external staircase I had the impression that Metty was listening to a football match commentary from the capital.†
p. 205.1
- The knowledge that I was still needed would be like satisfaction enough, and would be converted, while I waited for her in the flat, into irritation and self-disgust, which would continue right up to the moment when, after pattering up the external staircase, she came into the sitting room, all the strain of Raymond and the intervening days showing on her face.†
p. 215.8
- And all that he said when I went up the external staircase, and found him standing in the doorway of his room, was: "I didn't expect to see you back, patron."†
p. 253.9
- They knew what they had come for, and they knew exactly where they had to dig—below the external staircase.†
p. 265.3
- Late in the afternoon there were footsteps on the external staircase.†
p. 274.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(external) outsidein various senses, including:
- coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing -- as in "external trade"
- forming or relating to an outside boundary -- as in "external walls"
- on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete -- as in "external appearances"
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)