Simon creeps up the stairs, carrying his shoes and jacket, like a naughty undergraduate returning from a romp.

If you can climb stairs carrying your own luggage, and you can swim 25 yards you're a candidate.

Workmen began to edge down the stairs carrying a table.

Porters thronged the stairs and galleries carrying packages and bags.

Shortly thereafter the three of them began to file down the stairs carrying cages of strange animals.

I went on up the stairs carrying my phantom suitcase.

They stood aside hurriedly as two children scuttled down the stairs carrying a large toy boat between them.

In four minutes Eloise Dobson came swiftly down the stairs carrying a square cosmetic case and a small suitcase.

A cheaply dressed Serian started down the stairs carrying tablets of laced bamboo; the leaves clattered against one another as he moved.

Jurnet came up the stairs carrying a carton packed with two dozen cans of baked beans.