He examined the first stair riser, then the second, then the third.

They gilded their own stair risers, the window frames, even the skylight.

One of the stair risers leading to the second floor had been hinged and could have cost someone a broken ankle.

It fits anywhere: in coves or cabinets, even on stair risers.

Jack looked up over their heads, saw blood-flecked concrete walls and steep stair risers.

It lay glittering on the fourth stair riser.

A stair riser is the near-vertical element in a set of stairs, forming the space between a step and the next.

It was still alive, panting harshly and rapidly with its head hung over the first stair riser.

His shoes and pant cuffs were visible on the stairs; there was no back to the stair risers.

Nineteen carpeted stair risers, and nary a Jack crouching on any one of them.

The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news.

Then they started down, heels clanking dispiritedly on the steel grillework of the stair risers.

That it would simply slither part of its rotted self up between the stair risers and grab his ankle?

His feet on the stair risers were quick and eager, the hurrying steps of a man who has come home from a long and bitter war.

There was some dampness on the lower stair risers, which were carpeted, but dampness was all it was.

A good way of checking that there is no unnecessary movement is to kick the toe of the boot against a carpeted stair riser.

"I discovered that Whistler gilded stair risers and wainscoting," Mr. Adair explained.

Rooms imploding, shoes pinching, stumbling on stair risers that seemed to get lower even as he climbed them... these he could handle.

Decorated stair risers were used extensively in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, to form the pedestal to small devotional stupas.

The remains of the old stair riser, still bearing its original blood-red paint, are nailed to a clean white Sheetrock wall above the new steel and wire staircase.

She jerked her head away from it and it smashed into the stair riser in the hollow between her neck and shoulder, scraping away the flesh from her ear.

She knew how many freckles were on Jack's ear, and that the third stair riser had a crack in it that was shaped like a W. "Maybe tomorrow night," she said.

A flight of stairs with decorated stair risers from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa has been almost fully restored and can now be seen at the Guimet Museum in Paris.

The second tier is sided by triangular stair risers, which depict a Hellenistic winged Ketos sea monster, a motif often seen with such a function in Greco-Buddhist art.

She came around him, sat down on one of the stair risers, and saw that his lower lip had swelled to twice its size and that there was dried blood on his chin.