He wounded another tenement dweller who had tried to block his helter-skelter race down the tenement stairs to freedom.

We were walking up tenement stairs.

The letter in itself was not all that unusual: people were for ever driving off the road or taking a header down tenement stairs and they all needed clearance before their wills could be processed.

Moments alone were limited to climbing his tenement stairs, smelling different cooking smells on each landing.

His palette is a spate of slightly off-key, darkened primaries set against carefully textured browns that variously account for barren fields, shanty floors, railroad stations, tenement stairs and factory walls.

We went up dirty tenement stairs and came to the room of Terry's friend Margarina, who owed Terry a skirt and a pair of shoes.

The girl snarled a Spanish obscenity at her mother and ran down the tenement stairs.

He knew that with all the traffic these tenement stairs had to bear that the odds were against him, but still he hoped against hope.

Jackson took a new grip on his length of iron pipe, crossed the sidewalk, climbed the tenement stairs back to the flat.

I recall one day climbing tenement stairs, trying to balance three heavy bags as the sweat fell like tears down from my eyes.