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副詞

up stairs (comparative further up stairs or farther up stairs, superlative furthest up stairs or farthest up stairs)

1. Archaic form of upstairs.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 176:

     I ſtept up ſtairs into my own bed-chamber, with no other thought than of pulling off my hat, &c.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:

     There was more dancing and singing up stairs, more wit and conversation below; […]

   • 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Five. The End of It.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 161:

     “He’s in the dining-room, sir, along with mistress. I’ll show you up stairs, if you please.”

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “How Charles Nutter’s Tea, Pipe, and Tobacco-box Were All Set Out for Him in the Small Parlour at the Mills; and How That Night Was Passed in the House by the Church-yard”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 137:

     Perhaps ’twas the state in which the poor lady lay up stairs that helped to make them excited and frightened.

   • 1870, John Payne Collier, The Tragical Comedy of Punch and Judy:

     JUDY, (within) Well! what do you want, Mr. Punch? PUNCH. Come up stairs: I want you.

副詞

up-stairs (comparative further up-stairs, superlative furthest up-stairs)

1. Archaic form of upstairs.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 42.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 180:

     In another moment the locksmith was standing in the street, whence he could see that the light once more travelled up-stairs, and soon returning to the room below, shone brightly through the chinks in the shutters.

   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Receives a Visiter, and Makes a Call”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 78:

     So Mrs. Sturk led the way up-stairs, whispering as she ascended; […]

   • [1872], [Emma Boultwood], “At Fernfield Hall”, in Maggie’s Message, London: The Religious Tract Society;  […], page 55:

     “Well, we must find out Mr. Frank’s address to-morrow, and you must write and tell him all about it,” said his wife, and taking up the jug of milk she had come to fetch, she went up-stairs. But the next minute she came flying down again. “John, run for the doctor directly,” she said; “that poor thing is dying, I do believe. Go up and call Molly,” she said as she went up-stairs again.

   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200, column 2:

     Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose,—there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead,—came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.

別の表記

• up stairs, up-stairs (archaic)