handrail

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• Her photos are subdued not just in color, but also in mood, showing fragments of government structures up close — an anonymous window, a column’s base, a bucolic vent, a fossil-like handrail — with an enchanting, surprising quietude.

• The rust on a handrail, scuff marks on glass, dents on a door — they have an intentionality — as if they were made by hand.

• Because PVA doesn’t degrade too quickly, it has the potential to work on surfaces that need to stay ice-free, such as roads, sidewalks, and handrails.

• Normally of good balance, I found myself reaching for the handrail, unable to clasp it for the refreshments in my hands.

• Every handrail, elevator button, and door handle becomes a pathway for spreading disease.

• In this particular epidemic, we learn that touching, sharing a glass, or grabbing a subway handrail may prove fatal.

• The ramp is wobbly, and Clarkson grasps the handrail to steady herself and laughs.

• Then she closed the door as quietly as possible, and clutching the handrail began to grope her way downstairs.

• When Mr. Merry led the girl out they had to cling for a time to each other and to the handrail that led down toward the landing.

• It consists of three ropes upon one of which you walk, while the other two form a handrail upon either side.

• I was hanging on to the handrail when a man came tumbling down in haste.