Here I diſcovered the ſecret Cauſes of many great Events that have ſurprized the World, how a Whore can govern the Back-ſtairs, the Back-ſtairs a Council, and the Council a Senate.
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Backstairs
Synonyms for "backstairs" (40 found)
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Noun(4 words)
shiftyskulkingslinkingslinkyslysneakingsneakystealthysurreptitiousunder-the-counterunder-the-tableundercoverundergroundunderhandunderhandedunobtrusive
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5 entriesbackstairs lobbyingbackstairs politicsrear stairservants' stairsservice stairs
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11 entriesbackstairs accessbackstairs channelbackstairs corridorbackstairs doorbackstairs entrancebackstairs influencebackstairs passagebackstairs politicsbackstairs routeprivate backstairsthe backstairs
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1905, Ernest William Hornung, “The Spoils of Sacrilege” in A Thief in the Night, Other feet were already in the lower flight of the backstairs; but the upper flight was the one for me, and in an instant we were racing along the upper corridor […]
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The straight-forward course, they say, would be to proclaim outright, instead of trying to bring it in by the backstairs.
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[…] if some peers (I am very sorry they are not as many as they ought to be) set themselves, in the great concern of peers and commons, against a back-stairs influence and clandestine government, then the alarm begins; then the constitution is in danger of being forced into an aristocracy.
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