Meanings of lowest stair in English

He listened, hesitated; his foot on the lowest stair.

The words were scarcely uttered when they both kicked against the lowest stair and blundered forward.

Everyone shuffled into order and Krigel, dour as ever, took the front position on the lowest stair.

The body of the captain was lying at the foot of the steps, his head on the lowest stair.

Standing on the lowest stair, she turned, a desolate and pathetic figure, with the golden hair rippling over the marble brows.

For, as I crossed the hall, peering into the dimness, I descried, stationed on the lowest stair with upraised bludgeon, a man.

When Rodolphe came to the garden that evening, he found his mistress waiting for him at the foot of the steps on the lowest stair.

I heard the foot on the lowest stair, and then it turned towards the little closet where my mistress often sat alone at her devotions.

At the back, where the lowest stairs protruded into the room, the boy sat struggling with a knife and a piece of whitewood.

Of what consequence were the listeners before whom she had hitherto sung compared with those whose footsteps were now echoing on the lowest stairs?