bannisters

Lechmere slid down the bannisters as a schoolboy might have done; he had an open pocket knife in his teeth.

He leaned over the bannisters and spied the note on the hall table.

I slid down the bannisters, not only to expedite matters but to save my ankle that had begun to remind me of its existence.

As he pulled the young lady upstairs, she caught hold of one of the bannisters with her hand, on which was a rich bracelet.