Doors

Examples

• At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the mud. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We heard it inside the doors. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The opening for putting in the ice, shown just under the pulley in the cut, has two doors with a space between; each door a foot thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He steps into the room, and she comes in too, closing both the doors behind her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• On the same day, amidst the outcries of all the women in the place, he put his head out of doors. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then came the question, which of the two next doors? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The doors were at the ends, a row of seats ran along each side of the interior, and a long deal table extended down the centre. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I only went up and shut the doors. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The doors of Skuytercliff were rarely and grudgingly opened to visitors, and a chilly week-end was the most ever offered to the few thus privileged. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• At a signal from Dak Kova the doors of two cages were thrown open and a dozen green Martian females were driven to the center of the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• What's the news in doors? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He then knocked at the doors of two other similar rooms, and introduced me to their occupants, by name Drummle and Startop. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Don't turn me out of doors to wander in the streets again. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The young man was constantly employed out of doors, and the girl in various laborious occupations within. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My first care was to close the shutters, so that no light might be seen from without, and then to close and make fast the doors. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• For it is past your usual time, and will soon be late, and the way is long, and there is much company out of doors to-night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She was in a room the folding-doors of which stood open: I went in when she addressed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I saw the doors of the elevator closed, and the grill shut and the fourth-floor button pushed by the porter. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Men, women and children came out of their doors looking pale and frightened at the presence of the invader. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He heard the thundering and surging out of doors, and it seemed to him as if his late angry mood were going about trying to get at him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Not a casement was found unfastened, not a pane of glass broken; all the doors were bolted secure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, in repairing to his cellar and in opening and shutting those resounding doors, has to cross a little prison-like yard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Large glass doors at the lower end opened on to a terrace, beautifully ornamented along its whole length with a profusion of flowers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Without a word he turned and we followed the officer once again to the closed doors before the audience chamber of Issus, Goddess of Life Eternal. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There's doors under the church in the Square--black doors, leading into black vaults. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They will break down the mill doors as they have broken the gate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He has been opening the doors very often this evening, and keeping them open very inconsiderately. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A hasty suspicion seemed to strike Uriah; and, with a glance at Mr. Micawber, he went to it, and threw the doors clanking open. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Ben