Doorway

Examples

• As he stood in the doorway, the poor old careworn wayworn woman burst into tears, and clasped her hands, as if in a very agony she prayed to him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There was a scream from the women all huddled in the doorway to look at us--a shout from the men--two of them down but not hurt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Those two men might still be crouching in the doorway, but I could no longer see them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Birkin suddenly appeared in the doorway, in white pyjamas and wet hair, and a towel over his arm. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• So that, from the doorway of the _Ayuntamiento_, looking across the plaza, one coming out would see two solid lines of people waiting. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• A dozen lesser therns confronted us from a large doorway at the opposite end of the storeroom from which we had entered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You were found in a doorway, weren't you? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Hanging about the doorway (I fancied,) were slouchy Pompeiian street-boys uttering slang and profanity, and keeping a wary eye out for checks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Behind the throne was a narrow doorway and in this Than Kosis now stood facing me, with drawn long-sword. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He waved from the doorway, his mustaches went straight up, his brown face was smiling. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• We had gone perhaps a hundred yards when the party turned abruptly through a doorway at their right. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The elderly manservant, Crowther, appeared in the doorway exasperatedly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Bruff and Betteredge looked across the open doorway at me for the first time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Let him take care also that he avoid in the darkness the drippings from the overhanging eaves or windows, and falling upon the slippery steps of the dim doorway he may be about to enter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Two doorways should be left by cutting out a single studding in each compartment upon the most convenient side. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The clerks and servants cut him off by back-passages, and were found accidentally hovering in doorways and angles, that they might look upon him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• These doorways reach to within three feet of the ground, and should be about seven feet in height. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On either side were the doorways of the various apartments which lined it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Those intended for stairways, eaves, cornices, windows, doorways, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Watch the wall at your end of the chamber, Tars Tarkas, I cautioned, it is through secret doorways in the wall that the brutes are loosed upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Do not make the doorways over 6 or 7 feet in length vertically, as in all cases they weaken the structure. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He tried a new direction, but made nothing of it; walls, dark doorways, flights of stairs and rooms, were too abundant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Here and there in the doorways we saw women with fashionable Portuguese hoods on. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It hid in doorways too, rubbing its horrible shoulders against doors, and drawing them up to its ears, as if it were laughing. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There are doorways and dust-heaps for such deaths, and such despair--find one, and take your flight to Heaven! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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