door-sill

Post note: I have only ever seen humans stand in a doorway ... until I moved to France, where the French are wont to pull up a chair (or a cot) flush with door-sill, and watch the world walk by, or simply be still.

French Destinations 2010

Post note: I have only ever seen humans stand in a doorway ... until I moved to France, where the French are wont to pull up a chair (or a cot) flush with door-sill, and watch the world walk by, or simply be still.

Characters 2009

Post note: I have only ever seen humans stand in a doorway... until I moved to France, where the French are wont to pull up a chair or a cot flush with door-sill, and watch the world walk by, or simply be still.

French Destinations 2010

Post note: I have only ever seen humans stand in a doorway... until I moved to France, where the French are wont to pull up a chair or a cot flush with door-sill, and watch the world walk by, or simply be still.

Characters 2009

We would have spent the night on the door-sill had not Trimalchio's courier come up in state, with ten wagons; he hammered on the door for a short time, and then smashed it in, giving us an entrance through the same breach.

Satyricon 2007

Why, oh why, had she driven away from her door-sill the love of an honest man?

Tales of all countries 2004

That evening Barbro seems not to care for her food, but goes about, all the same, busy with this and that — goes to the cowshed at milking-time, only stepping a thought more carefully over the door-sill.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

The truth was, his old aversion to Tilly, and the type she represented, broke out anew directly she crossed his door-sill.

The Way Home 2003

So we propped open the doors, but though she would fly up and sit on the door-sill, she didn't catch on that it was a way out.

Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

So we propped open the doors, but though she would fly up and sit on the door-sill, she didn't catch on that it was a way out.

Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998