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  • Shields, spears, and animal horns decorated the walls, jutting like the doorway's phallus.

    Hadrian's Wall.html Dietrich, William 2004

  • His doorway's right by an intersection from which if you stand in the middle all four directions look the same, whoah...

    languagehat.com: MORE DISAPPOINTMENT. 2004

  • He rammed the heavy blade at Lavisser's chest, jarring him hard back, and Lavisser teetered on the doorway's edge.

    Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

  • The doorway's modest size gave no clue to the size of the space -- which sloped downward and into dim shadows beyond the range of an unaided eye.

    Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992

  • Lucky we're both slim; the doorway's so narrow, even you will have to go sideways.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • And through the doorway's wide-stretched tapestries

    The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 Emma Lazarus 1868

  • Now and then in the night --- but rarely --- Houselessness would become aware of a furtive head peering out of a doorway a few yards before him, and, coming up with the head, would find a man standing bolt upright to keep within the doorway's shadow, and evidently intent upon no particular service to society.

    The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

  • Now and then in the night -- but rarely -- Houselessness would become aware of a furtive head peering out of a doorway a few yards before him, and, coming up with the head, would find a man standing bolt upright to keep within the doorway's shadow, and evidently intent upon no particular service to society.

    The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

  • "Miss Richardson, seeming more like a youthful incarnation of her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, than she has before, is riveting from her first entrance through a saloon doorway's ethereal shaft of golden light."

    News from www.rep-am.com 2009

  • "Miss Richardson, seeming more like a youthful incarnation of her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, than she has before, is riveting from her first entrance through a saloon doorway's ethereal shaft of golden light."

    Daily Breeze Most Viewed 2009

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