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  • In the middle of the opposite wall is a large entrance-door, which leads to the street.

    Pillars of Society 2008

  • In the middle of the opposite wall is a large entrance-door, which leads to the street.

    Pillars of Society 2008

  • I, in my uniform, of the — th, and a number of young fellows (who are evidently admiring my legs and envying my distingue appearance), are waiting round the entrance-door, where a huge

    The Fitz-Boodle Papers 2006

  • Sir Rashleigh Osbaldistone was still alive, but so dreadfully wounded that the bottom of the coach was filled with his blood, and long traces of it left from the entrance-door into the stone-hall, where he was placed in

    Rob Roy 2005

  • Antony Foster was still engaged in debate with his fair guest, who treated with scorn every entreaty and request that she would retire to her own apartment, when a whistle was heard at the entrance-door of the mansion.

    Kenilworth 2004

  • NEAR sunset that evening an elderly gentleman was standing with his back against the smaller entrance-door of Stoniton jail, saying a few last words to the departing chaplain.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • In front, the entrance-door gave immediate access to the common room.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • We descended from the carriage, so as to reach the house the quicker through the garden, but found ourselves confronted at the entrance-door by four ladies, two of whom were knitting, one reading a book, and the fourth walking to and fro with a little dog.

    Youth 2003

  • The chambermaid returned, completed her work, locked the door of the dressing-room on the inner side, locked the principal entrance-door on leaving the room, and returned the key to Agnes in the drawing-room.

    The Haunted Hotel 2003

  • Two officers appeared at the entrance-door: one, a young fellow, with a feeble, delicate face, who had lately joined the regiment from the Corps of Pages; the other, a plump, elderly officer, with a bracelet on his wrist, and little eyes, lost in fat.

    Anna Karenina 2003

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