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• “To the sound of the exhausted police beating down the period-feature, iron-braced doors (wires trailed from the smashed entryphone), Maxinalon smiled a smile that was all percentages.”

  Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners

• “I looked around for some sort of entryphone, but just saw a button marked Porte.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Woman in the Fifth

• “Unlike the ground floor entrances, this one had no entryphone, just the same seven-lever mortice lock as the other outside doors.”

  Deadline for Murder

• “It was not an easy building to enter; the door had been fitted with an entryphone and opened on to a narrow alley down one side of the building which ended at a second, also security-locked, door.”

  The Satanic Verses

• “Undercover officers said the majority of members were professional City people buzzed in via a video entryphone.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “This is a crucial time for the armed forces, and a good moment to ring the entryphone at his surprisingly modest London home, a short walk from a tube station where arias play over the tannoy.”

  Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph

• “Bar 9, which opened in January last year, was members-only and customers needed to be buzzed in on a video entryphone.”

  Evening Standard - Home

• “Noise officers managed to contact the partygoers via the entryphone, at which point it was discovered that the property's owner, Madonna, was not present.”

  ITN Headlines

• “(wires trailed from the smashed entryphone), Maxinalon smiled a smile that was all percentages.”

  Comments for Ballardian

• “Mrs. Maxwell was having problems getting into the building because she couldn’t get any response from her daughter’s entryphone.”

  Deadline for Murder

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