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Examples
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As Isobel drew farther into the room, she passed a folding-door closet and let her fingers brush against the painted white slats.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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As Isobel drew farther into the room, she passed a folding-door closet and let her fingers brush against the painted white slats.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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As Isobel drew farther into the room, she passed a folding-door closet and let her fingers brush against the painted white slats.
Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010
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A folding-door to the left, and further forward a piano.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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A folding-door to the left, and further forward a piano.
John Gabriel Borkman 2008
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The unwary grooms had no sooner hurried out, in compliance with this insidious hint, than, one folding-door of the ancient gate being already closed by the wind, as has been already intimated, honest Caleb lost no time in shutting the other with a clang, which resounded from donjon-vault to battlement.
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Suddenly the office servant, in the town livery, opened a folding-door.
The Vendetta 2007
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While all was silence in the class — silence, but for the rustling of copy-books and the travelling of pens over their pages — a leaf of the large folding-door, opening from the hall, unclosed, admitting a pupil who, after making a hasty obeisance, ensconced herself with some appearance of trepidation, probably occasioned by her entering so late, in a vacant seat at the desk nearest the door.
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Probably I should not have troubled myself to do so, had I been full in front; but I observed that she immediately began to slip her books into her cabas again; and, presently, after I had returned to the estrade, while I was arranging the mass of compositions, I heard the folding-door again open and close; and, on looking up, I perceived her place vacant.
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I heard the heavy shuffling of slippers, the folding-door was slightly opened, and in the crack between its two halves was thrust the face of Ivan Demianitch, an unkempt and grim-looking face.
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