house-doors

“Why do you dig your graves before your house-doors?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

All these three charmers were seen in a single street in the Armenian quarter, where the house-doors are all open, and the women of the families sit under the arches in the court.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations, it meets you on the roads and at house-doors, it is conveyed to you in letters, the air is full of it.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

The first move made, however, the guests left in batches, escorting one another to their respective house-doors.

Australia Felix 2003

Here most of the house-doors were open, and he made several applications for hospitality, but either his story was doubted or his grimy appearance predisposed people against him.

New Grub Street 2003

(For the bibliography of marking all the house-doors with chalk to prevent discovery, see Bolte-Polívka, 3: 145, note.) 9.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

They might throw open the house-doors with a shout and halloo, and fling away caps and boots with no more than an uncared-for reprimand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Thronged were the streets with people; and noisy groups at the house-doors

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

The poorer people would arm themselves with great syringes and discharge them at every passerby or through the keyholes of house-doors.

Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich

In like manner there may be produced figures and letters for use on house-doors and ends of streets, wherever it is not convenient or economical to have external source of light, signposts, and signals, and names or marks to show entries to avenues or gates, and the like.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various