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  • When the train arrived at Glen Ellen, in the Valley of the Moon, it was Harley Kennan himself, at the side-door of the baggage-car, who caught hold of Michael and swung him to the ground.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • He pulled open the side-door of an empty box-car and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in.

    THE APOSTATE 2010

  • Well, I took my handful of copy paper down to the railroad yards (for local color), dangled my legs from a side-door Pullman, which is another name for a box-car, and ran off the stuff.

    Local Color 2010

  • Meanwhile, financier Nat Rothschild is in the process of bringing a second emerging-market business to London via a side-door listing.

    The FTSE 100: From Blue Chip to Fool's Gold Andrew Peaple 2011

  • Scarcely had the two boys dropped from the side-door of the box-car, and before they had made a score of steps along the narrow way between the train and the abyss, than the train began to move.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • Executives have said they have been working with the major search engines to limit the frequency of side-door visits so readers can't game the system.

    New York Times to Launch Pay Wall March 28 Russell Adams 2011

  • He pulled open the side-door of an empty box-car and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in.

    THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

  • In 2007 the Museum of Modern Art in New York organised an exhibition with great impact, titled The Painter's Etchings, Freud's place in postwar art history admitted through a side-door rather than placed in the canon.

    Lucian Freud obituary 2011

  • So Clay-Randolph takes a wad of copy paper down to the railroad yards and its side-door Pullmans and writes a story, not forgetting a certain police court judge named Sol Glenhart, "the most notorious in local trampdom ...."

    “And must I. . .who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?” 2008

  • When we got to the Castle I followed Hutton smartly through a side-door, up some back-stairs, and along to heavy double doors where a burly civilian was standing guard; I gave my whiskers a martial twitch as he opened the door, and stepped briskly in.

    Fiancée 2010

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