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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See post.

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Examples

  • 'Paul,' she said, sliding an arm behind him, and taking hold of the side-post.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • Morgan was leaning his length against the side-post of the door of

    Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

  • The man hooked his left arm about the side-post of the open window-shield.

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Lazarus probably heard the door slam; it banged against the side-post under the gusts of the desert wind, but he did not rise to go out and to look at her that was abandoning him.

    Lazarus 1918

  • A man had dragged himself to his feet, a short, square fellow who held himself erect with a grip on a side-post.

    The Path of the King John Buchan 1907

  • Against the side-post of the cabinet there leaned a gaudy umbrella, preserved there as a relic.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • None of them are smoking, though several are sucking vigorously at empty pipes; and the rapacious light that glares in every eye as Saxham mechanically knocks out the ashes from his smoked-out briar-root against the side-post of the entrance is sufficient witness to the pangs that they endure.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • Lazarus probably heard the door slam; it banged against the side-post under the gusts of the desert wind, but he did not rise to go out and to look at her that was abandoning him.

    Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

  • Max pulled and shook it, and finally put his knee against the side-post and gave the handle of the latch a terrific tug.

    The Wharf by the Docks A Novel Florence Warden 1893

  • The Colonel, meanwhile, with one shoulder leaning lightly against the side-post of the doorway between the ballroom and the cardroom, could laugh undetected under his ample moustache; it amused him to look on at the turmoil of the dance; he could see a hundred pretty heads turning about in obedience to the figures; he could read in some faces, as in those of the Countess and his friend Martial, the secrets of their agitation; and then, looking round, he wondered what connection there could be between the gloomy looks of the Comte de

    Domestic Peace Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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