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Examples
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As I rode through the dust of the bustling street, the music was tinkling in the honky-tonks, the stores and saloons were full, the roughs and tarts chaffed at the swing-doors, and the sober citizens hurried by rosy with prosperity and optimism.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Would westerns be better off without six-shooters, stetsons, saloons and swing-doors?
Unicorns: Have they been mylittleponied into blunt four-color rainbows? Lou Anders 2008
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While Kennicott was chattering about a patent swing-door for the garage she saw the swing-doors of a prison.
Main Street 2004
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After a while they came to double metal swing-doors.
The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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But the little dark girl shook her head, and vanished through the swing-doors leading to the kitchen.
Succedaneum 2004
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And when he leaves the room, lurching rather heavily from side to side, and hurls his way through the swing-doors, all the masters, lurching rather heavily from side to side, hurl themselves also through the swing-doors.
The Waves 2003
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Draughts of air rushed along the ventilating galleries, and the wooden swing-doors slammed beneath their violent gusts.
The Underground City 2003
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Sam Turk, limping hugely, but very much on his feet, had just barged through the swing-doors, he was carrying Bruce's pistol.
Gridlock Elton, Ben 1991
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Kate glanced back at the girl once, and then followed Standish through the swing-doors and into the next section of corridor, which was identical to the previous one.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988
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He was interrupted at that moment by the swing-doors just behind them in the corridor being pushed open.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988
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