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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

  • 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

  • While Kennicott was chattering about a patent swing-door for the garage she saw the swing-doors of a prison.

    Main Street 2004

  • After a while they came to double metal swing-doors.

    The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • But the little dark girl shook her head, and vanished through the swing-doors leading to the kitchen.

    Succedaneum 2004

  • 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

  • Draughts of air rushed along the ventilating galleries, and the wooden swing-doors slammed beneath their violent gusts.

    The Underground City 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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