door-handles

The upper part of the inner door is made of stained glass; the door-handles and bell-pulls are made of highly-polished electro-plate; and a handsome flight of stone steps, with elegant bronze balustrades, leads up to the porch.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

They may stroll in groups through the streets and wind toilet-paper around cars, smear door-handles with tooth-paste, unhinge garden doors and carry them a few meters away, and they may displace shoe scrapers.

Happy Walpurgisnacht! badger 2001

Their skill in working metals was equal to ours; nothing can be more beautiful than the execution of tripods, lamps, and vases, nothing coarser than their locks; while at the same time the door-handles, bolts, etc., which were seen, are often exquisitely wrought.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

He will concern himself with the moldings, the light-openings, the door-handles and hinges, the unconsidered things that make or mar your house.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

Infinite thought and skill were brought to bear on all the iron work door-handles, lanterns, and so forth.

The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe

He pulled the piece of antiquity into the street, and with an uneasy expression, as if he knew before-hand what he had to expect, he tried and tugged at one of the door-handles.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Cypress, probably set in pots in the vestibule, indicated a death, as a crape festoon does upon our own door-handles, while torches, lamps, wreaths, garlands, branches of trees, showed that there was joy from some cause in the house.

The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman

That was the kind of thing one remembered about a house: not the size of the rooms or the colour of the walls, but the feel of door-handles and light-switches, the shape and texture of the banister-rail under one's palm; minute tactual intimates, whose resumption was the essence of coming home.

Mrs. Miniver 1939

Hanging askew from one of its rusty door-handles was a square white notice-board, which we were too far away to read.

Try Anything Twice 1938

The rusty baling wire broke nearly every time Jeeter attempted to fasten it to the door-handles, and he would have to stop and splice the ends, twisting them until they would hold.

Tobacco Road Caldwell, Erskine, 1903- 1934