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  • She clutched frantically at the door-post and looked a last appeal to

    LI-WAN, THE FAIR 2010

  • Check the vehicle's door-post sticker for your vehicle's proper cold tire inflation pressure.

    Sue Cischke: Tips for Driving Greener This Holiday Season Sue Cischke 2010

  • Oliver firing round the door-post while rifle balls smacked into the timber and brickwork, and the choking reek of powder smoke in my mouth and eyes.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The door of the room remained open; the warder had shuffled off; the uniformed guard stood leaning against the door-post and watched the procedure.

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without removing his eyes from Jean Valjean.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Roland saw fragments of Gothic pillars richly carved, occupying the place of door-posts to the meanest huts; and here and there a mutilated statue, inverted or laid on its side, made the door-post, or threshold, of a wretched cow-house.

    The Abbot 2008

  • There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared with black.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Rodolphe, leaning against the door-post, looked at the Princess, turning on her the fixed, tenacious, attracting gaze, charged with the full, insistent will which is concentrated in the feeling called desire, and thus assumes the nature of a vehement command.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • It is little over half a year since she came into the Corner to read on that door-post with her own eyes, WILDING AND CO.,

    No Thoroughfare 2007

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