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- noun Plural form of
doorpost .
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Examples
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They stand in a great line of nonviolent revolutionaries, stretching back in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to those who dared to smear blood on their doorposts and move through these wombs to rebirth themselves and break the birth waters to cross the Red Sea.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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They stand in a great line of nonviolent revolutionaries, stretching back in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to those who dared to smear blood on their doorposts and move through these wombs to rebirth themselves and break the birth waters to cross the Red Sea.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Revolutionary Egypt: From Red Sea Of Old To Tahrir Square Now Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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As was required of her, she ceremoniously daubed the doorposts with animal fat and affixed skeins of uncombed wool to them, rituals designed to guarantee wealth and plenty to herself and her new husband.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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They see me stop to touch, with fingertips and a kiss, the oblong vessels nailed to our doorposts, and have a sense of what that means.
Michele Somerville: Many Are 'Chosen People' -- And a Few Even Know What It Means 2010
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Now is the time for distraught progressives to remember those words, to dwell on them, to tattoo them on their arms, or inscribe them on their doorposts: May the best ideas win.
Daniel Cluchey: A Progressive's Guide to What's Next Daniel Cluchey 2010
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But Hebrews were spared if they painted their doorposts with blood and the Angel of Death passed over them.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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We marked our doorposts with blood of the Korban Pesach (paschal lamb), we ate the lamb and had the first Passover seder.
I Don't Know What Cocaine Does To Your Gastrointestinal System, But It Can't Be Worse Than Matzah 2010
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We could have slinky young women lounging against the doorposts.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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We marked our doorposts with blood of the Korban Pesach (paschal lamb), we ate the lamb and had the first Passover seder.
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We could have slinky young women lounging against the doorposts.
August Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour: Broken Angel 2008
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