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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The front door.
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Examples
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I begged, prayed, would have kneeled to him; but all was in vain: the tyger-hearted man, as Mr. Greville had truly called him, muffled me up in it, and by force carried me through a long entry to the fore-door.
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But if we use the same method to strangers, magistrates, or old men, I have just reason to fear that, whilst we seem to thrust our pride at the fore-door, we bring it in again at the back, together with a great deal of indifferency and disrespect.
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But if we use the same method to strangers, magistrates, or old men, I have just reason to fear that, whilst we seem to thrust our pride at the fore-door, we bring it in again at the back, together with a great deal of indifferency and disrespect.
Symposiacs 2004
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_ I was at the fore-door upon the pony, and he came out to the door to me with the letter.
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She was not one to complain; but she sadly missed the grand sweep of mountain and valley which had greeted her eyes from the "fore-door" ever since she was brought there
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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When I went first to open the back-door, she endeavoured to force through the fire at the fore-door, but was struck back twice to the ground.
Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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When therefore they saw they could not bow me to their will, they brought me out at the fore-door into the street, and wished me a good journey.
The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885
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But I was so far from taking it so, that I would not take it at all, but told them plainly, that as I came in at the fore-door, so I would go out at the fore-door.
The History of Thomas Ellwood Written by Himself Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713 1885
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"Master, there's a gentleman at the fore-door wants a private word o 'ye."
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner James Hogg 1802
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This morning the great fore-door quite open, dancing backwards and forwards with all its weight upon the lower hinge, which must have been broken if the Dean had not accidentally come and relieved it.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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