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  • NATALYA PETROVNA [gets up quickly and goes to study-door].

    A Month in the Country 2006

  • ‘Certainly,’ said he, fully understanding what she meant; and bowing low as he opened first the study-door, then the front-door, then the garden-gate.

    Doctor Thorne 2004

  • At the study-door I knocked, and forthwith entered.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Then came the return visits, when Elsa ceremoniously led each lady to the sofa; and the Professor, at the first tinkle of the door-bell exchanging his working-jacket for the black coat that hung in readiness behind the study-door, emerged to give voice to his pleasure and surprise.

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • Presently she heard the study-door open, and expected to hear the succeeding clash of the front door.

    The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

  • Mr. Lenoir was looking cross when Julian knocked at his study-door.

    Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

  • They went to the study-door, and Sooty turned the handle.

    Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

  • What if they came to your study-door, and cried for help, and would not go away till you had told them how to escape the wrath of God?

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Five minutes afterwards the master of their form — a late arrival and a model young master — knocks at the Doctor's study-door.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • At last I determined to learn a little about pronouns and verbs before proceeding further, and so took up the phrase-book, with which I was commendably busy, when, at about a quarter to nine, came a knock at my study-door, and, behold, there was Molly with a letter!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

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