He gave very little trouble, it was not even necessary to fetter him, for the moment he was untied from the doorpost he simply collapsed and remained lying where he had fallen.
But when the arrows failed the prince in his archery, he leaned his bow against the doorpost of the stablished hall, against the shining faces of the entrance.
One man smote the doorpost of the stablished hall, and another the well-fastened door, and the ashen spear of yet another wooer, heavy with bronze, stuck fast in the wall.
He leant against the doorpost with tired gestures before replying.
The rusted musket poised against the doorpost still indicated the supposed presence of a sentry.
Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpostof the temple of Yahweh.
But I sealed the door and outside, opposite each doorpost I made the First and Last signs of the Saaamaaa Ritual, joined them as before, with a triple line.
This panel was opened, by revolving the left doorpost of the bedroom door, with the result that the bedroom door always became unlatched, in the process of opening the panel.
Stooping, he groped for the stone doorpost, and snatching off his cap, thrust it across the corner where the outer edge of the doorpost met the floor.
Something struck the edge of the doorpost as it passed through the slit left open, and Gerrard fired at the sound.
One thing do I desire, said the Psalmist, that mine ear may be nailed to the doorpost of my God: that I may always be His servant, and may never wander from His service.
It does not exactly hang on the doorpost of his history.
If the sale was to Israelites, the slavery was ended in six years or at the jubilee, whichever period came first--unless the slave had his ear bored to the doorpost to intimate his contentment in service (Exod.
This was certainly the case with the mezuzzah on the doorpost and probably with the blue thread at the corners of the tallith.
She shook her bright head against the doorpost and shut her soft lips into a straight line.
She lifted her slim body up along the doorpost and looked long and earnestly all up and down the wonderful stretch of country that lay along the Wall from north to south.
Then, when Service made it brutally plain, she slipped down along the doorpost like a wilted lily and lay long and white on the sand-scrubbed floor.
A faint cry broke from Katherine, and she caught at the doorpost to save herself.
Silently he stood by the doorpost and looked into the restless swarm.
Ole Peters who was leaning against the doorpost with a grim face, shouted into the midst: "Think first and then trust in our dikemaster!
The man was leaning against the doorpost and smoking his short pipe, from which he could no longer see the smoke; he and the boy had not yet talked together.
He left the doorpost and crowded farther into the hall; suddenly he was standing in front of her, as she sat with an older girl friend in a corner.
He hung about the doorpost and tugged at his suit, which indeed looked dreadfully shabby and frayed, more so than last night.
Her heart was so full of ecstasy that she held on for a moment to the doorpost to prevent herself reeling, and gave a sob.
Now, when the fair lady had come unto the wooers, she stood by the doorpost of the well-builded roof, holding up her glistening tire before her face; and a faithful maiden stood on either side of her.
