In the houses of the higher classes the doorposts and other special parts of the dwelling and furniture were often made of yew, carved, and ornamented with gold, silver, bronze, and gems.
Various domestic vessels were made from it, and it was used for doorposts and lintels and other prominent parts of houses, as well as for the posts, bars, and legs of beds and couches, always carved.
On the walls at the entrance we see, modelled in stucco, doorposts with double doors swung back.
The corners and doorposts are of brick, or of brick-shaped blocks of tufa or limestone (Fig.
The vestibule and fauces were ordinarily of the same width, and were separated by projecting doorposts with a slightly raised threshold (Fig.
The corners and doorposts were at first made of the same kind of stone cut in the shape of bricks; later of bricks.
Some interesting parallels to the smearing of the doorposts from modern Europe will be found collected in Samter, Familienfeste, p.
The doorposts are green, the lintel is of silver taken in battle.
Of the so-called treasure-house of the Minyae, nothing remains but the stone doorposts and the huge block lying across them; and even these are almost imbedded in earth.
The size of the doorpostsand lintels is gigantic, and shows that there was neither time nor labor spared to make Messene a stately settlement.
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
At the end of the races a procession takes place round the prophet's grave, after which the sacrificial victims are led to the door of the mortuary chapel, their ears are cut off, and the doorposts are smeared with their streaming blood.
Modestly, trembling with love, timidity, hope in her heart, she anointed the doorposts with oil and then passed woollen strings round them.
These without, In sight of parents, weeping at their fate, Roll down the moat, swept headlong by the rout, Or charge the battered doorposts with a shout.
Rather let us say that the publicity, the exhibition upon their doorposts of the sacrifice offered within, was not to inform and guide the angel, but to edify the people.
And thou shalt write them upon thedoorposts of thy house and upon thy gates.
They are pasted up in crimson strips of paper on the doorposts of the houses and shops in every city in the Empire.
In the mottoes that the Chinese paste on their doorposts and lintels at the beginning of the year are several that show the popular thought on this great subject.
One is reminded of the mezuzoth, the metallic or wooden cases, attached to the doorposts of their houses by the Jews, and which originally served a similar purpose.
One cannot help wondering what would have been the result if some Egyptian, like Morgiana in "The Forty Thieves," had wiped off the blood from the Israelite doorposts and sprinkled the doorposts of the Egyptians.
Images on Doorposts In Scandinavia the elves, both light and dark, were worshipped as household divinities, and their images were carved on the doorposts.
The Norsemen, who were driven from home by the tyranny of Harald Harfager in 874, took their carved doorposts with them upon their ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doorposts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
