To this day the building stands with broken doors and windows as testament to the blight such a sudden miracle put on the springs.
But we cannot expect the night to be friendly and wag its tail when we slam against it our doors and, until lately, our windows.
At a hazard, my suspicion would fall on the iron doors that open inwards in the base of chimneys.
He had taken the money and swaggered out with a parting gibe at the constable who closed the doors behind him.
It opened with finding himself in front of the doors of an old church, where, he understood, he was going to hide from someone who wanted to kill him.
The heavy halldoors were surrounded by the inmates of the house who had escaped and O'Hagan pushed through them, and sprang up the broad stairway mid choking volumes of smoke.
The impassioned student of obstetrics had disappeared up the staircase before Leonora could reach the double-doors of the entrance.
Then some one opened the doors from within; the sound of the music, suddenly freed, rushed out and smote them; and they entered the ball-room.
There was no furniture, except in the end room, where a wardrobe withoutdoors stood in a corner, empty save for the solemn presence of a monstrous tall hat.
Philippa had been much called on by the neighbourhood in all its shades and grades, and daily she and her trousseau frocks presented themselves at hall-doors of varying dimensions in due acknowledgment of civilities.
Every one of Shreelane's many doors had, at one time or another, slammed upon her expulsion, and each one of them had seen her stealthy, irrepressible return to the sphere that she felt herself so eminently qualified to grace.
That evening I smoked an after-dinner cigarette out of doors in the mild starlight, strolling about the rudimentary paths of what would, I hoped, some day be Philippa's garden.
She knew to a nicety which of the doors could be burst open by assault, at which it was necessary to whine sycophantically; and the clinical thermometer alone could furnish a parallel for her perception of mood in those in authority.
People were hurrying up and down in the house; doors kept opening and shutting.
Doors are opened for her, and her food is set down, she slinks in and out, eats in secret, and so forth.
Marie was surprised to see that, though it was generally shut, the doors of it were now wide open, so that she could see her father's travelling cloak of fox-fur hanging in the front.
The Palace doors are guarded; the Doge is shut up in his rooms, watched like a criminal by his own faithless body-guard.
But what about the doors and windows,' said the builder; 'are there to be no partition walls?
Not only were there lifeguardsmen always at the doors of the nursery, but--over and above the two head nurses close to the cradle--there had always to be six other nurses all round the room at night.
Then the doors at the side opposite to him opened, and a beautiful young lady, in evening dress, came in.
At this pint I give the signle, and the foldin doors was throde quickly open, revealin my 3 gals in a classic tabloo.
She brushed the crumbs from the long table, and smoothed the cloth for the next morning's breakfast; she put away bottles and dishes, and she locked up cupboards, and saw that the windows and the doors were fastened.
He found himself in the pantry; shelves of canned goods lined the walls, under which were bins of vegetables, and the mirrored doors of the huge ice-box took up one side of the room.
I tried all the doors and windows, and everything is tight as a drum--but there's a little window in the kitchen that the kid might be able to get through.
We don't lock doors here in the village; at least we didn't.
The phantom coach brought our mother safely to us, but the circumstances which led to our doors being opened to outsiders, rendered it impossible for us to carry out our plans unsuspected.
It was very possible, yet not so possible but that I cast very curious glances at the various closed doors I had to pass before reaching my own.
If we were going now, Charles and I--But why dream of a Paradise whose doors remain closed to you?
One--and she was the girl whose mother was driven up to these doors dead--lived to take her grandchildren on her knees.
I was glad when I reached the great doors and more than glad when they closed behind me.
If by hypnotism the conscious mind were put to sleep, and the subconscious mind awakened, then was the thing accomplished, then would all the dungeon doors of the brain be thrown wide, then would the prisoners emerge into the sunshine.
Yet, two years before, when the doors of San Quentin first closed on me, I had weighed one hundred and sixty-five pounds.
And continually more groups of guards arrived with more beaten convicts who still were being beaten, and more dungeon-doors were opened to receive the bleeding frames of men who were guilty of yearning after freedom.
It was a big wide hall, running the full length of the house, and I could well imagine that with the doors wide open and the sunshine and fresh air pouring in, it might have been attractive.
The only trouble with your plan is that the doors of the house happen to be locked on the outside.
Hamish dotes on locking doors on people," his sister remarked.
So far there had been no trace of Hamsa and no indication that he had sought shelter under one of the trap doors in the vestibules.
The flagman started for the back end of the train, evidently intent on checking the trap doors on the observation platform when a sharp call from Bob stopped him.
Junction showing now," he said as Bob stepped in after inspecting the trap doors on the observation platform.
If he should revoke these books, what would it be but to add force to tyranny, and to open, not merely the windows, but the doors to so great impiety?
The House of Commons opened its doors to him--several boroughs competing with each other for the favor of being represented by him.
She was conscious of having closed both doors behind her, that of the house and that of the garden.
Nurse would watch her as if she were a giddy girl; she would not dare to open her doors to any one, to offer a curate a cup of tea!
The doors and windows of the happy house were still all open.
When she went out of these doors it would be to face the world again, to find another means of subsistence, to begin anew.
But thedoors and windows of the cabin were barred with heavy planks.
All the other bedroom doors were safely closed and the Professor was apparently snoring hoarsely.
A modern Japanese writer says: "At Ise to-day Lais opens her doorsto the pilgrim almost within sight of the sacred groves.
Within the folding doors of the shrine hangs a curtain woven of bamboo threads.
In Suwo, kedzurikake, made of a thorny tree called tara, are placed on each side of the front and back doors at this season, no doubt with the object of averting evil influences.
If I lead my daughters to the doors of the Loups, will the women take them by the hand; and will the warriors smoke with my young men?
Gratitude, for the kindness of Middleton, induced him to open his doors to the officers of the garrison, and to admit of a guarded but polite intercourse.
Found those who were out of doors on the sunny side of the street against the houses to keep warm.
I don't know how low the thermometer would have stood out of doors here.
While the deacons were arranging the Table, those who chose went out, after which the elders went to the doors to call them back.
Cato had broken up Rose's bedstead and thrown it out of doors and bundled up all her things.
Otherwise the doors and windows would soon disappear.
Once the doors of our houses were all blocked up with snow.
But they cannot get into our houses: the doors are too small for them.
New doors of insight were silently swinging open on their hinges, old prejudices were closing, fresh convictions long snugly in the bud were unfolding like flowers.
His consciousness received these things gratefully, and yet he was more occupied with a sense of physical joy and harmony with the world of out-of-doors than with an analysis of its components.
The reaction in this chill air was slow in coming--Bob soon learned that the early cold bath out of doors is a superstition--and he shivered from time to time as he propped up his little mirror against a stump.
A moment's thought convinced him of the senseless hazard of attempting to slip out through any of the doors or windows.
I told him that the claims of those who did not set their dogs on us, after they had turned us from their doors hungry, were first with me - that his claims were an after consideration.
I then opened the doors of the Church for the admission of members.
He said I was very pale, and that he saw my countenance change while I sat in my chair; that when I went out of doors it was as though every drop of blood had left me, or been changed.
Why do you not close and bolt your doors securely?
Our doors were secure, but nothing can keep out a Curumber.
She went to the gate, and found all things as she had left them: She returned, fastened the doors as usual, examined all parts of the house, and again went to her chamber.
Alonzo had, therefore, the satisfaction to see the irons knocked off of his liberal hearted benefactor, and his prison doors opened.
She took some refreshment and went down stairs: she found the doors and windows all fast as she had left them.
The doors were constructed in the same manner as the gate at which they entered the yard.
In an instant the room was involved in pitchy darkness; a loud crash was heard, then a scampering about the floor, and a noise as if several doors shut to, with violence.
The reason why so high and thick a wall was built round it, and the doors and gates so strongly fortified, was to secure it against the Indians, who frequently committed depredations on the early settlers.
Staples and iron bars were found in different parts of the building, with which he secured the doors and windows, so that they could be opened only on the inside.
She then heard the doors below alternately open and shut, slapping furiously, and in quick succession, followed by violent noises in the rooms below, like the falling of heavy bodies and the crash of furniture.
Directly the doors below opened and shut with a quick and violent motion.
The Usher closes the doors of the court, which are L.
As he stood on Second Street looking at a man chalking the doors of infected houses, a lightly clad young woman ran forth screaming.
He goes out of the doors sideways, there, like that fellow in the water--Monsieur Crab, I call him.
No one will be out of doors in Trenton or Bristol on a night like this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
