The little children had been nicely washed and dressed and were, when their mother went down, sitting on the kitchen doorstep with a kitten between them, over which, for a wonder, they were neither fretting nor quarreling.
A week of this," said Herr Dremmel, coming out of his laboratory to stand on the doorstep and rub his hands in satisfaction, "a week of this will save the situation.
She was happy just to sit on fine mornings on the doorstep in the sun drinking things in.
Ingeborg made up her mind to kiss her at the end when the visit had reached the doorstep stage.
Yet she had only left them that morning; it was only nine hours since her father, handsome as an archangel, silvery of head and gaitered of leg, had waved her off from the doorstep with offended resignation.
And the shoemaker sat down on the doorstep and patched them.
And he sat down on her doorstep and set about patching them.
She was sweeping the doorstep with the one-sided broom when Brit drove out through the gate and up the trail which she knew led eventually to Sugar Spring.
He reached the doorstep and then turned back to add, "She left a grip back somewhere along the road.
Was this the very doorstep that the old De Quincey used to revisit in homage?
Fisette was on his front doorstep with small people around him, and waved gayly as they passed.
I sit here on the doorstepprinting this on the wrapping-paper Sadie McKibben gave me.
It was a noisy, talkative file of girls who having escorted Lucy to her home, and left the back doorstep covered with berry pails, turned their faces toward Dolittle Cottage.
Mere Tabeau, gossip and wise woman, as she sat on the doorstep of her cabin at the crossroads, smoking a black pipe and talking volubly to all the passers-by.
Although Bob was asleep on the doorstep the children in the passage talked so loudly that they woke him up.
At last, weary and footsore, he returned to his doorstep and pondered.
Bob, startled, became aware of a wretched old creature dining on the doorstep at his side.
There was an outside stairway, and the coveted seat of the young maids who were sewing was on the broad doorstep at the stairhead.
At that moment the girls on the doorstep cheerfully took notice of two manly figures that were coming quickly along the footpath of the spring pasture next above the Hamilton lands on the riverside.
On thedoorstep Brian encountered a patient, much to his vexation; so he could only take Erica into the study, and go in search of his father.
The child sat down on thedoorstep with the bag of scones clasped in both hands, but he continued to gaze after his benefactor till he had passed out of sight, and there was a strange look of surprise and gratification in his eyes.
I lay there on the doorstep until I found I was getting a soaking, and then I went to a neighbor about a block away, who always had been very kind to me, and had a girl of her own a little younger than me.
I sat on somebody's doorstep and nursed him, then kept on walking and resting; going, I hardly knew where.
He sat on the rotting threshold while I pulled some of the weeds in front of the doorstep and brought kindlings out of the house and built a fire.
Seen deer on the doorstep an' bears in the garden, an' panthers in the fields.
There was no time to stand on the doorstep now, for everybody was busy, feeding the baby and making a store of food for it when father and mother should be gone.
He sat on his doorstep and kicked his heels, and said: "Oh, dear!
Old Sal was sitting on her doorstep a little more intoxicated than the last time, and the young man's sudden appearance by her side startled her into an Irish howl.
Could he ever coax her to leave her dirty doorstep and her drink and come out here to live?
Guess dat guy's all right," he reassured Michael as he helped him turn the lights out a little later, while Will waited on the doorstep whistling a new tune to his admiring following.
As soon as he was out of sight she shuffled down from her doorstep to the corner and peered after him through the morning sunshine.
And so old Sal sat on her doorstep and watched the alley dwellers come and go, listening with interest to each new account of the farm, but never willing to see for herself.
At the last moment Philip, on the doorstep watching her climb into the dog-cart, suddenly sprang forward.
The doorstep of 74 was covered by a couple of mattresses and sand-bags.
Military autos, fresh from the firing line, groaned and sputtered at the doorstep of the St. Antoine; soldiers with pocket lanterns stamped about the streets.
The Warden came out of his house and stood upon his doorstep as if he was trying to remember what he wanted to do.
Josie was lingering on the doorstepin an agony of untrained coquetry.
How do you like being sent to cool your heels on the doorstep while your master eats?
If we make haste, it may be that we can take Hildelitha and Father Ingulph by surprise," he laughed, leaping down on the crumbling doorstep and pulling his captive with him.
To clean the doorstep will be equivalent to taking exercise in the fresh air: to sweep the floors will be a kind of afternoon dance or a game of lawn-tennis: to wash up the cups and saucers will be only a change of amusement.
He pushed the gate open, and was on the doorstep before I could say a word.
The night constable on the beat, who knew me well by sight, was standing on the doorstep like a man, his right hand on his hip till he had blinded me with his lantern.
The bald red houses, too young to show a shoot of creeper, or a mellow tone from doorstep to chimney-pot, glowed like clowns' pokers in the ruthless sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doorstep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: footstep; rest; round; rung; scale; spoke; stair; stave; step; string; threshold; tread
