But the people on foot were used to them, and stood pressed against the walls as they went by, or grouped for a moment on the low doorsteps of the dark houses.
In late afternoon he was found sitting on the doorsteps of his granddaughter's house after a supper which certainly had onions on the menu and was followed by something stronger than water.
The whole town was abroad that evening, on its doorsteps and in its garden beds, repairing the ravages committed by the band of the pilgrims.
Each stood on their respective doorsteps with arms akimbo and head thrust forward, as geese protrude head and tongue in moments of combat.
As he was at the entrance to Damme, the dogs that were on the doorsteps jumped out at his legs yelping and barking.
One of my earliest recollections is of John Jacob Astor, a feeble old man descending the doorsteps of his home on Broadway near Houston Street to enter his carriage.
The queen's carriage stopped for the first time at the doorsteps of the palace without meeting there the ladies and gentlemen of the court, the high dignitaries and functionaries who had formerly never failed to wait on her.
Those clustered slatterns on the doorsteps do not really symbolize degeneracy; they merely emblematize that delicate and wholesome spirit which finds its projection elsewhere in the pleasant devices of our drawing-rooms.
Nor is this all; for immediately below their doorsteps some thousands of gallons of petroleum are stored in the live rock, and somewhere beneath their kitchen floors the Midland expresses race and hammer all day long.
Night had fallen sultry and humid, and the walls and doorsteps were well fringed and clustered with representatives of that class of London's population which infests mews through habit, taste, or force of circumstance.
There is in every part of Wales that I have seen a custom of whitening the doorsteps with chalk, and it is said to have originated in the belief that his Satanic majesty could not enter a door thus protected.
There were a few chairs in the room besides, but the doorsteps were wide.
My dear young fellow, what in heaven's name are 'two doorsteps and a thick 'un?
Suppose I order you two doorsteps and a thick 'un?
But instead of going outside, he beckoned for whoever was at the doorsteps to come into the church.
Instead of going on into Grandpa Thad's house, we sat down on the doorsteps to watch Ned and Little Stray and their droopy-eared donkey.
Even Finn the Red-Handed was dreaming of his doorsteps and empty hogsheads.
On the doorsteps sat the young mother, beautiful in desolation, with a baby in her arms, and on either side of her a little one, piteously crying for something to eat.
I sat down on the front doorsteps and drew from my pocket a newspaper, which chanced to be there, and commenced reading aloud.
On the doorsteps there were lounging footmen with bright parti-coloured plumage and white polls, like an extinct race of monstrous birds; and butlers, solitary men of recluse demeanour, each of whom appeared distrustful of all other butlers.
Five times has her home been broken up by him, and many a time has she with her little one been obliged to sit on doorsteps all night, when homeless.
Refugees, exhausted, were lying on the doorsteps and in the streets of the Western Addition.
The washing of doorsteps and sidewalks, too, begins to interfere with your perambulations, and to dim the lustre which No.
She had been happier on the doorsteps thinking about it.
She was a notable housewife, and there was just a touch of envy in her sense of the improved appearance of the doorsteps and other visible points of the Dovecot.
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