He might be seen with the book upon his knee at the doorstone on a summer's night, and the third bench from the Squire's pew at Blackrod church never missed a tenant till my father was laid quietly down in the churchyard.
Finally she stopped on the doorstone of that cabin where she could hear the "thump-a-chug" of Callista's loom.
He stopped a moment before her on the doorstone and drew the quick breath of the haste of his coming.
While she was a little girl, living alone with her mother, she used to sit on thedoorstone with her bread and milk at bedtime, and think of the great house, how grand it was and large.
All at once there came a picture before Ann's eyes: not the tramp with the bulging pockets, as he sought the hospitality of the ruined house, but the same tramp as he stood on her doorstone and asked for food.
But at the doorstone she paused a moment, to add with some recurrence of the intensity the girl had seen in her that other day: "Ain't you glad you got somethin' to do for him?
Chapter VIII On the Doorstone Behind them the play was resumed in the lighted room; the whining of the fiddle, the thud and stamp of many feet, came to them softened and refined by a little distance.
He was fully dressed; his hat lay on the doorstone beside him, and against the jamb leaned Old Sister.
She was running a knitting needle back and forth through her ball of yarn as she spoke, without noticing that some one had been stamping the snow from his feet on the doorstone outside.
Mechanically Miles stood aside to let Master Hopkins pass into the house, and then he still stood a time, gazing at the gray doorstone beneath his feet.
I found her this morning, as I came out to cross the field, sitting on the doorstone with her Bible and a rosary of beautiful, small, variously tinted shells upon her lap.
Miss Henderson's window was around a projection of the rambling, irregular structure, which made the angle wherein the pleasant old doorstone lay.
This doorstone must have been a favorite evening seat for my sister, for I remember many other delicious gloamings.
The road before our doorstone begins and ends in vague obscurity--and Granma Green's house at the fork of the trail stands on the very edge of the world in a sinister region peopled with bears and other menacing creatures.
And before I realised it my hair swept the doorstone where I sat.
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