They struggled on after their guide as best they could, till he turned out of the high road into a lane; and thankful were they when he stopped, and, pushing open a gate that creaked on rusty hinges, led them up a narrow, gravelled pathway to a small, bare house, flanked on either side by some dreary bushes of evergreens.

The doors were hung on wooden hinges.

I know it by the broken hinge an' the two letters!

But the Negro race is viable; it adapts itself readily to circumstances; and being thus adaptable, there is always the temptation to "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.

The door was hung on long external barn-door hinges, and had been forced open in a similar manner to that practiced on the desk.

Lines like these show the melody of which this verse is capable: "Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound On golden hinges moving.

The crooked hinge.

When he had locked the chest and replaced the mirror, which swung out from its place, as I have said, like a door on invisible hinges and fastened with a spring, he passed hastily out of the dining-room into the pantry beyond, opening for convenience on a covered paved court, which divided the kitchen from the house and which led directly into the yard beyond.

This door, like the others, swung silently on its massive hinges.

Thus again under a vassal of the English king, Edward Baliol by name, the Scotch crooked the reluctant hinges of the knee.

Here and there a shutter had broken loose and was sagging on rusted hinges.

There it must lie; there was none to work the cunning hinges or direct the miracle of locomotionthere it must lie till it was found.

For it was one thing to stare at a girl till she was bored with it, it was one thing to take her to the Horse Show and the Opera, and to send her flowers by the stack, and chocolates by the ton, and "great" novels, the very latest and greatest, by the dozen; but something quite other to hold open for her, with eyes attached to eyes, the gate, moving on such stiff silver hinges, of the grand square forecourt of the palace of wedlock.

Finally, as a yell sprang up from the crowd at the sight, the upper hinge snapped loudly, and the door sagged in.

Nothing prevented the entrance of the animal except the form of Rawbon, who still leaned quietly against the rude frame, which, hanging upon leathern hinges, closed the aperture.

A scraping of feet overhead, a rattle of loose hinges, and a frightened face at the aperture.

All the latter work upon the well-known dramatic hinge, by which as soon as one shuts another opens.

Is it possible that you, who, since you are divine, do not condescend to consort with human beings, have done this in the greatest temple built to God, upon the highest altar raised to Christ, in the most sacred chapel upon earth, where the mighty hinges of the Church, the venerable priests of our religion, the Vicar of Christ, with solemn ceremonies and holy prayers, confess, contemplate, and adore his body, his blood, and his flesh?

By pressing a hidden pivot, the cup (which was composed of two equal parts, connected by minute hinges) sprang open, and in a hollow space at the bottom was disclosed the gem.

It is well to remember that in this connection a child's limitations are not final, but only mark stages: for example, in his early attempts to use thick cardboard he cannot discover the neat hinge that is made by the process known as a "half-cut"; he tries in vain to bend the cardboard, so as to secure the same result.

Close by, on the floor, was a solid iron chest with huge ornamental hinges and a large escutcheon over the lock.

Quickly the door swung upon its ponderous hinges and a grave, majestic-looking woman confronted the visitor with an air of inquiry.

" I found some difficulty in prevailing upon Isabel to mock the king of terrors; but, at length, I succeeded in persuading her,by representing that it was easier to counterfeit death than to meet it; and that to do the one afforded the only chance of avoiding the other; and scarcely was Isabel extended upon the floor, when the screen was heard to open upon its harsh hinges, and the confessor to say, "erring daughter, approach.

He was no more than fashionably late at the Van Brock house, and fortunately he was able to reckon himself among the chosen few for whom Miss Portia's door swung on hospitable hinges at all hours.

XVI A Rustic Museum That first week Sidney Trove went to board at the home of "the two old maids," a stone house on Jericho Road, with a front door rusting on idle hinges and blinds ever drawn.