O wine upon its threshold stone, And horse-shoes on the lintel of it, And happy hearts to keep it warm, And God Himself to love it!

That year was a threshold-time in our history, nor did any see what lay beyond the door.

That you should so utterly overlook the very threshold principle upon which alone any moral reformation can be effectually promoted.

Stumbling upon the threshold steps of speech, Catching quaint sounds and fragments of discourse, And setting them to childish uses straight I've sat and heard him by the houryou'd wonder To hear his little saws and sentences, And now to think I'll hear him never more Alack!

So the last sight that Enid had of home Was all the marble threshold flashing, strown With gold and scatter'd coinage, and the squire Chafing his shoulder: then he cried again, "To the wilds!"

On Tuesday, Sept. 8th, I commenced my walk northward from this threshold town of Scotland.

In the metaphorical language of the old psychology, the threshold value, that is the strength or loudness of stimulus sufficient to make itself felt or heard, is less for the vegetative apparatus than for the brain.