51 examples of door-keeper in sentences

Even the Viceragal door-keeper saying, 'Please Sir, I can serve the Government

When the priest forgets his mediation of a servant, his duty of a door-keeper to the temple of truth, and takes upon him the office of an intercessor, he stands between man and God, and is a Satan, an adversary.

Finally, there was a puffing of a locomotive out on the track, and a ringing of an engine bell, and the door-keeper called out: "All aboard for Pittston, Scranton, and Carbondale!"

"Yes," said the door-keeper, in answer to Ralph's question, "there'll be another train going up at eleven thirty-five.

" The door-keeper paused and looked thoughtful.

The kind-hearted door-keeper saw Ralph leap on to the train as it moved slowly out, and then he turned back into the waiting-room.

He did not just understand why the door-keeper's word should be good for his passage, but the conductor would know, and doubtless it was all right.

One man hurried to notify the door-keeper and the private detective employed oh all such occasions, while others hastily searched the boothof course in vain.

We were then sent for, and a door-keeper searched us for concealed weapons.

Tickets are not collected till one's destination is reached, where they must be delivered to the door-keeper on leaving the station.

At the beginning of the war, and indeed till after the revolution in Russia, it was announced and stated as an axiom that on the conclusion of peace, Russia should be the door-keeper of what after all is her own lodge-gate.

It appeared to be a part of their church service, for both the priest and boab, or door-keeper, kept up a running series of responses, and occasionally the whole crowd shouted out some deep-mouthed word in chorus.

He is a retainer to the Muses; a door-keeper to learning; a lacquey in the state.

I begged the door-keeper to allow me to speak with my friend for only a short moment; but she would not.

Our representatives are bound by oath, not to pass any law abridging the right of petition, but if this resolution is constitutional, they may order every petition to be delivered to their door-keeper, and by him to be committed to the flames; for why preserve petitions on which no action can be had?

Our representatives are bound by oath, not to pass any law abridging the right of petition, but if this resolution is constitutional, they may order every petition to be delivered to their door-keeper, and by him to be committed to the flames; for why preserve petitions on which no action can be had?

This dangerous practice of concealing in prison was attempted in the case of Jonathan Strong; for the door-keeper of the Plty Cptr (or some person who acted for him) absolutely refused, for two days, to permit this poor injured Negro to be seen or spoke with, though a person went on purpose, both those days, to demand the same.

As an illustration of the kindly feeling towards Americans, I may mention, parenthetically, that I have known gentlemen admitted to the Speaker's Gallery on their simple statement to the door-keeper that they were from the United States.

As he withdrew it, the door-keeper slashed at his abdomen, missed by a hair's-breadth, raised his arm to save his neck from a slash, and was stabbed to the heart, the knife held dagger-wise.

The door-keeper followed him, saying, "You must uncover yourself, sir.

"Because you are in a church, sir," answered the door-keeper.

She hands it to a door-keeper, who may possibly be considerate, but cannot offer her a chair.

She starts for rehearsal happily enough from the little room in Bloomsbury, passes the door-keeper without question, and takes up her stand in the wings.

The door-keeper told them the rehearsal was just over and they would find me on the stage.

But the door-keeper knew only that he had been asked for 'Mr. Fison' by two nice-spoken young ladies, that he had directed them where to go, and had opened the stage-door for them.

51 examples of  door-keeper  in sentences