116 examples of doorkeeper in sentences

"I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to in the tents of wickedness."

Moreover, the accountant's madness was no longer doubted by anybody a few days later, when the doorkeeper of his house related his final eccentricities, and a commissary of police went to search his rooms.

"The dear Sister Superior is at prayer in the chapel," the doorkeeper had whispered.

The boy, meanwhile, had opened the house door and now he stood outside quite courteously, like a doorkeeper, to bid Sally good-bye.

They'll pass up anything just to be able to stick their arm through the stage door and hand the doorkeeper a bunch of violets.

The doorkeeper was a quiet man who had lost a leg in South Africa, after having been otherwise severely wounded five times in previous engagements.

Dr. Bream, the resident physician, gave the doorkeeper a bulletin every morning at ten for the benefit of each patient's friend; the notes were written on a card which the man held in his hand.

The doorkeeper evidently knew her, for he glanced at his notes and spoke without being questioned.

And what doorkeeper is placed with no door to watch?

janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary^. SECTION IV.

3. The organization is completed by the election of a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms; a doorkeeper, a postmaster, and a chaplain.

Then he went back to the monastery and found there a doorkeeper whom he did not know and who did not know him.

Visitors who can satisfy the authorities that they are desirous of studying the works of art with a serious purpose can obtain free passes; but only after certain preliminaries, which include a seance with a photographer to satisfy the doorkeeper, by comparing the real and counterfeit physiognomies, that no illicit transference of the precious privilege has been made.

In a cabinet at the right of the entrance is a small image called "the doorkeeper," who sees that no harm befalls the temple of those who enter.

" "It so happened," continued Miss Mitford, "that I merely passed through London that season, and, being detained by some of the thousand and one nothings which are so apt to detain women in the great city, I arrived at the exhibition, in company with a still younger friend, so near the period of closing, that more punctual visitors were moving out, and the doorkeeper actually turned us and our money back.

Our delight was sincerely felt, and most enthusiastically expressed, as we kept gazing at the picture, and seemed, unaccountably to us at first, to give much pleasure to the only gentleman who had remained in the room,a young and very distinguished-looking person, who had watched with evident amusement our negotiation with the doorkeeper.

The old doorkeeper opened the door for me, and gazed at me with an air of surprise.

The woman has been in the family of John Shackford, Esq., the present doorkeeper of the Senate of the United States, for many years; was considered an excellent servantwas the mother of a number of childrenand I believe was sold into the family where she met her fate, as matter of conscience, to keep her from being sent below.

"'May I ask what M'sieur represents?' said the doorkeeper as I paid my two francs.

The doorkeeper saw it was a large, swanking envelope with very polite writing.

Bathing next in Koti-tirtha, after having worshipped the Yaksha doorkeeper, Machakruka, one obtaineth the merit of giving away gold in abundance.

No work for the next man, a chauffeur, or the next, a brass worker; the next, a teamster; the next, a bank clerk; the next, a doorkeeper of a Government office; whilst the wives of those who still had work were buying in the only market they had.

RAIVATIKA, the warder or doorkeeper.

VETRAVATÍ, female warder or doorkeeper.

Nodding familiarly to the doorkeeper, I passed up the long passage to the stage.

116 examples of  doorkeeper  in sentences