13 examples of on door in sentences

And ever as they came Friar Martin smote, sword in hand, on door and shuttered window, and cried hoarse and loud: "Ye men of Belsayefathers and husbands, arm ye, arm ye!

She had heard kicks on doors before.

on door knocks, 64.

Pigeon flyers, dog fanciers, gossipping vagrants, crying children, old iron, stray hens, women with a passion for sitting on door steps, men looking at nothing with their hands in their pockets, ancient rags pushed into broken windows, and the mirage of perhaps one policeman on duty constitute the sights in the neighbourhood.

Wise men ne'er cut their names on doors or rock-heads, But leave the task to scribblers and to blockheads; Pert, trifling folks, who, bent on being witty, Scrawl on each post some fag-end of a ditty, Spinning, with spider's web, their shallow brains, O'er wainscots, borrowed books, or window panes.

Others were perched on doors, on projections of cornices, and in every nook.

"On doors the sallow milk maid chalks her gains.

(Chalks figures on door.)

He moves across ward, and goes out on door of corridor) TOURNOUR

During this time, and after, we find the most elaborate carvings on door and arch and window, equal in skill to what is found in book or metal work.

At the same time, to emphasize the exorcism, they knock on doors, window-shutters, chests, and other domestic articles of furniture.

The river flows past, a languid stream of lead; a single crow, screaming for its mate, flaps heavily against the north-east gale, that enters here also and lifts the carpet in long waves across the floor, whiffles light eddies of ashes in the chimney-corner, and vainly presses on door and window, like a houseless spirit shrieking and pining for a shelter from its bodiless and helpless unrest in the elements.

Drawing everywhereon his books and slates, on doors and gate-posts, or on the whitewashed wall of the old Tudor school-room, where a hunt, drawn with a burned stick, and gloriously dominating the whole room, had provoked the indulgence, even the praise, of the headmaster.

13 examples of  on door  in sentences