" Grandma Gates was a rheumatic cripple who lived next door, and whenever the Deacons or Mrs. Bett were angry or hurt or wished to escape the house for some reason, they stalked over to Grandma Gatesin lieu of, say, slamming a door.

This was a discharge of emotion akin, say, to slamming the door.

" When Bull had picked up a rifle standing in a corner and departed, slamming the door behind him, Marie sat down on the lid of a mottled zinc trunk and wiped her hot face on a petticoat that hung on the wall conveniently to hand.

" A scuffling of feet, a slamming of desk lids and an upset blackboard, and the meeting had divided.

"Silly ass, Dunster," he groaned, "slamming about like that.

There was an odd-sounding exclamation from the cook, and then the latter jumped up and scurried inside, slamming the screen door behind him with a great racket.

Voices of men went into it, low as the growl of an angered dog, and there was a background of slamming doors, and footsteps on verandas.

" At this threat the old servant suddenly rose and rushed into her own room, which opened out of the kitchen, slamming the door behind her.

Five o'clock, the slamming of the front door, the click of the gate, and the Kimbers' voices in the road below as they went towards Wyck.

" The boss of the Senate went out, glaring venomously at Haines, slamming the door.

Mr. Edward Silk rose to his feet with tremendous effect and, first thrusting his plate violently away from him, went out into the night, slamming the door behind him with such violence that the startled Mr. Wilks was nearly blown out of his chair.

She hears him catch up his hat and cloak, and hurry out into the rain, slamming the door behind him.

Even when, at the close of their talk, she had burst out: "If you grudge me everything I care about we'd better separate," he had merely answered with a shrug: "It's one of the things we don't do" and the answer had been like the slamming of an iron door in her face.

For, as to that whaler, I should have known better at once, if I had not been crazy, since she looked like a ship of death, her boom slamming to port and starboard on the gentle heave of the sea, and her fore-sail reefed that serene morning.

" He was interrupted by another terrific crash, a fresh and louder outburst of the din outside; running footsteps clattered and leaped down the stairs, the door flung open and the sergeant rushed in slamming the door violently behind him.

The boy ground his teeth and flung open the next door, slamming it hurriedly again to blot out what it exposed.

And then that gate slamming behind him, falling like a slab over a tomb, setting up an eternal barrier between him and the love of his life!

And then Pauncefort bade her ladyship good night in a huff, catching up her candle with a rather impertinent jerk, and gently slamming the door, as if she had meant to close it quietly, only it had escaped out of her fingers.

Before these people had properly settled in their places, came an inspection of tickets and a slamming of doors, and behold!

The sounds of doors slamming, and the hoof-clatter of cab-horses, and behind these things the featureless remote roar of the London cobble-stones, came to my ears.

What happened when he told you he was your father?" I went on with the story of my struggle with my own rancor against my father, of my conviction that I had heard my mother's voice urging my reconciliation with him, of my father's first embrace and kisses, even of the queer smothered sound like a groan and the slamming of a door which I had heard.

She went away, red-faced and angry to the last, slamming all the doors of the hills behind her, and Autumn, who is a lady, took charge.

And the man who turned toward him at the slamming of that door, turned slowly, coolly, and gazed into the black muzzle of his pistol looked, indeed, every inch of him a king.

The wind charged down upon them, slamming the door at their backs, extinguishing the broad shaft of light that had momentarily shot out into the darkness, and swept them a dozen yards away.

" He left the room, slamming the door behind him, and then he stamped down the hall as if he were trying to make a companion out of his noise.