" Police-Inspector Seldon entered the office, and held the door ajar for a man behind him.

She did not let me cross the threshold, holding the door ajar in her hand, and saying she would have no tavern-loungers in her house, but that if I liked the Why Not?

The gate stood ajar between its chipped stone pillars, and just inside the blue coat of a French cavalry officer, jaunty and new and much braided with gold lace on the collar and cuffs, hung from the limb of a small tree.

Only fools do not acknowledge how materialism wearies and oppresses us, what secret fear lurks in the mind lest their science should prove true, what a dreary waiting for new scientific evolutions, and joy of the prisoners when they see a small door ajar through which they may escape into the open air.

Now she saw the door a few inches ajar with, beyond it, a dim glow.

Unconscious that, through the door ajar at his back, a pair of vigilant human orbs were upon him, the ritualistic organist, who was in very low spirits, drew an emaciated and rather unsteady hand repeatedly across his perspiring brow, and talked in deep bass to himself.

Her dressing-room door had been left ajar during that memorable fourth act which was to see the consummation of my labours.

One Sunday night Mother Carey had read to the little group a poem in which there was a verse that struck on their ears with a fine spirit: "And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul.

Then he turned and went away, leaving the door ajar behind him.

She obeyed him, setting the window and the jalousie ajar after her as she had found them.

The tremor of this shock, like that of an earthquake, trembled the cressets on the walls and made the huge ebony door, ajar into a dim-lighted hall, groan on its hinges.