One of the doorposts of the house still stood, and it was splashed with blood.

When the bridegroom's house is reached, the bride smears the doorposts with fat and oil and ties a woollen fillet round each: she is then lifted over the threshold, is taken by her husband into the partnership of fire and waterthe essentials of domestic lifeand passes into the atrium.

You have come just at the right time, I think," Jervis went on; and at the suggestion of Mr. Selincourt the two sat down on the bench side by side, while Mary remained leaning against the doorpost as before.

There are small holes in the doorposts for bar-holds.

I know of your meetings, your comings and your goings" They reached the door, but Benoni barred the way with his long arm, and seemed about to lay a hand upon her wrist, so that she shrank back against the heavy doorpost in an agony of horror and loathing and wounded pride.

The Austrian sentry, also a Magyar, had been fastened by the leg to the doorpost outside the entrance to the dug-out.