13 Verbs to Use for the Word doorsteps

Old-fashioned matrons clustered round to watch him cleaning the doorstep, and, surprised at its whiteness, withdrew discomfited.

An insignificant bit of a thing she was, anaemic and subdued, with a sad little face, soft hazel eyes slightly crossed, and the deprecating manner of those who scrub other people's doorsteps at fifteen cents an hour.

Ralph Marvell, mounting his grandfather's doorstep, looked up at the symmetrical old red house-front, with its frugal marble ornament, as he might have looked into a familiar human face.

Oh, I am glad!" exclaimed Mary, as a long, low hut came in sight, with glass windows and an unpainted front door, which just now stood wide open, while two small girls occupied the doorstep, and were making dolls' bonnets from leaves and plaited grass.

On his way he caught himself wondering why the hum of the bees had never sounded so loudly in the garden before: and this was all he could think about till he reached the doorstep.

Again, the custom is still common hereabouts of sprinkling the doorstep with the blood of a chicken on the death of a very young child, thus (as belief is) drawing into the blood the evil spirits from the too weak soul.

The wind had strewn the doorstep with leaves and straws and twigs, little refugees of the air.

Finally she finished sweeping the doorsteps and looked thoughtfully at Unc' Billy.

"Now think how Rudolph would feel,"the colonel whimsically played at reading Patricia's reflection"if I were to be arrested as a suspicious characterthat's what the newspapers always call them, I thinkon his very doorstep!

"I wonder if they chose the bachelor's doorstep by chance or by intention," he said.

He had been, for a whole day, beset with the idea that the way to catch a voudou wasto catch him; and as he had caught numbers of them on both sides of the tropical and semi-tropical Atlantic, he decided to try his skill privately on the one whohis experience told himwas likely to visit Agricola's doorstep to-night.

"I ask for leave to cleanse my doorstep.

Except in the matter of window-blinds, Dialstone Lane had not changed for generations, and Mr. Tredgold noted with pleasure the interest of his companion as she gazed at the crumbling roofs, the red-brick doorsteps, and the tiny lattice windows of the cottages.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  doorsteps