And in the midst of this torturing suspense an idea came to him, and at the same instant Jack Landis entered the doorway.

" "Here, not so fast," answered the prefect, blocking up the doorway as some boys tried to escape; "what are you chaps doing in here?

And then I was aware that Parsket was standing rocking in the doorway with his arms spread across, so as to fill the doorway with his body.

You knowII" But Dick, now conscious that inquiring eyes were fastened upon them, curious ears listening, seized her arm, and, by main force, reached the hall doorway, now nearly deserted.

She was watching for Marcantonio, to whom she signed eagerly to hasten, as the guard of the Doge permitted him to pass the doorway.

"It's our duty," he turned in the doorway to make them a bow, "to turn them over to justice.

Suddenly a form darkened the outer doorway of the kitchen, and to the surprise of the boys Professor Abner Sharp showed himself.

[Illustration: As the fresh arrivals appeared] Marian was standing at the farther end of the parlor facing the doorway, with two of the Selwyn cousins beside her, as the fresh arrivals appeared.

The only thing I have been able to do has been to find a doorway, or some other place, through which a draught was making its way, and to sit there reading....

The original church probably did not differ very much in plan from that we have, but only the north and west walls of the nave of the original building remain to us; the latter having the original doorway of Binstead stone.

Where can we find anything to match the exquisite iron screen of the eleventh century which used to guard St Swithin's shrine but which, now that is gone, covers the north-west doorway of the nave?

My father stood, still smiling, watching the empty doorway.

We're going to have a union!" It might have been the Pied Piper of Hamelin whistling up the ratsthere was a hurrying, a scurrying, a weird laughter, a blowing about of words, and the two hundred, first swallowing up Sally, crowded the doorway, moved slowly, pushed, shoved, wedged through, and disappeared, thundering, shouting and laughing, down the steps.

Dr. Bailey (addressing himself to his father, a venerable man of more than eighty years of age, who approached the doorway and commenced remonstrating with the committee).You do not understand the matter, father; these gentlemen are a committee appointed by a meeting assembled in front of the Patent Office.

[Illustration: "His three patrons, with a hopeless attempt to appear unconcerned, were coming down the road"] "FETCH'EM OUT," vociferated the old gentleman as the landlord barred the doorway with his arms.

" "Let's go in the first door we reach," suggested Billie, and at the moment Mrs. Gilligan's candle showed a wide, high doorway leading into a black cavern of a room.

The waning moon cast shadows black and long, and in these shadows Beltane crept and so, betimes, came within the outer guard-room and to the room beyond; and here beheld a low-arched doorway whence steps led upward,a narrow stair, gloomy and winding, whose velvet blackness was stabbed here and there by moonlight, flooding through some deep-set arrow-slit.

The archers were with great difficulty defending the doorway, but help arrived, and the danger was over.

Just in front of him a huge boulder spanned the crack; and formed a natural doorway, through which he saw, like a picture set in a frame, the far-off blue sea softening into the blue sky among brown Eastern haze.

The voice neared the open doorway as he spoke.

Now between the suddenness of the onslaught made on them, the strangeness of the surroundings, Sir George's inopportune arrival, and the scornful grins of the servants who thronged the doorway, he was cowed.

But she, knowing that he deserved to be punished, pushed him out and securely fastened the doorway, calling out: "'May Annungitee catch you!'

This, moreover, accounts for the custom so prevalent in most European countries of decorating doorways and windows with its blossoms on St. John's Eve.

Presently someone discovered an abandoned hermitage, through whose low doorway we crept, and spreading out our blankets on the floor, prepared to make a night of itglad of shelter from the dampness.

He doesn't fit any doorway; he can't buy ready-made clothes; if he sleeps in a strange bed he has to leave his feet outside; and in the railway carriage or a bus he has to tie his legs into uncomfortable knots to keep them out of the way.