40 Verbs to Use for the Word thresholds

In an instant, I had crossed the threshold, and the great doors closed, silently, shutting me in that lightless place.

A shadow seemed to fill it, as she passed the threshold.

I suppose two seconds elapsed before I reached the threshold, and I stopped there, staring, clutching at the wall to steady myself.

"It seems to me not best," said the monk, turning once more, as he was leaving the threshold, "that you should come to me at present where I am,it would only raise a storm that I could not allay; and so great would be the power of the forces they might bring to bear on the child, that her little heart might break and the saints claim her too soon.

The captain of the band approached the threshold to thrust him aside.

Then the clerk and interpreter were ordered to make three genuflexions, from which humiliation we were exempted; and they admonished us to be exceedingly careful, in going in and out of the lords dwelling, not to touch the threshold of his door, and we were desired to sing a benediction or prayer for their lord; and we accordingly entered in singing the salve regina.

In the nearer distance the primeval Brahman settlement of Govardhan sleeps amid her mango-groves, and opposite to it the modern Christian village of Sharanpur marks the threshold of that tract of fair woodland and fairer garden which is Nasik's pride.

The candle was yet burning on the chair where she had left it, and, summoning all her strength, with an inward prayer she recrossed the threshold.

[ANSELM bars the threshold and steps out.] ANSELM Thou froward fool!Wouldst rend with tears again That shriven breath? And drag her back to sorrow?

KING, MARJORIE REES The threshold of fear.

he asked, turning on the threshold; for he had heard her mutter something.

" Jostling through a malodorous crowd that blockaded the quarrel, they gained the threshold of a lighted shop.

And, in a while, they beheld a cottage upon whose threshold a child laynot asleep, yet very still; and beyond the cottage, his back to a tree, a great hairy fellow, quarter-staff in hand, made play against five others whose steel caps and ringed hauberks glittered in the sun.

Then he came to the east gateway and went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate one reed wide.

And the house of Israel, they and their kings, shall no more defile my holy name with their idolatry and with the corpses of their kings by placing their thresholds by my threshold, and their door-posts by my door-post, with only a wall between me and them, thus defiling my holy name by the abominations which they have committed; therefore I have destroyed them in mine anger.

We were not an instant too soon, for the door crashed down at the next blow, and the savages poured over the threshold.

It raises the threshold or strength of stimulus necessary to evoke a reaction.

The March twilight had fallen, and the Stentorian facade was all aglow, when Undine regained its monumental threshold.

After this, when we came to the orda, we were questioned by Eldegay, the agent of the prince, respecting the gifts we meant to offer; and making the same reply we had given at the court of Corrensa, our gifts were offered and accepted; and having declared the object of our journey, we were introduced into the presence, making our obeisances, and were admonished respecting the threshold, as formerly mentioned.

On asking the carpenter what he was about to make with the block he was sawing, he said " A threshold for a door," which is called Prah or Praha in the Bohemian language and Libussa gave to the city the name of Praha or Prag.

With not a tree, of course, or a blade of grass between the paving-stones, the narrow lane was as hot as Tophet, and reeked with a genuine Scotch odor, being infested with unwashed children, and altogether in a state of chronic filth; although some women seemed to be hopelessly scrubbing the thresholds of their wretched dwellings.

The Pinkie Pell necklace for instance!" The prima donna, who was already retreating through the door of the bedroom on whose threshold she had been standing, flashed a scornful look at her questioner over the point of her white shoulder.

And I, the instant I beheld him step Lightfooted o'er the threshold of my door, (Bethink thee, mistress Moon, whence came my love,) Became all cold like snow, and from my brow Brake the damp dewdrops: utterance I had none, Not e'en such utterance as a babe may make That babbles to its mother in its dreams; But all my fair frame stiffened into wax.

The steps had come close, had struck the threshold.

It was a great delight to me, in spite of the shadow Evelyn's grief threw over our threshold, to stand once more as mistress in my father's house, even in the wreck of fortune, and control the education and destiny of my young sister.

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  thresholds