A short, plump and positively motherly lady appeared in the doorway, ushering us in. |
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The front door, on a Yale lock, clicked shut behind them, and they stood together, hunched up, in the recessed doorway. |
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He disappeared through the doorway, returning a short while later with a lapful of pizza, pop, and loose bills. |
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The modillion was a bracket, a horizontal version of the ancones which supported the cornice of the Greek doorway cornice. |
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She examined the floor and all angles of the doorway and ladder, looking for any kind of plausible explanation. |
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The main staircase is actually reversed to create a spacious entryway just inside the doorway. |
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We walked in through the doorway, and less than a second later, the shrill ring of the bell sounded. |
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One enters into ritual time and ritual space by passing over a limen, a threshold, such as one finds at a doorway. |
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He would come back from the rink with his skateboard, and there she was in the doorway of the building. |
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Note the chair placed near to the doorway and the limpid UJ on the door pillar. |
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A burst of fire came through the doorway, but I held my position around the corner, out of the line of fire. |
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The businessman only looked up when he felt a presence lingering in the doorway. |
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Shocked, she stops, gathers her robe and advances just a bit, to be framed perfectly in the doorway. |
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Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys. |
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Christopher continued to stare down at his coffee as she came to stand in the doorway, his finger still tapping the lip of the cup. |
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The floor area inside the entry was lowered to match the exterior grade and new tooled-limestone surrounds extended the doorway architrave. |
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First prepare a safe room for your cat, complete with a litter box, food, water, some toys, and a dog-proof baby gate across the doorway. |
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He was standing frozen in the doorway, a rough sack of belongings slung over his shoulder. |
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It turns out Risaku's mere hunch became reality and an assassin stood there, loitering in the doorway. |
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The thin man who had been loitering near the doorway slipped up to Umberto. |
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The building has a northern aspect, with no apparent connection or doorway to the south, where the walls are built against bedrock. |
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Through the low, open doorway a couple of shabby sheets are splayed across the floor in the tiny bedroom. |
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Dana arrived just in time to witness Jeremy Devonshire's little fit, and she propped herself in the doorway to wait for the storm to lull. |
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She stood uncertainly in the doorway, her sack lunch clutched tightly in her right hand, wondering where she would sit. |
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I lingered in the doorway sadly, not really reassured by the fact that the usual ice between us was absent. |
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Her shoulders dropped three inches as she sagged against the doorway, shaking her head and laughing a little. |
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Walking through the doorway Kim carefully wiped her feet on the small mat at the door. |
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The lake by the doorway was barely more than a large pond now, heavy and odorous with effluents leached from the tailings by rains. |
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Chris made to move through the doorway, when he glanced up and looked straight at Sarah. |
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She hadn't noticed James in the doorway as she continued to fight her tears. |
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This shows that there must have been a doorway which opened at right angles to the line of the bailey wall. |
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The man moved off and Adam stepped through a further doorway and followed him through a maze of green baize covered card tables. |
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Chris walked lightly to my closet doorway and began banging his head on the frame lightly. |
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The doorway is supported, on the right-hand side only, by a masoned jamb or toweright. |
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The wind howled behind them and swept a drift of snow through the doorway with them. |
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Talon's next words were similarly cut short when a wickedly barbed, green-feathered arrow hissed in through the doorway. |
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When you think of search engine optimization, in all likelihood, gateway pages, doorway pages or informational pages probably come to mind. |
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She is standing seductively in a doorway in order to attract his attention. |
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Behind the counter there was a doorway through which Mike could see into the kitchen. |
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A doorway page is a page carefully designed to do well on search engine results, but is never meant to be used by humans. |
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When your turn to enter the basilica finally arrives, you must bend down before a low doorway and step over the raised threshold. |
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Alyssa turned as the lady once again stepped through the doorway followed by her husband. |
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The group halted, thunderstruck, in the doorway, all five mouths hanging open in horror. |
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Enter via a red doorway and step into the battleship grey dining room with a twinkling view of the carpark opposite. |
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His expression narrowed and didn't return to its normal melancholy state until she disappeared behind the doorway. |
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Megan looked over and up at a tall and bluff boy she's seen at school before standing in the doorway of what seemed to be his compartment. |
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She slumped against her doorway and tiredly dropped her bag to the floor before crumpling down next to it. |
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She switches on the light and they stand clustered together in the doorway for a moment. |
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A tonsured man in red appeared in the open doorway, offering us each a glass of red wine. |
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A doorway leads from the lounge through to the country-style kitchen with Belfast sink. |
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When Matt arrives at the doorway, he's wearing not only the glasses but also bell-bottoms. |
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He estimated his position from his brief view of the room with torchlight and the light framed by the doorway he had entered from. |
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His target now was the doorway two floors below, straight underneath where he stood. |
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She shoved her into the front row before moving to stand in the doorway of the gazebo. |
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But turn I did, rolling over slowly to face the girl standing in the doorway, toying nervously with her sleeve. |
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There was a shambling drunk I used to pass sometimes on my way to school, lying in a doorway, clutching a bottle. |
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They hid behind the doorway and listened, preparing to spring out and attack if needed. |
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Within each doorway are two tiers of double bifold blinds with moveable slats, each tier four feet tall. |
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It was a pretty little terraced house with roses around the doorway and trelliswork in an unpretentious garden. |
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The Petronas Towers are placed on a central axis, framing a doorway to the infinite with the skybridge. |
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We saw her puke once in the doorway across the street, and then five minutes later she turned a trick. |
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Above each doorway a window with sidelights is capped by a soapstone lintel. |
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Made from a single slab of andesite weighing at least 10 tons, this monolith is carved in the form of a doorway with niches on either side. |
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At the end of the path was a doorway, which led into one of the monolithic buildings. |
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The same monotonous footsteps pound the floor, and finally stop moving when they approach a doorway. |
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Blinding white light shone into the room, silhouetting a tall figure standing in the doorway, hands blazing with power. |
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At first sight, it was dark and only faint silhouettes could be seen with the faint light radiating from the doorway. |
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Connie sashays to the doorway where she stands in silhouette for a long, luxurious moment. |
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The center doorway is decorated with an elegant tympanum border of marble carved with foliage. |
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The kitten followed me, mewing at my heels, rubbing up against my ankles when I stopped in the doorway. |
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Mrs. Forder blew Lizzie a kiss from the doorway, and clicked off the light. |
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I hadn't locked the door, for some unapparent reason, and so now Yanik stood framed in the doorway, caught. |
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Through the open doorway, he heard the voice of Aline Fulke but her words were unclear. |
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One man, young and bearded and uncomfortable in his seat, crosses and uncrosses his legs, before being pointed towards a doorway. |
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It was as he was mulling over this fact that Julia appeared in the doorway. |
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It almost feels normal sitting in English class, except that there are the underclassmen who look in the doorway to look at me. |
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I was pleased by the lack of alarm bells and a munted doorway as I shot up the stairs into my smoky lounge. |
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She must have been deep in thought because she didn't even notice Vivian standing in the doorway. |
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After the second one's comment, the two guards stopped at an unguarded doorway. |
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He stood in the doorway for a few moments, wearing in wide leather trousers, his chest bare but for a chain of boojum claws. |
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Tina was leaning out of an open doorway, giving him a sloe-eyed bedroom look that was painfully familiar. |
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She took advantage of the dark shadow of the doorway to observe, herself unobserved. |
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Jenna stood in the doorway, looking overly happy and practically bouncing across the room to the end of the bed. |
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From the dressing rooms a doorway leads to the cinema projection room, where the latest Tom Cruise movie is unspooling on a giant platter. |
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Just as she prepared herself to speak, Ronnie sauntered into the little box room, ducking a little as she came through the open doorway. |
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I take it upon myself to guide her there, and follow the signs until we reach a doorway. |
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At that very moment, Richard appeared in the open doorway, a look of urgency in his eyes. |
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In a doorway, three young boys stare out with vacant eyes, inhaling deeply from glass jars filled with glue or gasoline. |
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The doorway and window detailing was of brownstone, not the limestone or marble used for such elements in comparable earlier houses. |
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Out of the doorway came the most perfect specimen of male youth I had ever seen out. |
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I walked to the main door and put my right arm on the slightly splintered, wooden doorway. |
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His hulking two-metre frame clad in crumpled checked shirt fills the doorway as he beckons towards his kingdom. |
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Some residents still sprinkle red brick dust on their doorway steps to ward off evil spirits. |
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Passengers entered the cabin through a doorway on the left side of the fuselage. |
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Opening my eyes, I saw Lance in the doorway laughing with a squirt gun in his hand. |
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He had retired discreetly to the doorway, ready within call should Master need anything. |
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After a moment or two, Kira noticed Rebecca standing silently in the doorway. |
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The gang attacked him in the doorway of the hotel where he was working, armed with slash hooks and hammers after hearing his English accent. |
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She stood in the doorway, looking at the boy, who was lying in the strange half-light of the dawn, then turned and went down the stairs. |
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The smoke hung like a heavy veil over the doorway, stinging his nostrils as he stepped through it. |
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Back in my country girl days, I once closed the front door, not knowing that a gargantuan stick insect was in the doorway. |
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From her doorway, one also observed three or four middle-aged guys oiling their hairy chests around the micro-pool. |
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Just then a short man waddled out of a nearby doorway, barely squeezing through. |
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As I was about to bound down the staircase, my neighbour's head poked from her doorway accusingly. |
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The pianist then began the wedding march and everyone turned back to the doorway. |
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It was then that Calida spotted the flickering light of a fire radiating around the doorway to her right. |
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To his surprise the doorbell actually worked and Sid was soon standing in the open doorway. |
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She turned around and saw Faber standing at the doorway holding two loaves of bread, a large wheel of cheese, and three bottles of milk. |
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The headlights stagelit him standing there, a scruffy, whiskery, old man all alone in the doorway, talking to himself. |
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The cabin is an A-frame, tall and thin, a cow skull wired over the doorway, fake Indian symbols painted around it. |
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She stood in the doorway, in a black keyhole halter that tied in the back and white jeans. |
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She wobbled back up the stairs and stood quietly in the doorway of her mother's room. |
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Opposite the doorway was a wooden dresser filled to capacity with all kinds of delphware and knick-knacks. |
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The door slammed open and William, with red-rimmed, crazed eyes, stubble and messy hair, appeared at the doorway. |
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Through another doorway I can see a mirror which is reflecting a predominately red painting of a village on the opposite wall, out of sight. |
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He lingered in the doorway and waited as she hastily fastened the laces and tied the anklet around her heel. |
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The counter appears longer and slightly lower and now backs on to a solid wall rather than the doorway into a mysterious treasure room as in the previous set up. |
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They are hung as doorway coverings at the entrance to a yurt. |
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Dad's eyes are swollen as he comes trundling through the doorway. |
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She flung the whole handful through the doorway and continued her spell. |
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Through the screen's open central doorway a carved retable can be seen, but the altar itself is obscured by two angels who occupy the space, singing from a book. |
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They turned to the right, to the right again, walked a long way down a dark, unlighted hallway like a tunnel, and turned to the left through an open doorway. |
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For example, the few photographs taken inside a dark doorway or unlit shrine exhibit dramatic shadows, but that was because Fagg did not use flashbulbs. |
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Four police officers burst out and crowded around the doorway. |
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I see a white-haired librarian silent in an oatmeal cardigan and flaked forehead just outside the doorway. |
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Josh stood over the threshold the doorway, smiling to be polite. |
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And throughout all of this, Morgan, her Signature Officer, stood on the other side of the doorway, mouthing the phrase to her voicelessly over and over again. |
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We don't know what he said but Annabelle stood in the doorway stunned a moment before flinging the screen door open and throwing her arms around them. |
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They should be playing their fab new single Everybody's Gonna Be Happy and, if we're immensely fortunate, our Dad will not appear in the doorway sounding a little unsettled. |
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He noticed Trudy standing in the doorway, her face pale with fright. |
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When he finally did reach the doorway he stood in it, glancing back at the room of his child, overcome with emotions of pride, fear, hope, happiness and also, loneliness. |
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The entrance door and flanking windows are emphatically Gothic with pointed arches, the doorway framed in granite and the windows with granite sills and lintels. |
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In the architrave by the doorway was a nest of a pair of blue-tits. |
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He was suddenly blinded by an intense burst of light from the doorway. |
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Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek. |
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The only sound was the light chatter of staff across the hall and the occasional sniffle and page turning from the man with the book in the doorway. |
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A large roundish man stood at the doorway, holding a fiery torch. |
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Now when Greta occasionally forgets her manners, the owner can stop this nonsense by standing in her kitchen doorway with the can in her hands so that Greta can see it. |
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The doctor and Sarah stood silently in the doorway watching the exchange. |
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The man in the doorway stirs and the dog lopes off down an alley. |
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A scrap of cardboard will support your handsaw so you can undercut the bottoms of the doorway moldings to allow for the flooring to slip underneath. |
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My host watched from the doorway to the house, sizing me up. |
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A careful examination of the masonry of the portal reveals that the herms and their entablature are a later addition to the rusticated, round-arched doorway. |
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It houses the law offices of Rosemarie Arnold, advertised in bold white lettering above the doorway. |
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The rain descended harder than ever, and he took refuge in the arched doorway of the village church, his boots already bemired, his great coat reeking with the downpour. |
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He started singing a lullaby, and I stood in the doorway, watching them. |
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He stopped abruptly and gestured at a small valise next to the doorway. |
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Tom steps out of the doorway and falls 7 feet, collapsing onto rails. |
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She had left a vanity case and ring box in the doorway of her home while she took some of her luggage upstairs on a stair lift when the thief struck. |
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A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky. |
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The young man watched the empty doorway for a moment then sagged against the table, not noticing as the photos fluttered to the ground to be trampled underfoot. |
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The cement-faced ground storey contains the doorway and a sashed window of normal proportions, above which is a wide sashed window of three lights. |
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Occasionally a sour smell from his doorway made me catch my breath. |
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A final doorway led from the galley down to the cargo hold under the ship. |
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Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned. |
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The north transept houses a narrow, deep Saxon doorway of honey-coloured stone, which would originally have been lime-washed and over-painted with decorative designs. |
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Dad's smile falters but in the end he goes to sit by mom and I'm standing by the doorway with my hand on my arm like a wallflower at a junior high dance. |
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A compact version of a space ship floated right outside the doorway. |
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The boy's grandmother stands in the doorway holding a tea towel, twisting it in the way she wrings out the wet laundry before she carries it outside to the line. |
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The wedding march started, everyone stood up and my dad and I went to the doorway and paused for a few seconds before slowly starting down the aisle. |
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Numerous taxicabs and limousines pulled up to the gilded doorway, dropping off guests while young bellboys carted luggage up the service elevator to various suites. |
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There's a man sleeping next to a mangy dog in an adjacent doorway. |
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The most mortal danger threatened to materialize suddenly around every corner, in every doorway, on every staircase. |
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Anne and Jane cringed by the doorway as they watched a frazzled looking, bewigged physician chase Katherine around the chamber with the offensive bowl and sharp instrument. |
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With a determined step she marched purposely toward the blackened doorway. |
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Even in the rearmost car, we ended up having to stand in the doorway. |
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Unknown to her, a tall, scraggy man stood in the doorway, watching her. |
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The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms. |
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He knocked again and then heard a muted voice through the doorway. |
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Ian heard Linda banging around in the bedroom, and walked to the doorway. |
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The famously bald and speccy tabloid boss was conducting his afternoon news conference on his mobile from a doorway off Renfield Street, outside the Drum and Monkey pub. |
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As she spoke, one woman walked through the bar with her cigarette lit as she moved from one doorway to another where her friends were while trying to stay out of the rain. |
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Rual tied the shoelace of her shoe as she stood in the doorway. |
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There was a curtain of blue beads and green and blue shells threaded with shimmering silver yarn, turning the doorway into a magical entrance to a seascape. |
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The man pleaded with them while his wife stood in the doorway of the bus holding their baby. |
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Looking for a place to get a salad, we pass a gift shop with a rack of dresses near the doorway. |
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He pushed past a female curate and raced towards the exit, but Father Andrew Cain got to the doorway first. |
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He is standing in a doorway looking at his wife, who is sitting in front of a computer wearing a telephone headset. |
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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take. |
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Opposite this doorway is a small granary that is on staddle stones and is the perfect resting place for the Labrador dog that happily ran up to lick our hands! |
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The little kilted figure suddenly dashed silently in his bare feet towards the doorway and made a laryngitic wheezy sound as he did. |
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Akiva stood at the edge of a rooftop terrace in Riyadh, peering down at a doorway in the lane below. |
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Even as I babbled, Jock's massy frame filled the doorway, his ill-hewn ashlar head weaving from side to side, eyes blinking at the light. |
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After removing their shoes, socks and sandals at the doorway, the kids were barefoot. |
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It wasn't the black loudmouth I'd expected but a Bluto of a man almost filling the entire doorway. |
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Suddenly she appeared in the inner doorway rather shyly. She had got a new cotton blouse on. Paul jumped up and went forward. |
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A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake. |
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As two people stand at a doorway each gesturing 'After you', that is mamihlapinatapai. |
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After leaving, he passed out in a doorway, where a policeman said he would not be arrested if he could stand and walk. |
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Each of these houses had the larger bed on the right side of the doorway and the smaller on the left. |
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She bumped her noggin on the bulkhead above the doorway, smiled in apology for her presumed clumsiness. |
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Of the remaining three, two portal stones form an entrance and the third, at an angle, appears to block the doorway. |
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As he continues, Gangleri sees a man in the doorway of the hall juggling short swords, and keeping seven in the air at once. |
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The style is characterized by tall pyramids supporting a summit shrine adorned with a roof comb, and accessed by a single doorway. |
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Handsome scrolls filled up the next compartments, on each side of the doorway, which was in the centre. |
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The door through which he was taken has been walled up, though the old doorway is just visible. |
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Bezul saw the sell-swords choose the doorway, not him, and somehow got in front of them, then desperation took control of his mind. |
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I backed it out to the dirt road, and the door to the double-wide opened and a big guy, more Wookiee than human being, filled the doorway. |
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Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway. |
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I ate a kebab in a Cypriot cafe with the freezing rain spatting in the doorway and I was poured a soup-like cup of builder's tea. |
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Gaping at them from the open doorway, wonderfully respectable and butlerlike in swallow-tails, stood his father. |
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He passed through the doorway into the back room, where several customers disentombed lost novels from the deep shelves. |
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To prevent this and the possibility of scandal a grated steel door with jail lock should be placed on this doorway. |
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The entrance is approached from the east cloister walk and includes a double doorway with a large tympanum above. |
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Just above the doorway, which opened spang onto the broadway of Datura, a grinning face peered down upon the visitors, its eyes ruby-colored glass. |
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He stood in the doorway, legs as near as damnit turned to stone. |
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Smaller houses in the country, such as vicarages, were simple regular blocks with visible raked roofs, and a central doorway, often the only ornamented area. |
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I could see through the open doorway some fishermen in guernseys sitting on the grass listening, and a boat was drawn up on the shingle and others moored to the cauchie. |
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Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms. |
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The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them. |
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A common sight in India is a crowd of people gathered in the courtyard of a temple or at the doorway of a streetside shrine for the darshan of the deity. |
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Immediately inside the doorway is a small lobby which is defended by a cross loop which would have been manned from inside the main chamber and defended by a murder-hole over. |
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There in the doorway stood an eightysomething Las Vegas showgirl. |
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Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice. Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces. |
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A mezuza, a decorative case that contains a parchment inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah, will be placed in the doorway of each patient room. |
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Though I never sat across from Abramovic, I did participate in one of her re-performed works, Imponderabilia, where a naked man and woman face each other in a narrow doorway. |
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She remembered going to the farm, taking a whinberry tart as a gift, but she was greeted by a servant girl who came out into the yard, barring the doorway behind her. |
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