They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The door of the lockup was of oak planks and banded with strap iron.

Once the door was open, they crowded him inside the dark building.

He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.

This was the message found tacked to the cabin door.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

The door was locked.

Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

As he reached for the door there was a knock on it and when he opened he found Artie, who came in and sat down on a bunk.

Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.

Seated near it with his back to the door was the rancher, Ed Dunn.

He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

Every path from back door to barn was covered by a grape-arbor, and every yard had its fruit trees.

As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.

Mr. Podger was just adding this to his pictures of the day when the screen door opened and Pam burst out.

Frederick Seward said his father was sleeping, and then went through a pantomime at his father's door, to prove the statement.

Over the door was a board with large, inept lettering: home sweet home.

Sarah found the right key and unlocked the door.

A tambour door is an up-and-over door made of narrow horizontal slats and " rolls " up and down by sliding along vertical tracks and is typically found in entertainment centres and cabinets.

A 5, 000-year-old door has been found by archaeologists in Switzerland.

A somewhat similar decorative class of door to these latter is found in Verona, where the edges of the stiles and rails are beveled and notched.

The oldest door in England can be found in Westminster Abbey and dates from 1050.

The northern passage, which was difficult to navigate because of twists and turns, was also found to be blocked by a door.

They also found the reverse side of the “ door ” to be finished and polished, which suggests that it wasn ’ t put there just to block the shaft, but rather for a more specific reason.

The palm print was found on a garage door from a garage in which the SLA kept a getaway car.

In the Partridge story, an aristocratic family living in Park Lane is searching for a lost dog, and an American answers the advertisement with a shaggy dog that he has found and personally brought across the Atlantic, only to be received by the butler at the end of the story who takes one look at the dog and shuts the door in his face saying " But not so shaggy as that, sir!

( Nunn's home can be found at the corner of Aspen and Columbia Streets ; next door is the home he purchased for the " pinheads " to study hydro-electric engineering.

A few weeks later, a poor prostitute known only by the name of Sally was found murdered and nailed to an outhouse door in the Acre.

When he and other friends could not get an answer on the phone or from knocking on his door, they finally broke into his Beverly Hills, California home where Lynde was found dead in his bed.

They planned to use the secret door, whose key Gandalf had managed to obtain ( from Thráin, whom he had found in the pits of Dol Guldur ).

Vehicle manufacturers tire pressure requirements can be found on the vehicle information label, usually located in the door jamb of the drivers side door.

The Sheng ' an waiji ( 升庵外集 ) collection by the poet Yang Shen ( 楊慎, 1488 – 1559 ) gives different 5th and 9th names for the dragon's nine children: the taotie ( 饕餮 ), which loves to eat and is found on food-related wares, and the jiaotu ( 椒圖 ), which looks like a conch or clam, does not like to be disturbed, and is used on the front door or the doorstep.

It was the home of Agnes Bottenham who used the profits of the tavern to found Trinity Hospital next door in around 1380.

Inside the temple, immediately against the pyramid wall is an offering hall where Jequier found a stone washbasin as well as stele or a false door of which only the foundations remain.

Mary found the door locked and called out, receiving the weakened reply " I can't get out.

When Eeyore lost his tail, Owl found it and used it as a bell-pull beside his door before Pooh found it for Eeyore.

Generally found in the vicinity of a church or monastery, the door of the tower faces the west doorway of the church.