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Example sentences for "small door"

  • We came to a small door, at the right hand; it was the last but one in the passage.

  • Notwithstanding the innocence of our attachment, the duchesse was in a violent fright; a small door was at the left of the ottoman, on which we were sitting.

  • The men placing themselves one on each side of him, so that escape was impossible, led him down a flight of steps to a small door, on the outside of which more soldiers were stationed, and where a coach was in waiting.

  • Passing beneath an archway, once forming the entrance to the convent, and winding through several passages open to the sky above, they arrived at a small door, through the chinks of which a light streamed forth.

  • Crossing the dark courtyard, she unlocked a small door, and I followed her in.

  • The two black giants opened the small door by which I had entered, and almost before the old Arab could mumble a protest, they had hurried him out and down into the dark subterranean passage that led away into the unknown maze below.

  • The entrance is by a small door on the north, near the north-west corner.

  • The roof was about a foot and a half above the head of a tall man; on the east side was a small door.

  • In the north wall is a small door leading by a narrow descending passage into a small chamber containing three sepulchral niches.

  • If one had looked sharply one would have found, opposite a toilet-table provided with every accessory, a small door in a dark corner of this room opening into a sort of oratory where, raised on two steps, stood a priedieu.

  • And Marguerite ran like a mad creature through the corridors and galleries, when suddenly, as she passed by a small door, she heard a sweet song, almost melancholy, so monotonous it was.

  • Just as my mother was on the point of pushing open a small door, we heard the voice of the pasha sounding in a loud and threatening tone.

  • A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.

  • His summons at a small door in the wall was quickly answered, and he entered without a word to the porter.

  • Before a small door on an upper landing he stopped.

  • General Verdier, fourth floor, small door on the left, surely this is a man likely to remember my father!

  • The immediate connection of the colonnade with the area behind the stage was now cut off by a wall (4); there was left only a small door in the corner, which could be readily fastened.

  • Another sleeping room (9) was provided with both a large and a small door (p.

  • Sometimes, as in the house of Epidius Rufus, there was in addition a small door at the side of the vestibule opening into a narrow passage connecting with the fauces (Fig.

  • Then, seeing a small door in the panel of the apartment, he went towards it.

  • We will only say that a gentleman (or a lady) could enter very privately by a small door in the large garden which opened into a back lane absolutely deserted, communicating from the Rue Marboeuf to the Rue de Chaillot.

  • A small door on the left of the northern entrance shall be left open.

  • They reached the terrace by a small door, and went quickly through the ruins to the tower.

  • Now, she hurried along a corridor to a small door opening on to the terrace, hardly ever used except by herself when she went to talk to Martin in the tower.

  • Dian paused a moment and then went on slowly: "He knows of a small door on the first floor which leads into the garden, and he has given me the key to this door.

  • He tugged at the knob, for the window shut like a small door.

  • He hurried on, and found himself more quickly than he had expected at the end of the long passage, which was terminated by a small door.

  • At last, by the glimmer of the lantern which Job had now unmasked, the captain saw among the ivy a small door.

  • This opened a small door a few feet farther along the chalk road, and Job nodded to it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small door" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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