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Updated: May 9, 2025
The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen, and all the angles, and corners, and carvings, and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.
Charles Larkyns, and a throng of their acquaintances were sitting in Mr. Bouncer's rooms, on the evening of November 5, when a knock at the oak was heard; and as Mr. Bouncer roared out, "Come in!" the knocker entered. Opening the door, and striking into an attitude, he exclaimed in a theatrical tone and manner: "Scene, Mr.
However great my reluctance I felt I couldnt afford to risk giving offense and so at fouroclock promptly I was in Georgetown, using the knocker of a door looking like all the other doors on both sides of the street. "I'm Winifred Thario and youre the chewinggum man no, wait a minute, I'll get it the food concentrate man who's going to make Joe essential to the war effort.
Herbert was already rehearsing in his mind the exact tone in which he should say to Si: "Uncle, we think it only right " when, as they approached the house, they both saw a white envelope suspended under the knocker of the door. It was addressed to "Mr Herbert Roden," in the handwriting of Silas. The moment was dramatic.
Now the Moon does not love derision, as I well know, for in part I serve the Moon." "Eh?" says Jurgen: and he began to reflect. So they came to a wall that was high and gray, and to the door which was in the wall. "You must knock two or three times," says Anaitis, "to get into Cocaigne." Jurgen observed the bronze knocker upon the door, and he grinned in order to hide his embarrassment.
"Lovely place this village must be in the winter," he said irrelevantly. "A girl would be buried alive here." It was then some one rapped at the knocker on the heavy front door. Halsey got up leisurely and opened it, admitting Warner. He was out of breath from running, and he looked half abashed. "I am sorry to disturb you," he said. "But I didn't know what else to do. It's about Thomas."
No; her ladyship made the most solemn and desperate protestation, that she would sooner give up her gala altogether tie up the knocker say she was sick rather be sick, or be dead, than be obliged to have such a creature as Sir Terence O'Fay at her gala.
Roundjacket's face assumed an expression of dastardly guilt, and he avoided Verty's eye. "Lavinia!" he murmured. At the same moment a diminutive footman gave a rousing stroke with the knocker, and delivered into the hands of the old woman, who opened the door, a glass dish of delicacies such as are affected by sick persons.
The brass knocker and the brass plate were there too, as dirty as ever perhaps a thought dirtier and the dirty house still retreated a little behind its fellows, and was still as much ashamed of itself seemingly as ever. Ned raised the knocker, and smote the brass knob.
After passing the tables of the money-changers, and the stone seats on which the citizens sat in the open air and held their consultations, they arrived at the house of Theopompus. The stroke given by their Greek guide with the metal knocker on the house-door was answered at once by a slave.
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