It hadn't simply fallen off, either; he'd wrenched it from the doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
What I got kept me standing where I was, thumb to doorplate, bewildered, then suspicious. From Wordnik.com. [Uncharted Stars]
Outsider doorplate, waited while the door slid sideways, then stepped out dimly lit hall. From Wordnik.com. [Step into Chaos]
The doorplate that shows our stateroom number has a little notch in it that paper can be slotted into. From Wordnik.com. [April 18th, 2007] Reference
CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES -- V.A. SOLOVYOV read the doorplate of the chamber she led me into. From Wordnik.com. [This Side of Ultima Thule] Reference
Next year, though, we're taking the doorplate off the roof access if we can't stand outside and see the fireworks. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
From what he could read, it repeated many of the same warnings found on the doorplate, only in more strident and emphatic tones. From Wordnik.com. [Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon] Reference
There was probably no single home on Avalon that didn't have a plaque, lamp, sculpture, or doorplate signed with his rakish scrawl. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
Standing in a central and open place it was not difficult to discover, a well-burnished brass doorplate bearing their names prominently. From Wordnik.com. [Life's Little Ironies] Reference
The boiler room was at the back of the building, down a dark hallway and behind a fire door with a one-way lock: no handle, no doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
The name and rank of each officer was on a doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks or, Two Recruits in the United States Army] Reference
Why, it is a kind of a doorplate, after all, don't you see?. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
He tensed as he swept his hand across the doorplate into his lab, his heart tight. From Wordnik.com. [Wraithbait] Reference
"Why, I thought it was the lady-of-the-house's name," said Timothy; "I saw it on her doorplate.". From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion with a doorplate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish?. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
Address Locator is an extension provided by SuperGIS Server, which offers complete doorplate address data in Taiwan. From Wordnik.com. [GISuser - GIS and Geospatial Technology News] Reference
Wu was depressed that his house was blown away, but he could not get any compensation because of his lack of a doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference
M.. Augustus Tibbetts, late of H.M. Houssa Rifles, was, as his doorplate testified, the M.naging Director of "Schemes, Ltd.". From Wordnik.com. [Bones in London] Reference
He could distinguish fruit from leaves on a tree, and read the name on a doorplate where others could see nothing in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
However, Wu said that he and his wife had just built a house when the typhoon hit the area and they had not yet put up a doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference
Timothy concluded that she was not, after all, the lady of the house; and, remembering the marble doorplate in the orchard, tried again. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
After seeing that doorplate, you will hardly need to hear his nasal intonation to know that he came from the land of the tutelary codfish. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories] Reference
The doorplate, which had so attracted my attention, was gone, and in a few minutes we found that she had departed also, leaving no trace behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Hand 1897] Reference
The Dummy knew nothing of the washing; the early morning was the time when he polished the brass doorplate which said: Hospital and Free Dispensary. From Wordnik.com. [Love Stories] Reference
To step softly into the side orchard on pleasant evenings, and without a word, before or afterwards, to lay a nosegay on Martha's little white doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
The walls and verandah, of his house, which were of wood, glistened almost as brightly with white paint as the knocker and doorplate did with brass lacquer. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
The brass doorplate of No. 7 -- "Copenhagen Academy for the Sons of Gentlemen. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Island] Reference
"That's a country doorplate," he thought; "yes, it's got the lady's name, 'Martha Cummins,' printed on it. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
What is yonder undetected villain’s marble mansion with a doorplate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish?. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
"Not a silver one on your door, like they have in the city; but isn't that white marble piece in the yard a doorplate?. From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
I DEFINITELY still have my doorplate… as well as a welded heart on a chain that we received at Valentine’s Day, I think. From Wordnik.com. [abada abada › good choices made a long time ago] Reference
Kathleen pressed her hand to the doorplate. From Wordnik.com. [Cradle and All]
I only suppose -- but no doubt correctly -- that you are the gentleman whose title is on the doorplate. ". From Wordnik.com. [The American Claimant] Reference
The name on the doorplate of his house was. From Wordnik.com. [Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives] Reference
"But we ain't got any doorplate, to begin with.". From Wordnik.com. [Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It] Reference
Not bad for a doorplate, isn’t it?. From Wordnik.com. [In the academe « BuzzMachine] Reference
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