I was brooding on this when the front-door bell rang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28] Reference

Not the telephone; no, it must be the front-door bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Midway through dinner came a ring at the front-door bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21] Reference

An intruder entered a store by breaking front-door glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. Crime Watch] Reference

An office suite was entered by breaking front-door glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. Crime Watch] Reference

No, it was a different sound and came from the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Arnold or, the Country Cousin] Reference

She did not hear the prolonged ringing of the front-door bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

I dashed for my front-door, but found myself forcibly dragged back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917] Reference

In the midst of our talk, we heard the front-door of the house open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

The visitor at length enters the porch, and knocks at the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

Miss Jemima took the cards, and "Cobbler" Horn made for the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

THE speckled hen walked all around the house, and saw the front-door open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, November 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 5] Reference

Property was stolen from a residence entered by prying open a front-door lock.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. Crime Watch] Reference

With a little scream, she ran out at the front-door, and caught him by the arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

Nevertheless, knocking at the front-door seemed the right thing to do, and I did it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

An intruder entered a residence by smashing a front-door window and ransacked a bedroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [D.C. Crime Watch] Reference

They give chase together and catch the public man just as he is escaping from the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30] Reference

And Hyundai issued its own stop-sale on the 2011 Sonata because of a faulty front-door latch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opinion: What's been lost in the Toyota crisis?] Reference

The wiring harness is used for lighting the Soul front-door speakers and Sorento accent trim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recall: 2010 Kia Soul, 2011 Sorento - Fire risk] Reference

A ring came at the front-door, and in a moment I heard the woman coming up the basement stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

In the stress of conversation they had neither of them noticed the tinkle of the front-door bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Our front-door is not quite in the centre; but, thanks to the verandah, one does not perceive it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference

All these considerations rendered my situation upon the stone step at the front-door very peculiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference

When a fire hydrant was in the way of her front-door parking spot in Boston, she paid to have it moved.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman Of Focus And Fortune] Reference

"Had a good day?" said Frederic cheerily, stamping the snow off his boots as I met him at the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919] Reference

He heard the latchkey in the front-door just at that moment, and he ran upstairs and hid under Ethel's bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Book of London] Reference

And now, quite desperate, she rushed through the house and out of the front-door, actually in search of a man!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference

Lest her immaculate door-step should be soiled, she would rarely allow him to enter the house by the front-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

When people pay visits to me, I wish them to come to the front-door, and ring the bell, and send up their names.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference

He had not gone far, before he saw the front-door open, and Mr. Rougeant come out, holding a lighted candle in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Hetty, who was just entering the front-door, turned suddenly, and walking swiftly toward them, said, in a clear firm tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hetty's Strange History] Reference

One day I was at work in the cellar, when I heard strange voices at the front-door: so I went out to sec what was the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1875] Reference

Presently he heard the front-door open downstairs; and then there were voices in the hall, one of which he recognised as hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference

The minister let himself in at a small door in the boundary wall, and made his way, through the grounds, to the front-door of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference