Old Wyat was prowling outside, with a cloth in her hand, pretending to dust the carved doorcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

A blink of aquamarine through the windows on one side of the pedi mented doorcase suggested a swimming-pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taste for Burning]

The lieutenant was striding onwards in full career towards the parlour, which lay at the opposite side of the intervening kitchen, when he somewhat roughly encountered the fair form of Mrs. Teague, which was extended halfway through the doorcase with a view to prevent his egress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 579, December 8, 1832] Reference

A copper train-oil lamp is fastened in the doorcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm] Reference

An ancient doorcase with a grotesque carving disclosed the entrance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

Before it was finished he was dozing comfortably against the doorcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Trembled] Reference

There he tilted his hatbrim to give shade to his eyes and leaned against the doorcase, looking idly out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The doorcase is doubtless that made in 1476; but the door, with its gilt nails and other adornments, has disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Care of Books] Reference

He stood up, crowbar in hand, and inserted the chisel blade of the implement between the edge of the door and the doorcase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dope] Reference

I remember -- the private staircase; how could I be such a fool? "and he crossed the chamber to where a low oaken doorcase was dimly visible in a distant corner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humorous Ghost Stories] Reference

And that I might do well for him, and yet be perfectly easy myself, I made a little tent for him in the vacant place between my two fortifications, in the inside of the last and in the outside of the first; and as there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed doorcase, and a door to it of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and causing the door to open on the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs waken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill, which was again laid across with smaller sticks instead of laths, and then thatched over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robinson Crusoe] Reference

And that I might do well for him, and yet be perfectly easy myself, I made a little tent for him in the vacant place between my two fortifications, in the inside of the last and in the outside of the first; and as there was a door or entrance there into my cave, I made a formal framed doorcase, and a door to it of boards, and set it up in the passage, a little within the entrance; and causing the door to open on the inside, I barred it up in the night, taking in my ladders, too; so that Friday could no way come at me in the inside of my innermost wall without making so much noise in getting over that it must needs waken me; for my first wall had now a complete roof over it of long poles, covering all my tent, and leaning up to the side of the hill, which was again laid across with smaller sticks instead of laths, and then thatched over a great thickness with the rice-straw, which was strong, like reeds; and at the hole or place which was left to go in or out by the ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robinson Crusoe]