doorpost

In the centre of them, and before a heap of the skulls of men which were piled up against his doorposts, sat Jikiza, a huge man, a hairy and a proud, who glared about him rolling his eyes.

Mimi, towards whom the draught from the open door wafted the smoke, rose up choking, and ran to the inner door, which she threw open to its fullest extent, disclosing on the outside a curtain of thin silk, fixed to the doorposts. The draught from the open door swayed the thin silk towards her, and in her fright, she tore down the curtain, which enveloped her from head to foot.

It was an ordinance of the Republic One and Indivisible of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, that on the door or doorpost of every house, the name of every inmate must be legibly inscribed in letters of a certain size, at a certain convenient height from the ground.

A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.

So you see Molly, the housemaid, of a morning, watching a spider in the doorpost lay his thread and laboriously crawl up it, until, tired of the sport, she raises her broom and sweeps away the thread and the artificer.

There were so many lodgers in this house that the doorpost seemed to be as full of bell-handles as a cathedral organ is of stops.

'Very,' said Lowten, scribbling his name on the doorpost with his pen, and rubbing it out again with the feather.

They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb.

The doorposts were set in concrete and the door was hung in place.

Besides hanging these items in the wrists or necks by worshipers from these various denominations, some hang them on the doorposts of their shops, houses, cars, etc.

Before the British came with writing,' says Cosmos, our guide at the National Museum in Lagos, 'carving was our information.' He gestures towards a group of doorposts and panels, which, with their exquisitely rendered motifs of fish, tortoises, and weaponry, would once have identified the owners of the huts they adorned, advertising their expertise as hunters or as fishermen like modern storefront signs.

It was discovered the 'military man in charge of the church hall' had painted the edges of its windows, doorposts and lintel with a thick coating of whitewash.