How To Use Doorkeeper In A Sentence
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Then he fell a-weeping and a-wailing but the doorkeeper said to him, “No harm shall befal thee, and Allah will requite him his deed.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Only the sight of the doorkeeper brought me to a standstill.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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This was gained by descending again to the cellar, by surrendering the brass check to a burly doorkeeper, and by climbing a long flight of stairs into the upper regions.
COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES
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Then a pretty little girl, Tilly Turtelle, who seemed quite a premature flirt, proposed "doorkeeper" -- a suggestion accepted with great _eclat_ by all the children, several grown people assenting.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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The doorkeeper gave the alarm as soon as he saw the smoke.
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These were a doorkeeper, four seated scribes with their document boxes, an overseer and his assistant, and three laborers.
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The doorkeeper said nobody in costume had left the theatre.
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From 1976 to 1983, he was the assistant doorkeeper in the House.
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`The doorkeeper will get round to letting us in sooner or later," Garin remarked.
A TIME OF WAR
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He suggested that the ‘men in tights’, the doorkeepers in 18th century outfits who currently guard the entrances to the Commons were no match for the aggressive young men who staged the protest.
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She immediately ordered suspension of the sitting as doorkeepers tried to wrestle the men to the ground.
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Above these on the left side stood the parish, the basic building-block of the secular Church, with its priest and attendants, the deacon, subdeacon, acolyte, exorcist, reader, and doorkeeper.
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The president made it very clear he would set and direct that budget authority, and that he was the doorkeeper of intelligence.
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I have to run downstairs because I'm the doorkeeper.
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Once everyone was safely in, the doorkeeper seized an enormous lever and pulled.
A TIME OF WAR
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The doorkeeper, unable to refuse such a firm yet polite man, consented at last, giving us his final warning.
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An interactive hologram in the form of a shapely mink was inset in the wall to the side, and served as doorkeeper.
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The doorkeeper will be the Commonwealth summit's host, President
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Roger Bacon is said to have forged a brazen head which spoke, and Albertus Magnus to have had an androides, which acted as doorkeeper, and was broken to pieces by Aquinas.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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He is alleged to have blocked the path of a doorkeeper and unfurled a banner as the protest took place.
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He took them and, shutting the door of the closet upon Abu Sir, fared forth without telling any; and the doorkeeper was then at market and thus saw him not go out.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The runner knocked and announced her to the doorkeeper.
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He said he is going to be the doorkeeper of intelligence.
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The doorkeeper prevents nonparticipants, such as news journalists, from entering the session.
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Whether the maid who was told off by the elder Milton to sit up till twelve or one o'clock in the morning for this wonderful Pauline realized that she was a kind of doorkeeper in the house of genius, and blessed accordingly, is not known, and may be doubted.
Obiter Dicta Second Series
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'Where the doorkeeper is a churl, what will folk say of the master of the house?' said Scudamore.
St. George and St. Michael
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Except the pawnbroker's, the distiller's, and the undertaker's, the houses are literally ruins; but these doorkeepers to Famine, Disease, and Death, living by the calamities of others, are in a flourishing state.
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He is an expert doorkeeper, opening and closing by his will.
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In this case we can’t believe the doorkeeper is the man’s subordinate.
The Trial
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‘Hey, you can't come in here,‘the doorkeeper growled, stepping in front of him and blocking his way.
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After some hesitation she wrote on Skip's note the "scatting" words, _ "Nothing doing" _ and sent it back by the dismal stage doorkeeper.
We Can't Have Everything
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After a while a friendly doorkeeper appeared and apologised for the malfunction of the automatic door.
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The doorkeeper tipped his hat as we entered.
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The doorkeeper won't let you in if he doesn't like your face.
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On the way from the second antechamber, called the ostium, to the atrium itself, Vinicius said, -- "Hast noticed that thee doorkeepers are without chains?
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero
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Five of the men managed to get past uniformed doorkeepers and into the chamber, with three others intercepted as they tried to join them.
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For example, the doorkeeper did most of the jobs we would now associate with the modern verger.
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In a crowded chamber, with more than 400 MPs in their place, the head doorkeeper burst in pointing up to the two men in the gallery above.
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The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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In this case we can't believe the doorkeeper is the man's subordinate.
The Trial
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Darwin stood for me like a mighty doorkeeper at the entrance to the temple of the universe.
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But it was an authority on earth, and the idea of Peter as some doorkeeper of heaven should be resisted.
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The doorkeeper was a tall, willowy man wearing a jacket and pantaloons of brown silk.
Lord of the Isles
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The doorkeeper was not going to let the fans into the room as they were not 18.
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The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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Mrs. Winters presents herself at the heavenly gate and there is asked what she has done to make the world better, and when she has to confess that she has never done anything outside of her own house, and nothing there except agreeable things, such as entertaining friends who next week will entertain her, and embroidering 'insets' for corset-covers for dainty ladies who already have corset-covers enough to fill a store-window, -- I wonder if she will be able to put it over on the heavenly doorkeeper that 'the Doctor would not let her.'
The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder
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And it was with the same automatical step that he entered the doorkeeper's room to take his key.
His Masterpiece
