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Sentences ending with threshold

The dust kicked up by the crowd dimmed the few lamps and torches which had not by this time burned out or been extinguished, and an oppressive atmosphere of balsamic resin and spices met the brother and sister on the very threshold. [10]
As she looked up a perfectly radiant smile illuminated her usually plain face, an unworldly expression of such purity and happiness that she seemed actually beautiful to the priest, who stopped, hesitating, upon the threshold. [4]
Stop at the threshold! [6]
Moor went towards the door, but it was thrown wide open ere he reached it, and a bearded lansquenet crossed the threshold. [10]
Ye know, also, that when mosques are builded, asses bear the stones and the cement, and cross the sacred threshold. [5]
The Saskatchewan flowed swiftly between its verdant banks, an eagle went floating away to the west, robins made vocal a solitary tree a few yards away, troopers moved backwards and forwards across the square, and a hen and her chickens came fluttering to the threshold. [11]
She had a sudden conviction, as, holding the blind in her hand, she looked out into the night, that again tragedy was to cross her threshold. [11]
Hereupon my brother started up in a rage, but the chamber door was opened, and with the maid, who brought the lamp in, the Bohemian crossed the threshold. [10]
How can you so unfeelingly destroy the whole happiness of a human being--" The door had opened, and the burgomaster's wife crossed the threshold. [10]
Mrs. Mackellar's motherly smile, Sam's civil bow, and the rosy cheeks of many-buttoned Robert made us feel at home as soon as we crossed the threshold. [6]

More example sentences with the word threshold in them

At the threshold your eyes fall upon a Latin sentence of welcome, sometimes, or a picture of a dog, with the legend "Beware of the Dog," and sometimes a picture of a bear or a faun with no inscription at all. [5]
I have never yet crossed the threshold of the Little Gentleman's chamber. [6]
If only they would leave us in peace--" "Hark, that is Pollux; I know by the dogs," said the woman, hastening as fast as she could over the threshold and out to meet him. [10]
If my opinion's worth anything, I should not hesitate to declare that we're on the threshold of a greater religious era than the world has ever seen. [9]
But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
Hodder repeated the word, as one groping on the threshold of a great discovery . [9]
Breathless, speechless, dripping with perspiration, and with bleeding lips, the elder messenger sank on the threshold of Amminadab's house, now the home of Miriam also. [10]
He rapped loudly with his knuckles on the inside of the door-post of the ante-room, coughed loudly, and then said, bowing deeply to the steward on the threshold of the sitting-room: "Noble Keraunus--I have come, as beseems me, to pay you my respects. [10]
But never again will I cross this threshold uninvited, or enter a house where right is trodden underfoot, where defenceless innocence is insulted and abandoned to despair. [10]
He saw that while Gabrielle lived, a dead misfortune would be ever crouching at the threshold of Freeman's home, that whether the woman agreed to be silent or not, the hurt to Clare would remain the same. [11]
But better things were to come: as I was about to knock at the door it opened, and five gentlemen of the Council, all men of the first rank among the Elders of the city, appeared on the threshold, and Master Pernhart in their midst. [10]
When the ambassadors were already on the threshold, he called after them: "Wherever she may be, however late it may become, you will bring her. [10]
I bowed and went towards the door, and was already on the threshold when he called me back once more, and said: 'Remember your parents and their fate! [10]
But some time was to elapse ere he could execute this praiseworthy intention; for before he could cross the threshold the landlord of The Pike appeared, berated him, and ordered him to be more civil in the performance of his duties. [10]
My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious: circumstances favoured and fostered her tendency to seclusion; except to go to church, or take a walk on the hills, she rarely crossed the threshold of home. [14]
Presently the door was flung open, And they saw Mr. Whipple standing in the threshold, stern and dishevelled. [9]
The short day was drawing to a close, shadows were gathering in the corners of Ditmar's room as she reached the threshold and gazed about her at the objects there so poignantly familiar. [9]
The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
Her cheerful voice was audible even in the hall, and when she crossed the threshold we flew to her, and the spell was broken. [10]
A harsh answer was already on his lips, when he saw Ulrich, who had paused on the threshold in bewilderment. [10]
The maid hurried towards the door, which still stood open, and on its threshold was the woman to whom she intended to pay her early visit. [10]
Presently a man totters across the threshold, upheld with sore difficulty by the gate-keeper Endres inasmuch as his own knees quake; and he who comes home thus, as he might be drunken or grievously hurt, is none other than my brother Herdegen. [10]
In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
Caracalla allowed him to go, but, as he stepped across the threshold, he called after him: "Tomorrow, then, with your sister, after the bath! [10]
Hastening through the throng, which promptly made way for the doctor, she found Father Damon lying across the threshold, as he had fallen, colorless and unconscious. [4]
Barbara crossed the threshold, and called her by her name in a tone of kindly reproach. [10]
But on the threshold of the door, Ameni, in full pontifical robes, stood before her in the way, his crozier extended as though to forbid her entrance. [10]
I crossed the threshold in trembling, and as soon as she beheld me she cried out, with burning cheeks, which glowed not so, for sure, from the blaze in the chimney: "Margery, Margery! [10]
But on the threshold he started back, and Helena, who had followed him, did the same, for there stood his friend Dion, and Barine's beautiful head lay on his breast, while his hand rested as if in benediction on her fair hair. [10]
She felt as though she, and all Nature with her, had just crossed the threshold of a new day, bidding her to fresh life and labor. [10]
Both had crossed this threshold for the first time for four years, that is since the marriage of Mena with Nefert, and the old enmity seemed now to have given way to heartfelt reconciliation and mutual understanding. [10]
A man ere this has lost his life by carrying his shoe-leather across the threshold of a mosque, and this sort of thing William Sowerby knew, and of his knowledge he heeded. [11]
Sabina had required this concession, since it could not be pleasant to any one visiting Lochias to be received on the threshold by an old Megaera of evil omen, and to be fallen upon by infuriated dogs. [10]
She was standing then on the brink of a new and beautiful experience, at the threshold of an acknowledged love. [11]
Presently he heard the voice again: "He waits at the threshold stone-- (Why should the key-hole rust? [11]
A minute afterwards the two constables held back the crowd from the doorway of the root-house, from the threshold of which a few wooden steps descended to the ground inside. [11]
He paused at the threshold, with his hand on his Adam's apple. [9]
I stood upon the threshold, just about to enter. [4]
He turned at the threshold, and said to Miles, "You'll find it to your advantage to offend not with useless endeavours at escape. [5]
Hester stood on the threshold, and old Nancy beside her. [9]
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. [10]
Then I crossed the threshold resolutely. [11]
He had crossed the threshold of the paraschites most reluctantly, and the thought that he, of all men, had been selected to censure a deed of the noblest humanity, and to bring her who had done it to judgment, weighed upon him as a calamity. [10]
And when on the threshold of the drawing-room she paused, the conversation suddenly ceased. [9]
She was on the threshold of the Alhambra. [9]
I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. [5]
Yet here on the threshold I find an inequality. [5]
But even on the threshold Herdegen saw through their purpose, and had no sooner shut the door than he drew his hunting knife. [10]
Ere he crossed the threshold he saw that Charles was suffering and felt troubled by some important matter, and soon learned what he desired to know. [10]
His companion crossed the threshold close behind him, sullen, deeply incensed, and determined to order his son to choose between his love and favour and the daughter of this unfriendly man, whom only a sudden accident had prevented from breaking the betrothal. [10]
Tushin appeared at the threshold and made his way timidly from behind the backs of the generals. [2]
He stopped at the threshold and asked in Russian whether Drubetskoy lived there. [2]
The rest of the spectators also kept anxious and uneasy silence while the lictors bound Zminis's hands, and, in spite of his attempts to raise his voice once more in self-defense, dragged him away and thrust him out across the threshold of the dining-hall. [10]
The thought of the greeting awaiting him from her dispelled the timidity with which he had set his foot on the first of the three steps that led up to the threshold of the house. [10]
In the meantime the deceased Casi came from the direction of an out-house, and stood in front on the threshold of our room with a 'lota' in her hand. [5]
Siebenburg had overtaken the apprentices, but ere crossing the threshold of the house which was now his home he stopped before it. [10]
In reply to the anxious question of her husband, whom she met on the threshold of the room, as to what she was seeking there, she answered firmly, "What is right and pious"; then modestly whispered her request to the abbot. [10]
When he had Stepped across the threshold, an inward voice warned him to return, and told him that he must be treading the path of unrighteousness, for that he was stealing in on tiptoe like a thief; but the excuse was ready at once. [10]
Just as we stepped across the threshold the executioner gave his machine a slight turn, which wrung a cry from both the prisoner and the woman; but I shouted, and the executioner released the strain without waiting to see who spoke. [5]
Danger over, the Somauli sank down on the threshold, fainting from loss of blood. [11]
He already saw Sister Death upon the threshold, and he wished to depart in peace and reap the reward for so much conflict, pain, and sacrifice. [10]
Pharaoh uttered a sigh of relief as he crossed the threshold of the audience chamber and, accosting his wife, said: "If Hosea wins his cause, we shall cross the bridge safely. [10]
I halted in sheer embarrassment on the threshold, looked up at his face, and came on, troubled. [9]
Never, as she said to my uncle, would she have suffered a workingman's daughter to cross her threshold, whereas she had a large place, not alone at her table but in her heart, for this gentle daughter of a worthy member of the worshipful Council. [10]
No man is safe whose unguarded threshold the mischief-making questioner has crossed. [6]
Quilp glanced at Richard Swiveller, and observed that having met him on the threshold, he assumed that he had come in search of some intelligence of the fugitives. [12]
When Princess Mary returned to her room after her nocturnal talk with Pierre, Natasha met her on the threshold. [2]
The gas inside rendered it more difficult to tell who was on the threshold, but Mrs. Leighton decided from a timorous peep through the scrims that it was a lady and gentleman. [8]
Margaret, at any rate, was a little tired with the multiform excitements of her summer, and experienced a feeling of relief when she crossed her own threshold and entered into the freedom and quiet of her home. [4]
No excommunication, no punishment, can make my present suffering harder to bear, but if you harm the doctor, I shall curse the hour I invited you to cross my threshold. [10]
Her heart was pounding as she climbed the dark stairs and thrust open the door, and she stood a moment on the threshold almost choked by the fumes of tobacco, bewildered by the scene within, confused by the noise. [9]
Keep but your place and simply meet The needs of life; Mine is the sorrow, mine the prayerless pain: The world is rife With spectres seen and spectres all unseen By human eyes, Who stand upon the threshold, at the gates, Of Paradise. [11]
No one was permitted to cross the threshold except herself and an elderly nun, whom the Clares had sent for the sake of the wounded man's dead mother. [10]
He paused, a perceptible moment, on the threshold as his look fell upon the man whom he had deprived of home and fortune,--yes and of the one woman in the world for them both. [9]
The young man paused on the threshold in embarrassment, and gazed at Ledscha with pleased surprise. [10]
When she had passed the Brothers, however, she paused on the threshold before going into the entry and again gazed at the old man's noble, pallid features illumined by the candlelight. [10]
A woman rushed out and seeing Prince Andrew stopped, hesitating on the threshold. [2]
As for the other, you say that Father Corraine's threshold is his own, and at his own command. [11]
Woe to Ned or Jackson or Tato, if they came an inch over the threshold from the hall beyond! [9]
His wife had opened the door, and now remained standing on the threshold, but he did not notice her until she called his name and advanced towards him. [10]
Suddenly her door opened softly and her old nurse, Praskovya Savishna, who hardly ever came to that room as the old prince had forbidden it, appeared on the threshold with a shawl round her head. [2]
William Wetherell, in one of his letters, had described that place as the Threshold of the Nameless Worlds, and so it had seemed to Jethro in the years of his desolation. [9]
I had never once darkened her threshold since I had left her house. [9]
He was standing on the threshold of the other world, and it was easy for her to think of him kindly, deeply as he had often wounded her. [10]
He was now on the threshold of his long-desired campaign against the Turks. [4]
One was that of the comfortable, middle-aged Mr. Jenney himself, standing on the threshold of the barn, and laughing heartily, and crying: "Hang on to him That's right--get him by the nose! [9]
From the balcony of the audience chamber a flourish of trumpets echoed loudly along the arches of the lofty, vaulted ceiling of the apartment, and the Emperor, leading the company, crossed the threshold attended by several dignitaries, the court jesters, and some pages. [10]
They spoke quietly of places they both had visited, of people whom they knew in common, until they came to the hills--the very threshold of Paradise on that September evening. [9]
Then, willing or not, he was obliged to announce his presence, and, with a timid "It is I, Wolf," he approached the little bow-windowed room and hesitatingly crossed the threshold. [10]
The dogs would not stir beyond the threshold and on the white marble step, towards the right-hand side, the print of a man's foot was found in the dust. [10]
Judge Whipple did not go in at the door--He stood uncompromisingly planted on the threshold, his head flung back, and actual fierceness in his stare. [9]
I can have no pleasure in her presence; if she comes into the room I feel as though misfortune had crossed the threshold. [10]
Out of the night there comes a wanderer, Who waits upon the threshold, and is still; And listens, and bows down his head, until His grief-drawn breath startles the heart of her. [11]
Els accepted the new duty as a matter of course and went to the door; but at the threshold she turned back, rushed to the deathbed, kissed the pure brow and closed eyelids of the sleeper, and then knelt beside her in silent prayer. [10]
This threshold shall never be crossed by any but those to whom I grant permission, or by the emperor's judge, to whom I must yield. [10]
It was untenanted, neglected; its windows were unwashed, a pane of glass was broken; its threshold appeared untrodden, its whole aspect forlorn and desolate. [6]
If the truth must be told, Mr. Ives had been on the very threshold of the hall, and one glance at the poor sprinkling of people there had decided him. [9]
At sight of Mr. Vane she halted suddenly on the threshold, and a gleam of mischief came into her eye as she thrust her hand into her coat pocket. [9]
Another moment, and Mr. Judson had gained admittance with his private key, and stood on the threshold staring at clerk and customer. [9]
Petrus and Dorothea met her on the threshold, and the latter pressed her to her heart, kissed her forehead and said, "Poor woman; we know now that we have done you an injustice, and will try to make it good. [10]

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