Citations:door

English citations of door

Noun: A portal of entry into a building or room, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge

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• 1594 — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3 sc. 1

  No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
  church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for
  me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

• 1598-9 — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing act 1 sc. 1

  With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord; not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.

• 1640 — John Donne, LXXX Sermons

  I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

• 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, st. 1

  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
  Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
  While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
  As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

• 1972 — Bernard Malamud, Rembrandt's Hat

  There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go—if there are no doors or windows—he walks through a wall.

Noun: An non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.

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• 1637 — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom

  Never open the door to the least of evils, for many other, greater ones lurk outside.

• 1940 — Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

  There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.