Word: doors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heard a rapping at my door...
...twenty-one. The entrance to this vestibule and the library will occupy the place in the east wing which corresponds to the place of entrance now used in the west wing. At the summit of the steps leading to the entrance will be a large platform. The old door is to be closed, and we shall be heartily glad to get rid of the inconvenience undergone in getting in and out of the building. A corridor, which will be lighted by windows from above, will run the length of the wing between the main room and the rooms...
...BONNE.AS I was thinking about what I should write upon this week, I heard a slight jingling of keys outside the door, followed by a very faint tap. I sang out, "Come"; upon which I heard the sound of a key grating in the lock; but, as the latch was up, the key did n't turn, so it was taken out, and the goody, for she it was, opened the door in the way that anybody else would have tried at first. She glided into the bedroom with a subdued "Good morning, sir," and reappeared with great promptness, having...
...devoutly thankful for, - my room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which at the next dusting...
...occasionally started among the students that some trouble might be saved to the subscribers of the Crimson by having the paper left at the College rooms on the evening of publication. We have offered before to do this, but whether subscribers have feared to lose papers left at the door, or have been too indolent to send in their names, nothing has resulted. In case, however, the suggestion meets the wishes of the present subscribers, and a tolerably large number send in their names and numbers of rooms to P. O. Box 56, we will engage to have the paper...