Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...minutes after Guy Guileless, '82, might have been seen seated at a table in his room with a number of friends, all using Gaskell's Compendium by the light of a philosophical Argand burner. There is a gentle knock at the door, and the "lady-like" janitoress leaves a freshly washed bundle of linen and departs. Before long Guy's friends leave him and he is alone with the Compendium. With a light heart he prepares to retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping...
...echoed in the entry. I started to my feet, saying, "Hush! hear that!" Then he stopped and looked wonderingly at the door. The laughter outside did not abate; I wondered if the occupants of the other rooms did not hear it. Suddenly it ceased, and there was a knock at the door. That knock broke sharply across my nerves; I felt a horrible sensation of ghostly terror which I tried in vain to repress. I did not rise; I motioned to Steve to answer the summons. He smiles quietly, - even contemptuously, I thought, - and opened the door. There...
...leaps in demoniac exultation, and the boa-constrictor, after coiling himself tenderly but firmly around the waist of the intruder, gazes with embarrassing familiarity into his eyes, - in this forsaken region, far from civilization, with its weary load of unrest, its perpetual strivings after the unattainable, and its ceaseless Knock at the fast-closed gate of the empyrean, and all that --. But what am I saying, or where am I? Of course - I forgot - I am in South America; but this madness unseats my reason. I was wandering alone, and mourning for Carolinda. "O maiden," said I, "light...
...afar off he espied one of granite, which he made haste to enter. And being come up one flight of stairs a door stood before him, on which was written U. 5. Then Lighthead stood abashed, but presently the good Spirit of Knowledge came to him and whispered, "Knock, and it shall be opened." So Lighthead knocked, but it was not opened unto him. Then was he disconsolate, and descending the stairs two men met him. One was called Worldly Wise, - he wore a beaver hat, and a stick; the other, named Sloth, was likewise garmented. "Pray, sirs," quoth...
...Room in Luxury Hall. Seated at a table, a girl is busily writing; a knock at the door, and enters...