Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "side-door".
A porter, sporting long mustachioes, came out through a side-door and gravely examined us.
Just then there appeared from a side-door old Mr. Turveydrop, in the full lustre of his deportment.
A porter, sporting long mustachioes, came out through a side-door and gravely examined us.
He hastened to the side-door with Ali, entered hurriedly, and by the servants' staircase, of which he had the key, gained his bedroom without opening or disarranging a single curtain, without even the porter having the slightest suspicion that the house, which he supposed empty, contained its chief occupant.
MICAWBER (who gracefully bowed her acknowledgements from the side-door, where a galaxy of beauty was elevated on chairs, at once to witness and adorn the gratifying scene), Mrs.
When I was warmed, I again went down, got four cans from other motors, and drove away -- to Woolwich, as I thought: but instead of crossing the river by Blackfriars, I went more eastward, and, having passed into Cheapside, which was impassable, unless I crept, was going to turn back, when I observed a phonograph-shop, into which I got by a side-door, seized by curiosity to hear what I might hear: so I put one, with a lot of records, into the car, for there was still a strong peach-odour in this closed shop which displeased me.