Portals

Usage examples of doorways.

She slowed her steps, glancing cautiously into the dark doorways, saw only a single hunched shape, possibly male, drunk or drugged in the corner of the boarded-over door to a store that, she vaguely remembered, had once sold jewelry.

And before she had any time to prepare herself for it, there they stood on the embankment, with the Grand Canal opening resplendently before them in gleaming amorphous blues and greens and olives and silvers, and the tottering palace fronts of marble and inlay leaning over to look at their faces in it, and the mooring poles, top-heavy, striped, lantern-headed, bristling outside the doorways in the cobalt-shadowed water, and the sudden bunches of piles propped together like drunks holding one another up outside an English pub after closing time.

Peter, but a dozen other late-comers took the warning, and came scurrying out of alleys and doorways, as the bus surged round the bend and pulled up in a cloud of dust by the shoe-stall.

Small children squatted in dark doorways, staring at them with great eyes all the time they were passing, without excitement and without wonder.

Through the red-brick wall they went, and along a resounding wooden platform past two open doorways on the right, through which there emerged from nondescript wooden buildings a blaze of colour and light which dazzled her eyes.

All the doorways were probably too small for it, but small doorways had not troubled it before.

Whether from reflex or design, most mature men and little boys had ducked for cover, flattening themselves to the pavement or rolling into doorways and underneath parked cars.

At the second close, he chose not to waste any more time and ran in, passing dimly lit doorways festooned with graffiti, dank walls, and frozen cobbles.

Another child clung to his right leg, while a third rode his tricycle at various walls and doorways, making quite loud sounds with his mouth.

The coat with which they had covered the body fell off as they awkwardly turned through the two doorways, and the women saw their man, naked to the waist, lying stripped for work.

They nodded or raised one hand gravely to people they knew standing in the doorways as they rolled out down the dusty street.

They drove through the streets and made stops at little dimlit doorways and small houses and tiendas until nearly all the parcels in the bed of the truck had been dispersed and a few new ones taken aboard.

Their doorways and deep-set windows were framed with carved fretwork and pillars of ancient design.

Weeds growing in the doorways showed that there was no one left inside to clean them away.