"Doorknob" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reached in under his vest to one of the pockets in the leather girdle, and a tiny steel instrument was inserted in the lock. There was a curious snipping sound, the doorknob turned slowly under his hand; then cautiously, inch by inch, he pushed the door open, slipped through—and stood motionless on the other side of the threshold. Save only from the dance hall below, there was not a sound. The door closed again; again that snipping sound as it was relocked—and ...
— The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... hand on the doorknob. "Do not be worried," he said. "Whatever happens, the attendant will know what ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... you couldn't walk a step in the house without breakin' your leg (the nurse she did sprain her ankle), on account o' the cat's-cradle effect the young villain had strung acrost the halls, an' from one doorknob to the other, so there wasn't an inch o' the place free. An' he'd got the tooth-paste toobs, an' squoze out the insides, an' painted over every bit o' mahogany he could find—doors, an' furnitur', ...
— Martha By-the-Day • Julie M. Lippmann
... on the doorknob, his high color challenging the doctor's calm. "I'm disgusted with you, Archie, for training with such a pup. A ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
... something about it." Mostyn bit his lip in vexation, as he reached out for the doorknob and ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... doesn't catch you when you're doing it!" he warned Jimmy. Henry Skunk was a quarrelsome fellow. There was no knowing what he wouldn't do if he caught anyone tying anything to his doorknob. "By the way," Frisky added, "where did you get the ...
— The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit - Sleepy-TimeTales • Arthur Scott Bailey |
