Often, afterward, she wondered at her humility of that night, for whatever the quick thought might have been which made her reach out one hand to touch the doorframe beside her, her words were merely mild.
So I was too busy to take more than a vague notice of a hand that clamped onto the doorframe until the door opened and closed again.
Standing motionless and speechless, a slender hand on either side of the doorframe, she watched her sisters claim the mother's first kiss.
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The library and its adjacent structure are detailed so that the viewer is gently aware of new sills and metal doorframes and an illuminated linear storage unit.
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For that purpose a staircase anddoorframewere made in the structure, which had been up to that point a massive building.
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The installation consisted of a number baby girls dresses, hung with fishing lines, hooks, black cloths, together with a black sofa, table,doorframe.
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Thedoorframeand the oversized color inside, then block the entrance to the exhibition.
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Houses had a sturdy nail driven into thedoorframenext to the door.
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In time, the casement would be replaced by the sash window, and improved building techniques allowed window- and door-frames to be removed from the wallplate.
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The contact band looks somewhat like adoorframe, and the term - it was coined by the ancients - is allusive.
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The size of the lintel enables to determine the size of the door-frame and consequently of the principal entrance to the sanctum.
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The sill of this door-frame is also of gigantic dimensions and shows a vase in the center flanked by two lions satatant.
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These are usually purchased at a market a few days before and glued to thedoorframe.
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Furthermore, thedoorframeis mentioned in all standard police detective textbooks as a routine location to search.
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Bruno is then depicted being pulled across the floor by an unknown force; he attempts to cling to a door-frame, but loses his grip.
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