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Examples
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"He's with me," Joe said to the door-keeper, who was talking with a policeman.
Chapter 3 2010
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“This is no mortal, ‘this is naught save a noble angel’”; 266 and others, “Hath Rizwan, the door-keeper of the Eden-garden, left the gate of Paradise unguarded, that this youth hath come forth.”
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She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicous King, that when the King heard the words spoken by the door-keeper of the
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It was dark night when he alighted at the Khan, so he spread out his prayer-carpet and took down the saddle-bags from the back of his mule and gave her with her furniture in charge of the door-keeper that he might walk her about.
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Quoth the door-keeper to him, “Is no this thy comrade whom thou robbedst of his silvers and leftest with me sick in the closet doing such and such by him?”
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He flew then to call for his chaise and the door-keeper, for whom Sir
Camilla 2008
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The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated gates, adjoining a pavilion built by the architect Perronet, and inhabited by the door-keeper of the cemetery.
Les Miserables 2008
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And when morning dawned, Ala al-Din sold his own mule and committed that of Ahmad to the charge of the door-keeper of the caravanserai, after which they took ship from Ayas port and sailed to Alexandria.
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But alf han our – the door-keeper forced his way into the pit, and called out – 'Pray, is one Miss Tyrold here in the play-house?'
Camilla 2008
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“Who is this Religious?” asked the chief of the caravan, and the door-keeper answered, “There is with us a holy woman, a clean maid and a comely, called Rajihah, to whom they present whoso hath any ailment; and he passeth a single night in her house and awaketh on the morrow, whole and ailing nothing.”
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