prison-door

Before the prison-door stand “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats. . .”

A rose kept alive in history 2009

Before the prison-door stand “a throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats. . .”

Archive 2009-07-12 2009

With some squeezing I succeeded in forcing my way into a small passage, upon which my prison-door opened.

The Purcell Papers 2003

The women who were now standing about the prison-door stood within less than half a century of the period when the man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, or whether, as there is far authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson as she entered the prison-door, we shall not take upon us to determine.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Hester saw and recognized the selfsame faces of that group of matrons, who had awaited her forthcoming from the prison-door seven years ago; all save one, the youngest and only compassionate among them, whose burial-robe she had since made.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

There are prisoners whose pardon proves the world too large for them: they find no rest until their prison-door is opened for them again.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

We trusted that the same Deliverer would open the prison-door for the three thousand soldiers on the two islands in the Gulf.

A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland