DOOR in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth made no objection; the door was then allowed to be shut, and the carriage drove off.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

2  And with these words he hastily left the room, and Elizabeth heard him the next moment open the front door and quit the house.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34

3  Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

4  Smiles decked the face of Mrs. Bennet as the carriage drove up to the door; her husband looked impenetrably grave; her daughters, alarmed, anxious, uneasy.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51

5  The wedding took place; the bride and bridegroom set off for Kent from the church door, and everybody had as much to say, or to hear, on the subject as usual.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

6  They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehension of meeting its owner returned.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43

7  Mr. Collins and Charlotte appeared at the door, and the carriage stopped at the small gate which led by a short gravel walk to the house, amidst the nods and smiles of the whole party.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28

8  The first half-hour was spent in piling up the fire, lest she should suffer from the change of room; and she removed at his desire to the other side of the fireplace, that she might be further from the door.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

9  As soon as they had driven from the door, Elizabeth was called on by her cousin to give her opinion of all that she had seen at Rosings, which, for Charlotte's sake, she made more favourable than it really was.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29

10  Elizabeth was sitting by herself the next morning, and writing to Jane while Mrs. Collins and Maria were gone on business into the village, when she was startled by a ring at the door, the certain signal of a visitor.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

11  Elizabeth Bennet," said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, "is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own; and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

12  He then handed her in, Maria followed, and the door was on the point of being closed, when he suddenly reminded them, with some consternation, that they had hitherto forgotten to leave any message for the ladies at Rosings.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38

13  As they drove to Mr. Gardiner's door, Jane was at a drawing-room window watching their arrival; when they entered the passage she was there to welcome them, and Elizabeth, looking earnestly in her face, was pleased to see it healthful and lovely as ever.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 27

14  Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of Mr. Phillip's house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties that they should come in, and even in spite of Mrs. Phillips's throwing up the parlour window and loudly seconding the invitation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

15  As she had heard no carriage, she thought it not unlikely to be Lady Catherine, and under that apprehension was putting away her half-finished letter that she might escape all impertinent questions, when the door opened, and, to her very great surprise, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Darcy only, entered the room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 32

16  The little Gardiners, attracted by the sight of a chaise, were standing on the steps of the house as they entered the paddock; and, when the carriage drove up to the door, the joyful surprise that lighted up their faces, and displayed itself over their whole bodies, in a variety of capers and frisks, was the first pleasing earnest of their welcome.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 47

17  Mr. Collins was not left long to the silent contemplation of his successful love; for Mrs. Bennet, having dawdled about in the vestibule to watch for the end of the conference, no sooner saw Elizabeth open the door and with quick step pass her towards the staircase, than she entered the breakfast-room, and congratulated both him and herself in warm terms on the happy prospect or their nearer connection.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20