1 The door of her parents' bedroom was slightly ajar and, before she could knock, Ellen's voice, low but stern, came to her ears.
2 The gray troops passed by empty mansions, deserted farms, lonely cabins with doors ajar.
3 Only then did he tiptoe downstairs, leaving the lamp burning brightly and the door ajar so he might hear her should she awake and become frightened.
4 At least he never came to her bedroom though now the door was never locked and usually invitingly ajar.
5 The front door was slightly ajar and she trotted, breathless, into the hall and paused for a moment under the rainbow prisms of the chandelier.
6 Edna had discovered it accidentally one day when the high-board gate stood ajar.
7 On arriving at this door, he found it ajar.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED 8 It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 9 It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which was ajar.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ... 10 Not a window was opened, not a door stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED 11 If the window had been open or even ajar, I should think nothing of it; but, no--all was hermetically sealed.
12 Excuse me, the outer door was ajar; I suppose someone forgot to shut it.
13 Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness.
14 I was in my room; the door was ajar: I could both listen and watch.
15 The house-door was ajar, too; light entered from its unclosed windows; Hindley had come out, and stood on the kitchen hearth, haggard and drowsy.