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  • Elena met me at the door, and I entered a wooden entry-way into a long vestibule of concrete-covered brick; a girl shouted commands from a nearby home, a muffled voice blared from a loudspeaker.

    A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes 2009

  • Elena met me at the door, and I entered a wooden entry-way into a long vestibule of concrete-covered brick; a girl shouted commands from a nearby home, a muffled voice blared from a loudspeaker.

    A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes 2009

  • With her list in hand, she ventured down the stairs to find Snyder waiting for her patiently in the front entry-way.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • A stone rotunda just off the home's entry-way has two 19th-century wood chairs and a 200-year-old Bible, which belonged to Mr. Angel's late father; a gold cross hangs above.

    Where a Magician Disappears 2010

  • Let me throw $100 into one of four slot machines they have sitting in the depressing entry-way of the Albertsons.

    What Happens in Vegas, Shows Up On My Blog… | Motivational Humor from the Motivational Smart Ass! 2008

  • We get the same excitation of the sense of hearing as the symptom, almost the literal entry-way, for the horror.2 But unusually for Poe, "Usher" is not particularly fixated on Usher's interior psychological life, whereas equally unusually for Lovecraft, "Rats" is very much concerned with the interior life of Delapore.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • He had the suspicion that a busy entry-way full of humans wouldn't be any deterrent, but he had to trust Ryne.

    In the Midnight Hour 2007

  • We entered into a claustrophobic, dark entry-way no wider than the door.

    surrealism and customer service Holly 2007

  • If there were guards posted in the watchtower, he could not see them from the covered porch because although the palisade was a simple pole structure, the gate itself had a doubled entry-way: You had to enter through the outer gate into a small, confined area, where you waited for the inner gate to be opened to admit you to the town.

    Spirit Gate 2006

  • On the other hand, the new place has a lot of closet space--two in the bedroom, one in the living room, one in the entry-way, and what is essentially a large built-in dresser shelves and a lot of drawers.

    Because They Won't Pack Themselves Emma Goldman 2006

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