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In looking across the street, I saw my rival standing at his shopdoor, grinning and clapping his hands at my apparent downfal.

Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life 1953

My footsteps seemed to tend so naturally to the shopdoor, after I had read these words from over the way, that I went across the road and looked in.

XXI. Little Em’ly 1917

The White Hart when I saw it last was welcoming a couple of foxhounds; another strolled across the road careless of a hooting horn; another stood in a shopdoor.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

One of these appears in nearly every shopwindow and over nearly every shopdoor.

Europe Revised 1910

Wachsmuth picked up his cap, and slammed the shopdoor behind him.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

ONE night, near twelve o'clock, a shrewd tradesman, looking out of his shopdoor before he turned into bed, heard a cry which proceeded from a bundle on the pavement.

Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire 1871

The first was a small pastrycook issuing from his shopdoor at the word of command, and bringing, according to the spectator's request, patties and refreshments of every description.

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

Limehouse Hole — and maybe sometimes of a summer evening, when she stood with folded arms at her shopdoor, looking from the reeking street to the sky where the sun was setting, she may have had some vaporous visions of far-off islands in the southern seas or elsewhere (not being geographically particular), where it would be good to roam with a congenial partner among groves of bread-fruit, waiting for ships to be wafted from the hollow ports of civilization.

Our Mutual Friend 2004