doorkeeper
Example Sentences
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When Lord Young started to respond Lady Bloomfield replied: "I had to send a note to you in order to wake you up by the doorkeeper."
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2022
The zealous doorkeeper opens the big front door sparingly to keep out humidity, and only long enough to let visitors sneak quickly out.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2019
Shanks’s goal, we can infer, was to be doorkeeper to the temple of infamy.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
Club, and young women were swiftly waved in, known so well they exchanged double-cheeked kisses with the doorkeeper.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016
He realized quickly the strange doorkeeper resembled certain of the Fair Folk he had once seen in Eiddileg’s kingdom; only this individual seemed in a woeful state of disrepair.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
