“No staff to speak of, the larder half-empty, the city getting ready to explode, and she wants this turned out and polished. Of all the foolish—” A loud beating on the front door interrupted her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph was surprised to find the front door unlocked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Should she plant these new flowers in the petunia bed, to the left of the front door? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Like the time she called 911 just for kicks—with no thought to the fact that we were a household of undocumented immigrants—and the police showed up at our front door. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I get to the front door, my hand poised above the handle, then I stop. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while of filming my front door—brown, wooden, three rectangular windows at the top, nothing special, really—they went and did their spiel on the sidewalk. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then she made a break for it and ended up with Lettie and me beside her, peeking in the front door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the sun went down, and we had supper in an Italian place, and then I knocked on the front door of the beautiful stone house of Bernard V. O’Hare. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom always says we need a man to come over and fix it, but my aunt Lucy always said it was the perfect excuse to not have to answer the front door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Once in a while I’d hear the front door open and close. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s whole body is wagging as he dances in a circle by the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Someone knocked lightly at the shutters on the front door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the front door, and dozens of people flooded into the small building. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He took out a small red and blue woven carpet I never knew we had and placed it at the front door. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning the hare arrived at the front door and called out to the lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They raced up the stone steps, and Harry tapped the front door once with his wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I walked to school and when I passed through the front doors I walked down to the office. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way into the restaurant, I noticed someone had placed a bunch of advertisements by the front door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s called the Doorman because from a very early age he had a strong penchant for sitting by the front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

So I sat in the lobby with the ship's log and peered up at everyone exotic who walked through the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Any cowboy passing by at that moment might have fallen off his horse had he seen me step out the front door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door close, so I quickly clicked out of the file. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So twenty minutes later, my parents and I were knocking on JT’s front door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It only takes me five minutes to walk from the school to my front door. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He walked to the front door and stood before it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tats goes ahead of me, pushing the front door, already ajar, open with her hip. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

As we walked through the front door, I spotted a fire key hanging on a hook. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We head out the front door and start to jog toward Broadway. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I pulled our heavy front door open and slipped out into bright sunshine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open to the street and I was surprised to see there was still daylight left. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open to the street, and the daylight had almost gone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

With his wife waiting in the passenger seat, he had jumped out of the van and begun to jog down the sidewalk to the building’s front door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked with it to the front door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

There was old Pete Wells banging out of the front door with a cup of punch in his hand. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did another check when I stepped in through the front door, but the house looked like it always did, cramped and barren at the same time. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She takes down the eviction notices he pins to our front door, but I still know what’s going on. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

But my father was so angry he slammed on out of the front door and started walking up the road toward town. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few mornings later, Mrs. Albury turned up at our front door with Little Dizzy on one arm and a basket on the other. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to stretch himself on a lawn chair as I unlocked the front door and stepped inside. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Shadow excused himself to use the bathroom—a cramped, closet-like room near the front door, hung with several brown-spotted framed photographs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas had almost reached the front door of the shack and the small group of boys congregating there when he was hit by a sudden and surprise rush of anger. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He then nailed the tail to the Gruziks’ front door, punched the doorbell and took off. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

During school hours, the front door is locked and kids have to be buzzed in. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even before the front door was opened, he heard the faint roar of voices. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I push through the front door and slip inside, quickly shutting it behind me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Mama waited for me by the front door. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The light that goes on in cars when the front door is opened did not go on in this car. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They did nothing, opened no doors, just stayed in the truck staring over at the Bloom front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom returns to reading, and I draw the front of a gray-shingled house, porch steps, and a front door with a doorbell. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he pulled Toomer into the front seat and propped him against the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it became clear to L.V. that there wasn’t much use waiting for the crooked front door to open on Boobie standing there with that infectious smile on his face begging for forgiveness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door slammed and I could hear Charlie banging around under the stairs, putting his tackle away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“They always have a front door and a back door.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I felt stronger so I stepped out of the car and walked to the front door. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Roy left him there on the porch, pounding the front door and bellowing for his father to let him in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About eight months after Wes’s birth, Mary was awakened by a loud banging on the front door of the home she shared with her sister on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I think about the notices our landlord keeps putting on our front door. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Over the front door, a yellow star glares thick with wet paint. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, Charlotte, they’re in the back,” she said when she opened the front door. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The lock on the front door is really loud, so we slip out the back instead. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The tobacco picker thumped around the attic for a week before a railroad agent took him on the next leg, boxing him up in a crate and shoving the thing through the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

No trees grow on the property, no shrubs flank the front door, so that the cement of the foundation is clearly visible to the eye. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the living room, I walk across the hall, ignoring the front door, and walk through the kitchen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They almost didn’t hear the front door open. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of the car and ran to the front door, Ivette and her mother only steps behind me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath, relieved the front door doesn’t creak as I nudge it open and relish the evening breeze on my skin. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One morning the hobbits woke to find the large field, south of Bilbo’s front door, covered with ropes and poles for tents and pavilions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She watched him fish around for his key and open his front door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk in the front door at home, the first thing I notice is the silence. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She took another step further into the hallway, conscious of the front door open behind her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged man poked his pudgy face out the front door. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

While we waited for Doc’s response, the sounds of summer drifted in through the window and the front door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whistling casually, Big Tony strolled out his front door to the street. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He heard a knock on the front door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the sixteenth floor was Aaron, holding his front door open, rap music about killing people on in the background, holding his metal cigarette out for me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Into the hollows of one of the cinder blocks, the one centered just above the front door, Arturo placed a print of San Martín Caballero encased in a plastic bag, to bring us luck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

With a flourish, Uncle opened the front door for me and ushered me inside. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flew up the steps and jerked open the front door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I was bouncing an orange Nerf ball against the front door as I sat on the porch. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lead the way, Barf-ew,” she replied, but she was smiling as she followed her brother out their front door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I approached cautiously, ready to turn and run—but he was not there, and when I came in sight of the house I saw him on the porch just going in the front door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The entry is a waterfall. What is with this city and its weird front doors?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He locked the front door behind him, testing it with his shoulder, and started down Suyane Street, past the closed shops and shuttered windows of the Armenian Quarter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“When we find a room with a window,” the doctor remarked, “we will open it; until then, let us be content with opening the front door.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I turned toward the front door, but then he began scratching scratching scratching his butter knife against his toast, the sound making me cringe inside. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She watched me come through the front doors in Daddy’s arms. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting outside the front door, barking his head off, was Termite. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I headed for the front door, then down the stoop to the sidewalk. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeping in the last room on the right upstairs, I’m now in the first room on the left after you come in the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When she opened her front door, James was waiting to walk with her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I made it to the front door before Mrs. Baylor could ring the doorbell. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My hands are freezing as I lock the front door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The air lock is a small sealed room surrounding the front door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our house didn’t smell like cooked meat or vegetables when I opened the front door. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

When I open the front door, Britain and Golly look on the verge of bursting. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

And she walks me to the front door, and she tells me again how happy she is for me and how great it is that everything's okay now. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard the front door open and close, I shut my bedroom door and sat down on my bed. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But in the hallway, just coming in through the front door, which Mum was holding open, wasn’t Salim, only two grown-up people, a man and a woman. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

An iron knocker hung on the front door, a squinting goblin with a ring in its mouth. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When she was sure she wouldn’t be seen, she dashed to the home’s front door and tied the vial to the handle. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The next day, Mom said she heard a light knock on our front door, and when she opened it she saw Calvin running off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother let me get ten steps inside the front door before bombarding me with questions. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I noticed that Millie’s suitcase that had been standing by the front door was gone. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped the bag back on the chair and headed for the front door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I got into the living room I was surprised to see the front door open. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abandoning his toast, he got quickly to his feet and followed Uncle Vernon to the front door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Jason and I are looking at some big plastic balls in a wire bin on the sidewalk by the front doors. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Trotter nearly shoved her out the front door. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

With a window, a back door as well as a front door, and a hearth for cooking, there would be plenty of room for the three of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With nothing stopping me, I stomp out the front door. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning newspaper was flung against the front door. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued on, though, hoping he’d see some name posted up on a mailbox or near a front door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the front door stands another Guardian, with one of those snubby machine guns slung over his shoulder. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There must have been a crash as the front door burst open. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just then the front door banged loudly, and I jumped at the sound. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were invited to the Hertzoon home for dinner, a grand house on the Zelverstraat with a blue front door and white lace curtains in the windows. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before darkness fell on the night of September 15, the reverend and his deacons closed the front doors of the wonderful old Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad made us stop at the front door and get in a line, one behind the other, Momma first, then Byron, then me, then Joey. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the front door of Mrs. Wheeler’s house opened. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked freshly painted, the trim a bright white against the bluish-gray of the house, and there was a pot of geraniums near the front door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They had been waiting on the steps for perhaps an hour, and were beginning to grumble about how hungry they were, when the front door opened, and Rhonda Kazembe appeared. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“On one condition, though,” said Elinor as they reached the front door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As the front door slammed, the record player downstairs mastered the house and Nat King Cole warned the world to “straighten up and fly right.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught her in the hall by the front doors before the bell rang as she headed toward homeroom. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bitter leaned forward and kissed her forehead just as they heard the front door open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The twins tore for the front door, and Toby followed, laughing just as hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Bill Koontz went to the front door to make sure Nancy, the brother-in-law, and the kid got in the truck. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She follows Lyric to the front door, and their grandma lets them inside. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He opens the front door and dashes out into the hallway. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He stood at the front door and cheered: “Snow!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They got to the front door, and Finn was really happy about being just a few steps away from no longer having to walk all stooped-over and sad. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I opened our front door with my key. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They spilled out the front door, Ivy’s arms and legs still wrapped around her dad like a koala. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The front door was locked and I didn’t have the key. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night Mom and Dad always left the front door and the back door and all the windows open. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She does open the front door, stays at the door while Axel sits. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I dash to the front door, wondering if it’s something to do with the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The woman who had answered the front door came in. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He resisted the urge to pat her on the shoulder and pushed the front door open with one gloved hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve told Bob to wait for us by the front doors at school, and he’s right there when we turn the corner, flipping his blue Sharpie into the air and catching it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s over,” Conrad said, greeting me as I climbed the steps to our front door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s bulleting to the front door and I catch up with him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“As criminals. The prison is our front door.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She also knew the curls in the wrought-iron gate, and how many steps led up to the big front door; she could almost see the black-and-white tile on the floor of the foyer. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened again and more people arrived. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

His front door was open, but the hallway was dead dark. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When they got around to the front door, they found the grimy old hag playing a mouth harp with one hand while making her limberjack dance with the other. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window to the front door directly below. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He closed the front door and then looked at the moon, which was three-fourths full and waning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then Anna’s mother was flinging open the front door and pointing, as if banishing her to the desert. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

My heart pounding, I open the front door to find Mango curled up in a tight little ball on the doormat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When Macon Dead got to the front door of his office he saw a stout woman and two young boys standing a few feet away. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man stood at the front door, a weary expression on his face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and a shapeless shadow filled the doorway like some kind of ghost. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The front door slammed against the hallway wall when I threw it open. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I walked down the hall, reached for the handle of the front door, and stopped. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, at home, when Mother asked Mama Tataba to go put the soup on the stove, Mama Tataba turned and walked smack dab out the front door in between the words “soup” and “stove.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost at the front door now. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

R.C. ignored me and waited for Naomi to open the front door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Matthew leaped to the front door and swung it open, then turned back to kick a pile of books in Barry and Clyde’s direction. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The front door was unlocked, so she walked into the large front room, like Mrs. Bedlow’s, nearly filled with two large dining tables but with the semblance of a living area on one side. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A gray fairy with mothlike wings chased a brawny minotaur out the front door with a scalding blast of steam from the end of her rod. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He sweeps out of the room, slamming the front door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went up to the front door and knocked. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she knew the parrot was there because she kept going up and down the stairs from her apartment door to the front door to see if Joe was coming down the street. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slamming front door brought Woody’s attention back to the kitchen. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’m skeptical, so I climb down and move to the side of the house, crouching behind a hedge where I can see him at the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door and thought he had walked into a prayer meeting. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I jump off the couch and run to the front door. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I stepped through the front door of Grampa’s house, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath through my nose, and memories came flooding back. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He collected change for the bus, put on his cowboy hat, and started toward the front door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Luke let them push down on her until the front door opened and Ricky’s voice rang across the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a key slid into the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Axel throws back open the front door in time to see Dr. Martin’s truck stirring up dust when it pulls behind Frank’s in the driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just then two of the Spencer girls knocked on the front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his shoes on the woven mat by the front door. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

On my last visit with him, he met me at the front door. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When I turn back around, she calls again for me to wait, and she’s soon out the front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

So I’d better not come walking up to her front door because her father would just turn me around and send me on my way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He continued to chivy the sausage, his face deep in his book, as the front door let out a loud wha-pop! A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gates repeated this speech twice more as I worked my way out the front door and turned left to my bus stop. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I struggled to show her my brave face, but I wanted to run out the front door right then. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I race out of bed, pull on a pair of jeans, and bolt toward the front door. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We knew something strange was up because the front door was hanging open. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few times on weekends, I’ve sat reading by the front door, thinking they might ask me to go with them on one of their zoo trips or after-running pancake extravaganzas, but they never do. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sierra turned back to the Tower, put her hand on the brand-new front door, and pushed it open. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He got up wearily and, still in his long flannel nightshirt, he opened the front door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was disappointed when he bid us good night and headed for the front door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The front door stood open to the empty street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the front door closed, and the sound of ripping paper came from the hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I thought I would burst with excitement when the knock came and two men rolled a piano in through the front door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had left the front door open, and when I saw daylight I leaped across the threshold and down the few steps. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I should have thought better about following them inside the double front doors of the old deli when they started laughing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Diana heard the front door slam behind him as he left before she could remind him that she needed a ride. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They had just stepped down out of the car when the front door burst open and a group of women and children came flying out. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Miles pulled the key from his pocket and locked the front door behind us. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Just as Aibileen opens the front door to go back in the house, she glances back my way. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

From the bed she picks up my jacket and walks with me across the length of the apartment, to the front door. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Andrew?” his uncle Woody called from outside the front doors. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

When she first arrived, when she walked through the front door, she caught me off guard. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk they were on went beside a playground, then up to the front door of the school. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a pair of women with scarves tied around their heads coming up the steps from the sunken front doors. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he opened his front door, Ms. Hussey shouted, “Water! Get some water!” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to the front hall I have to choose between the thick orange trail leading down to the kitchen and the very faint trail leading straight to the front door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Jessica’s mom drove her over, but instead of dropping Jessica off and leaving, she came to our front door and accepted Mom’s invitation for a cup of coffee. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Down the hall, through the open front door, I can see that her bedroom door is closed. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At 10.05 I crept out onto the landing just as Kat’s shape appeared through the frosted glass of the front door. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the front door and followed her two brown braids that were bouncing like whips beating the back of a horse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large steps led from the sidewalk to a front door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He led Tyger to the front door, and did everything short of pushing him out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Harry reached the castle, slipped in through the front doors, and began to climb the marble stairs; he was very out of breath, but he didn’t dare slow down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, like ninjas, they moved through the house to the front door and ran outside, Genie first making sure the door didn’t slam behind them. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In no time, he's at his front door, and he walks into his house without looking back. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tom stood at the front door as the tourists filed out, and frequently collected tips. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hand into the glove-hole of his front door and let it know his touch. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give up on the phone and run out our front door, into the hallway. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I heard Dad open the front door to wave the driver on. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t hoping it when Grandpa sauntered through the front door of his house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My mother dried her hands on her apron and rushed to the front door. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered the pail back down, grabbed the note, ran down her stairs and out the front door to their building’s landing, and pounded on the Lees’ door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I gave them to Goon, and the last time I saw them he left them in the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

No one mentions the ugly tools of torture just yards from the front door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went down the steps into the vestibule and stood looking out into the street through the plate glass of the front door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Edward Cullen was leaning against the front door of the Volvo, three cars down from me, and staring intently in my direction. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And I got out of bed at 2:07 a.m. and I felt scared of Mr. Shears so I went downstairs and out of the front door into Chapter Road. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly and her father lived in a two-room basement apartment, and their front door was really a back door. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Miles stopped beside the front door, flipped open the security keypad, and typed in a code. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And, amid these deployments, Lefty Stephanides, carrying two corsages, stepped out the front door of his house and began walking to the house where Victoria Pappas lived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Just as he turned the knob of the front door, his mother said, “Don’t wander too far, Turtle. Mahal kita. Be careful.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But as soon as he was let out in the morning—about six-thirty—he came and barked at our front door. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Red took me by the shoulders and shoved me up the front walk, until I was only about a yard from the front door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were racing to the front door of the barn, not the side one off the backyard that Luke always had to use because it was hidden from the road. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor fell against the banister and practically ran to the front door on all fours. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I really wanted to get up and peek out the front door to see if I could hear better or even see something. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The next Saturday we arrive at the front door of the Darcy house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And only minutes later the two Nguyens were walking out the front doors on their way downtown. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My grandmother was silent for a minute as her knuckles tapped the wood on the front door. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I went on downstairs just as Rashid let himself in through the front door with the spare key. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne and Karen sat on the fourth step leading up to the front door; directly behind them sat Ben and Matthew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun got out of the canoe and walked up to the front door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each time James Bevel gave the signal, the next group poured out the front door and down the stairs—some fifty children at a time—and continued the peaceful protest march. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She walked down the brick steps to the Misses Spink and Forcible’s front door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I get to the front door and open it, allowing some of the black smoke to spill out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The big dark-wood front door had an iron knocker on it, the kind you’d expect Dracula to have, and Hazel tried to reach up for it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pull the front door open for Amelia, and she waltzes in with a casual “What have I missed?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I drag myself up the walkway and unlock the front door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I got downstairs and to the front door she was halfway down the street. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could go out the front door and around the long way to the laboratory in back, or cut through the kitchen and face more revulsion and more explanations on the way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He thought maybe her parents would show up at his front door. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As we approach the heavy glass-and-brass front door of the Grand Hotel, a liveried doorman opens it wide. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She pushed me away from her just as she’d pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a heartbeat he thought he glimpsed Illyrio Mopatis, but it was only one of those white dwarf elephants passing the front door. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She opened the screen door on the front porch, but before she knocked the front door opened and Mark’s mom stood there. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My hand heavy, I knocked on the red front door and waited. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His front door opened into a tiny kitchen with a coffeemaker, a vintage toaster, and an old woodstove with two cooking pots on top, one empty, the other filled with chili. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them started making their way through the party toward the front door. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I used the spare key under the dead begonia by the front door to sneak into my house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She backed away from the front door, retreating into the dark hall, and her stepmother came after her, blocking the beam of light from the lantern that had thrown their shadows across the wall. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged couple sitting on a bench by the front door gawks unabashedly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He sprints out the front door, screaming at the top of his lungs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and with my last bit of strength I ran out of the room and down the airless hallway and out their front door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yuki barked as soon as we walked in the front door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The front door slams; the children toss in their beds; Frau Elena paces the parlor, her slippers whispering left, whispering right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A crossbow and a pair of galoshes were outside the front door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When I got home from school Father was still out at work, so I unlocked the front door and went inside and took my coat off. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the vestibule underneath the stairway, to the left of the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the front door banged shut behind me, I retrieved the paper from my basket and sighed at the title. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, it’s after four when she comes stumbling through the front door with shopping bags in both hands. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I can feel mv heart starting to race as I step up to his front door and press the bell. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to Henry Street the next night after work and make it to the front door, and I must say, Father O’Reilly’s house gives new meaning to the word atrocious. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I unlocked our front door and crept in. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We were the first colored family on this block, and for the first few weeks we were very aware of our “coloredness” every time we stepped out the front door. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Jimmy set the bag at the front door and went to pull on a shirt and jeans. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But just to make sure, he went downstairs to the front door, checked the lock and found everything closed. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There were no flowers in front, nothing but a big, brown tumbleweed, which had been blown to one side of the front door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The front doors open, and the Beauty Minister is announced. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Though the night was cold, he opened the front door so we could have some fresh air. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Franklins’ house was pristine, perfect, and sterile, right down to the tasteful white holiday lights that lined the edge of the roof, and the festive wreath hanging from the front door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They use the front door only for visits from the priest or funerals. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gigantic powder-blue carriage in which they had arrived had been parked two hundred yards from Hagrid’s front door, and the students were climbing back inside it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kenya’s already at the front door with Lyric on her hip. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Corinthians and Porter entered the hall that opened off the front door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abruptly she turned up a driveway, went to the front door, and left something in the mailbox. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They held their standoff for more heartbeats than felt advisable, then Scythe Curie turned her gun aside and fired out the front door. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was wiping the dirt and grime from my face with a wet washrag when Papa tore through the front door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Someone opened the front door of the house: A boarder had heard the shouting of the crowd and had gone outside to see what was happening. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stagger through the front door, the Doorman looks shocked. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then instead of going up the front steps and in the front door, he’d follow a path he’d worn in the grass around the side of the house to the back door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That’s why yesterday, I stood outside my front door for ten minutes, scared to go inside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma was already at the front door, and Mary Alice was hanging around the foot of the stairs that led up to the bedrooms. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that as near as she could tell, someone who lived in that house painted the front door a different color several times a year. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She circled back to the front door, heavy wood painted white. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When the front door opened again, Eleanor took a few steps into the street. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Nan straightened herself in the chair and avoided my told-you-so look when a knock sounded at the front door. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Hazel went to her own front door and walked in, breathing in the smells of home. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Merle Stubbs and his wife overflowed the front door. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finn trailed after her, out the front door. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Benji asked as they reached the front door of the school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turn, ready to bolt out of the front door to chase her down the street, but Tom’s standing there in the doorway, Evie wrapped in a towel in his arms. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just raised his hand to knock when the front door flew wide. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door and led the way round the house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he’d gone outside again, the line of people waiting to see him stretched from the temple’s front doors all the way down to the Takatifu District’s golden-arched entrance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As soon as I see Mama coming in the front door, I jump up. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was feeling overwhelmed, so I cut off the questions after a few minutes, and we walked to the front door of the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But as soon as he steps through the front door of their duplex in Harper Woods, Father Mike suffers an immediate drop in status. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They told him, “Kids this age. You’ll see. She’ll probably walk through your front door before we even get a chance to track her down.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It indicates a possessive in a singular noun: The boy’s hat The First Lord of the Admiralty’s rather smart front door This seems simple. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He was hunched over, leaning on his knees, staring out the open front door. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I walked down the stairs, unbolted the front door, and stepped out into the morning air. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him up the walkway to the front door, which has a hand-painted sign hanging from it that says: Unless you’re selling cookies, no soliciting, please. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I found myself on the doorstep, the front door closed firmly behind me, and when I looked up I saw them: Tom, pushing a buggy, and Anna at his side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she left, she paused with her hand on the front door and looked back at the hall for a minute. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dared not try to unbolt the great front door but instead tiptoed cautiously through the cold company room into the back chamber and let herself out the shed door into the garden. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Helen ran to the front door, jammed the key in, and rushed inside. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door stood ajar, there was no light in the entrance hall, but Meggie heard loud voices echoing down the corridor that led to the library. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stands outside my front door with a huge metal toolbox at his feet. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Walking back toward our house, climbing the steps from the sidewalk, when the front door was open in summer, I’d hear voices beyond the screen door talking in Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me walk you to the front door,” he says. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I weren’t supposed to bring trouble in the front door. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, see you later,” Charles said, at the front door of Monmouth, his face pale in the glow of the porch lamp. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They took him out of the front door, into the hall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I drift down my street, through my front door, into my house. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the front door opens, I find the female version of Mitch wearing a light yellow T-shirt with kittens rolling in yarn. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I held the front door open as Mama carefully carried out her pot by both handles, making sure not to spill the cooked beans. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom came and stood next to me by the front door, saying nothing and running her fingers through her hair. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hurried behind them, and on my way in, grabbed the mail from the mailbox next to our front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lit windows, smoke from the chimneys, bunches of brightly colored corn affixed to the front doors as decoration for the upcoming Harvest Festival. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

These people were rewarded by terrific and repeated bangings of the front door by the children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrea and I stayed downstairs late that night but at eleven o’clock, just as we were about to give up, there was a bang on the front door. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see that the front door is way too far, and I’d have to walk through the Darcy parents, as well as Mama and Papi, to get to it. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She fumbled for a moment with a key at the front door, then opened it and stepped back to let them pass. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He went to the place where the front door had been and raked until he found that lock, crooked and half melted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So, days later, when he heard the loud banging on the front door, he thought they had come for Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the intersection of Green Lane and Mill Creek Road, the limo turned into the Truman High parking lot and was directed into the spot closest to the front door, the principal’s space. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Emily’s mom pushed their front door open, revealing their own staircase. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Powell handed his horse to Herold and walked across the street to the secretary's front door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never one for the long good-bye, she lingered over her children in the house on South Main only until the bell rang at the front door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

That's when my own simple deduction is confirmed—because, on closer inspection, I can see Garrett’s bike behind a dead hedge near the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mom was already by the front door, rummaging in her purse for her keys. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time Werfel opened the front door, the gemstone was back in its casket and Spurge was sitting nearby, looking slant-wise at a wall. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In reality, the pounding is of fists on the front door, and I bolt awake. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Bennie’s brother, Vincent, had been killed by the cops on the adjacent corner, just a few steps from his own front door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Matthew leaped to the front door and swung it open, then turned back to kick a pile of books in Barry and Clyde’s direction. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before she could back out, Ivy took the picture she drew last night out of her backpack and slid it through the mail slot in June’s front door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When she heard her brother’s quick, returning footfalls, Lupita picked up the sack of food she had left on the chair beside the front door the night before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She set the table up just outside the house, then pulled boxes of candy from a small closet right by the front door, where most people would hang their coats. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Stay together,” I say at the front door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

By the time we arrived at the front door, I thought my arm would fall clean off. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Things were getting heated when the front door banged open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We hurry out the front door, and I slide into the backseat of his car. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When the chime of the front door marked his friends’ exit, he waved them off and stayed with Dawn, who didn’t even remember to pretend she needed something from the store. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s mom closed the front door with a sigh. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a knock at the front door and I stop pacing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I left the front door wide open so all the neighbors could hear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, mercifully, we heard the front door. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The heavy front door was opened and I pulled wide the gate to the downstairs, standing to the side as some twenty-five to thirty officers responded. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tucked a braid behind her ear, picked up her bag from the table, and headed for the front door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

About five houses down, two men were dragging a woman with black hair by her feet through the front door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The hard-knuckled knock on our front door sent a chill through our household early the next morning. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The man rode right up to the front door. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I went up the steps and through the big front door to the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As we marched up the walk to the front door, the window of a car parked in the driveway whispered open. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Pith helmets with netting, tools, and wax candles hung from nails near the front door, and a thin veneer of honey lay across everything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But both Charles and Emma liked having visitors; Emma still ran to the front door when she heard someone coming up the drive. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard her clogs clomp across the marble foyer, then the front door open and close. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The front door opens, and Byrd steps into the room. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Fifteen minutes later, he showed up at my front door. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I stood at his front door, sweaty and stinky, clutching a bag of gifts. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Be careful,” she said as he went out the front door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Outside the front door, she hung a paper star with a twinkling light inside. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"The front door!" she said in this loud whisper. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I walked up to my front door while he drove away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Cooooooopiiiiiiie!” a voice trills from downstairs before I hear the front door slam. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She picked up her wraps and started for the front door. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left my shoes by the front door and noticed how tidy Baba had kept everything. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The other thing was a knock at Grandma’s front door right after breakfast. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Davis pulled open the front door, a massive pane of glass at least ten feet high, and we walked into an enormous marble-floored room. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I lead us to Lily’s house, one of the few without the front door open. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But I do remember the porch and the front door with no lock, creaky on rusty hinges. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When we opened the front door, I heard Luke whimpering. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She worked hard all day, and when there was a knock on the front door in the late afternoon, her thoughts had begun to turn teawards. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The evening had made me light-headed and happy; I think I walked into a deep sleep as I entered my front door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Jaja and I stood waiting by the front door, close enough for our shoulders to touch, and we opened the door before she got to it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Roy likely had ridden right past her front door, and when Beatrice had spotted him, she’d simply tailed him to the golf course. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow—or the next day—after the rally. I’ll be over to visit. If your rally works, I’ll be walking in the front door.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

They fire toy submachine guns — tata-tata-tata-tata — at the Cobras heading out the front door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lock on the front door clicks, and it creaks open. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The front door opens, and I yank back the window curtain. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad hurried down the front stairs and out the front door. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was wide open, and he shivered. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I threw on a pair of sweats, grabbed a flashlight, and headed for the front door. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He stood up and ran back to the front door, getting outside just before he puked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

William Bell, walking down ahead of Powell, looked ahead to the front door through which, in a few moments, he would take the ill-mannered visitor into the street. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s heels clip-clopped against the porch steps and she opened the front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A longer life is all I’ve ever wanted, and I have the power to not shoot that dream in the foot by walking out that front door, especially this late at night. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The front door was locked, but not the door to the garden. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure of him becomes visible in the kitchen, but this time he comes out the front door with the radio in one hand and a bottle in the other. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded approvingly and opened the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

They were the same ones, he was sure, but he couldn’t fathom what she’d be doing coming through the front door of a white grocery store. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited in the driveway until I walked through the front door. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Having successfully sneaked out of the house, Lindsey and Colin brushed themselves off, ambled to the front door, and opened it. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Harry turned his back on the front door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I heard my father come in the front door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only next time I plan to make it to the front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dragging Doodle behind her, Penny has scooted out of Mrs. V’s front door and is halfway down the ramp from her porch, shouting, “Bye-bye!” from under her green baseball cap. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Where are they sleeping, then?” said Ron, moving toward the front doors and staring after them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

By the time I walked in the front door, I was crying so much that my sister stopped watching television to talk to me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both he and Cora decided his skittish personality had not helped them during the close call the previous night, when in another bad omen the regulators knocked on the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The front door of the library opened, and a couple of colored girls walked in. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to dart out the front door when he heard his mother call out to him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We took off our gloves and removed our snow-laden boots at the front door. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On raised screens beside the front door squash slices were drying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed down the stairs out the front door and stood on the porch, clutching my gown around me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I step around her and head to the front door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Led by their noses, and by Joe Rantz’s nose in particular, they quickly discovered the best feature of the new place—a cookhouse on the beach, just twenty-five feet from their front door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Jeremy,” he called out to the large man who stood at the front door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wes ran right by her, ignoring her threats as he slammed his front door behind him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We took the blueprint of our apartment from the hallway closet and taped it to the inside of the front door, with an orange and a green marker we separated Something from Nothing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Frank S. takes a drink from the water fountain, readjusts his toga, and walks out the front doors. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They would then leave the museum by the front door and within five minutes would re-enter from the back, through the door that leads from the parking lot to the Children’s Museum. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny,” Mr. Poe said, stepping back through the front door. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The front door swung open, and Sierra’s Tía Rosa came swooshing in as if pushed by a heavy gust of wind. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She lets go of me for a second before grasping my cheeks and pulling me in through her front door. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry to do this,” he says as I open the front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the living room, the front door slams, people shout. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was sitting in the easy chair, facing him, but she seemed to be concentrating on the front door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Whatever you’re selling, Merit,” Grandma was saying at the front door, “I don’t want any.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

With only hook latches for locks, Louise took to sitting by the front door on an apple box with a rolling pin in her hand, ready to brain any prowlers who might threaten her children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Good thing we had that big catfish lunch in Indianola today,” Grampa said as he handed me the note and opened the front door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Leale and his stretcher bearers carry Lincoln up nine short, curved steps to the front door. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I ease open the front door, expecting gallons of the stuff to pour in, but it holds its form. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby climbed up and out her front door, blinking in the early morning sunlight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t be reading when the sun is out,” she said, pushing me out the front door. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

At that moment there was a knock on the front door. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The police, coming to the station house front door, and looking out of the windows, couldn’t believe what they saw. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also remember him staggering through the front door and lurching for the couch after closing at the pub. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They came at last to a magnificent house with a large lawn and a drive that curved up to the front door. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet here is Aimee Polloch, my friend since first grade, marching through our front door as loud as a summer crow. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Next to the front door was a ratty-looking couch covered with a bedspread. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Out on the front porch, something was barking and whining and thumping like a drum against the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say anything about any of this to my mom,” Natalie hissed to Chess, Emma, and Finn as she turned to lock the front door. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I reached the front door, the rocking stopped. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the front doors was pulling the ribbon off the unexpected gift. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it’s Scott, head down, fending off photographers as he tries to get through his own front door, Riley at his side. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Selena always arrived at school just as the bell rang and would come in through the front door instead of around the back, where everyone was supposed to enter. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She comes out of the front door and stands there for a second, sees us and stops dead. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pushing through the comfy den, heading straight for whatever was on the other side of the front door, when I bumped into Laura. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I knocked on the glass pane of her old front door and waited. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Moss watched them blow in the light breeze for a bit before hopping off his bike and wheeling it up the steps to the front door. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The front door stood wide open, and a cold wind blew in Meggie’s face as she stumbled breathlessly out into the night. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He stepped smartly over the threshold and closed the front door behind him.“It is a long time since my last visit,” said Dumbledore, peering down his crooked nose at Uncle Vernon. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I had thought the crowd would conceal me, but I should have broken away the moment we had passed through the slaughterhouse’s front doors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as I closed the front door, Ben let out a mighty groan. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and seconds later a man clomped into the kitchen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the body fell to the floor, he said, he heard footsteps upstairs running toward the front door. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Cecilia’s face tilting sideways as she leaned down to make out who was at the front door and spare herself the trouble of descending further, improperly dressed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mary heard a loud banging on her metal front door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“That morning,” she told me, “Cynthia walked out the front door, and I called her back into the house. ‘Little lady,’ I said, ‘is that your slip I see showing below your dress?’ While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like years since Mother and I stood at the front door, waiting for the disastrous tea. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and a man dressed in a crisp white suit and a wide-brimmed hat walked in. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door slam and my father’s voice call out, “Helllllllllooooooo...” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out from the protection of the wall and headed for the front door—only to run straight into a man standing in front of the entrance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And then she gets off the couch and goes out through the entry way, and I hear the front door open and shut. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

It was quite possible that Artemis would have sat like that for some time, totally detached from the situation at hand, had not the front door imploded, shaking the manor to its foundations. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Cal opened the front door a crack and saw Lee’s shoulders and head outlined against the white wall of the French Laundry across the street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and closed and a voice called: “Okay, Nappie. Okay, it’s me.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then I had a thought that made me jump up and run to the front door, where Bertha was watching that lady’s car disappear up the driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Eleanor, tugging, got the great front door open; it was just as heavy as it looked, and she thought, We will really have to find some easier way to get back in. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told her everything, from the time the death cart dumped her at the front door to the first frost. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before she even closed the front door, she kicked her shoes across the living room floor. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

She unlocked two bolts on the front door and waved her hand in the air, saying, “Smells like I got a mouse in one of those traps.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the infected had seen their escape and were following; others were streaming out the front door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It leads through the front doors and turns into a hallway, which meanders between rows of lockers and classrooms on both sides, finally entering the always-open door to first period. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I went into the house, through the living room, out the front door, and straight to Jennifer's. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It arrived at the front door just as the door opened. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The grown-ups had heard the front door closing, so they had investigated. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slouched through our front door, dragging her sloppy trash bags behind her. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Miranda remembered a heavy aroma of incense and onions in the house, and a pile of shoes heaped by the front door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time since he’d run out of his front door that morning, Will began to feel secure. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I doubt you’ll make it past the front doors dressed like that.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Trying to ignore the squeeze of my starched collar, I head downstairs and throw open the front door. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The old man sat on a stool by the front door with a red rubber fly swatter in his right hand, watching them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t as far from the front door as Emily had hoped, but it would have to do. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She got up and slid open the front door before climbing down the steps and walking cautiously into the yard. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One Saturday morning, Mother looked up from her sewing as I was running out the front door, one of Granddaddy’s butterfly nets and his old fishing creel slung over my shoulder. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I heard a sharp rap on the front door, and my heart jumped into my throat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Our feet crunched on the gravel path leading to the front door. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bailey leaves without another word, letting the wind slam the front door behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They pulled away from each other when they heard the sound of the front door unlocking, but Moss still stayed close sitting up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Unable to make it to the front door, Theresa raced for the open garage; there she could at least arm herself with a shovel or rake. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pause outside our front door, bracing myself. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Or did her eyes focus instead on the two young black men standing at attention outside the front door? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The front door flew open, and Mr. Loomis came out, trying to run but staggering. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But Ana managed to escape the house unscathed, and Ash watched the front door close on her velvet-and-feather-and-silk ensemble with relief. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped towards me, took me by the elbow and turned me gently towards the front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Senora Garra’s attention went to the front door as someone else came inside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I shut the front door with the softest of clicks, afraid to hear the emptiness of an echo. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ray’s head turns to the front door before the knob even jiggles. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Wes got to the house, his mother’s boyfriend, who was living with them when he wasn’t back home with his wife, was sitting in the living room, directly next to the front door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He walked down the steps on the outside of the house that led up past Coraline’s front door to the door of his flat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We stared at each other for a few seconds, silently, and I walked toward the front door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I opened up the front door enough to look out for Mom. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run down the hall and burst out the front doors, and there, across the field, I can see everyone hanging out around Camille’s bench. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma jumped when we heard the front door open and shut. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Good day, ma’am,” I say, backing out of the front door ’fore she finds something else for me to do. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And somewhere between here and the Cramps’ front door, I even managed to figure a couple things out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Anu's apartment, which is pretty fancy, has no garage and one doorman, but the Larsens have two doormen—one for the front door and one for the gate to the garage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, I will myself up the steps through the main entrance and down the hall to my front door. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shin walked to the guard’s office and found the front door locked. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Not counting the nearly invisible front door behind him, it had three exits: to the left, to the right, and immediately before him. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed across the sky as their carriage came to a halt before the great oak front doors, which stood at the top of a flight of stone steps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He dashed first to the study, whispered, “Hide under the table, sah!” and then ran to the front door and wore a dumb look on his face. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Next the front door opened and Rex stepped out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the cold, the front door was wide open, and Maniac could smell the inside before he could see it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the front door flew open. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Upset, her parents opened the front door and said, “If you belong to Hitler, then go to him now.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I think anyone standing at the front door made her jumpy. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking down the hallway toward the main verandah to gather fresh flowers to replace the ones in her vases when I heard a knock on the front door. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mama called out as the front door slammed behind me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Kvothe glanced at Bast, who slid off his stool and went to close the inn’s front door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pecola turned to find the front door and saw Jesus looking down at her with sad and unsurprised eyes, his long brown hair parted in the middle, the gay paper flowers twisted around his face. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toby ran for the front door, but Jimmy grabbed him just before he got to the cinder-block steps and tossed him to the ground. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She checked her small notebook, then knocked on Armpit’s front door. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don't mean we're handcuffed or anything, but a group of Peacekeepers marches us through the front door of the Justice Building. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At that moment the bell rang as someone came through the front door. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I arrived at the front door, I took a deep breath and knocked. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, Sam walked from the bedroom straight out the front door, silently sobbing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman in a cornflower-blue dress, a lavender scarf wrapped around her neck, is standing at the front door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So she would stop and point out that the front door of the house we were passing was blue. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything until she heard me open the front door. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was a disappointment, since Virgil hoped to slip out the front door without having an actual conversation with either of his parents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I approach the front door, take a deep, deep breath, fumbling with my keys—but before I slip the key into the lock, I freeze up, remembering that Jacqui still has my gun. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I heard our front door open and close. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning there was a knock on our front door. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It stood to one side of the front door, a Disco-Matic made of chrome, plastic, and colored glass. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She shoved me hard back through the front door. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door stood open, and Anya poked her head inside, surveying the mess that marred Widow Medvedeva’s usually pristine living room. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he kept looking over his shoulder at a car parked right before our front door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling dejected, I headed out the front door of the school—and there she was. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, they surged through the building’s front door and defied Clark’s order to leave. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

September 13 Neighbors Eggs explode like smears of snot on our front door. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have time to say anything because I heard the front door open again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He hurried out to harness up and bring the rubber-tired buggy to the front door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He got up, his movements deliberate, and at first she thought he was coming closer to her, or perhaps wanted the toilet, but he walked to the front door, opened it, and left. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I walked up to his front door and knocked. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Boxes line the hall by the front door. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When the steward in the white apron opened the front door to let him out, Richard was light with relief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he ran out from under the front door, into the storm. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and a woman, pale and thin, gave Seven a small smile. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her front door opens the moment we arrive, and I jump out of the car, sprint up the walkway, and hug-tackle her. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon had been lying at the foot of the front door in a sleeping bag, clearly making sure that Harry didn’t do exactly what he’d been trying to do. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The television crew parked their van near the front door of the monkey house, and the reporter began to poke around, followed by a cameraman. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She marched up to our porch and opened the screen door, then unlocked the front door, then swung it wide to allow Deputy Collins to walk in first, the rest of us behind him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I splashed home in a cold rain with the little food we could afford, and when I walked through the front door and slipped off my boots, my feet made tracks across the hallway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It would have been hard to persuade Jumpsteady to work in the daytime if a millionaire had gone out for lunch and left his front door wide open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked out of that flat as fast as she could, without actually ever running, and she locked the front door behind her. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It’s ten o’clock when I am at the front door. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sprint to the front door and yank it open. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I stagger up the steps to my house, the front door opens and Gale pulls me into his arms. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nineteen, that way”—he pointed toward the middle of the yard—“and seventeen that way to get to the front door.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, she asked that a wreath of violets be hung on the front door of her house. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingertips along the wall as she made her way to the hall, where the phone sat on a little table by the front door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

By the time I finally get to my front door, I can barely stand. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the cars climbed the steep hill into the village, children popped out of front doors to look at them, as if cars didn’t drive up there very often. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It turned and the front door creaked open. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Quiet before a storm maybe means folks are done hammering wood across their windows and placing sand sacks beside their front doors. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pieces of wood, the front door, tear away and fall. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I unlock the front door, turning to wave goodbye before he speeds off. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The coffee was ready and I was on my second batch of toast when I heard a key in the lock, the front door opening. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

From the front door of the yellow house, about nineteen steps forward, and twelve steps to the right. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But there was a clear path down the middle, leading to the front door. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Mrs. Popper was still away at her meeting, and Janie and Bill had not yet come home from school, there was a loud ring at the front door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put my ear to his front door and heard faint sounds coming from inside. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Suitcase in hand, Dicey opened the front door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps some tiny part of him hoped to be sensed, to be seen, to be stopped, but the Cloak was, as ever, impenetrable, perfect, and he reached the front doors easily. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m really all right,” Eleanor said, very much embarrassed, and she walked with deliberate steps along the veranda to the front door, which was closed. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Emily gripped her backpack straps and looked up to the front door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He and Aunt Gloria walked up to our front door through our front garden, which Mum says is the size of a postage stamp. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shady looked furtively toward the front door as dusk set in. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, in a rush, calling “Eleanor, Eleanor,” they ran all together across the hall and out the front door, looking and calling, the flashlight moving busily. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grace opened the front door before Joaquin could even use the huge brass door knocker that was shaped like a trophy. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The front door closes and I step back to wait for my mom. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front door to the museum had fallen into the street. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She released my wrist, and as she closed the front door I could hear her talking to the candles: “You hear that? He will be safe. I told you he would be!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were both quiet as we watched the front door of the barn for Javi. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My best way out would be through the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Bushes and small trees decorate the yard, and a cobblestone walkway leads up to the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But when I shove the front door open, familiar wood floors and rows of wooden benches arranged in a square greet me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora closed the front door and flipped the dead bolt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we got there, I noticed someone at the front door, knocking politely. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A pretty lethal looking Doberman Pinscher comes out the front door, followed by Kingston and another big dog. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Basta was probably the only man in Capricorn’s village who locked his front door, but the lock was no great obstacle to Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He went in the front door and I went out the back.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Over my nightgown, I put on one of Daddy’s old button- down shirts and slip out the front door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Exactly as they had done at the front door, the little man’s dark eyes flickered over their faces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When she reached the house, the sliding front door was slightly open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’m also jealous of his life, of his world that expands beyond his front door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said, pointing to the big white Mercedes that sat by the front door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora had closed her eyes when their loud rapping on the front door shocked her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I hear the front door slam and Travis calls for me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I go inside to change it, and right after I finish loading the new cartridge, there’s a knock on the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To get in the front door of the Eolian cost you a whole copper jot. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pick up several boxes near the front door with Korean words scribbled on the sides and take them to Uhmma for deciphering. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then I reach for my backpack hanging on the rack near the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our entire public performance will be staged outside on what Effie refers to as the verandah, the tiled expanse between the front doors and the stairs that’s shaded by a roof supported by columns. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jim was gone already, was in fact already climbing on the bus when I went out the front door. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They ran to the Winston house first, pounding on their front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He throws open the front door, slams his body against the screen and, hearing the tap tap tap behind him, jumps over the porch steps and down to the driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Luke tugged the great front door open and wheeled the big vase to hold it; “Fresh air,” he said thankfully. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I fold the bread up, jelly to the inside, stick it in my pocket, and go out the front door. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want to know what that little shed is beside our front door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Holding the shawl about her, Lupita went up to the front door and stepped inside. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Hanging in the middle of the front door was a solid ring of ice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

At that moment, a cop walked through the front door. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A huge hole right beside the front door gaped all the way through to the inside of the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And he was gone, exploding out of the front door trying to zip up his pants at the same time he ran off the porch. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the officers, a stocky Italian with jet-black hair, moved toward the passenger side of the car and opened the front door. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then I heard the front door close, and moments later she walked into her room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I skid to a stop at the bottom of the staircase, at the same moment the front door opens. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few seconds later, her dad opened the front door and poked his head out. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When I hear the front door open and close, I know Hana is home. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Garrett just stands there, not wanting to go all the way up to our front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She held my hand in hers as we walked to the front door. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well”—Genie turned around to make sure the front door was closed—“there are, uh, no new discoveries,” he said cryptically. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After I hear the front door close, I head out to the television for some America’s Funniest Home Videos. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He slipped it into the doorknob and jiggled it around just like he did the front door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The front door to a small white house swings open. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I took one look around the empty house before I opened the front door. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then she heard the front door opening, and Rasheed was back in the living room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The doors opened to the elevator just outside our front door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He knew Spurge couldn’t have left through the front doors. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

At seven on the dot, couples begin drifting through the front doors, handing their furs and overcoats to the colored men in gray morning suits. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Lucy came running out the front door of the house, barking and jumping and wagging her tail. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

That fateful Sunday, when the sheriff summoned ambulances to remove the murdered family, the ambulances had driven across the grass straight to the front door, and the tire tracks were still visible. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top, the front door opens like a great mouth, and the grand entry hall swallows us. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was still in the car so I ran downstairs and through the front door. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Mrs. Veenstra lives right across the street. We sat on her steps and faced my house; it wasn't too cold yesterday. Mirjam couldn't have left through the front door without me seeing her." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While the women in Hampton Institute’s Engineering for Women courses were preparing for their new careers as computers, Mary Jackson managed the USO’s modest financial accounts and welcomed guests at the club’s front door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So I climbed the six steps and went in by the front door. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next I hear the sound of little fists on my front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like me, they're thinking of something positive to say once the spectacle is over and the performer takes up her post beside the front door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

You have to bend under a wild arch of cosmos when you come up the walk, and use your whole right arm to push the hollyhocks aside to get in the front door. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d just knocked on Judd’s front door two weeks ago and told him I wasn’t giving Shiloh up, what would have happened then? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let out a breath and open the front door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother went to the front door and opened it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear the wind playing the chimes that hung just outside the front door. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I opened the front door of the Lockton mansion and looked up the street and down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat down by the front door, clubs in hands, watching for looters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my coat from the front closet, I quietly open the front door and slip outside. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

His breath fogged the pane of glass in the front door. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Before driving away, we saw Jeffrey’s mom standing at the front door to his house, waiting for him—and she wasn’t wearing pajamas. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“What took you so long?” he asked, waving to the front door of the shack. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I went out the front door, locked it, and put the spare key to the deadbolt in my pocket. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

From now on I’m never to come to her front door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sit up when I hear the front door open. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed to the front door to get a better look. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Michael explodes out the front door, waving his clipboard and shouting, “What are you doing? I still have to count those!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I bolt from the room and down the stairs toward the front door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dishes were washed, and everyone was sitting at the kotatsu talking when the front door slid open and Papa stepped through. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tony ran out the front door and leaped off the porch, sailing right over the geraniums. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He got to his front door as soon as he could. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She released him and ran to the front door, where she turned and called, “I’m sorry I run into that building, Ignatius. I love you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening his key did not fit in the lock of the front door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we were finally ready my mother took a picture of us in front of the fireplace, and then I opened the front door to leave. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we like twenty feet from the front door,” she said, and she was right. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I do believe there was a knock at the front door, Madam,” she said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Byrne pushes a button on the wall and the overhead light springs on as Mr. Byrne comes through the front door, having retrieved my bag from the truck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We were all so startled that it took us several seconds to realize that my father had come in the front door and was now pushing the old food safe against it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This meant hat he must watch the front door like a cat watching a mouse’s hole; he dared not h ave his post for a moment. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

By now, frantic shadows were running out the front door of B barracks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, his mother had been there, walking down the drive and up the path to the front door, seeing everything, asking questions of Fielding's mother, intruding and spoiling. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the couch reviewing my math homework when the lock on the front door clicked and my mother walked in. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Is she referring to the bedroom window or the front door?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“They’re probably already pounding at the front door of this place!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Grampa got teary-eyed as I carried the rest of my things out the front door to the car. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

While I got out of my upcar, the front door of the house opened. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew tried the front door, but it was locked. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The motion detector emitted a beep as I stepped through the front door. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The plan takes easy steps toward the front door, that is, until Byrd goes running, knocking into him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Coraline got to the front door, she turned back and looked at them. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was already in his school uniform, his rucksack packed for the day and waiting by the front door. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sound of the front door slamming echoed up the stairs and a voice yelled, “Oi! You!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

One night that summer, when I was lying in bed and everyone else was asleep, I heard the front door open and the sound of someone muttering and stumbling around in the darkness. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Matt fumbled his way to the front door. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a number of blocks the driver had repeatedly given those of us bunched up near the front door a curt order to “step to the rear of the vehicle.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The front door opened the next morning as I walked down the stairs carrying Madam’s chamber pot. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the knob of the heavy front door.'Charles!' I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As Grandma India was scooping up the collard greens onto our plates and Papa was cutting the chicken and cornbread, I heard the front door open and Mother called out to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By the time we’d finished and were heading out the front door, a campus tour was gathering near the front steps. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever the trains stopped, the migrants went, gaunt and dirty, plagued by parasites they had picked up along the way, to front doors to beg. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They would open the front door only to find a foot-thick wall blocking them from everything beyond it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Joey picked him up by the neck and threw him the length of the hallway and out the front door. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and closed, and Redemption faded away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Roy traded seats on the school bus to be closer to the front door. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran and swung open our front door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I do remember my heart hammering against the stiff wood as I leaned against the front door and stared out the little rectangular windows at the top. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were working that night in his study when someone hammered on the front door. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel moved the lamp and then went to the front door and opened it and stepped outside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why not wait by the front door for someone to let him in? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We should probably get going,” Dad said, opening the front door. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Fish your keys out of your pocket and open the front door. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There were no daring helicopter rescues, no tunnels, no ingenious plans to dress up as a guard and stroll out through the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

His mother kissed him on the cheek and then pushed him toward the front door. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

We reach the corner of my block, and I have to decide if he crosses that line between my block and my front door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two aged crab apple trees, bent with the wind, stripped of leaves but still heavy with berry-sized red fruits and bushy crowns of white-beaded mistletoe, stood sentinel on either side of the front door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The elevators here are normal, and within a minute I’m at her front door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Before he reached the front door on the way to join them, Lillian leaned over toward Mary Anne and whispered fiercely, “I didn’t get everything I wanted.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a jumbo gulp of air and opened the front door again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I arrived home to find our front door hanging by one hinge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I watch as he picks up a decorative bowl from the dining room table and moves toward the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Luke and the doctor were standing on the veranda, looking out over the lawn; the front door was oddly close, beyond them. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I remember walking her to the front door. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each front door was opened on to an empty street. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She just stood staring at it, blinking and looking confused, as if she didn’t know how to open her own front door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When Wash pulled the front door closed behind him, he kept the knob turned so the lock wouldn’t click too loudly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At that point, there came a loud knock on the front door. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I stood there in front of the house as I had before, watching the front door, thinking I would go and knock if he did not appear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The apartment itself was dominated by two computers that sat across from the front door like twin shrines. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At about ten o’clock that morning as my mother was reviewing me in spelling, we heard the front door being flung open. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shaggy green rug by the front door. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The front door slammed every second as the people swarmed into the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Outside the front door, in the rain, a faint scratching. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The porch steps creaked when I climbed up to the front door. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear Thomas shouting to his mom, “Going out with Mira!” before slamming the front door shut. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

When I got to school I had to go through the front door instead of my usual route. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they spotted Crabbe and Goyle coming out of the Great Hall, Harry and Ron hid quickly behind a suit of armor next to the front door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Crossing his lawn I saw that his front door was still open and he was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Others broke down the locked front door and joined them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Drinker opened her front door to find “a delightful, cool, frosty morning,” adding, “’Tis generally agreed that the fever is very much abated.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Emmett shoos Ray out the front door as soon as the Forester pulls up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the front door, the boys leaned close to the wood, listening for...they didn’t know. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The front door with its narrow glass panes opened into a musty lobby that smelled of everybody’s life mixed together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad kissed us goodbye as we started a game of Mario Kart, and he and Jay walked out the front door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She barks to alert Mom or Dad if Penny gets too close to an electric plug or the front door. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Only the scents of her garden made her feel a little better as she went up the steps to the front door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But it was lucky that we at least went through the front door to look at the community bulletin board. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Just then I heard the front door open and close. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But she opened the front door and the three of them stepped into the tiny entrance hall. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I finish, the front door slams and I hear Lenny’s voice. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I followed the sheriff out the front door and there was five mounted men waiting on me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He waited till I had stumbled to the front door, and then I heard his engine quietly rev. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Quick! Quick!” cried Malcolm, and led them running down the slope towards the other side of the inn, towards the front door, towards safety. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

No one made a move to stop him from doing as Gaily asked, except for Chuck, who stood at the front door, shaking his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At least the never-there-when-you-need-him doorman had propped open the front door. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing odd about that, but bolted above the front doors, high above the ground, was one of the biggest iron wheels I’d ever seen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rydell, a loud knock on the front door just about pushed my heart right through my chest. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Calder, in his excitement, was already headed for the front door. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s what my gramps still sees every time he looks in my face, like when I showed up to his front door yesterday morning. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hear Dad rev the car a few times and then open the front door. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We rarely walked in or out of a building’s front door when we could be rushed through a service entrance or loading dock on a side street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I eye the front door, tempted to ruin the clean floors anyway. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As I emerge from my bedroom, I find that the front door is open and Mom is ushering Mrs. Baransky into the living room, apologizing for the nonexistent mess. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The front door to the store was wide open. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

If the apartment had any kind of heat, he would have stood by the front door of his building for five, but since it was just marginally warmer indoors, he opted for fifteen. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Beth slams the front door open and drops her suitcase on the floor. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the morning, once we are at work, I wait by the front door of the salon for Jairo. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The second the front door closes, I pick up the coffee cup and hurl it against the wall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every last one survived, and they neither pecked nor harried her when the thaw was complete, but simply walked out her front door into the sunshine the next day. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and he could see a dim figure holding the knob. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She locked the front door and shoved the house key deep into her pocket. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She throws open the front door to get a better look at the goings-on outside. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She walks out the front door; I go out the back. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bikes and skateboards and footballs and sneakers were scattered from the front door to the road. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The front doors of the school are silver. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know you aren’t supposed to barge in through people’s front doors?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At Bilbo’s front door the old man began to unload: there were great bundles of fireworks of all sorts and shapes, each labelled with a large red G and the elf-rune. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Once through the front door, it seemed to Briony that she was stepping into another day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The temple’s front doors opened, and all three of them immediately straightened as a figure emerged from its shadows. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He nods as we pass through the front doors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The cops had been lifting some young dude through the front doors and he had fell, I guess. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

With the boards on the windows, he can’t see the inferno in the store unless he looks through the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mr. Popper put on his best Sunday derby and opened the front door with Captain Cook waddling graciously beside him. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she crept down the corridor she heard her father taking the chain off the front door, and when she reached the hall she saw him standing in the open doorway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we get home, there’s a mountain of giant sneakers by our front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I grab him by the sweatshirt and pull him with me, out of the living room and through the front door and across the lawn and into the street. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gen opened the front door, just a smidge. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We opened my front door to find a bunch of parents, some of whom I didn’t even recognize, on their phones, stuffing envelopes, and talking. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He could not get to the Reveres’ front door, but by climbing a few fences he reached their kitchen door, and knocked softly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie grabbed my backpack and headed out the front door, leaving me to toss my dishes in the sink and follow. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun pulled her out the front door and caught a glimpse of Frank in the canoe. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I triple-locked the front door from the inside and left the keys on the countertop while Daoud continued to explain his career plan, for the thousandth time. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It rang just as this detective Turner happened to walk in through the front door. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maniac thought for a minute, then announced brightly, “I’ll knock on the front door.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk fast and backward out his front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The front door opened; they stopped talking and turned their heads. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thus we mounted the steps of the Lockton house and entered the front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gale and Leeg 1 shoot through the front door lock of the corner building, then begin to fire at the cables holding Mitchell’s net. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As was his habit, he padded downstairs in socked feet, eased Grandma’s front door open, and plucked the latest issue of the Logan County Gazette off the porch. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as I opened our front door, I could tell Judy was in a bad mood. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as the front door almost closed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Joseph ran over, scooped him up, and marched to the front door, where Frankie stood silently, watching everything with his mouth wide open. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The front door was open and Legs was barking at a dog passing by. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As he approached the turn onto his block, it occurred to him that they might be waiting at his front door. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer parked in the street and walked to Chevalier’s front door. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One larger tree grew right up in front of the house, hiding the front door, shading the lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after many weeks of loud talking, Helen packed a bag and slammed the front door and never came back. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Maggie met me at the front door wearing a Rockport High School T-shirt that looked like it had belonged to Fred’s dad and a pair of shorts that showed 98 percent of her compact legs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It stood in a large, well-tended garden, with shrubbery at one side and a gravel drive sweeping up to the front door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bus came to a halt and the driver swung open the front door, I felt the butterflies in my stomach and dropped my armful of books. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And there was her granddaddy, sitting by the front door, a Bible in his hand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

About ten minutes after Powell entered the Seward mansion, a servant ran out the front door into the street screaming, “Murder!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Canton stood near the front doors, watching us. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Just walked in through the front door, the steel door. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the general store, Stella pulled open the creaky front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had a clear shot to the front door and bolted before anyone could stop me to talk. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I stood alone at the front door for a few very long minutes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a view of the front door or the garage from my bedroom: for that, we needed to sit in the family room. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I pushed open the front door before Hadley could protest, and Delilah zoomed inside, happy to escape the rain. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I nearly forgot. This was by the front door when I came in. It’s addressed to you.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was lying across the bed asleep so Janie tipped on out of the front door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He looked for a second like he might turn me over to June, but he left, banging the front door behind him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, but before he could take two steps, the front door flew open. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I dash to the front door; she opens it within seconds. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His brother William tiptoed to the front door and, as quietly as he could, inserted the key into the lock. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, what Charles was looking for was a way out of the building that wasn’t the front door and wouldn’t set off any alarms. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The house presented two pointed gables in its front; the windows were latticed and narrow: the front door was narrow too, one step led up to it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And just as I'm grabbing the matching pants below it, the front door opens. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t we run out the front door?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Instead he walked through the front door like a defeated athlete—head low, shoulders hunched, a sack of disappointment sitting on his chest like an anvil. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When he reached his front door, he remembered that he was supposed to be following someone for a new client that night. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The second Mom and I pull into the driveway, Justin bolts out the front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Squatting down beside the front door so that his head was below the agent’s, he said: “That field over there—somebody irrigated it again last night.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After walking home in the afternoon, he’d touch the front door and head back to the school to make a second round-trip. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m calculating whether I can reach the front door from here before he can get hold of me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx barely had time to stuff his wad of money into his overalls and crawl inside before the front door opened. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I ran into the kitchen, plucked the roses from the vase, and headed for the front door. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The meal was still lying untouched on the bedside table when there came a knock at the front door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I open the front door, a small tan dog sprints into the apartment and down the hallway, like it knows exactly where it’s going. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As she left, already parting the curtain at the front door, Obinze’s mother said, “And make sure you and Obinze have a plan. Have a plan.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The straight route to the front door was in Grandma’s line of fire, and he didn’t have the presence of mind to realize she’d already discharged both barrels. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, I heard keys jingling in the front door and Ma came slumping in from work. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He moves out of the line for the water fountain, his eyes watchful, glancing from me to the mosque’s front doors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The restaurant was run by whites, and in those days it was inconceivable for a black man to walk in the front door, much less take a meal in the dining hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lita stands at her front door, smiles, and waves at us the last time we see her. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Toby didn’t remember falling asleep, only waking up when Luke opened the front door and the early morning light slipped into the dark apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I make my move for the front door. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Good boy,” I whisper, then leave a quick note and ease out the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Smile, it’s Friday,” Danny said, greeting me at the front door of the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Stephen eased out the front door, he was wearing red pajamas and a gray sweatshirt. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I stepped through the front door and pulled it closed behind me. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had nearly lost his balance as he Apparated onto the top step just outside the front door, and thought that the Death Eaters might have caught a glimpse of his momentarily exposed elbow. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She picked up a small ax kept by the woodstove and struck French with its blunt end, catching him off guard and hurling him into and through the front door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The houses on Warren Street were a mix; some were modest, two or three were rather grand, with arches over the windows and fancy boot scrapers by the front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Probably off the hook or something,” she said, locking up the front door. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just as I reach the front door there is a sound. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The front door opens and footsteps clack across the foyer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I went and stood in the hall by the front door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the outside you saw only one front door, one front-door light, one mailbox, one house number. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door of the apartment and was blinded by daylight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The front door was locked, so I went around back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mom and Layla waited at the bottom of the staircase near the front door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and shut with a soft clanging sound. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Richard went around to the front door and rang the doorbell and imagined Kainene coming to the door and telling him she was fine, she had simply wanted to spend some time alone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But someday he might spring back and just bounce right through our front door. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there’s a knock on the front door. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now, as the first front door opened, I spoke calmly and severely, explaining the situation as one of gravity but not crisis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jumping out of bed, Joe grabbed a rifle from the corner and charged through the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra followed him out the front door and around to the side of the house. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Wheeze, what on earth are you doing? You’ve been to the front door five times in the last five minutes.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still odd to drag open the front door with an empty game bag, with nothing to trade, and instead feel the heavy pocket of coins against my hip. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slid off the desk and started to walk awkwardly toward the front door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared from Laura, to the shirt, to the front door and back again. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was with relief that they reached the oak front doors and eased them open. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Josie said as she led the way to the front door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The whole time I w as there, I never did go into the Littles’ house through the front door. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I focused my eyes on the two bouncers at the front door. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We headed out of the storeroom, were standing by the front door, and I was all prepared to shove off, but Hank had kind of parked himself in front of the door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I marched up to the front door, perimeter checking the yard as I went, trying to be as casual as possible when I stepped into the house and flipped the bolt behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be there any longer; I didn’t want to go to Scott and Megan’s front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got some calls to make,” she said, stepping past him and out of the front door, taking out her mobile. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They watch him disappear up the stairs and then return their attention to the front door and to the patrons returning late from intermission. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then we unlocked the front door and the screen door and reached for the milk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers guided him to the front door and led him outside. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I pull David up our porch steps and into the house, not stopping until the front door bangs closed behind me. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I found myself at the front door. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Demand for their mathematical abilities had opened Langley’s front door to them, and the quality of their work had kept them at their desks. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He watched his father get out and walk toward the front door. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We’d barely finished breakfast when Ma walked back in the front door. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long flights of stairs led to front doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He might have been at the front door again and would not have known it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The seven of them tumbled away from the front door, landing in a pile on the front lawn with Anya on the bottom. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

She could hear the calls and clatter of the dinner hour even through the closed front door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Down below, just outside the front door, stood Mary Poppins, dressed in her coat and hat, with her carpet bag in one hand and her umbrella in the other. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my backpack and board and made for the front door. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

As we went in, I noticed the front door had coloured glass panels, and once Tommy closed it behind us, everything got pretty dark. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carry the wriggling blanket to the front door of our building. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was open and I walked in and found Michael in bed fast asleep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should have been exhausted by noon, when the mound of belongings by the front door had grown waist high. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Three concrete steps led up to the plain front door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push open the front door and stumble in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean, is it on the right when I’m standing in the street facing the house, or when I’m standing at the front door facing the street?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was another loud boom as the front door shut behind Count Olaf and his terrible friends, and the Baudelaire children were alone in the kitchen. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mom came running into the foyer, but instead of picking it up, I heard her tear the phone from the wall, open the front door, and throw it out into the yard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the Arabic verse from the Quran on top of our front door. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I open the front door and wait outside. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reuben’s nephew, Tim, runs over and opens the front door, but the flames are too much. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The moment Seven walked through Valley’s front door, the potion wore off. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday morning, May 7, I was awakened by the slam of the front door and Mother Lois calling out to us from the living room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Doc’s house, his wife appraised me at the front door, holding her nose at the smell, and announced that Doc wasn’t there but was probably at his office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

George opens the front door, shoos Ray outside, doesn’t even wipe the sleep out of his eyes to see that it’s Axel. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She drove him out of the room and out of the house; and Digory came running down the stairs just in time to see the front door dose behind them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The cat marched in through the open front door as though he were the long-absent landlord popping in to check out the tenants. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jordan slammed open the front door, cursing the heat and cursing his job. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked out the front door, to face the chill air and a thick glaze of ice under our feet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She ran toward the front door and fumbled with the knob, but her fingers slipped on it in her haste, and for a moment she could not open it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds, he had heaved his trunk to the front door. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I opened the front door and dragged the two of us out to the street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen, we heard Prudence open the front door. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I remember when he brought it home, and he whacked it on the front door’s knob, and that’s how that scratch got there.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Jazz music tumbled out when they pushed the front door open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thirty seconds later, the front door opened, and a smiling Augustus appeared, a roller bag behind him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was starting to doze in front of the fire, the warmth and comfort conspiring to make her eyelids heavy, when the front door slammed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As soon as Jim hit the front door after school, gloom and anger descended on our house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Emily’s mom pushed their front door open, revealing their own staircase. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, what if the guy opens his front door at the very moment I’m standing on his doormat fiddling with a gum wrapper? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I loved driving up to his house because his front door was guarded by gigantic lion sculptures—exactly like the ones I had fantasized would protect me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Luma’s first words to Mandela came when they pulled into a parking space in front of his family’s front door. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Axel races down the stairs, across the creaky wooden floor, out the front door. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were five doors to pass, then go down the staircase, at the foot of the stairs turn left for the front door....She had carefully taken note of the way. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m standing outside Zoey’s front door tapping my Wiffle bat against the side of my head. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“Your mum’s waiting,” she said, pulling the front door shut behind her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Below my window, two men in dark suits are walking toward our front door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the house, where he could see the light from inside spilling out his front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She stood in the hallway, turning, looking back of her at the staircase and then around again at the front door. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Someone, he couldn’t tell who, obeyed Newt’s order; he was being carried across the courtyard, through the front door of the Homestead, down the shattered hall, into a room, placed on a couch. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Out the front door and down the street. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and walked out of the room, her robe billowing behind her as if she could open the front door and float away, never to be seen again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Down the stairs, out the front door, he ran. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I walked to the front door and opened it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then, as though Barry’s thoughts had sent out an SOS, the front door opened and Dad appeared on the porch. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The dark wooden front door looked as forbidding as a tightly closed mouth, and Meggie involuntarily reached for Mo's hand as they approached it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She looks around and exhales in deep disappointment, signs the ticket and takes Dee out the front door without a word to her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I jumped when the front door slammed again. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A woman met the three of us at the front door of Tuttle’s Toy Emporium. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And here a soldier was standing looking out the broken front door. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was huddled around the front door, looking out. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s give Mom one more minute,” Dad said, glancing at the front door. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

What kind of a man, Violet wondered, would carve an image of an eye into his front door? The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

After agreeing to a study session on Monday, I make my exit with a wave, walking to the more accommodating, less happening, front doors. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Jazz music tumbled out when they pushed the front door open. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning she awoke hearing a knocking on the front door and found Tea Cake there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Forcing myself up from the step, I head for the front door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Eden is only four and sits on our front door's steps, looking on as John and I play a game of street hockey. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The front door groaned and tilted free in my hands. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They showed pictures of Blenheim Road, the station, Scott’s front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hesitated there a minute, then instead of entering by the front door, they made a cautious circuit of the house. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"We had to bang on the front door to get someone to open it up." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was just dealing the third hand when the front door flew open and my father came inside. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of walking up her stairs to her front door, or onto the 31 bus, leaves me heavy with dread. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Reporters lined the street in front of Sasha’s house, pushing up against the front door. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, while he was sweeping the storeroom, he saw Henry limp in through the front door. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without waking anyone I let myself out the front door, ran to my bicycle parked at the side of the house, and pedaled away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When they came to the front door, his dad pulled out his key chain, the one Gregor had made him, from his pocket. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With shaky legs, Mariam approached the front door of the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just then, Grandma’s key in the front door jolted my daydreaming. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The man drove to Acacia Avenue, parked in front of the house, then insisted on coming up to the front door with her. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He holds the model under the lamp and turns it so that its recessed front door faces him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The front door of the Riddle House bore no sign of being forced, nor did any of the windows. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But as they arrived in the hall, Emily Brent came in through the front door. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

They were on the pavement outside the Ketterleys’ front door, and except that the Witch, the Horse, and the Cabby were gone, everything was exactly as they had left it. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ten times in ten months, train riders have carried to her front door men and boys without arms, legs, or heads. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ronan asks before the front door is even open all the way. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Lucas Cader stormed down my hallway and out the front door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is eight twenty-five when Lincoln steps through the front door of the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was propped open with a barrel. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gathering ended and the men left the house at alternating intervals, some through the front door and some through the back. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can still hear him when I slam the front door behind me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Grandma could say anything, I grabbed the umbrella from the holder in the closet and opened the front door. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I burst through the front door this time, giving her plenty of time to get herself together. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I opened my door, scanned the hall, clutched my bag, took a deep breath, and walked down the steps, through the lobby and out the front door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As I open the front door, something moves. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their front door he unlocks when he gets back from work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Marie-Laure comes through the front door with the bread, when he’s opening the tiny scroll in his fingers, lowering his mouth to the microphone, he feels unshakable; he feels alive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We took turns digging a path out the front door to make our way to the bakery for rations. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t have time to answer before Ethan’s front door opens. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She thrust the article at James when he opened his front door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I walked through my front door to the sound of the telephone ringing, so I picked up the receiver and said hello. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

We’re crossing the lobby on our way to Yum Li’s when I see Candy and a woman who must be her mom coming in through the front door. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

No sooner had I said that than I heard the front door slam shut. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If he came in the front door, the back door would escape me into the garage. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was easier to change the name on the front door than it was to erase all the old feelings of being inside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Before Jacqui even throws the car in park, Garrett and I have jumped out and are running to the front door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We walked out the front door, through a crowd either passed out on the porch or smoking in the yard. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He crouched and then he sat and the voice of the front door spoke again, more insistently. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led them out the front door and down the steep driveway and into the family station wagon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A rapid knock at the front door broke up the celebration. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments later there she was, standing at the front door in jeans and a sweatshirt, her hair down but pulled back behind her ears. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Right by the front door, right next to the stupid front door, in the best parking spot in the whole paper mill, my father’s car was parked. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was a small barred window beside the front door, the only one not hidden behind green shutters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He groped his way through the kitchen, down the hall, and to the front door, afraid to light a lamp, afraid to make a sound. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Before the puzzled faces of Mr. and Mrs. Beale, he opened the front door and looked at the three cast-iron digits nailed to the door frame: seven two eight. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see him, standing in front of the Hancock building: Marcus, near the front doors, checking his watch. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Around the front door lay a jumble of rubber boots and a very rusty cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In the other room, I hear the front door open again, letting in a whistle of air. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Right when he was finishing up Needles's haircut, there was a clicking at the front door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then he showed her and the other policeman to the front door and they left. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they reached the base of the hill, Genie noticed that the front door of Tess’s house was open. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I walk Sarah up the steps to the front door: these steps can be slippery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pioneers opened their front doors and saw they’d been entombed in snow overnight. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The only thing startling about Dana’s appearance was a fat, scabrous upper lip that hadn’t been that way when Roy dropped off the letter at Dana’s front door. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nielsens’ home is a two-story colonial painted yellow with black shutters and a long slate walkway leading to the front door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a front door which is never used by children. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the rubber band from my hair and shake it from its knot before I walk through the front doors. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But the first time we brought Winn-Dixie to the Open Arms, the preacher tied him outside the front door. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he always just stood there yelling “DING DONG” until we came to the front door. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His car was abandoned on the roadside, the front door left open. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped suddenly, stepped to the open front door and peered out. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I reached for her hand, the front door of the church slammed open with a thud. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to juggle some wooden spoons when they heard Travis’s father stumble in the front door. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Several men hopped out and rapped the elephant-head knocker at the front door. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then they came out the front door again with the next batch of fifty kids. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled my brogans off and went in through the front door. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mom said the moment I stepped through the front door. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was the one who answered the knock, opening the front door just a crack before I saw Ms. Banks, Faith and Mrs. Bernoffski, with a big clay dish, on the other side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Four weeks ago, a girl appeared at the front door of this house, who may or may not have been Mirjam Roodveldt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So they put their things away and headed out of the portrait hole, glad to meet nobody on their way to the front doors, as they weren’t entirely sure they were supposed to be out. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The house had three front doors opening onto the porch, one for each apartment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem likely that knocking on her front door and possibly seeing her mom or dad, or even her older brother, was the right move. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Across town, Mac came in and closed the front door behind him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walk past him through the front door as if it’s not two in the morning on a school night. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The front door of the inn banged open. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus took me by one arm and grabbed the oxygen cart with the other, and we walked up the three steps to the lacquered blue-black front door. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He went to the front door and read the little vacancy notice pasted on the glass and saw that the flat was a rear one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were moving purposefully, all together, straining to stay near one another, and the doctor’s flashlight swept the hall and stopped at the great front door, which was standing open wide. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is coming up behind me as the front door swings open and a woman stands there, smiling. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth hopped to her feet and followed Franz to the front door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon somebody opened the front door and cracked the screen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But by the time they looked up a streaking figure had reached the door, opened it, slipped through, and the heavy front door banged. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the first blow to the roof, the front door flew open, and the parson and his wife fled in terror. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had reached the front door and opened it, but now, she turned suddenly and bent down, clasping hold of him, so that his face was pushed up against her breasts. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m stepping out of the bathroom, the front door of our apartment kabooms as it opens. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then we heard the front door open, heard him say something to the gate man, Adamu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the flight of stairs into the hall, however, he heard a tap on the front door, then metallic clicks and the grinding of the chain. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He disappeared down the spiral staircase and they heard the front door open and close. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once, when there was a knocking on the front door and the sheriff stood there and said he had to give us some news. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He honked his horn twice and waited until Ben rushed through the front door, bounded down the stairs, and entered the passenger side of the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stone steps are slippery with morning drizzle as we begin the tedious climb up to the front door of Central Fligh School. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke looked toward the front door, as if she had only been waiting for an invitation to walk back into the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A drenched and angry-looking Mr. Flux was knocking aside any and every piece of yard junk between him and the front door, on his way inside. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The day after her suicide was the first time I found myself at their store, standing outside the front door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Once she was out of glasses, Mama waved her over to where the rest of the household help stood in a line nearest to the grand front door that Ophie would never walk through. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then at three twenty-five Cletus Underwood and his suitcase showed up at the front door, and we finally got some directions to Oz. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was asleep—I could hear her snoring—and then the front door slammed. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

If the Mask isn't with the rest of the soldiers at the front door, then where is he? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ekon didn’t answer, fixing his gaze on the front doors before them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

You were judged as having potential or being worthless before you ever came through the front doors. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I gave up on the front door and picked my way around the side of the house, tiptoeing between the square stones that constituted the Rezaeis’ landscaping. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His dad fanning out the keys to find the one to open the front door. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The driver, wearing a black beret, leaned over, nodded, unlocked the front door, and said something like “Zilla,” which I guessed was short for Cecile in a colored, Oakland way. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar exclaims as she walks through the front door of the warehouse and stares at the fraction of her mother before her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only way in was through the front door. The fire exits could only be opened from the inside, like at a movie theater. The vault itself was all the way down in the basement.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She shut the front door quietly behind her. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sandy opened the front door for the couple, whistling "America, the Beautiful." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Betsy came out of the front door I gave her a low whistle, and she slipped up to the side of the house beside me and gave me a serious look. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My handbag has been dumped in the hallway, just inside the front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even my grandma ducked right back in the kitchen when she saw me at the front door this morning. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I walk through the front door and up the stairs, still with that muffled feeling in my ears, like I am drifting far away from the world. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after Faro reappeared in the front yard Mr. Loomis came out the front door, carrying his dish, full of food. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There are covered plates by our front door. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I made it through the front door but then foundered on the bottom stairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But as I reached the front door, I heard something over by the trap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I throw the bag to Angie, who runs up the pathway and through the silver front doors of our school. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I have to be careful when I borrow the milk and the bread and they’re at the front doors polishing knobs, knockers and letter boxes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, suit yourself,” Rhonda said as the two of them started for the front doors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was for Mom to ease the truck forward, pulling the piano into the house while Dad and we kids guided it up a ramp of planks and through the front door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to just leave by the front door. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The front doors jammed. It’s been like that for a long time.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m finishing my cereal, there’s a knock on the front door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Of course these people would have a security camera at their front door, and probably an expensive alarm system too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The driver flipped through some pages on a clipboard, then stood and opened the front door. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. was told to wait in a small room just inside the front door while the men disappeared through another door, which led into the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he spotted Mark kneeling on the ground outside the front door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

An hour later the front door opened nervously, and Gatsby in a white flannel suit, silver shirt and gold-colored tie hurried in. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I followed him out the front door and saw him stride through the crowded street. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the base of the steps, I decided it would be better if I didn’t use the front door, lest they see me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’d already walked past dozens of posters—and a massive banner hung over the front doors—celebrating a team that wasn’t even in season yet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she got to the front door, she stopped. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basta swore and threatened, giving me a nasty cut on my upper arm, but then, suddenly, the front door was thrown open and they both disappeared into the night, still reeling like drunks. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Conner laughed and walked out the front door with his dog. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

From Sunday to Sunday, as in the house in Bithynios, a parade of marriageable girls came through the front door of Hurlbut. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When we got to my building, you walked me to the front door. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked past houses that had letters “G R,” George Rex, carved into the front door, property stolen in the name of the King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did he get in and out of the front door? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though it had flung her first at the gate, waited for her to open it, and then had lifted and thrown her, bag and all, at the front door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

And Mom didn’t respond to us at all when we came in through the front door. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at Zoey’s front door, and I have been for a few minutes. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Then she fetched a piece of split wood from the pile at the front door. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom called in a few weeks and said that although the squat still needed a few finishing touches—a front door, for example—she and Dad were officially accepting visitors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you value your life, don’t use the front door.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, very quietly, as he listened, he heard the front door open, the rain and wind come in, the door shut. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The show had already begun, and the grand front doors of the theatre were locked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as I opened the front door after school, I wished for a secret entrance that would let me go straight to my room without having to face Mom. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He left the peas on the porch, took his muddy Converses off at the front door, and left the bathroom door open as he washed the rest of the grit and soil-sludge off his fingers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was, however, a large trolley seemingly driving itself up to the front door. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was days before I realized he lived in the small room near the front door, the only room in the house unadorned by Abuela’s crochet. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s knocking on the front door 30 minutes later. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the front door and opened it in a swift, determined pull. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then there was the sound of the front door banging open. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their front doors, begging for and receiving shelter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She whipped around and started fumbling with her keys trying to get the front door unlocked. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You laughed at her. You said you weren’t seven years old and then stomped out the front door.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I put Ben’s things on the floor and wiped Tilly off with an old bath towel we kept in a basket inside the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I leapt off the bed and stormed past Mom, down the hall, and out the front door. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Another cold and annoyed guard opened the front door to their repeated knocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I opened the front door, hoping to see Papa’s car pulling into the driveway. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We walked up the drive to the front door, a strange incongruous little party. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Taking huge steps that are as quiet as you can make them, you cross to the front door, bend down, and pick up your shoes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We’d step out the front door and say, “Welcome. Our place looks like a tornado’s just hit. Run around inside like we do and have a blast!” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday Mom parks our car in front of a sprawling modern house with tall windows and a long wooden ramp leading to the front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briony’s view past the open front door was of a stretch of floral lino, and the first seven or eight stairs which were covered in deep red carpet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She looked at Ash, who was closing the front door, and added, “Unfortunately you are not invited; my aunt already has a lady’s maid and you are not needed.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s even a knocker on the front door shaped like a horseshoe. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to answer a broken front door.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I went to bed early that night, around eleven; at twelve I was awakened by a loud persistent banging at the front door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at Hagrid’s cabin, however, they found an elderly witch with closely cropped gray hair and a very prominent chin standing before his front door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“You must stop the cancer at your front door.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A state police car with the red light flashing bounced frenziedly off the highway, swung around the cluster of rattletrap vehicles, and screeched to a stop with its nose practically touching the front door. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the mornings of the fourth and fifth of August, Etienne stands at the front door mumbling to himself, then pushes open the gate and goes out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, the heavy wooden front doors burst open, and more of the gigantic spiders forced their way into the entrance hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If the sign on the front door hadn’t already, Luce’s office made it clear just what kind of specialist my parents had brought me to see. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Just—” she started, when, behind me, my dad walked in the front door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I mean, he had to wiggle his key just to open the front door! The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I laughed to myself a long time afterward about how Ella's mouth flew open when we showed up at the front door—me and a well-bred Hill girl. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside of my parents’ house were white balloons, tied off on either side of the white fence’s gate, floating arrows that pointed us up to the open front door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She hurried across the street, went up to the front door, and rang the bell. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It’s airtight so that no potential hazards can leak into the main house when the front door is open. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His thoughts on this subject were abundantly clear: “When a clerk says he must leave the office because it is five o’clock, you’ll never see his name over a front door.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I locked the front door and waited for my uncle to arrive. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once the lion was safely inside, the hare bolted the front door and waited outside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Pacheco was forever knocking on front doors and back doors and outhouse doors, asking after his sow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy knock on the front door. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked my father at the front door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beth asks as she follows Dad through the front door and folds up her umbrella. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I avoided the front door and went around to the back alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nathaniel would pass by the front door at just the right time. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of horrible ideas went through my head as Daddy and I ran for the front door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no time to argue; a customer banged through the front door and called for something to drink. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Baldwin pokes his head in the front door. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The front door closed behind me and I was in the dark. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I take in that disturbing fact, the front door slams shut. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I watched them head up to the front door. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

My brother and I huddled together, listening through the front door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The old church seated only about a thousand people, so most of the crowd stood outside, facing the front door. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And she got out her pocketknife and picked the lock on Ida Nee’s front door. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

At two in the morning, the front door blasts me out of my sleep. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But Donald had never forgiven her, she told Martin, she was sure of it, and now they were going to swing from the branches of the tree right outside their front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then the front door of The Dump opened, and I thought it was probably my father coming back to help out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He watched while Mother tidied the remains of the morning meal and placed the tray by the front door for the Collection Crew. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were fixed on the emergency workers climbing the steps to the entrance below—getting ready to come through the front doors. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the silence was broken by the sound of the front door shutting with a loud bang. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door open and shut and Phoebe came in the kitchen waving a white enve-lope. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When we turned into the driveway, we saw Mama standing anxiously at the front door. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So Hazel lingered by the front door as long as she possibly could, then, after some nudging from her mother, trudged out to the bus stop. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mom opens the front door for me and waves goodbye as their car pulls away from the curb. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty the bell rings, and the front door is left open as people and cold air stream into the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to push through the wooden front door, I heard, “There you are, honey!” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I closed the shutters, bolted the front door, and closed the door to the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the bag down beside the furs, which are piled by the front door. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at dusk when the nightjars and bats began to fly and the setting sun had passed from orange to gray, Ultima came through the front door of the house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windows shot up in all the houses of that street and a housemaid or a butler appeared at every front door. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the front door, dressed in white, hands tucked under his armpits, breath puffing from his mouth. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Taisin strode up to the front door and raised her hand to knock, her knuckles ringing on the wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walked through the snow for a few miles until a white RIA worker picked me up and delivered me to the front door. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I passed the old courthouse, with its large front steps rising to meet the columns near the front doors, I realized I’d been walking down Central Avenue. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then she made her way over to a metal box fixed to the wall near the front door and hidden behind a thick, dusty curtain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate and walked swiftly and silently up the garden path, Harry at his heels, then pushed the front door very slowly, his wand raised and at the ready. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I quietly opened the front door and slipped the key back in its place. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auggie and I were playing Trouble in his room when, all of a sudden, we heard high-pitched squealing coming from the front door. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We head through the front door and into a big, empty living room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the midst of supper, at approximately seven-thirty, someone rang the bell at the front door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Harrison was standing outside the front door, pretending to polish the glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Only the torching and the fat fellow arrived by the front door; the rest came by secret ways, through tunnels and hidden passages. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They heard him coughing into his handkerchief and then the front door creaked shut as he left the house. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I follow him the short distance from the front door to where the incense is burning in the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The building used to be a Pick-It'Quick store, and when you walk in the front door, the first thing you see is the Pick- It-Quick motto. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Next she walked briskly into the living room and moved a large round mirror from the wall facing the front door to a wall by the sofa. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard the front door open, but Dudley did not move and after a few faltering steps Aunt Petunia stopped too. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“And wherever did the cat come from? He was waiting by the front door when I came in. Shot out like a bullet as I opened it.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, the front door slammed. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of these recurrent dreams, they watched the grim-lipped officer and the chaplain move toward the unhinging annunciation at the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighty-nine, and skin and bones like a mummy, she stood listening at her open front door, hands on hips and very grim of face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I close her front door and follow her. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A man at the front door was letting in members of Benny Goodman’s band. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all knew this, but it didn’t stop them from good-naturedly crowding the front door every time it opened, every single time, despite the fact that they were never—ever—let into the house. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell him to heel,” Conner shouted as he closed my front door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

As Mother lit the parlor lamps, I shoved my handiwork away and dashed out the front door. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that even before we reached the front door. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The mandated list of occupants clings to its front door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Brian and I would hide behind the sagebrush across the highway, trying to peer inside the front door when someone went in or out, but we could never see what was going on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had no more time to argue with him, for at that moment Mr. Derby emerged from the front door of the house, angrily holding up a weak and sobbing Mrs. Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always waited by the front door on the last day of school, to sing praise songs in Igbo and hug Jaja and me and caress our report cards in her hands. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand what you mean. My dad designed the library’s front doors.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny walked slowly to the front door and peered through the peephole, which was in the shape of an eye. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

The front door slams shut and Justin walks into the living room shouting for food. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I expected Papa to ask them to wait on the patio until we finished lunch, but he told Sisi to have Adamu let them in and to open the front door. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Katie flounced through the living room and out the front door, which slammed shut with a thunderous bang behind her. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Young lady, when it's sixty-five below and your front doors froze shut, you’ll be glad for this twenty pounds of beans.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Nope. There’s an arrow by the front door. You could toss that at the monster.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Her phone is crooked between her shoulder and her ear, just like the young woman who is walking into her front door right now in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And an hour and a half later, when we're just sitting down to eat homemade chicken noodle soup, the doc himself is pounding on our front door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Cal started for the front door Lee followed and walked out with him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, car horns honked, the front door swung open, and neighbors gushed into the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

On the day he returns, even if he’s not expected until midnight, she wears her frilly party dress and waits for him by the front door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was so shocked when I finally opened the front door: the smell was coming from my house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Telling him to kick through the front doors and drive his El Camino straight to Lily’s house. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He walked wearily to the front door and opened it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Both Ray and Axel run out the front door, across the porch, down the steps, but this time, Axel doesn’t turn to run across the field. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then, almost as predictably as the book, Byrd bursts through their front door. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and a guard stuck his head in. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I try to hold Charlie back when we hear the front door unlock, but it’s no use. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They all walked away, and even before they got to the front door, I heard a squeal of joy. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The temple’s front doors, in a sweet reversal of most American entrances, let blacks in and kept whites out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And as you know, Tyler, on the night this all began, the boy I went out with walked me all the way to my front door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

An assembly of well-intentioned people had marched right up to the elderly man’s front door one rainy afternoon to escort him—by reason, or by force—to a facility for proper care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The front door closes as I step into the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He went back into the wood-panelled hall, and closed the front door behind him quietly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Technically, it's outside the apartment, but I don't have to walk out the front door to get to it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The front door of the Emporium slammed shut with a wha- pop! and out came an enormous man in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Shut the front door,” Grandma told Mary Alice, who was just a little gray shape, mouselike, as she went over to close it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The soda bottles launched into the air and sent sweet suds bursting out of every window in the cafeteria, and one bottle zoomed down the hallway and out the front door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

To walk up to his front door, to go inside, to sit in his kitchen, on his terrace, where they sat, where I watched them? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Send this to Mamá in the next letter you write,” he mumbled, and quickly joined Lucky, already at the front door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Once, he arrived early and made it to the front door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I knocked on the front door, but there was no answer, so I let myself in and pounded upstairs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Still, I refuse to grab my jacket from the peg inside the front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can drive you,” Mom says, stepping forward to reach her purse hanging on the hooks by the front door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He hops over the counter and heads out the front door. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But we didn’t get a chance to start rinsing before I heard the front door open. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At first she's a glimpse, caught her going between the van and the front door, talking to the beards. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tidings would be wearing his suit and standing just inside the big front doors of the funeral home. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I set it back down, I heard the front door open and someone say, “Who’s here?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I put a foot over the threshold, then another, and another, until I was hurrying down the stairs, out the front doors, and into the quiet courtyard, where no children played. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I reply, and head out the front door. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He made his way to the front door and reached for the handle. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Her fingers crawl down the facade, find the recess in the front door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was Beatrice who finally came out the front door, and Roy ran up so fast that he nearly knocked her down. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And pretty soon, a janitor opened the front door and all of the other kids strolled inside. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reached to open the building’s front door, but where the lock and handle should have been, there was only a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reflex circuits in the corpse made it twitch and flutter, but it had died; Rick ignored it, not seeing it and not seeing that of Irmgard Baty by the front door. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of the front door being quietly opened and shut again, and the creak of footsteps on the path. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Beside the front door a dog lies in the dust, chin on its paws, and for a moment Werner thinks it is only sleeping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We reached the front doors of Washington Irving Junior High School at the same time. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed out the front door and I turned around and, sure enough, the lawn was completely shorn. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He hangs up and walks past me out into the living room, headed for the front door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How we laughed, trying to get out the front door without Regina and Rosa knowing, creeping up the attic stairs so Mrs. Pohler wouldn’t hear, our arms full of... The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mariam would see them when she passed by, always dressed in their fatigues, squatting by the front door of Tariq’s house, playing cards and smoking, their Kalashnikovs leaning against the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even though it was a Sunday Mr. Spizz stopped by the house and rapped his chunky monkey knuckles crazily on the front door at about seven o’clock in the morning. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He has a bag of fast food clutched in one fist as he comes through the front door; the other grips his keys, which he yanks free from the doorknob. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the front door he almost knocked young Tom down carrying in a bucket already filled to the brim. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to bail, Astelle woke up and followed me to the front door. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

If he stepped so much as three inches past our front door, a signal would beep at the sheriff’s station and they’d come after him again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A litde later, the front door opened, and finally footsteps made their way up the stairs and into her room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I pull open the heavy front door right as the bell rings at the end of sixth period. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Grace would later wonder what the three of them must have looked like as they walked up the front steps of the house toward the front door, huddled together like a scared flock of ducks. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The desk clerk locked the front door and left. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlour like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His front door is open, and when the bus pulls up in front of his house I can make out his mom in the doorway with him, pushing a travel mug into his hand. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I took both my coats and my scarf from the hooks next to the front door and I put them all on because it would be cold outside at night. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No one’s supposed to be home, he thought, pressing his ear against the front door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Harry dashed out the front door to hand down two women from the buggy, one stout and one slender. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And then it’s just me in that house with its broken front door, full of pageant supplies and Dolly Parton records. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Because at Tab’s everyone was supposed to take their shoes off by the front door. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The front door opened to us, and standing there was Cletus. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we pulled up, the front door opened. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“To keep everything super secret. My dad and his firm did the front door and that was it.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“The front door goes here, the ladder to the sleeping loft there, and this corner’s the special reading nook. I bet you didn’t know you could fit so much into the smallest space, huh?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and he stepped out onto the porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At night trucks rumbled by just a few inches from their front door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Viper greeted Gran at the front door with a high-pitched howl, and me with a seething hiss. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The oak front doors stood open ahead of them, light flooding out onto the drive and the lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As I open the front door, I hear Mom’s voice from somewhere down the hallway: “Please stop asking me, David! Dad’ll pick you up at five o’clock, and that’s the ladt time I’m saying it!” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the front door, Genie remembered what Grandpop said about counting his steps and decided to test it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The bar’s front door creaks open, admitting a gust of fresh air and a new customer. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached for the doorknob of the front door. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It must be our rellies,” Grandma said pointing to the front door. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I go in here, Jonas,” Fiona told him when they reached the front door of the House of the Old after parking their bicycles in the designated area. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now ’twas lit with torches, and sentries stood outside the front doors, jealously protecting the officers who slept within. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then he shook my hand and skittered out the front door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I convinced Chris that we should go and see what was happening in the hallway. So we went to the front door, and when we opened it...” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The front door is only a few steps away but Dylan grabs my arm and says, “Just hear him out, okay? Give him a chance.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Daddy stared at Jermaine for a minute and was about to open his mouth again when we all turned our heads toward the sound of the front door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the house opened and a lady with wild red hair stood there. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was out of my bedroom, she galloped down the hall and scratched urgently at the front door. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We walked through the front doors and climbed the stairs to the main office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had walked straight through McGarrity’s front door disdaining the deviousness of the side door marked “Ladies’ Entrance.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bumped open the front door with my right hip and swung the basket I was carrying through the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the front door, we brushed at each other frantically until Terry Donnelly opened it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tried to peek through the few clear spots in the windows but couldn’t see much, so Ernie, instead of just climbing through the hole, tried the front door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Around her, people yelled and cried, still flooding out of the front doors. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I gasp as I swing open the front door. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Up close to the front door I can see through the edges around the frosted glass design. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dashing past the barn, the smokehouse, and Mama’s flower pit, I ran through the house and got to the front door just as Papa hurried up the walk. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I hear the front door slam and Dad’s shoes clomping fast. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door splintered, and I saw the chandeliers swinging wildly in the foyer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Matt hastily returned to his chair by the front door while Ralph quickly and skillfully drove his car under the clock. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The front door had once been painted a bright blue, but had been dimmed by time and the sun. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

From time to time, a vagrant or a wino would wander through the front door, assuming the house was deserted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She opens the front door and leads him inside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The line of people waiting to stare at the empty body snakes out the front door of the church and down the steps to the sidewalk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They led him out of the front door of the building, to the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us walked to the front door to look. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like a ship under sail, she made for the front door. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went back to the hall, replaced the paper, and hurried out the front door with my book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had left her own front door wide open and walked back through, closing it softly behind her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of stores have performance artists hanging at the front door. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Grandma India rushed out the front door, her arms open to receive me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brushes her teeth, avoiding herself in the mirror, and goes back downstairs and stands looking out through the window in their front door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was standing by the front door of Number Five when she came with the rush of girls for the noon meal. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The front door of the Kent house was open. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he entered the cabin, Thula took one look at him, shrieked, and pushed him back out through the front door. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a full moon, and it’s late at night, and I’m peering out my window at Nino Carlitos, who is drunk and banging on the front door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried toward the lit windows of Hagrid’s house and pulled off the Cloak only when they were right outside his front door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She arrived at four and had hardly let herself down from her van when she saw the front door swing open and Mr. Singh come down the path to the curb. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and Grandpa Sorenson emerged, followed by a tall, lanky man with large ears and a thin, older woman. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He turned and went limping down the stairs and opened the front door and went out into the street backward watching the house. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I knew he could smell the food—my mother had been wafting scents toward the front door since she’d started cooking this morning. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

There’s this distant slam of the front door shutting and dog nails skittering across the hardwoods—Nora’s home. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Eleanor ran out the front door when she heard him turn on the bathroom sink. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Without turning on the light he went through the hall and opened the front door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the wet earth, strange footprints tracked from the front door. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He says he got up, went out into the hall, down the hall to the front door, opened it and looked out just in time to see the boy racing down the stairs. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He limped to the front door, opened it, slicing the room with a beam of moonlight, blasting through the fog of Charlie’s memory, of his many pasts. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he reached the entrance hall he saw that Filch had forgotten to lock the front door. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I walk past the front door and see a piece of paper lying there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When they walked in the front door and saw me there, they both exchanged a look. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I opened one of the big front doors and stared out into the night. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As he got closer to the building, he saw that a man was standing by the front door near the sweet-gum tree, wearing a white Tyvek jumpsuit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk in the front door, lock up, turn off the lights and then walk out the back door and lie on my table. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

On August 14, 1945, the very same day that World War II ended, an American citizen and Soviet spy named Elizabeth Bentley cautiously approached the front door of the FBI offices in New Haven, Connecticut. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front door banged open and Mr. Marston walked out to his waiting carriage. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every time I step out of my front door, I’m faced with the risk of being shot. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I follow Kristi up the steps and through her front door. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unlock the front door, turn the knob, and pull the door open. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Carla kept her head down as she approached the front door, glancing up briefly when the two officers introduced themselves. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When she catches my eye she shakes her head, turns away and walks quickly towards her own front door, almost but not quite breaking into a run. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not hearing the startled voices behind her, not seeing where or how she went, she blundered somehow to the great front door and out into the soft warm night. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She opened and slammed the front door, pretending to have just come in. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I was lying on the rug with my head on my paws just staring absently at the front door. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Long flights of stairs led to front doors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They stood in the dark before the front door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Out in Seattle, Hazel Ulbrickson locked the front door to her home so as not to be disturbed during the race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was a sudden banging on the front door. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a floor-to-ceiling window beside the front door, painted with letters that spelled out the doctor’s name and business hours in reverse. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sigh and finish my Coke and then go to the front door for my satchel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Redemption opened the front door, and Jam followed him into the house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A short trail led through a cluster of cabbage palms towards the front door, where my father’s wife was waiting. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So you hold on tight and let her lead you down the stairs and out the front door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When I get to the front door, I find that the building is locked. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I started for the front door where I’d left my shoes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she opened her front door, something gray streaked past my feet. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed four bottles of water from the kitchen and exited the front door. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The front door opens and Henry comes in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

So I start to make my way around the group and go up the steps leading to the brownstone’s open front door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He opens the front door and retrieves the Times, removing the blue wrapper, putting it on the coffee table to read later. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us, inside the sphere, the massive front doors of Castle Anorak had just swung open, and now a single Sixer avatar was emerging from within. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

George remained by the front door, her mouth slightly open. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She paused for a moment on the step and glanced back towards the front door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Through several walls, I hear the front door creak open and someone call out. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were heading, as Harry saw when he stepped out onto the stone steps from the front doors, toward the lake. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I walked right in through the front door of the paper and somebody called me “sir.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We burst through the tall front doors of Snowberger’s into too much noise and too many people coming and going, all talking at once. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Remora remained by the front door, his arms crossed and scowling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She opened the front door hesitantly to the smell of tobacco and sweat and strong coffee. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he stomped toward the front door, shoving over one of the kitchen chairs around our table as he went. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was the worst kind of air for me, and I told myself it was just the air when the walk from his driveway to his front door felt infinite. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was solid oak, with two heavy locks, and bolts top and bottom, though Will thought that no sensible burglar would try the front door anyway. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lowered the pail back down, grabbed the note, ran down her stairs and out the front door to their building’s landing, and pounded on the Lees’ door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Through the glass of the front door, the house appears empty. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I’m pondering this question as I sweep the Doctorita’s waiting room, near the front door, where dirt from patients’ shoes always builds up. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence and then the squeaking sound of the front door being opened and banged shut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ran out the front door for the first time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I coiled the phone cord around my finger and stared down the hall at the front door. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella dropped the hammer, swung open the front door, and hollered, “Hey, Mama! The Spoon Man—he’s coming up the road, Mama! Come outside quick!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The next day there was a line outside the front door of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hear the front door open and Mrs. Byrne clatter down the steps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had known too many Marine wives and children who had come to their front door and found dour messengers, their faces carved from the ices of duty, standing with tragic news welting their tongues. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It galloped madly up to the front door, missing the lamp-post by an inch, and then reared up on its hind legs. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth opens her own front door and I fear Aibileen might not be working today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We said our thank-you’s to him and turned to face the bombardment of questions as we made our way to Mrs. Bates’s front door. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing my name pulled me up short at the front door. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Papa opened the front door, took one look at Stella, and asked, “What the blazes happened?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We was still in those times when we was good enough to work at somebody’s house, but not good enough to enter through the front door. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By evening, it lay four feet deep around the tiny house, and Mr. Bucket had to dig a path from the front door to the road. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I step out of my room, out the front door, down the eight flights of steps. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Hold up one finger, to show her I’ll be at the front door in a minute. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kvothe bolted to his feet midsentence and was halfway to the bar before the front door opened and the first of the Felling night crowd made their way inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jake picked up his suitcase and went to the front door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jess asked dubiously as we walked through the front doors of the store. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He leads Maxine up the flagstone path, ringing the bell because his parents always keep the front door locked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Out the front door of the apartment building, through the passage of Mickiewicza 7, around the corner, and behind our block of buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The outer gate sighs shut, then the front door closes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she opened her front door, James was waiting to walk with her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A barrel of pickles stood near the front door. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I'm rereading one of Amma's replies to my letters when I hear a tapping on the front door. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The three of us walked down the hallway to the front door, where Summer’s mom looked like she was trying to organize the coats. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mac stood up and crossed to the front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of horse hooves and the roll of carriage wheels and the front door opened and then closed and the house fell quiet save for Hannah’s steps in the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to the front door and held it open for an older couple to walk through. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My pulse beats with my footsteps on the ramp, and as I get closer to Jason’s front door, I hear a thumping bass line and muted laughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Screaming and crying for my father, I flung open the front door and kicked it shut behind me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As Noah stood at the front door saying his thank you's, Julian said, "Same time next week. But, please, your presence but not presents." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I go up to the front door, ring the doorbell, which of course, doesn’t ring. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I need to get to the front door. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

From the window it was as if he were not one of their unlucky tribe but only observing their commerce, as one might watch strangers stroll past one’s front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m nobody,” Milligan replied, and without further explanation, he pointed across the street to a three-story house with stone steps leading up to its front door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as we all came running to the front door, he’d start by being stern. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that worried me was our front door. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He’s dragging me now, towards the front door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the end of the hall and looked back, Mami was still standing at the front door watching me, a worried expression on her face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

By the front doors are metal detectors manned by large grumpy people who perform random bag searches. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please go see him,” she was saying now, even as she waved hello to someone walking through the front door. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They walked out the front door arm in arm, down the stairs, and to the driveway at the side of the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butterflies of different vivid colors danced from petal to petal, and they seemed to cloud around Ishtar as she ascended the stairs to the front door, still on her call. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t answer it,” I yell to Natalie as I wade through the boxes to the front door. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy locks the front door and goes back in his office. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

June grabbed the backpack and Ivy’s hand before pulling her through the front door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Just then, I heard the front door slam and voices coming from the living room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But when they reached the front door of the apartment there was only an old lady walking down the street. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Byrd turns at the front door to face him, composing herself with a deep yoga breath. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He knocks on the front door, and his nanny opens it. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

So the boy went to the front door, rang the bell, hoping some other less obdurate servant might let him in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She presses inward on the tiny front door, and a hidden catch releases, and the little house lifts up and out of the model. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised you got to the front door without my gate guards alerting me,” the executive said, as nonchalant as could be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Filch was standing at the oak front doors as usual, checking off the names of people who had permission to go into Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Seven waits for me at the front door, spinning the basketball between his hands. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Harry waited until Lockhart was out of sight, then pulled Ron out of the bush and up to Hagrid’s front door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Once they were on the mattress, Toby turned around and started for the front door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mama stacked the full boxes of jam jars by the front door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She placed Edward on a chair in the dining room and positioned the chair so that Edward was looking out the window and could see the path that led up to the Tulane front door. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Dad takes Butterscotch back into the house, then locks the front door on his way out. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I ran down to our front door, I discovered that icy rain was falling in sheets. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I stand at my front door, not in and not out, halfway between two places. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They were evicted by the outraged hosts but only after a long, happy, and bloody battle that took out the front door and broke two windows. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had a home, and you put a wrecking ball through the front door, Bolliger. Don’t look for sympathy from me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bell above the front door rings back and forth as a few guys from school file in. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was hustled out of the car and in through the front door with my mother still holding the bloodstained handerchief firmly over my wobbling nose. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the front door slammed behind her father and Henry, she went to her father’s chair to tidy up the papers he had left on the floor beside it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There was no leaving by the front door. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we walk through the front door, he’s there, sitting with his elbows on his knees on the living room couch. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our front door closed softly behind him, and as soon as it did, Mama spoke again. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tidings was sleeping in a sleeping bag by the front doors. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said nothing, followed him out the front door not knowing what to expect. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The cold wind almost knocks me off my feet when I open the front door. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the first day after Christmas break, loud banging on our front door wakes me up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath and walked through the hallway toward the front door, telling himself he could do this over and over. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I imagined Laura in the small cabin, and all kinds of bears and creepy things just feet from the front door, waiting to get in. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that the front door is reinforced, and that all the windows are bulletproof. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The boy will have milk,” I said grandly and flounced around to the front door. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We walked through the front door,” I say slowly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened into a small lounge room. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then someone walked through her front door and Deborah yelled straight into the receiver, “Good morning! I got mailY’ She sounded panicked by the idea of it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What you wanna do on the Internet?” she’d asked, blocking the front door as if Genie might just rush past her and barge inside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was a knock at the front door, and Mother went to answer it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, the Joneses’ front door opened. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The empty apartment is silent as I tiptoe out of the bedroom and close the front door behind me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

An ugly yellow scrap from a ripped bodice was still tied to the handle of the front door, which was open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the front door I see the back door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At the front door, he set the package down carefully and patted all his pockets for his house keys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The front door’s unlocked, so I open it and matter-of-factly blow the horn. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around the huge, oak front door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she closed Dill’s front door behind her, it felt like rolling a stone over the entrance of a tomb. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Her private security guard was checking the rear the following night when an explosion ripped through her front door and window. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He all but shoved them out the front door. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The zigzagging path leading to the front door was overgrown with a variety of odd plants, including a bush covered in the orange radishlike fruit Luna sometimes wore as earrings. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The front door was open, so the voices floated out the screen door like water through a sieve. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It is the wrong direction, but she goes down and the front door is open and she can see the back of him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then the front door opens and closes, and the car starts outside, and then it's quiet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every little bit, I’d stop to listen for the front door to open and Papa to roar out, “Will, you come ’ere!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The loud knocking on her front door the next morning filled her with relief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway, above the front door, is a fanlight of colored glass: flowers, red and blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miles stepped out the front door right before Charlie came barreling out of the kitchen, aiming for me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I took one last look around, inhaled one final breath of fresh air, and carried my bag through the front door and into the lobby. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The worn front door creaked when I opened it, like always. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We went through the drawing-room to the hall and let ourselves out of the front door. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I follow quickly behind Hilly to the front door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The front door slams, sending all the glass lamps into a furious tinkle. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The gray front hood nosed up near the front door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked August why May was coming through the front door in her coffin, she said, “We’re going to sit with her till she’s buried.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the front door, I pause to knock the wet stuff from my shoes before I go in. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“One of your tasks will be to sweep the front porch, steps, and walkway every day until the snow comes. Rain or shine,” Mrs. Byrne says as I follow her to the front door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He closed his locker with a muffled clang and headed back toward the front door. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There has to be a clever way to turn the tide, but to my besieged brain there’s only one way out: the front door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Just as Aunt Gloria opened the front door, a siren came wailing up right outside. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk out of the library, down the hall, through the front doors. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Momly pulled in, pulled up around this big fountain, to the front door. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As I was rewinding the tape, somebody knocked on the front door. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Wash, why are you using the front door?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pong pushed his way past them and ran to the front door. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On the third morning, Laila began moving the piles of things to the yard and depositing them by the front door. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That good feeling lingered as I entered the front door of Central and climbed the stairs to my third-floor homeroom. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you using the front door. Wash, you use complete sentences, and pick up your hat.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although it did not have lion statues guarding the front door, it was close to my dream castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As I fumbled to unlock the front door, I glanced over my shoulder to make sure I was still alone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pulled on her jacket, peeked through the glass in the front door, then hurried out onto the porch, almost running around the house to the car. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

About two hours after Prosper and Riccio's return the bell at the entrance rang and the Thief Lord was at the front door, just as he had promised. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk to the front doors, Mai takes my hand. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’m not shy or anything, but I didn’t really feel like knocking on the front door of a house belonging to someone I didn’t know. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

More soldiers were on guard at the front door. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed only that his front door was open. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m putting stickers on the Hot Fries when somebody knocks on the front door. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Black Susan, the cat, came and went as she pleased, day and night, through the swinging door of the cat-hole in the bottom of the front door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita heard the sound of the front door closing behind someone. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Delores sitting at the reception desk, her nails sparkly silver, points a finger at the front door. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I head to the front door for my satchel, ready to thread together more of Minny’s stories. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She turned away from the holding ponds, made her way to the front door of the main building, and was met there by Dimitri. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She turned her head as there was a light, dignified knocking at the front door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her lecture was interrupted by a knock at the front door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she was burying his body in the backyard while I assembled a good portion of my possessions and left through the front door. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jan stood at the front door of the car and held out his palm. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to drag her out the front door, but she said, “Don’t you want to pack anything?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door banged against the back wall as he jerked it open and walked out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He answered his phone, then opened our front door for a couple of CSIs. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The front door opens into the common area—a combo kitchen-dining-living-room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I ran up the walkway and entered through the front door, which opened into the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Many have an ornate façade of red brick, with four- or five-step stoops leading to the front door. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The moment I turned the knob to my front door, pain shot through my fingertips. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Aimee ran to the phone as soon as she opened her front door and burst into her new house. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At eleven o'clock a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower tapped at my front door and said that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the front doors slammed, and my older brother, Tidings, who had been painting the fence by the front parking lot, yelled, “Attention, all personnel! Where are the big umbrellas! I need rain cover!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat in my room, I heard a door slam, the front door. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I hear the raspy voices of their leaders commanding, “Forward march,” as we first walked through these front doors on September 25, 1957. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without trying I knew it wasn’t for the front door, because it didn’t match up with the key that I wear on a string around my neck to let myself in when nobody’s home. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She crumpled the bill up in her hand like it was a rag or something and went on out the front door just as Earl came in. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull the front door closed and we start making our way to the truck. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The two guards were standing at the front doors of the theater. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

But I resisted, and he disappeared through the front door without me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The front door was hanging off its hinges. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Tendai watched anxiously, but after a few moments the front door opened and a small woman came out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Doctor Korczak shook my hand and opened the front door for me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Next to them, lying on its side in the tall weeds, there was a little house, with a front door that opened and closed. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But Helena is already running down the hallway and opening the front door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hang up and walk slowly out my front door and over to the letter box. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When Mom and Dad walked through the front door, Dad came in with their bags. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So I turned and ran all the way back to the house and locked our front door. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She was ready when she heard the knock on the front door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She crept in the front door and peered over the counter. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Two weeks to the day after waking up on my brother’s bedroom floor, I knocked quickly and nervously on Alma Ember’s front door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Seven takes the steps two at a time and throws the front door open. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Because it would be quite as rude as kicking down the front door,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“See you later, Jake,” said Grace when they hit the front doors. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Emily gripped her backpack straps and looked up to the front door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He used to say that on the path outside the front door at Bag End, especially after he had been out for a long walk.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They sat on a marble bench near the front door and told the group to start the tour without them; they planned to catch up in a few minutes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She got up from the desk and left her room and went out the front door and walked into the middle of the street. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Blinking and bleary-eyed, Ash went to the front door and opened it, and the rising sun flooded into the hall, momentarily blinding her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have made his way in through the open front door, searching for water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If the store was closed he’d slide the note under the front door. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are his toenail clippers, over there his green nylon tent spread over a missing window in the front door. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to get to the front door, but he is in my way, blocking my path, blocking out what little light there was in the room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the time I walked back up Citrus Court to the front door of our house, I was very happy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I took her by the shoulders and pushed her against the wall inside the front door and told her to “Wait, just wait” while I ran to the kitchen. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

But a few seconds later—so fast does the crow fly—they were gliding to earth a yard from her front door. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She waved at her dad and Uncle Neville and walked out the front door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The house had three front doors opening onto the porch, one for each apartment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Denna made a beeline for the front door, moving but with the slow determination of a storm cloud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He clutched her arm and pulled her up the steps to the front door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then something was beating at the front door, each impact echoing through the house. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They live next door to each other, but they both come out of Malik’s front door. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The children, when they saw Theresa by the front door, looked concerned. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My class was more than a block away from the front door, near the Fourteenth Street entry to the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We only need to cover the front door,” said the Corporal softly. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could say anything more on this, the front door opened. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Holding the cigarettes with both hands like an offering to the gods, she marched up to the front door. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our front door has a tiny slot to shove mail through, but anything thicker than a bar of soap gets left outside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

They coasted toward the front door and heard the voice again: “Help me.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She was there at the very moment Colonel Varney knocked at the front door. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s feet thud toward the front of the house and the hinges on the front door squeak as it swings open. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Go and eat your dinner, you’ll feel better after it. Men always croak when they are hungry,” and Jo whisked out at the front door after that. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't go in the front door of my house because the front porch has a light that goes on whenever anyone walks up the steps. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Bertha would stick her head out of the front door and call out, “Catch him yet?’ Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ash climbed out of the carriage in a daze; she saw a large stone building before her, the front door yawning open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when they emerge, they mark a house by painting a big red X on the front door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then one morning, as he unlocked the front door for business, he saw the Knot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It belonged to Karl’s mother,” said Chase as we climbed the steps to my front door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had been waiting for the support check—her jacket was hanging by the front door, downstairs, past the open living- room door. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I think about the houses on the hill, the ones with lollipop-green grass and not one but two front doors with gold handles. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The tour ended in the foyer at the front door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jess and the twins and Mr. Rowan walked through the front door of Clive’s. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Chantal is by the front door and starts to put on her coat, but the noise from the TV makes her stop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I went to the front door, unbolted the top and bottom locks, and turned the knob. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was pulling the front door shut while balancing an armload of books. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bounded down the stairs and out the front door, wondering how long this bizarre routine would continue. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As we showed our I.D.s to leave the prison—a safeguard against inmates walking out the front door—I decided that if I were an escaping in-mate, I’d stay away from the fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coraline opened the front door and looked at the gray sky. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I heard a loud banging at the front door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wheeled around, pulled open the front door, and slammed it so hard that one of the little panes of glass at the top fell out. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

So she was confused and disoriented when the front door burst open and several people entered, all seemingly talking at once. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The phone rang then, and Aunty Ifeoma asked me to pick it up, since I was closest to the front door. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Sen wore shoes; Eliot noticed several pairs lined on the shelves of a small bookcase by the front door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After putting the milk in the icebox, I turned and had just reached the front door when I heard, “Ritie.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they reach a mansion, the monsters don’t even break stride, bursting through the front doors and shattering the wall of windows. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z