Meanings
adverbwithin doors (comparative more within doors, superlative most within doors)
comparative more within doors · superlative most within doors
- alternativeAlternative form of within-doors.
Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors, Brighter than these, shone the faces of friends in the glimmering lamplight.
1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II)
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