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    threshold


    1. There, on the threshold to their room they found two


    2. Now that I was outside of the cell he seemed palpably nervous, as though my movement across the threshold somehow threatened his safety


    3. Eventually Smiler hauled himself to his feet and stepped over to the threshold of the cell


    4. What he found particularly offensive was that every model available had an adjustable pain threshold that could be set up to 'suicidal'


    5. However, as soon as we reach the threshold at 9:00 o' clock, suddenly Helen stays still as if she were rooted to the spot


    6. He watched us for a moment, standing on the threshold of the room, seeming to savour our discomfort


    7. Alderfolk Pottypears stood on the threshold of the chambers and


    8. outside on the threshold


    9. My aunt paused on the threshold then pushed the door ajar, guiding me inside, 'Welcome to our love nest


    10. I was washed out, panting my way back up like an old dog stumbling through the rubble, watching every step, until I came to the threshold where I almost bumped into a couple of men blocking the doorway

    11. ' Alexis pointed to the outhouse and held open the door and ushered me inside but just as I crossed the threshold, the most diabolical screech had me petrified with shock and sent Charon himself running screaming back to Hades


    12. The fisherman remarked to his wife as he carried her over the threshold of their first real house, “Well, love, this is where true happiness begins”


    13. ‘This is all wrong,’ Alastair said thoughtfully, ‘I should have carried you over that threshold, I think


    14. We stepped over the threshold and through the doorway with its weathered wooden uprights and down a short, narrow passage that opened into the usual general-purpose space


    15. A gentle breeze brushed my face for the last time as I swung across the threshold and surrendered to a different reality


    16. had crossed that threshold


    17. threshold of their first real house, “Well, love, this is where true


    18. Mandy stepped through the second threshold into the tiled room beyond


    19. ” She greeted him as she came as far as the threshold to the store


    20. He hurried his steps, reaching the threshold of the room as the phone on the desk began to ring

    21. But for the fact that the front door is wide open and there is a black holdall on the threshold of the hallway, the place looks as though it has been standing idle for fifty years


    22. up and down the alley, he stepped over the threshold and


    23. church, leaving the men standing on the threshold


    24. He sprang across the road, and as he entered the threshold of the alley, shouted, “Hey, what's going on here?”


    25. She’d already crossed the threshold of sin, what was to hold her back now


    26. He saw them, the whole Pan-Solar league, all nations both mortal and Angelic, standing on the threshold of a vast new universe


    27. He stepped over the threshold into the shop of the


    28. We stepped over the threshold and into


    29. Monk-Key 1 continued, “We are approaching a dangerous Threshold situation; the critical reflections on linguistic


    30. Otherwise, you can meet me back by the threshold

    31. Ash led us back to the field of flowers and to the threshold


    32. Before we stepped over the threshold, Ash stopped me


    33. Then we held hands and walked through the threshold


    34. “Releasing docking clamps and maneuvering to threshold,” the Elf recited her actions as she performed them


    35. The officer grasped her shoulders, steadying her in the threshold of the tent


    36. There is a threshold to cross, and, once crossed, it cannot be gone back over


    37. A call came from inside Psyche’s office, and Sebastian opened it for his grandmother, who turned to look at him as she crossed the threshold


    38. “Did you find anything?” Warlock asked with his foot on the threshold


    39. Danny waited at the threshold, at the top of the steps down to the pavement, while Sharon


    40. on the threshold with Ronnie behind him, almost directly behind, his face appearing above

    41. ” I stepped over the threshold and into the passage but before I went any further Mr Slater stopped me saying


    42. I continue intrigued by the concept of the threshold of consciousness


    43. Inflict all manner of damage to the Family home, leaving the house-sitter so traumatized he/she will swear never to cross your threshold again


    44. Unless of course his condition became too unstable, exceeding a predetermined threshold of neural activity


    45. On the death of any great personage, slaves were immediately sacrificed on the threshold


    46. She stopped on the threshold, stock still for a moment, a puzzled frown on her face, not really registering the scene in front of her


    47. But as he was crossing the threshold of the hall a thought sprang at


    48. Teig stopped a moment on the threshold until the tramp of her feet had


    49. Amaranthe entered but turned to face the hallway as soon as she passed the threshold


    50. It took forever to reach the big ball shaped room at the top, and when he did, he stopped on the threshold, eyes wide, breathing hard














































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    Synonyms for "threshold"

    doorsill doorstep threshold door doorway room access limen brink verge square one bottom beginning outset onset entrance portal gate

    "threshold" definitions

    the starting point for a new state or experience


    the smallest detectable sensation


    the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close


    the sill of a door; a horizontal piece of wood or stone that forms the bottom of a doorway and offers support when passing through a doorway


    a region marking a boundary