Citations:door

Noun: A portal of entry into a building or room, consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge

 * 1594 — William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act 3 sc. 1
 * No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.


 * 1598-9 — William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing act 1 sc. 1
 * With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord; not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.


 * 1640 — John Donne, LXXX Sermons
 * I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.


 * 1845 — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, st. 1
 * Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.


 * 1972 — Bernard Malamud, Rembrandt's Hat
 * There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go—if there are no doors or windows—he walks through a wall.

Noun: An non-physical entry into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.

 * 1637 — Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
 * Never open the door to the least of evils, for many other, greater ones lurk outside.


 * 1940 — Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
 * There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.