The Lizard was standing on his doorsill when I came up; he returned my greeting sullenly, his keen eyes of a sea-bird roving over me from head to foot.
"The Maids of Paradise"
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He turned on his heel, kicking off his sabots on the doorsill.
"The Maids of Paradise"
Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A big black-snake is not a pleasant customer, but neither-for a black-snake-is a frenzied mother with an iron fire shovel in her hand, and this particular snake turned tail, a great deal of it, by the way, since it extended to its head, and disappeared over the doorsill in a cataract of black and into the wood again.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo