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Definition of Doorknobs

1. doorknob [n] - See also: doorknob

Lexicographical Neighbors of Doorknobs

Literary usage of Doorknobs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The White House by Bernard L. Ungar, Gao (2003)
"The former director of an office where an EOF employee told us that he observed two pairs of missing doorknobs said that the office had several doors to the ..."

2. School Hygiene by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar (1913)
"That disease popularly known as " sore eyes" is of bacterial origin and is spread through the agency of flies, the handling of doorknobs and books, ..."

3. The Charm of the Antique by Robert Shackleton, Mrs. Elizabeth Fleming Shackleton (1914)
"For our own part we have found enough of the genuine old, in doorknobs, ... doorknobs naturally bring to mind door-knockers; and for these, again, ..."

4. Primer of Sanitation: Being a Simple Textbook on Disease Germs and how to by John Woodside Ritchie (1920)
"Dirt and dust, mingled with sweat and oil from the skin, on doorknobs, banisters, ... For this reason the doorknobs and desks in schoolrooms should be ..."

5. Human Physiology: An Elementary Text-book with Special Emphasis on Hygiene by John Woodside Ritchie (1915)
"Dirt and dust, mingled with sweat and oil from the skin, on doorknobs, ... For this reason the doorknobs and desks in schoolrooms should be cleaned ..."

6. Human Physiology: An Elementary Text-book of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene by John Woodside Ritchie (1908)
"Dirt and dust, mingled with sweat and oil from the skin, on doorknobs, ... For this reason the doorknobs and desks in schoolrooms should be cleaned ..."

7. Sanitation and Physiology: Being Primer of Sanitation and Human Physiology by John Woodside Ritchie (1910)
"Dirt and dust, mingled with sweat and oil from the skin, on doorknobs, banisters, ... For this reason the doorknobs and desks in schoolrooms should be ..."

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