A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the threshold of the attic.
The influences of the size of suspended particles in the medium and chemical structural characteristics of the medium on the threshold of the optical breakdown are researched experimentally.
Similarly, a dying man might save himself if he finds someone to share a sugared egg with him on the threshold of a house.
"Until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free will."
By the time he was thirty-five he had a large and a lucrative practice, he had amassed a competence, and he stood on the threshold of a distinguished career. He had an acute brain, an attractive personality, and uprightness.
Scientists are now on the threshold of a new discovery.
She felt as though she was on the threshold of a new life.
Though Kearns did not realize it, he was on the threshold of the next revolution in automotive technology.
I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.
I had no choice but to sit on the threshold of a roadside mansion and rest for a while. The clothes gradually froze on my skin before I knew I was sweating.
Spada died on the threshold of the vineyard;
Design of ultrasound-enhanced subcritical water extraction apparatus and analysis on the threshold of ultrasonic cavitation
So, why do I think that chemistry might now be teetering on the threshold of a revolution?
The next growth area for the industry is the flow of patients in the other direction-known as "medical tourism" -which is on the threshold of a dramatic boom.
Renowned writer and thinker Lu Xun had described the situation in China during his time as "being on the threshold of entering into a great era, but this does not necessarily mean a new lease of life, it could also spell doom.
We are on the threshold of a new era in astronomy.
And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called 'real life', I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.
I have to say that time is always too fast, standing on the threshold of memory, can only be seen in the distance, but we can never return to the original origin.
The international situation is on the threshold of a great change, whose imminence is sensed on all sides.
A little later he paused, dripping, upon the threshold of the camp, and heard Joe say:
The sound was so loud it was on the threshold of pain.
Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
upon the threshold of the camp, and heard Joe say:
For example, because of donors' generosity, we are on the threshold of ending polio once and for all.
Now medicine is on the threshold of a second Renaissance, and the discoveries of this period may lead to a revolution in the treatment of everything from heart disease to cancer.
He was on the threshold of his career.
Scientists are now on the threshold of an important discovery.