| 单词 | trap door |
| 例句 | I heard the hinges on the trap door creak. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He swept the boards clean and knelt and hooked his fingers in the ring and lifted the trap door and swung it open. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The trap door opened, and Hickock hung for all to see a full twenty minutes before the prison doctor at last said, “I pronounce this man dead.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ralph climbed up the trap door to the roof, returning to report that the building really needed a turnbuckle or something to keep its corners from falling outward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was eager to work, and when I set him down through the trap door in the wire mesh of the maze, he moved swiftly along the pathways to the reward box. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z He tore a flap from the opened cardboard box and chased out the smoke with it and then he climbed up and lowered the trap door and turned and looked at the boy. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I opened the trap door and stepped into the attic. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “Right,” Valerie agreed, and the minute Max had shut the trap door, she clambered silently up the ladder and pressed her ear to the ceiling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The trap door creaked when he opened it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we heard it, the sound, and Jimmy Latham said, ‘What was that? ’; and I told him what it was—the trap door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Scraping noises; and then, like the gates of the Western Paradise, the trap door would open, lowering into the basement an almost intolerable beam of light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When she put her hand in through the top trap door, he cringed and forced himself back into the corner. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z With a labyrinthine system of underground pulleys, lifts and trap doors to rival the most elaborate Broadway show, says Heinz-Jürgen Beste of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. Ancient Savagery, and How It Worked 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z In later sequences, Six doggedly rescues himself from a tumbling plane, a trap door and a set of handcuffs. ‘The Gray Man’ Review: Guy vs. Guy 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “It unlocked a little trap door into the feeling of one of my favorite songs of all time, like the camera had been turned 45 degrees,” Harrington, 36, said via video chat. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z For "Kurios," he put a virtual ban on turntables and trap doors. Director Michel Laprise aims for the unpredictable in Cirque du Soleil's 'Kurios' 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “We wanted each season to come to a satisfying conclusion and then leave a trap door into the next one.” Janelle Monáe Touches Down in ‘Homecoming’ 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Ever-changing backdrops and increasingly challenging situations involving trap doors and sliding platforms keep children interested. Travel Apps and Games for Children on the Go 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z It was vital that scenery was removed quickly from trap doors beneath which chimney stacks and beam engines were waiting to emerge. 'My awe at role in 2012 ceremony' 2012-07-28T10:08:39Z Organized by a curatorial team led by Ruba Katrib, “Greater New York” — which opened Thursday — is both a show of our moment and one that attempts to escape it through the trap door of history. ‘Greater New York,’ a Show of the Moment, Dwells in the Radical Past 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z On deck are three trap doors as holds for the coal stokers. A ‘Titanic’ challenge: Creating the ‘floating city’ within relatively limited space 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Both shows struggle to make use of an ungainly trap door and a plain black curtain at the back of the playing area. Review | When blood and guts aren’t enough, even for a pair of tragedies 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Amplifying the effect, Round House has a trap door, a lift under the stage and some new motorized machinery that Olney doesn’t have, which is largely why the show is in Bethesda. ‘Angels’ in Maryland: An epic combination 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In a particularly clever move, Al installs a trap door in a Port-a-Potty located next to a security camera. “Going in Style” and old people behaving badly: Hollywood needs to stop treating people over 60 like idiots 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The third, finally, is “sudden as the trap door beneath you.” Review | ‘Throw Me to the Wolves’ is both a caustic social commentary and a riveting crime novel 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z They were invitees turned, suddenly, into interlopers, presenting one minute, plunged through a trap door the next. In Art and Tennis, Watch Out for the Backhand 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z But when he goes ballistic, all by himself, it’s as if Mr. Spacey has opened a trap door beneath a traditionally two-level character to reveal dark, turbulent and unfathomable waters beneath. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z It helps that what happens includes some of the most eye-boggling illusions you’ll ever witness, without a visible wire or trap door in sight. Review: ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Raises the Bar for Broadway Magic 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z “We tear away carpets and in almost each room we discover trap doors in the wooden floors, hiding places behind old paneling,” she writes in her preface. How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I’m picturing a spring-loaded trap door that opens on to sharks. Christoph Waltz: 'Try as you might, you can never break free from your past' 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z There’s even a trap door to the wood shop below, where they use a fishing net to hoist up 60-kilo bags of green coffee beans. Maine, One Coffee Roaster at a Time 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Around Swamp Dogg’s voice, recognizable instruments — a guitar, a string section — are surrounded or displaced by electronic tones, fragmentary programmed beats and silences that can spring open like trap doors. Justin Vernon Joins Swamp Dogg and Big Red Machine to Wrestle With Love and Death 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z She also wanted to catch something of the essayist’s way of suddenly opening “trap doors,” of changing the subject as it were without losing the line of thought. With remarkable concert at Soka, the young Calidore String Quartet declares: Take note 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Sienna opened a hidden trap door that no one had guessed might be there and she and Langdon slid down a curved tunnel that took them to a secret hideout. Inferno by Dan Brown – digested read 2013-05-19T13:00:04Z But it turns out that even quaint cobblestone streets have trap doors. Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z I’m guessing by the look on his face that he was praying for a trap door to fall through. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In the midst of all this, I wondered: How did this dusty, cramped space accessible by a trap door and a treacherous stairway become such a shameful disgrace? The pandemic gave me the time to finally clean out my shameful attic. Here’s what I learned. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z I’m also not sure how well served the script is by the frequent emergence of place-defining scenery that keeps materializing via elevators through trap doors. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Other features included are lanterns above the doors, a spiral staircase, balconies, a trap door, and a steel slide. JK Rowling to build Hogwarts-style tree houses 2012-08-30T13:20:31Z In my 20s, beer was the magical trap door to extroversion I used to navigate high-rise college dorms and British beer cellars. The search for a non-alcoholic beer that’s actually worth drinking 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z "I can actually go into my toilet, open the trap door, and I am in the house," she said. Film stars captivate and capture Tonys 2010-06-14T15:02:00Z The picture’s punchline is a trap door in the floor that appears to lead not to a basement, but to open sky. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z This verbal slippage, between Alexa and Mollusca, serves as a trap door to thinking about language, time, history and human consciousness. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z When we visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a working fountain emerges from a trap door. How to Write for the Rockettes 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Right before the climax of “The Businessman’s Blues,” trap doors open onstage, and a small army of additional spotlights rear their mole-like heads. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Wit may not be sorcery, but it does open a trap door to wisdom: to E. B. White’s “heightened truth,” the full graininess of experience. How Wit Reveals the Trickster Beauty of Our Garbage World 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s as if you’d popped through a trap door into a secret clubhouse. At Pata Cafe, Few Ingredients but a Mélange of Thai Flavors 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Every chair Christie sat in had a trap door underneath. Chris Christie’s Memoir Praises Trump, but Says, ‘I Told You So’ 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Morley said she lost a major role because of concerns she wouldn’t fit through a trap door in the set. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z “I always had to have a trap door in the third verse through which everything fell into misery,” he said. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Then there’s the warren of interconnected spaces, some joined by trap doors, that paints Bobbie’s path to companionship as a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Chutes and Ladders. On Broadway Stages, the Beautiful Rooms Are Empty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Just then it seemed as if the traditional orchestral play-off had lost whatever power it still had to move things along; trap doors are in order. Review | Oscar keeps it shorter without a host, but something still needs to done about those speeches 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z “I was hoping there was a trap door on the stage and @REALStaceyDash would fall through,” a viewer wrote while another tweeted, “No one likes you.” Watch Stacey Dash Read Mean Tweets About Her Oscars Cameo: 'You Sucked Like You Do on Fox News' 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z She said that after Mr. Curry’s leg became pinned in the trap door, he began screaming. ‘Spider-Man’ Resumes Shows After Injury 2013-08-16T22:05:56Z "At some point, there were coffins with trap doors underneath that we were going to spend a lot of time exploring, and Oliver was going to be in one," episode co-writer Ben Philippe told Salon. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Stuffed with sumo wrestling; trap doors; an autogiro equipped with flamethrowers and missiles; a piranha pool; and, of course, a rocket base hidden inside a volcano, “You Only Live Twice” wasn’t exactly an actor’s breakthrough. Sean Connery: From Tentative Secret Agent to Suave Bond 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z “They were invitees turned, suddenly, into interlopers,” he writes, “presenting one minute, plunged through a trap door the next.” Welcome to the Future. ‘Atlanta’ Has Been Waiting for You. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z From a distance, you can savor its trap doors. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Perry sang “Part of Me” while marching on a treadmill and disappeared through a trap door during “Dark Horse” only to reemerge seconds later through another across the arena floor. Katy Perry at Staples Center: 5 thoughts on her hometown show 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z Twenty-one cameras positioned in unique locations will capture the action: from above the stage to the trap door, to the orchestra pit and the wings. Royal Opera Live: an exclusive behind-the-scenes live stream 2013-01-03T14:04:08Z At another time and on another stage, an overweight Don Giovanni got caught in the trap door halfway down, prompting someone in the audience to cry out, "Hell's full!" Going to hell in style: 'Don Giovanni' in Vienna 2013-03-08T13:30:14Z “We like to say here, ‘No trap doors.’ DC Comics Reboots Justice League and Other Series 2011-08-30T22:18:04Z In order to maintain a consistent toasting temperature on a Weber I always use a grill surface with the trap door and shift the embers around to keep the temperature even. Embracing paella will blow up your mid-summer grilling game 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z It was a dark and dangerous, yet extraordinarily well organized place, where wild beasts, animals, gladiators and condemned criminals waited to be brought onstage via trap doors, ramps or elevators powered by men. Heads Up: More Doors Open in Rome 2010-09-11T05:01:00Z They do have a trap door on the side so they can stretch out if needed. Elite pilots prepare for ‘camping out in the sky’ as they compete in prestigious gas balloon race 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z A further search led to the discovery of a trap door in a play area, under which police found packages of drugs and other materials. Man who fled NYC day care where suspected drug exposure led to child’s death has been arrested 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In fairness to Nick, the trap door appeared to be closed and solid when he made his way over to the right side of the stage. Nick Jonas falls into hole onstage in Boston during Jonas Brothers concert 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z The color schemes, choreographed dancers and outfits support the overall feeling of musical theater, with a stage that incorporates rising platforms and hidden trap doors she can disappear through. Taylor Swift returns to Nashville, reveals ‘Speak Now’ date 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z So-called trapdoor spiders build "trap doors" out of leaves to prey on insects. Trapdoor spider: New giant species found in Australia 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Any detail someone mentions — the height of a ceiling, how a trap door works — turns out to be relevant. Review | Natasha Lyonne soars in ‘Poker Face.’ If only the mysteries did. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z They cut the stockings into two-inch pieces and placed two pieces of the fabric behind two separate trap doors in a clear plastic box where dozens of mosquitoes were flying around. Are you a mosquito magnet? It’s because of how you smell. 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The police found bullet casings by the trap door of the cellar and determined she was killed on March 17, a week after going missing. Three Women of Bucha: Their Deaths and Lives 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z But the upcoming games are as much opportunities as they are trap doors. Hernández: USC star Caleb Williams rebounded against Arizona State. Is he ready for bigger tests? 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z In the wooden horse attempt, he and others continuously jumped over a vaulting horse which covered the trap door to an escape tunnel. Great Escape prisoner Vyvyan Howard, dies aged 102 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The trick, Ehrenreich believed, was that the middle class needed to realize that the trap door beneath its feet was starting to open. Appreciation: Barbara Ehrenreich showed us how much it cost to be broke 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z And now other states are creating their own trap doors. Newsom to sign gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Then, it was as if a trap door flew open and swallowed the entire team whole. Angels determined to revive their season after 'really bizarre' first-half crash 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The chat box in the Facebook feed exploded with exclamation points and emojis as the birds approached a trap door that led to the final pen before their release. After more than a century, California condors soar over redwoods once again 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z But for many other Ukrainian men, Moldova has become the favorite trap door. Ukraine’s Draft Dodgers Face Guilt, Shame and Reproach 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z That pamphlet, titled "Wartime Tactics Home Defense," also suggests using "a sheer pin system" to place a trap door over a hidden pit that will give way to vehicles over a certain weight. Bomb plot: North Carolina man accused of teaching others how to make IEDS meant for killing law enforcement 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z And with all of these trap doors, the floor becomes meaningless.” Newsom to sign gun law modeled after Texas abortion ban, setting up Supreme Court fight 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z The elevator then descends like a trap door. A robot will fetch owners’ cars under this Seattle condo tower 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Organs were once assembled here and lowered to street level through a giant trap door in the wooden floor. An Australian inventor wants to stop global warming by electrifying everything The leader board began to look like somebody opened some trap door and left everybody tumbling downward. Jon Rahm has his major title after surviving everything the U.S. Open threw at him 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z If you’re building for a child, include some classic features like a trap door, a rope and pulley and maybe even a ship’s steering wheel. How to Build a Treehouse 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Though no shots were fired, deputies found an underground repository hidden under a trap door in the shed. Killing of F.B.I. Agents Comes Amid Explosion of Child Sex Abuse Reports 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z “The money simply falls through a trap door without oversight from regulators and consumer watchdogs,” said Mike Dark, a lawyer with the nonprofit California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform. Profit and pain: How California’s largest nursing home chain amassed millions as scrutiny mounted 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The culture ministry said the redesigned floor, and any trap doors or mechanical components, must be able to close quickly in order to protect the underground spaces from rain. Italy seeks engineer to build new Colosseum floor 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z There are no elaborate costumes, no 10-minute dance scenes, no ghosts springing out of stage trap doors, no carolers outside the theater. Enjoy these holiday shows from ACT, Scott Shoemaker and Dina Martina from the best seat in your house 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z When it’s at its best, “I’m Your Woman” feels like you’ve slipped through a trap door, revealing a hidden pathway in an old genre apparatus. Review: Reorienting the crime drama in ‘I’m Your Woman’ 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Make early voting easier, and don’t permit trap doors, such as was done in Pennsylvania and elsewhere this cycle to keep votes cast before Election Day from being counted until Election Day. Opinion | Finally, the presidential transition proceeds 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Her road into a deeply desired writing life was a labyrinth of twists, dead-ends, trap doors, and blocks — both on the page and in her day-to-day pursuits. 'A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky' reveals Octavia E. Butler's early life in Pasadena 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The retractable floor is expected to feature trap doors and hidden lifts. Italy seeks engineer to build new Colosseum floor 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z In addition to all that, scheduling turned into a shifting platform filled with unexpected trap doors at nearly every turn. College hoops scheduling still chaotic as season approaches 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z The store employee allowed The Washington Post to enter the basement, which was accessed through a cellar-door-style entrance, though authorities have called it a trap door. Accused leader of plot to kidnap Michigan governor was struggling financially, living in basement storage space 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z “At every step … there was a trap door. And the final one was covid.” Nearly 200,000 deaths, millions of ripples. Each covid-19 fatality shifts attitudes about the virus. 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z Think about the amount of women who have been put on to the pedastal that is actually a trap door to a trash can. After Kardashian shapewear debate, Jameela Jamil torches toxic tabloid culture 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Certainly some will be less enamored with an experience that can feel like tumbling through a succession of trap doors. Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z For a small creature with delicate wings, airborne seeds, shifting leaves and lurching flowers are basically projectiles, trap doors and Godzilla-tipped skyscrapers. How Bees Avoid Bumping Into Nature’s Obstacle Course 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The Trump administration has launched a global pressure campaign to block American allies from using Huawei equipment, citing concerns about Chinese electronic spying through trap doors in the gear. Pompeo on Chinese coercion 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Lebeer thinks the microbes may also use the hairs to bind to receptors on skin cells inside the nose, prompting the cells to close like a trap door. These bacteria have adapted to life in your nose—and that may be good news 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The frames function as trap doors for the eyes. At the Hirshhorn, a showcase of recent acquisitions takes the temperature of the art world 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The USB-A port is now half-covered by a trap door that I assume allows HP to fit it in a thinner chassis. The latest Spectre x360 13 shows that HP can actually make a good trackpad 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Cabello had taken a throwaway moment and turned it to her advantage: The photo became our most-shared post from the awards, even after Gemma Collins fell through a trap door in the stage. How Camila Cabello reinvented herself 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It took Washington owner Daniel Snyder 20 years to carve a trap door under his own franchise. Perspective | What once seemed impossible is now undeniable: The Redskins have lost Washington 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z “Delivery services push the package into the OreMailbox, a trap door snaps shut, and the package remains concealed and protected from inclement weather until you retrieve it.” 11 tips for preventing package theft this holiday season | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z "I heard her walk up the spiral staircase and felt the lever when it was pulled. The trap door opened and that was when I knew Catherine was gone." The nun who walks death row inmates to the gallows 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z No screws, no trap doors, anything like that. Panos Panay on why Microsoft is using Android for its Duo device 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Smith calls them “amulets,” but I think of them more as portals, trap doors to a world beyond the page. Review: Patti Smith's 'Year of the Monkey' blurs past and present 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z A machine, a trap door and a pool full of liquid alcohol. The solution to New York's rat problem? Alcohol 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The entrance to the secret growing area was a trap door concealed by farm machinery and sacks of fertiliser. Underground cannabis factory owner jailed 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z As the Trojans opened their season on Saturday night, it was with a distinct feeling that Clay Helton, their latest beleaguered coach, was operating above a trap door. U.S.C. and the Art of Skating on Thin Ice 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z They are based on “trap door” calculations, so called because they are much easier to work forward than backward. Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from hackers with quantum computers 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Mirrors, smoke, sleight of hand, trap doors or false walls and distractions, these are the tools of the magician’s disappearing act. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z “These are closed by a trap door, and these ossuaries have been sealed for subsequent examination and possible retrieval of material stored there.” Vatican finds bones, deepening mystery in search for girl who disappeared 36 years ago 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Covered by a carpet near a vault on the first floor is a trap door for a hidden staircase leading to the basement. JC Newman expanding amid concerns about cigar industry 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z The floor of Frederica Nascimento’s multipurpose set is littered with trap doors, useful as a pool for an unwary Argonaut to tumble into or as a field from which skeleton soldiers spring forth. Review: Jason sails through worlds of wonder in A Noise Within’s ‘Argonautika’ 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z To counter the risk, cryptographers are developing less vulnerable trap door algorithms. Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from hackers with quantum computers 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z As the Nets inch closer to a playoff spot, what if the trap door opens and they fall closer to the cellar? D’Angelo Russell Is Poetry on the Court. Take It From a Poet. 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The trap door will be formally opened next week. Vatican finds bones, deepening mystery in search for girl who disappeared 36 years ago 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z She said Guzman led her to a trap door beneath a bathtub that opened up to a tunnel that allowed them to escape. Notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman convicted 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Pelosi will hit Pence with a cream pie, and a trap door will open beneath Trump. Opinion | Trump is a slapstick genius for the comically disastrous way he runs the country 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z West encouraged Trump to abolish the 13th Amendment, calling it "a trap door" for beleaguered African Americans that sends them back to prison. ‘Roseanne,’ ‘Black Panther’ Aretha Franklin and the entertainment briefs of 2018 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Kanye decries "trap door of the 13th amendment" and how his sleep disorder was diagnosed as bipolar disorder. Hurricane season gets surreal: From Kavanaugh to Kanye, a weird week in TrumpWorld 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He also criticized the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, calling it a “trap door.” Kanye West delivers jaw-dropping show in Oval Office 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But he looked frightened, horrified and awkward and must have been praying that the elevator had a trap door. In the elevator video, two rape survivors show how democracy works | Jill Abramson 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z “What made it magical was that it had a trap door,” Christie told Fox News. Hugh Hefner's daughter Christie opens up about keeping Playboy founder's legacy alive 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Black holes are gravitational pits, trap doors to eternity, predicted by Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity. Black Hole Drags Star to Dusty Death 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z “It is riddled with trap doors, blind alleys and loopholes designed to allow political consideration to bury any complaint that is politically inconvenient.” Lawmaker charging retaliation wants complaint system changes 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But at toll plazas with only booths, if they have a tornado shelter it’s going to look like a metal trap door into a concrete box mostly submerged in the ground. Kansas Turnpike has tornado bunkers at toll plazas statewide 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The trap door was opened, a policeman wriggled through into the small, damp space below. Quini: a tale of kidnap, ransom and forgiveness in Barcelona 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z For months, her journey felt like it was both pointed in the right direction and filled with trap doors. Her Olympic dream almost died, but now she’s heading to PyeongChang after all 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It’s fun, satisfying, rewarding to watch your team dominate in the regular season. It’s frustrating to see your team-on-the-rise keep discovering little trap doors that lead in the opposite direction. Perspective | Everyone is losing patience with the too-cool-for-school Wizards 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z He stood on the trap door a full 10 minutes, waiting. ‘Unflinching’: The day John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z He keeps it at arm’s length as he lifts it and gently presses the trap door. CDC scientists pursue deadly monkeypox virus in Africa 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Mary and Virginia Campbell opened a trap door in the upstairs kitchen and sat around it, listening, for hours. The forced absence of slavery: Rare letters to a Virginia governor give voice to the faceless and forgotten 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z But, rising through a trap door in the stage in Hyde Park, she sounded reinvigorated. James Blunt crowdsurfs in a dinghy - and other things we learned at Radio 2's Hyde Park show - BBC News 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Next up on the family’s list: A trap door. Iowa construction company builds elaborate treehouses 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Finally, the order was given, and the rope holding the trap door closed was sliced. ‘Unflinching’: The day John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z And there, in a stone wine cellar accessible via a trap door set in the floor, Ginevra waited, hanging from a nail in the wall. Perspective | Fifty years ago, the National Gallery of Art dispatched a team on a secret mission 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z And if you are old enough to remember sitcoms from the 1960s, don’t expect a trap door in the floor to open. A Place for Inside-the-Box Thinking 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Fowler’s invention was relatively simple: After entering the trap, rats stepped onto what was essentially a trap door, according to an IHS press release. man’s design for better mouse-trap on display 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Today, Pottebaum, 50, and his company, R&L; Landscaping & Construction of Dubuque, are building elaborate, insulated playhouses and cabins in the trees with shingled roofs, colonial-style windows, trap doors and electricity. Iowa construction company builds elaborate treehouses 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z Repeatedly this genius child invites us to slide along the polished floor of her sentences, before demurely opening a trap door. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Some of his victims, many of whom were single women, were slain in what the press dubbed his Murder Castle, a three-story hotel modified with trap doors, hidden passageways and a crematorium. Is 'Devil in White City' buried in tomb? Remains to be unearthed to find out 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z He prefers radioactive chaos and dropping his employees through trap doors into bloodbaths. Tired of the Redskins dysfunction? There’s one person to blame. 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z When it’s time for a pitching change, the manager pushes a button and the pitcher suddenly falls through the trap door into an underground chamber. Is Baseball Too Slow? Here’s How Readers Would Fix the Game, or Not 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z After witnessing one such display, Rudyard Kipling famously wrote, “this part of the country seems to have all hell for a basement, and the only trap door is Medicine Hat.” A Canadian City Thrives on Gas, Like a ‘Wealthy Little Country’ 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Always one step away from an escape hatch or a trap door, he was a legend of the underworld who bribed his way to impunity and operated for many years above the law. Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán extradited to U.S. 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Gen. Flynn has a particular challenge in serving as a strategic coordinator, but he rose through the intelligence bureaucracies and knows where the trap doors are. Trump’s Military ‘Junta’ 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Delaware State Police said in a statement that the trap door of the “Pumpkin Reaper” cannon separated as a pumpkin launched at the competition that involves homemade contraptions. Video shows piece of pumpkin cannon flying toward crowd 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z As David Axelrod, the architect of President Obama’s campaigns, put it: “The danger of that is if Trump finds a way to normalize himself it can be a trap door.” For Clinton, attacking Trump may not be enough 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Here is the case of a missing paragraph that turned into a trap door that dropped a man into prison. A False Conviction Is Overturned, but the System That Allowed It Remains 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The trap door into poverty opens with divorce or separation or a birth out of wedlock. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Last year, Jurgen Klinsmann, the coach of the U.S. men’s national soccer team, lamented the lack of a trap door, which exists in virtually every other soccer league in the world. The Kings of Seventeenth Place 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z The game slowly introduces new mechanics over the course of more than 90 stages, and by the end you’ll be using trap doors, throwing rocks to distract guards, and wearing disguises to sneak around. Hitman Go looks amazing on Gear VR, but it’s exhausting 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I get in two long sessions and when I finally exit out of the miniature trap door, awkwardly, I simply exult: "This car is everything." Mazda's future is hidden in these completely mad vintage race cars 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z “I tried to make a home out of you, the doors lead to trap doors. A stairway leads to nothing,” she says over stark shots of a wooded forest. Beyoncé just released her new album, 'Lemonade,' during her HBO special 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z One million adolescents become pregnant each year, opening a trap door that will drop many of them into a lifetime of poverty. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Without a trap door, it didn’t end well for Moore, who was forced to resign his position less than a day later. It’s a Trap! What Tennis Really Needs 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z When one of the critters sampled the bait, it triggered a trap door and plunked into a box. Hagley owns world’s 2nd biggest patent model collection 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z It’s a trap door that opens when a divine sanction for morality loses authority. Jihadism is not nihilism: What everyone gets wrong about ISIS 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z In his first season, he carried a newly promoted team tipped for the trap door to a mid-table finish and a semi-final appearance in the national cup. Will an American ever coach in one of Europe's top leagues? 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But the truck’s empty, and Fet has left his usual calling card – dynamite! – to give them time to slip out a trap door and scurry down the nearest manhole. 'The Strain' recap: Hello, Lumen; goodbye, Nora in 'Night Train' 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z I mentioned my genius trap door concept to a U.S. It’s a Trap! What Tennis Really Needs 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And in Scyler’s room, she opened a trap door in the floor, revealing a staircase to the kitchen. A Victoria’s Secret Model on Her Permanent Fixer-Upper 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Xiang tried to avoid the resulting trap door, but she fell in. Escalator Death in China Sets Off Furor Online 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Photos of the scene showed a metal trap door in a wooded area that led to an underground chamber. Underground arms cache found in Mexico near Texas border 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “Some mounted the steps and stood upon the trap door,” the Lincoln Star reported. Man’s hanging in 1903 was Nebraska’s first state execution 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z It is there that astronomers think lurks a supermassive black hole, a trap door into which the equivalent of four million suns has evidently disappeared. Black Hole Hunters 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z The stage in the movie theatre even includes trap doors for magic performances. Michael Jackson's Beloved 'Neverland' For Sale 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z So it seems unfortunately coincidental that the “Simpsons” overlords look a little Burnsian as they — in the eyes of some fans — release the trap door, and the hounds, on Harry. ‘The Simpsons': With Harry Shearer’s exit, the show will lose much of its character 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The design of the trap door was then changed from rope-and-latch to electromagnetic. 2 California sea lions killed in Bonneville trap mishap 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “One of them released the trap door. “Not one of the assistant executioners knows which finger did the deadly work. Man’s hanging in 1903 was Nebraska’s first state execution 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z They set up a trap door that would be triggered by the weight of the animal, which would be tranquilized and examined for the virus. Deep in the jungle, hunting for the next Ebola outbreak 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The space, with a wood trap door, reinforced with wood beams and plywood, took about five months to excavate. Toronto tunnel was a 'man cave' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z But for 26 seasons in this dog-eat-dog industry, gifted Harry Shearer, voice-actor employee, got to be the one vocally manning the trap door and deliciously releasing the hounds. ‘The Simpsons': With Harry Shearer’s exit, the show will lose much of its character 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z A malfunction caused a trap door to close with nine California and Steller sea lions inside. 2 California sea lions killed in Bonneville trap mishap 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z “It all sounds like governmentese, for no one is going to approve payment of your care ahead of time. It’s a bunch of booby traps and trap doors,” he said. It was meant to reduce wait times, but veterans say new choice cards are causing more problems 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Cameron watched as the trap door was tested for the first time. Deep in the jungle, hunting for the next Ebola outbreak 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Its allurements draw you in, then the trap door slams shut and it devours you. The EU's Nightmare In The "Hotel California" 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The twins built their mini-empire using a system of couriers and henchmen whom they trusted to drive loads in vehicles outfitted with secret compartments and hydraulic trap doors, court records show. Chicago brothers who infiltrated cartel given 14 years in prison 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z They built their mini-empire using a system of couriers and henchmen whom they trusted to drive loads in vehicles outfitted with secret compartments and hydraulic trap doors, court records show. Chicago twins who helped bring down cartel boss El Chapo to be sentenced 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Spend it: One overlooked trap door in so-called flexible spending plans offered in many workplaces is use-it-or-lose-it restrictions. Year-end tips may yield tax savings 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Two people briefed on the matter said that an N.S.A. special team will sometimes work with a corporate victim of hackers to ensure that no trap doors remain. Neglected Server Provided Entry for JPMorgan Hackers 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z And that was enough for Bears brass to open the trap door beneath Smith, sending him on his way. Lovie Smith on return to Chicago: 'I loved my time there' 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z The tabloids have the trap door set for Rex Ryan in New York. Coaching hot seats heating up 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z Only there's a running joke that whoever occupies that chair sits above a trap door, one lever pull from being cut. Bears on the NFL bubble? They have to laugh 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z Coming up the stairs, you see the startling reminder of their last fundraiser, a striped prisoner’s costume stuffed with rags and suspended by rope over the trap door. History is peeling away at old West Texas jail 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z If the trap door were to open, some PetroCaribe countries are far more exposed than others. Single point of failure 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The simple brick structure - with its trap door in the kitchen ceiling meant for hangings - offered little relief from scalding Florida summers. Turpentine magnate used jail inmates to get rich 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z They stand on beams either side of the trap doors and hold on to braided ropes. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Bear Number 37 obliged by gorging on day-old doughnuts in a trap about eight miles southwest of Seymour before triggering a trap door that contained her, unharmed, inside a sturdy metal tube. Black bear population growing in Missouri 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The bill also would bar the NSA from mandating or requesting that tech companies build secret flaws -- so-called trap doors -- in hardware, software or devices that would facilitate government surveillance. GOP-led House backs limits on Obama's authority 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z A plastic shield opens over the betting positions to indicate no more bets on the upcoming hand, and losing bets drop through trap doors that open on losing bet areas. How High Can Macau Casino Lows Go? 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Downstairs, vestiges of its decades as a stable are still visible in 2014: Hitching posts, blanket racks and the trap door for the hayloft enhance its character. | For $13.4 Million, Hitching Post Included 2014-04-25T18:18:38Z In an hour or so the hangmen will return to the block and enter the cellar-like room underneath the trap doors. Britain’s last hangman 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z “She plays to the hall, and not to the sponsors on the balcony. And she knows the secret trap doors on the stage.” Tempered Cheers in Ukraine for Ex-Premier, Tied to Political Past 2014-03-20T01:00:12Z And our product blocks a hacker’s access to critical infrastructure through this trap door,” explained Frenkel. Waterfall Security Defends Power Plants From Hackers 2013-09-23T11:25:00Z Trudeau, horrified, quickly realized Frost had put him over a trap door, essentially asking him whether he felt fundamentally more French or English in a deeply divided Canada. The Private David Frost 2013-09-03T16:19:00Z We were opening a big trap door and were in danger of falling in. 'Farah is Britain's greatest ever athlete' 2013-08-16T22:30:11Z There are some well-intentioned phrases that are about as supportive as a trap door. 10 mistakes parents make when reacting to A-level results 2013-08-14T23:30:52Z The bronze work will be inspected from without and within, through a trap door behind the general’s saddle. City Room: It’s General Sherman’s Time to Shine, but Not Too Much 2013-06-18T23:02:15Z Unfortunately, the information pathways that operators of critical infrastructure open up to tap into real-time operating statistics leaves a trap door open for hackers to get in and wreak havoc. Waterfall Security Defends Power Plants From Hackers 2013-09-23T11:25:00Z One Saturday night last month, 12 guests squeezed through the trap door into the space. Illicit Nightclub in a Chelsea Water Tower 2013-05-22T14:48:24Z They lack ruthlessness in front of goal and I just wonder whether this time they might just slip through that trap door. Lawro's predictions 2013-04-25T19:29:06Z "How many more times will an EPA administrator pull the regulatory lever that will allow another mining family to fall through the EPA's trap door of joblessness, poverty and poor health," he said. Coal Will Stay Important in the U.S. Energy Mix, Says EPA Pick 2013-04-12T18:15:02.403Z Those who are rejected vanish through a trap door at the moment of decision. MIT dean weighs in on admissions theories 2013-04-02T13:51:02Z On discovering a small wooden trap door, they descended a narrow flight of brick stairs that led them to the bunker. Mussolini's 'Last' Bunker To Be Opened 2013-03-27T08:25:00Z The game starts when the jewel is nicked during a swish party, and then you're controlling Enzo as he evades security, hitting up and down to leap over trap doors and under lasers. The Button Affair: cool running for charity 2013-02-28T21:26:12Z Authorities say the bunker is about 6 feet by 8 feet, and the only entrance is a trap door at the top. Details emerge about man at center of Alabama hostage standoff 2013-02-03T21:17:00Z Ultimately Dan’s going to be someone who’s going to be looked at most authoritatively to describe how a certain strategy would unfold, what the downsides are, what the trap doors are. White House Memo: David Plouffe, Senior Adviser, Leaves White House 2013-01-26T20:38:28Z You keep looking for the trap door, for the way the Seahawks will end up as heartbroken as they were in their last-minute, season-ending loss to Atlanta on Sunday. Seahawks are in good hands with Russell Wilson at quarterback 2013-01-15T03:06:04Z Comprising a simple touchscreen on a wooden box with a trap door, it was stationed in a Nebraska shopping center. EcoATM, the Automated iPhone Pawn Shop 2012-09-27T21:10:04Z The decision also opened another trap door in the messy business of vacated victories. Penn State’s Vacated Victories Scramble the Record Books 2012-07-23T20:54:36Z Then, barring the door behind him, he as rapidly strode to the pallet and twitched it aside, disclosing a trap door. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z He was quite confident that its entrance was identical with that which had the trap door through which he had been flung that memorable day when he had been shanghaied. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z With a crash the trap door at the bottom of the rise burst open with a sound like a dynamite explosion in a new drift. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z Over the tower roof, reached by a trap door, was the great enclosed network of wires covering all the lines of the Great Northern. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Inside this vessel, which was open at the top, there was a wire cage, with a trap door at the bottom about one foot in diameter, and of about the same depth. British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. 2012-02-26T03:00:18.883Z Yes; I suppose that a preacher must necessarily look upon a woman as a sort of trap door. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z The other half, with the bread top and lettuce and mayo, was hidden behind a trap door. Having it your way at home: Taste-testing Burger King delivery 2012-01-17T18:59:48Z The lad was not much the worse for his exciting slide, though he had been somewhat bruised when he burst through the wooden trap door at the lower end of the rise. The Iron Boys in the Mines or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft 2012-03-11T03:00:13.327Z Just above the platform on which the speaker stood was a trap door in the floor, which opened into Lincoln's office. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2) The True Story Of A Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:35.370Z The burrow is closed by a trap door, having a hinge that permits it to be opened and closed with admirable accuracy. Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.?No. 24. [New Series.], December 14, 1878 A Weekly Journal Of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, And Manufactures 2012-01-05T03:00:31.783Z The old man had returned without his seeing him come; bobbing up between two groups, small and sprightly, like an imp from a trap door on the stage. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The administration “can’t answer any questions and there’s trap doors, and I don’t want to fall through any of them,” Kasich told reporters. Obama Health Coverage Policy Passes ‘Hot Potato’ to States 2011-12-21T08:35:36Z “And that means there’s no conditionality, they’re not conditional on receiving technology or financing, there’s no trap doors, there’s no Swiss cheese in that kind of an agreement.” At Climate Talks, a Familiar Standoff Emerges Between the U.S. and China 2011-12-07T17:52:31Z Stern, the U.S. envoy on climate change, told reporters that all countries must be involved in a global deal that applies the “same legal force” to each country with “no trap doors” and “no conditionality.” Prince Albert Joins Climate Talks as EU Voices Concern on China 2011-12-06T00:43:20Z The little trap door was open, you know, and I got so scared of that awful storm I just dropped down. The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills 2011-11-17T03:00:34.720Z Then he let the trap door fall back in position above him, just as the cabin door gave way and the detective entered, followed by Smith, who handled an axe. An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Arnold says that Baker was speaking in a room under Lincoln's office, and communicating with it by a trap door. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z After the cap was sufficiently cut away, the wasp started to slowly work itself out, pushing up the top of the cell like a trap door as progress was made. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 2011-10-07T02:00:22.027Z Within recesses, in the sides of the gallery, are several square apertures, apparently once furnished with trap doors, which opened into rooms beneath; but their use has not been ascertained. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z By keeping to the left a cavern is reached, the further end of which opens like a trap door upon the summit; this interesting method of concluding the ascent should not be missed. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z “There was another man there,” replied Sam, “but he went down through a trap door in the floor, Uncle.” An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West 2011-11-17T03:00:31.330Z Julia lowered the lamp and examined the floor to see if she could discover a trap door, while Marguerite remained at the entrance to the alcove to listen if her master should come up. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z Then the trap door was softly shut to. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z You pull it a little bit and two little trap doors, worked by springs open, and the vapor escapes from the top. The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z I then hacked the ribs with the axe, lifted the entire side up, which broke the hacked ribs, and thus opened the interior of the animal, like lifting a trap door. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z Here a trap door was raised and they went still further down. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z He walked back to the window once more and, as he crossed the room he saw what looked like a trap door in the floor. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z In the floor on the left is the trap door to the staircase leading down to the Cells. The Romantic Story of the Mayflower Pilgrims And Its Place in the Life of To-day 2011-07-18T02:00:23.730Z The lantern was taken down, and, using the spoons, they slid back the trap door. The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z And the dining room has a spooky trap door, perfect for wizard Harry to make a quick escape. 'Harry Potter house' is for sale 2011-07-14T11:43:39Z In course of his search he took in the ceiling, and there he beheld a trap door. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z The next instant he was going down them, and he let the trap door fall softly into place over his head. Baseball Joe of the Silver Stars or The Rivals of Riverside 2011-08-14T02:00:21.583Z She could hold that trap door against the crowd. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z “Wonder why they used that trap door to take the things away by last night?” asked Ned. The Heroes of the School or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin 2011-09-03T02:00:19.963Z "There's a trap door in the dining room and an under-the-stairs cupboard, like the one in Aunt Petunia's house in the first book." 'Harry Potter house' is for sale 2011-07-14T11:43:39Z Stripping the cot, he leaned it up against the wall under the trap door and climbed upon it. The Bradys' Chinese Clew The Secrect Dens of Pell Street 2011-08-17T02:00:26.867Z Lin Soo nodded; it was a habit, and when he did so his cheeks flapped and his eyelids fell up and down like trap doors. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z The chief's wife and oldest daughter being at the mission house, went through a trap door into a dark cellar. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Always, however, Kevorkian evaded criminal responsibility by, so to speak, providing enough rope and never actually pushing open the trap door. The Life and Deaths of Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011) 2011-06-03T17:40:00Z It is also possible for an attacker to use software trap doors to seize control of a command and control system and cause it to issue orders. Is Obama Planning to Lose World War III? 2011-05-25T03:41:14Z The men have to feed him through a trap door—the men could not be induced to go in to him as you did, Miss Benson. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z The man had drawn himself into a half sitting posture, his back against the wall, his body half through the trap door, his arms outstretched upon the floor. The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z Muckatice forced himself into the house and attempted to raise the cellar trap door. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The cab had stopped on a street corner and the coachman was leering at them through the trap door above. The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Neither will any of the winners have celebrated as hard as Leeds did at the end. now hover over the trap door to the Championship. Newcastle 29-30 Leeds 2011-04-09T19:21:43Z If the stage has no trap door, a bridge is built across the footlights with stairs leading down into the orchestra pit. Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" 2011-03-28T02:00:20.647Z Then— The trap door fell into place with a faint click, and Burl whirled about. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z He raised the trap door, and, while in the act of descending, fell. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The Germans had placed barricades, trap doors, and traps of all kinds in it. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) 2011-02-26T03:00:45.583Z The clever girl knew this, so she provided them with a rope, which they hung down through trap doors to the ground floor. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. 2011-02-19T03:01:10.063Z Sometimes the set pieces in front, if there are any, and the furniture, disappear through trap doors. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z The top of the hole was closed by a trap door, stained with mud and earth to imitate with precision the surrounding soil. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z While falling Mrs. Worth suddenly shut the trap door upon him, by which one of his legs was caught. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Fra Herv�, because of his eyes being fixed upon the hour-glass and his back turned to the trap door that masked the stone stairs leading to the aqueduct, could not take in what was happening. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z The merchant then shut the iron trap door on him, and went away to a distant country. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z They tried to get up through the trap door, me watching them. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z A dozen roughly carved steps led upward to a trap door. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z Yet several observers feel that Tottenham are on the charge and that the longer Avram Grant's team stays adjacent to the relegation trap door, the worse West Ham's chances become. West Ham or Tottenham for the Olympic stadium? 2011-01-13T13:28:06Z The last threats of the monk reached Antonicq's ears at the moment when he had completely raised the trap door, and wrung from him despite himself an exclamation of fury. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Holmes rented rooms to fairgoers in his hotel, which he had outfitted with gas chambers, trap doors and acid vats. Tale of two cities: Seattle vs. Chicago 2011-01-11T04:12:04Z Tom’s face was hopeful and pleased as he descended through the trap door to the ground with his good news. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z She saw then that the trap door had been cut in the center of the room floor, hidden from view by a large rag rug which now lay in an untidy heap. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z Rapidly pushing the table to one side, turning back the rug that covered the floor, he stooped; and to Edm�'s astonished gaze lifted up a trap door in the floor of the cabin. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z Immediately thereupon Josephin applied the lighted wick to the train of powder and vanished underground letting down the heavy trap door over his head. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z To get the potatoes from the cellar for breakfast I had to tunnel through the snow from the trap door in the kitchen. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z He seized a lantern and threw open the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z The tiles were only a sham, she saw now, fastened to a hinged rectangle of wood, which had fallen back like a trap door. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z The water found its exit from the tank through auger holes bored in the rear, controlled by a closely fitting trap door. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z Unless I’m mistaken we’ll find evidence—” She broke off, for both girls had heard a scraping sound as if someone had moved the ladder at the foot of the trap door. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z It was impossible to get to the well so we lifted the trap door and melted fresh snow when water was needed. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z He pointed to a chair as the Barber boy came up through the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z At home, Bill Parcells wonders who activated the owners’ suite security protocols and why the trap door to the alligator pit didn’t spring. Week 4 N.F.L. Matchups 2010-10-01T11:30:00Z The trap door was closed and the rope was not exhibited. Japan opens up gallows to media, may spark debate 2010-08-27T07:28:00Z Scarcely had the girls crouched down out of sight behind the altar when a beam of light shot up on the ceiling above the trap door. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z She took him on behind her and rode to the home of Jane Beeson, his aunt, who put him down cellar and then spread a piece of rag carpet over the trap door. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z “I am,” answered Tom, turning to confront two men who in turn entered the tower by way of the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z The noise of the chicken will attract the foxes' attention and he will enter the trap door. Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers I closed my trap door and with as composed frame as I could command, awaited the issue. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies A wisp of smoke filtered up through the crack along the trap door. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z The pigeons were contained in eight enclosures, constructed of wire and canvass, and capable of admitting a sufficiency of air to the birds, and at the top of each was a trap door of tin. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Tom stared hard at the trap door opening. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z If you can get through without his seeing you and open the trap door to us, we'll do the rest. The Secret of the Ninth Planet I waited until nightfall, quietly opened my trap door, crept over the roof, and softly stepped upon the ladder-like lines of the maze which surrounds the prison. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies And would he know where to find a ladder and reach the trap door? The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z He, too, disappeared down the stairs, like the phantoms in a theatre who glide through a trap door. Marguerite de Valois Then very slowly Tom pushed up the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z But let's get the trap door to the control room open. The Secret of the Ninth Planet I cut out three sides neatly, and made a sort of trap door that hinged upon the uncut end. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies Arriving at the fifth floor, they turn horizontally and are led under a false flooring provided with trap doors, to the protector side of the main frame. Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. He also had large numbers of prisoners put on board vessels with trap doors for bottoms, and sunk in the Loire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" His face was turned away from the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z But Detmar shook his head, smiled, and pushed aside a round trap door in the ceiling. The Secret of the Ninth Planet I cast an anxious glance backward, and, O wretched blunder! saw that I had forgotten to close the trap door behind me. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies A barrel of gunpowder was stowed by well-bribed hands in the East India Docks in the lazarette, to which part of the hold access is easy by means of a small trap door. International Short Stories English In this closet was a displaced trap door. The Auto Boys' Mystery The professional operator followed his young guests down the ladder, locking the trap door padlock and tendering the key to Tom. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Burl got a glimpse of subdued, bluish light, and then the trap door shut after the engineer. The Secret of the Ninth Planet I could feel the swing of her body as she threw herself upon the ladder that led up to the trap door. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies A section of grass and bushes was swung back on a hidden trap door, revealing a flight of moss-covered stone steps leading downward. The Golden Amazons of Venus Arwed hastened to the designated spot, found and sprung a trap door there, which opened into the rocky cellar of the castle. Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna As he spoke he extended the key to the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Hartvik and Eigil were in the act to close the small trap door, which fastened over the gangway with a bolt, and thus confine the pair between decks. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century A trap door that evidently was intended to cover the opening, lay to one side of the opening. The Automobile Girls at Chicago or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds There’s a hatch there in the floor of the old doctor’s workshop―” “A trap door?” The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks The metal tongue came out of its slot permitting the counterbalance to swing the trap door upward. The Caves of Fear “Spooks,” echoed Ben, edging a trifle away from the open trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z A cellar was dug under the front room for the storage of apples and vegetables during the winter, and was entered by a trap door near the center of the floor. In and Out of Rebel Prisons A light trap door led to the vegetable kingdom underneath. Little Wolf A Tale of the Western Frontier When all have descended, a trap door of brush above is closed. Through Our Unknown Southwest Rick shot his light around and saw that a heavy beam ran from the underside of the trap door down to the bottom of the stairs where it ended in a stone block. The Caves of Fear Tom was up the ladder and through the trap door in a hurry. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Still, he comes in by some other way than the door, that's clear; we must have a search for a trap door. Olla Podrida I procured a chisel and cut the varnished joint, and found that there was a trap door, as I supposed. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land He lifts the trap door and draws out a crock of butter, enough to last the mess a fortnight. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 After dat master fixes up a place in de ceilin' to store stuff, and a trap door so when it closed you couldn't tell its dere. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 Harry pushed the bills over to Tom, restored the belt to its place, and, with the indifference of a millionaire, started for the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z The next minute, a big trap door in the ground opened, and a perfectly huge roll bounced out at his feet. The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island By the light of the candle I examined the dark oak boards, and discovered what appeared to be a trap door about two feet six inches square. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land In the tent flooring he cuts a trap door admitting to the sacred enclosure. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 Hendlip House stood near the middle of a spacious park thickly studded with trees; the structure itself was surrounded by shrubbery, and contained within its walls many secret hiding places, trap doors and double wainscotings. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts He had checked himself in the middle of a whistling tune to survey a head and then the shoulders and body of a stranger, coming up through the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z I point the thing up towards the trap door and give it a gentle push; then I scramble up the rungs and get there just in time to guide it through. The Lost Kafoozalum But the paneling in any of the rooms might slide aside to reveal one at the indicated time, or a section of the floor might swing back above a trap door. Gone Fishing The floors of the corridor were an unbroken series of trap doors, covering the storage tanks for drinking water, food, and the ship's supplies. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons At a sign from Fawkes, Keyes drew aside the bed, disclosing in the floor the outlines of a trap door, which covered an opening to the cellar beneath. The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts This was reached through a trap door by a fixed iron ladder. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Innocence belongs to childhood and girlhood, but under present conditions, it is as dangerous and foolish as level and unguarded railway crossings, or open and unguarded trap doors. In Times Like These The trap door was closed: Anita and I were crouching on it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The house was dark but, with the aid of a flashlight, the guide located a trap door under some loose straw. A Yankee Flier Over Berlin There is a trap door in each, like this up here, that drops inward and acts as a chute for sliding down the stuff right onto the track. The Spoilers of the Valley Tom and Ben were up the ladder speedily and through the trap door. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z A trap door instantly yawned at our feet. The Floating Island of Madness The operculum fits the entrance to its shell like a trap door. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan Back of this through a passageway is a small breakfast room, whence an underground passage for use during storms or sieges leads from a trap door in the floor to the barns. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia The trap door leading into the cellar was open, and Morrow flung himself wildly down the sanded steps. The Crevice Tom was fumbling in his pocket for the key to the trap door when Ben suddenly caught his arm. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z Where could a trap door, two thousand feet above the earth lead? The Floating Island of Madness The other, in the confusion of the shocking scene, slipped through a trap door into the cellar, and passing out at a small window, got off unnoticed and uninjured. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State The second native began to take the instructor's body down the trap door. Be It Ever Thus “I think the man is apt soon to come to the end of 246 his rope––after dropping through a trap door,” said the engineer. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation He was so engrossed in eating and reading, that, unobserved, Tom was able to get up into the room and Ben was half way through the trap door before the trespasser was aware of it. The Boys of the Wireless 2011-01-24T03:00:17.997Z But, from what I know of Juve, in a very short time he will have ferreted out the trap door and will descend as we have done. A Nest of Spies He retraced his steps to the front of the house, and, taking a lighted lamp with him, passed down through the trap door, and then made his way into the rear cellar to Herbert’s cell. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street It may be the old pirate even built a trap door in the roof. The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards Then gently raising the trap door and catching hold of the sides, I quietly let myself drop into the apartment below. Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover "I have just the one for you," Tilia said, patting him on the arm as they returned to the trap door. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Air goes up instead of down, a house should be ventilated from the mop boards, I think some of havin’ em open like a trap door to let the air through. Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands He learned about the location of the trap door, when the old fence and young Mortimer went into the cellar to look for him. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street Then he shut down the trap door, securely fastened it and departed. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life Christina had a sudden vivid remembrance of a time when she dropped the heavy trap door of the cellar in a foolish prank and barely escaped giving Ellen a terrible blow on the head. In Orchard Glen All the air and light came through the hatch way, a sort of trap door or cellar way. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Suddenly he noticed that near the feather lay a trap door. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts At length his hand rested upon the fastening of the trap door, and to his horror he found it locked. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street Mike needed no light to guide his footsteps, he traversed the dark passage, he seized the iron ring, and drew up the trap door of the 'Coal Hole,' from which the Corporal so providentially escaped. Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life Then, with a bang, something like a trap door swung aside and the stairway was revealed, and a peculiar light streamed in through the hatch opening. The Boy Volunteers with the Submarine Fleet These were removed, and a heavy trap door, upon which the foot of the flagstaff rested, was its only support. Doctor Jones' Picnic In fact, I always felt creepy until we got inside the cabin and the trap door was down again. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek He was at a loss to know what caused the noise, when the trap door slipped back with such a resounding crash. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street These, as they could not be shot, were caught in large deep pits with trap doors. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Out of the confusion of trap doors, secret passages, folding screens, they have led us into the light of day, of undisguised events, with their simple distinct outlines. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature One observed "the trap door was too open," "that the boards were too wide apart," in a loud tone of voice. Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Both men breathed a sigh of relief as they crawled back through the floor of the hold, and dropped the trap door in place. Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! “He might have gone down through that trap door while we was out.” The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street The place had no windows, no means of ventilation except through the trap door. Crooked Trails and Straight Then, to one side of the kitchen floor, they saw a trap door. The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice Pits with trap doors are also used to prevent an enemy from creeping up the tunnel to the fire trench. Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition Anna lifted her hand and pushed open the trap door. Anna the Adventuress But he was no more fortunate in this effort than he had been in hunting for the key to the trap door. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street He drew back the Navajo rug that covered the floor and found one of the old-fashioned trap doors some cheap houses have. Crooked Trails and Straight It was an easy matter to kick the plug away and raise the trap door. The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice Several times the man raised his hand as if to give an order through the trap door. The Convert The trap door closed on the two children, leaving them in total darkness. The Son of Monte-Cristo “What shall we do?” said Bob, with no little alarm, as Herbert Randolph climbed up through the old trap door. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street We entered the tower through a trap door in the bottom, and the men working at the post locked the door while they were at their duty. In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France "Yes, somebody got me to come down here and then locked that trap door on me," grumbled the miser. The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice "Where to, sir?" asked the cabby through the trap door. Tongues of Conscience He seized the little girl and put her in her brother's arms, and thrusting a pistol into the hands of the little fellow, he pushed him toward the trap door. The Son of Monte-Cristo In the trap door was a small knot hole, about an inch and a half in diameter. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street The trap door of his house was carried off, and all his carriages and farming utensils were gone. A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. The nugget is mine!' yells that fellow and bang! goes that trap door, and then he up and bolts it fast, so I couldn't open it. The Rover Boys in Alaska or Lost in the Fields of Ice "How great it is to have come where you are; to have one's skylight always open, and the trap door always closed!" The Opened Shutters Then Lasvène stooped to the ground, and with the aid of an iron ring lifted a trap door. The Son of Monte-Cristo In another instant the trap door was thrown up, and, by a most unfortunate blunder, it fell back with a tremendous crash. The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street Bob went last, holding the trap door with his foot to keep it from closing too quickly. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery "You must carry him down below and drop him through the trap door into the vaults," he cried. A Queen's Error He waited at the bottom of this ladder until he heard the crunching sound of the feed box being pushed back over the trap door. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers The walls of the hut fall, and hide the trap door. The Son of Monte-Cristo “I guess the old duffer has it in his pocket, the same as he has the key to the trap door.” The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street They were curious to find out just how they had been shot through that trap door. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery I thought they had a trap door in the house, which probably let the soldiers down suddenly into a dungeon. How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 Pry this out with your knife, and you will then be able to lift the cunningly contrived trap door. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers If there had been a trap door to let us down into the beer saloon below, we would have taken passage on it in a minute. Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 It was a place where there was an opening in the floor, near the wall of the room, that looked like a trap door. Rollo in Geneva Since they had been flung through the trap door, Joe had called himself every unpleasant name he could think of for his carelessness. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery I suppose they did not see the trap door. Rollo in Scotland Then he shut the trap door and swept the sand over it again. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille She dated these complaints from a fall she had through a trap door about the beginning of winter. An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases By this time Deborah had convoyed Paul to a dark corner behind the counter and jerked back a trap door. The Opal Serpent “Must have been some sort of trap door opening inward, I guess,” said the latter. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery The women opened the trap door, but he could not reach up high enough to get out. Rollo in Scotland Under the dry sand that he heaped up there was a trap door. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille And now the magician had opened his trap door and appeared in his golden cage again, frowning angrily because his prisoners had been able to turn their upside-down prison right-side-up. The Lost Princess of Oz Behind the square lantern that rose over the crossing, there was a trap door in the broken tile roof, from which you could climb to the observation post in the lantern. One Man's Initiation—1917 But I bet that trap door is bolted on the outside. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery He brought the torch and held it down the trap door, and presently he caught sight of the king. Rollo in Scotland Even the phlegmatic and weary Sapper who was assisting the genius, with base utilitarian details, such as the size of the trap door at the back of the proposed model, showed signs of animation. No Man's Land You forgot," said Jeremiah, "that the trap door from the chute outside was open, so I got here ahead of you and untied Grater. The Cat in Grandfather's House Then the trap door, relieved of his weight, flew back into place. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros They found by experimenting that the trap door yielded easily to their weight, and decided that it had been their combined rush upon Cassey that had done the trick. The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery Without wasting time or effort in conversation, the lad quickly pointed toward a table that lay upturned not far from the trap door. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol There was a square opening in the ceiling of the court room, covered by a trap door in the room overhead where Lincoln slept. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln If you stand on the ladder and press against the ceiling directly over it, a well-oiled trap door will open soundlessly and lead you into Lola's bedroom above the shop. Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare A spring bolt on the under side of a trap door on which he was standing shot out of place. Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines or, Following the Flag against the Moros "The cables are just under the floor in the control room and they can be reached through a little trap door." The Stutterer It was the work of but a moment to raise the trap door and prop it up with a short piece of wood from the wreckage strewn about. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Lincoln had opened the trap door in his room and silently watched the proceedings until he saw that his presence was needed below. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln The guide shut down the trap door, and the children, after gazing around upon the room a few minutes longer, were glad to go away. Rollo on the Rhine Even the charred embers of the wooden trap door above him seemed dimmed by a cloud of dust. The Whispering Spheres He knelt and lifted the little trap door and found the naked power cable, pulsating with electrical current. The Stutterer There's only one way out of this place except by the trap door through which you came. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol It was a queer-looking, tumble-down place, but people said that from it there were trap doors and passages leading to all sorts of caves and cellars dug out of the ground underneath. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme In the middle of the floor, however, was a heavy trap door. Rollo on the Rhine It seemed eternity until at last he reached the end of the passage and felt the trap door overhead. The Whispering Spheres In the ship Hall reluctantly broke off the connection and replaced the trap door. The Stutterer A ladder stood in one corner, leading up through a trap door to the fodder loft above. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Drawing out four huge eels, she threw them into the bottom of the boat, closed the trap door and rowed away toward the shore. Tess of the Storm Country It was reached by a ladder and trap door. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War He closed the trap door behind him and then started to move rapidly away. The Whispering Spheres Mike obeyed at once, and then whispered quickly,— “Vince, there is a trap door here: I’m right on it.” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days Nothing but a trap door into the cellar! Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol He was not at home behind the scenes, and at the outset came near tumbling through a trap door. Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret This time, he woke with the slight creaking which the trap door made. The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War Throwing this aside, he unlocked the trap door and quietly raised it. Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope But I didn’t see any trap door: did you?” Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days Presently Ned discovered the outlines of the trap door, which he had correctly surmised to be in that spot. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Mark suggested to Mary, in a whisper, that he had come up through a trap door. Nearly Lost but Dearly Won At one end of the buttery there was a trap door in the floor. The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales He rolled back a small rug in the middle of the floor to expose a massive steel trap door. Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope For two breathless seconds she dashed through space, then her feet hit the trap door at the bottom, and she shot into the laundry. Just Patty Signalling to his comrades for assistance, he darted toward the object and began dragging it to a position directly over the trap door. Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol Conjuring tricks and trap doors are, of course, "trotted out" by the unintelligent sceptic, but these do not meet the difficulty of an accurate knowledge of names and of family matters of comparatively small importance. Seen and Unseen Each of the trap doors should have a well-fitted, wooden cover on the top, with a ring of iron in the centre; this cover should be made fire proof on the outside. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner There is no trap door leading into either subterranean or overhead apartments. The Master-Knot of Human Fate In the bare portion of the wall thus revealed, about two feet square, was a wooden trap door, fastened by a button. The Shrieking Pit "There!" cried the man, pointing to a small mound of earth, in which was set a sort of trap door. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys He found no trace of a trap door, such as there would have been in almost any American cellar. The Boy Scouts on the Trail He stuck his head through the trap door while his friend held him solicitously by his legs so he could not do the sudden disappearance act. Frontier Boys in Frisco The words were scarcely out of his mouth when the trap door opened again, and the servant was dragged down below in a similar manner. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean When he reached his own bedroom, his first act was to push back the wardrobe and open the trap door he had discovered the previous night. The Shrieking Pit "Russ, come in here!" called Mr. Pertell, through a crack in the trap door of the cyclone cellar. The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys The box is entirely buried two to three inches under the ground except over the trap door. Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930 H, H, are trap doors, to let hay or straw down to the alleys of the stables beneath. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings One by one six fat sleek mice passed through the trap door. Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 The old drum of the Kabuli tale constantly recurred, as if a trap door to the deeps were often lifted. Son of Power He took down a lighted lantern from the wall, and lifting a trap door at the end of the room, plunged into the darkness. The Statesmen Snowbound In pulling up the root of a tree I espied an iron ring, fastened to a trap door of the same metal. The Arabian Nights Entertainments The passage is, between the mangers, 3 feet wide, to receive the hay from the trap doors in the floor above. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings The origin of these roof-holes, whose use at the present time is widespread, was undoubtedly in the simple trap door which gave access to the rooms of the first terrace. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 A trap door should be cut in the centre of the stage, and a circle cut in the centre of the cambric, to admit the body of Venus. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants He gazed at me in amazement, then cast his eyes furtively about him, as if afraid a trap door would drop beneath him, and land him in my private oubliette. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The aperture closed down by a rough trap door made for the purpose. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Sometimes these trap doors were directly above profound pits of water, in which the victim would drown as he dropped from the mangling hooks, racks, and pincers of the torture chamber. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life There is no means of preventing access to the exposed trap doors, which are nearly on a level with the ground. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 A trap door, two and a half feet square, should be cut out of the floor four feet from the front, and at equal distances from each side of the stage. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants And flung him down the ladder into the cage and sealed the deck trap door upon him. Brigands of the Moon They did their utmost to pry up the trap door, but were beaten back. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World It was no trick for the prowlers to softly raise the trap door leading to the kitchen, and, once there, the rest of the house was practically open. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier The smaller roof openings in their simplest form are constructed in essentially the same manner as the trap doors, and the width is usually regulated by the distance between two adjacent roof beams. A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 The whitish-blue fire should be burned in small quantities near the trap door and larger quantities of the same in the ante-rooms, which will reflect on the forms of the performers. Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants The trap door was closed; Anita and I were crouching on it. Brigands of the Moon Paul commanded all hands to lie down and keep still while himself and lieutenants sat on the trap door. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World However, I grabbed up a rifle, and then opening a trap door, dropped down into a little cubbyhole under the floor, where we used to keep our batteries. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers When we got there we found that the only way onto the roof was by a long perpendicular ladder leading to a trap door. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium "I don't know," Tom whispered, instinctively removing the short stick and closing the trap door tight. Tom Slade with the Boys Over There Under our floor grid, those on the ladder had been pounding at the trap door. Brigands of the Moon The floor is rather rough, and has a trap door leading into a small cellar, where vegetables can be stored for winter use. The Prairie Wife Now he lifted the trap door, and found, as he had been sure he would, a ladder leading to the cellar below. The Belgians to the Front Then there was another sound, and we all turned around to see a trap door raised and the serene, bemonocled face of my friend Cavalcanti looked out on us in bewilderment. A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium When they reached the trap door, Tom got down on his knees and felt around for the opening. Treachery in Outer Space The trap door was all but broken under the ramming blows of the men. Brigands of the Moon He led the way therefore to a trap door in the floor of the men's quarters in the forecastle. Ralph Granger's Fortunes There seemed to be no safe way of propping up the trap door. The Belgians to the Front It will be necessary to know why the enemy, in certain places, has rushed in as if he came out of a trap door. Fighting France Opening the trap door all the way, Tom eased himself down into the opening. Treachery in Outer Space And then as we approached, I saw further forward in the bow, the trap door to the cage standing open. Brigands of the Moon Dalgard flung himself through the trap door, luckily landing on one of the steep, curved ramps. Star Born Above there was the sound of a closing door; then heavy footsteps sounded on the trap door over his head. The Belgians to the Front She suspends herself from wires, sits upon pasteboard clouds, disappears through trap doors, comes in by the chimney and goes out by the window. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 With their backs pressed to the wall beside the door, Tom and Astro saw Miles bend over and lift a trap door in the middle of the floor. Treachery in Outer Space |
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