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When the aviator sails over the enemy he opens trapdoors of the "arrow" boxes with a simple device and lets showers of bolts fall on the men below. One of the "arrows" dropped 2,000 feet will go through a German helmet and a soldier's head. A shower of them would prove effective against a massed enemy.
Good gracious!" exclaimed Peggy, as a sudden thought struck her, "suppose there should be trapdoors?" "Trapdoors!" Her companion was plainly puzzled. "Yes. You know in most books when two folks run across a deserted farm-house there's always a trapdoor or a ghost or something. Suppose Good heavens, what's that?" From without had come a most peculiar sound.
There were stairs, which were ascended merely, as it seemed, for the purpose of descending again passages, which, after turning and winding for a considerable way, returned to the place where they set out there were trapdoors and hatchways, panels and portcullises. Although Oliver was assisted by a sort of ground-plan, made out and transmitted by Joseph Tomkins, whose former employment in Dr.
Trapdoors in the decks opened, and the crews poured out and began to pile sandbags in front of the machines so that when day broke fully and the mists lifted, the enemy could not see what had been brought up in the night. Day dawned, and a frisky little breeze from the west scattered the fog and swept the sky clean. There wasn't a cloud by eight o'clock.
One question at least was answered Connie Myers was inside. The plan that she had given him showed an old-fashioned cellarway, closed by folding trapdoors, that was located a little toward the rear and, in a moment, creeping along, he came upon it. His hands felt over it. It was shut, fastened by a padlock on the outside.
Men, throw back the trapdoor." Ah, those ever-present trapdoors! He walked over to the opening. "The Hudson runs muddy tonight," he murmured, as a shudder ran through the audience, "and very cold. 'Tis well. Drag forth the prisoner and loose his bonds." He stooped to jerk Martha to her feet. The rude door at the rear sprang open, and the police burst in upon the scene.
She disliked "Gothic" romances, such as The Mysteries of Udolpho, and she wrote Northanger Abbey as a burlesque of that type. In this story the heroine, Catherine Moreland, who has been fed on such literature, is invited to visit Northanger Abbey in Gloucestershire, where with an imagination "resolved on alarm," she is prepared to be agitated by experiences of trapdoors and subterranean passages.
With one single exception these stories formed terraces, retreating successively from the ground to the top like so many steps of a staircase. Nowhere did there appear any entrance. Notched beams led up to trapdoors in the roofs, similar beams penetrated into the interior below. Absolute stillness reigned about the edifice.
"This island's too small to hide in," he said. "No background," he said. "I was looking for a place where there was mountains and inland country and maybe caves." "You never could make a success of it by yourself," I said. "You couldn't in an island made to order, with electric buttons and trapdoors let into the granite. But me and you and Tom might, and if you've the mind to, we will."
The tusker stands still. He looks nowhere, out of eyes like burning cellars. That is as near as you can come with words trapdoors opening into cellars, smoke and flame below. At this moment you are like a negative, being exposed. There is filmed among your enduring pictures thereafter, the raking curving snout, yellow tusks, blue bristling hollows from which the eyes burn.
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