Quotes About Trap-doors

What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors!

Because concealment has always been an architectural consideration in India, Aziz's house has extensive underground chambers, which can only be reached through trap-doors in the floors, which are covered by carpets and mats.

And always the shadow of nameless fear hung about the sealed trap-doors and the dark, windowless elder towers.

For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.