Tell me that the room was dark; that not a ray of light penetrated the closed doors or the curtained windows.

Finally, I told her she might go, on condition that she promised not to attempt to leave the house, or meddle with any of the outer doors.

She put forth her hands upon it, and could have traced the waving lines of the exquisite work, in which some artist soul had worked itself out in the old times; but though she thus saw it and felt, she could not with all her endeavors find the handle of the drawer, the richly-wrought knob of ivory, the little door that opened into the secret place.

I remember the waiting at the doornot that which is leftbut between that and an inner door in shelterO when shall I be such an expectant again!with the cry of nonpareils, an indispensable play-house accompaniment in those days.

Capt. Cricket, the messenger, and Scott got down in the boot of the coach to save themselves from colliding with the top of the stable door.

"All right, thentell" After them, the immediately locked door resisting, Genevieve fell to batting the panels.

The two chums crouched behind a thick bush, and peering through its leafless branches could see nothing but the closed double doors, and a stretch of blank wall on either side.

Teals, widgeons, snipes, barn-door fowl, ducks, geese,your tame villatic things,Welsh mutton collars of brawn, sturgeon, fresh or pickled, your potted char, Swiss cheeses, French pies, early grapes, muscadines, I impart as freely unto my friends as to myself.

Once more I re-entered the wardrobe and deliberately broke off the button which opened the secret door from within.

She waited there until the maid returned; and registered to the woman's credit the discreet soft closing of the front-door and afterward the well-nigh inaudible swish of the rear door of the dining-room as the maid went back into the kitchen.

" A narrow door, not of crystal as usual, but of metal painted to resemble the walls, led directly from one corner of the peristyle into the grounds outside.

He opens the cellar door.

I reach the opposite door, and, as I leave the study, cast one nervous glance over my shoulder, toward the window.

At the end toward the swamp a great, oriental-looking passage is left, with an arched entrance, and a pair of ponderous wooden doors.

" Big George disappeared into the kitchen and the outside door was closed.

All at once she shut the oven door, where three toothsome loaves were browning, and listened intently.

" They examined the two lower rooms on the ground and first floors, remarked on the thickness of the walls, shown by the depth of the window embrasures, which in older days had been put to sterner purposes; they admired the solid strength of the ties and hammer-beams in the roofs, and scrutinized the few articles of ancient furniture and tapestry the rooms contained, and the massive oaken iron-bound door which admitted to the garden.

He had caught a glimpse of Mrs. Hill's white frightened face peering through the dirty little glass pane in the parlour door.

Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person.

Certainly a Norman church once stood here, of which the nave of that we see was part, as was the very noble chancel arch; but the chancel itself, the south aisle, and the tower are of the thirteenth century, while the south door is very early Decorated, most beautifully carved.

He was gone, like the shades of which he had spoken, and Mademoiselle and I were left staring at the black rectangle of the broken door.

Here was a shut door, and from being barred a door always invites the more temptingly.

The maiden, though she knew the step was not Mazaro's, rose hastily, opened the nearest door, and disappeared.

They took the crutches from him as they spoke and threw them away, and dragged him on until we reached a great grated door which one of them opened with a key, while the other held the offender (for he seemed an offender) roughly up by one shoulder, causing him great pain.

The walks wound about between the heaps, and through the thick walls of the ruin, overgrown with lichens and mosses, now and then passing through an arched door or window of the ancient building.