He slipped the ambulance out of gear and let it roll to a stop and stuck his head out the door window.
When he had closed the door he pointed toward a flight of stairs, and then up.
Dave caught a flash glimpse of desks, and chairs, and the part of a wall covered by a huge map, before the doorwas closed in his face.
Then the click of the door latch, and the grating sound of a bolt being shot home, spun them both around.
The instant Freddy went over near the door Dave gave his attention to the first screw.
He closed his Dad's doorand went down the stairs three at a time and straight across the lobby floor to the desk.
He stopped them on the second landing, pushed open a door and waved them inside.
The door was closed and bolted, and they could hear the boots of the guard pacing up and down the hallway outside.
He started for the door leading into his father's room but checked himself as he saw the camera on the bureau.
The side door popped open and in popped the guard.
As though by magic a side door swung open and a German soldier with a Staff Orderly's arm band about his tunic sleeve popped into the room.
Dave's exclamation of surprise was cut short by the ringing of the door bell.
Dave leaped for the doorand grasped hold of the knob.
They heard the outside bolt slap back and then the door was pushed open.
Now, you go over to the doorand start talking to me.
Four times the guard had opened the door and played the beam of his flashlight on them.
I heard the chasseur saying at the door of La Scala that he had the night-pass for the city gates and orders for the Tyrol.
The inner box-door was rudely shaken: beneath it a slip of paper had been thrust.
Katchen found Beppo listening at the door of the salle.
Try to get on the other side of that doorand the point of this blade shall scratch you through it.
Last night I was evading the sbirri in this disguise by the private door of La Scala, from which I expected Carlo to come forth.
When the door had closed upon the still gasping Mary I turned apologetically to my visitor.
At that moment the visitor, evidently grown tired of waiting, calmly floated in through the half-open door and settled down gracefully in the centre of a large gold cushion lying on the end of the Chesterfield.
I went out with her into the little lobby and down the stairs, and stood at the hall door to watch her go.
Thus Mary at about nine o'clock on an April evening at the door of my tiny sitting-room.
He obstinately stays there in the way, while I am living in this absurd fashion, next door to myself.
He ran to the door just in time to rescue the symphony into which Whistler had turned himself from a growling mob.
The door of the Paris studio was opened by Whistler himself.
When they reached the hotel and entered from the sunshine into the small, plainly furnished hall, she sat down on one of the chairs inside the door and left it to Colonel Grey to make inquiries.
He entered abruptly, closing thedoor behind him, an undersized, delicate-looking man, with an unattractive manner at variance with a pair of sympathetic eyes.
And then after a while the dooropened and he came in.
He tossed away the match, and opened the door for her.
She demurred still, foreseeing a merry evening, and not relishing the part allotted to her; but he carried his point; and reluctantly she went into the bedroom and fastened the door upon herself.
He hurried them to the train, opened the door of an empty carriage, and shut it on them with a bang.
When eventually Mrs Lawless came forth she was attended by Van Bleit, who saw her into her motor, and closing the door on her, leant upon it confidentially while he made some low-toned remark to her where she sat inside in the dark.
She looked round as he entered and closed the doorbehind him, and then very slowly got up from the sofa on which she had been seated.
To make sure, she inquired of the native who opened the door to her whether Mrs Lawless were receiving.
It was a distinct relief to Colonel Grey when the door opened to admit the doctor.
The message he received at the door was that Mrs Lawless was out.
With even greater caution than he had used to cross the floor to the door he now retraced his steps and softly advanced towards the glimmer of light that showed through the chinks in the partition.
He waited until she was secure from observation, then he opened the outer door and stood in the lighted aperture, looking into the night.
Hayhurst opened the door of the car for her and she got in.
A brilliance a hundred times brighter than the glaring Nevada sun lit the dim interior of the bunker and the pneumatically-operated door slammed shut just before the wave of the blast hit the structure.
Two muscular and bored attendants in spotless whites, lounged beside the locked door and chatted idly about the Dodgers' prospects for the pennant.
The group shuffled out into the warm, afternoon sunlight and the door closed behind them.
And yet, in spite of all these manifold revelations of divine knowledge, which have encompassed the world, they still vainly imagine the door of knowledge to be closed, and the showers of mercy to be stilled.
Gazing with the eye of God, he will perceive within every atom a doorthat leadeth him to the stations of absolute certitude.
He rose and dressed himself, going quietly out of the front door into Sherbrooke street.
A sliding panel was immediately pushed aside, and a hooded sister held a few moments conversation with the visitor, on which the door was opened, and he was admitted.
When the fashionable Mrs. Wilkie returned to her abode late in the evening she found the door closed on her, repeated pulls at the door-bell eliciting no response.
As he got to his own door he found Charles leaning pensively against the balustrade, gazing wistfully at the heavens.
I had hardly opened the doorwhen both commenced to beg me in the most imploring manner to go at once with them to see a young woman who, as they thought, must be in great distress.
Occasionally, when the weather was unfavorable to out-door amusements, they would engage in a rubber of whist, generally ending the evening with a little music.
The door is only secured against the intrusion of wild animals, that is to say, it is securely fastened from the outside by a latch or bar.
The citizen of a foreign state had his Embassy to which he could address himself, but the Colonial Office seemed to have the door barred against the Colonist.
The Korean boy looked at the half open door which led into the kitchen.
The boy himself closed a door which led into the missionary's study.
They did not find any in the little village, although they ruthlessly broke down every door of every home in that village.
They will see that wall and think that there is no door and then will go away and not bother that house any more," I was told.
The only opening in their houses besides the door is one north window, and it is never closed.
Just last week,' this teacher's wife said in answer to my inquiry, 'the woman next door went back to her village two miles from here and she saw her own sister drown a baby while she was there.
Why is that strange wall built in front of every household door and even before the Temples?
Each moment they expected to hear a sound at the door that would mean a fight or else the surrender of their captive.
Instead of opening thedoor she quietly pushed her chair against it.
A sudden, violent knocking began on the front door of the lodge.
The door was chained and would not be easy to break down.
Carefully, Madge, Phil and the deaf and dumb boy made another pile of little and big sticks just outside the door they desired to burn down.
Tell us who it is at the door and we will open to you.
Phyllis dropped down in front of this door and made her second pyre.
Jimmy Lawton's inside prison doorwas smoking; one end of it was in flames.
At the door of the attic she paused and glanced back at the open trunk, then, walking slowly toward it, deposited her jewel box and armful of silks on the top of the old cedar chest and sat down before the trunk.
Also the girls noticed that the way up to the door had lately been trodden by heavy feet.
She saw the dining room door open and Flora Harris enter.
Before the door swung around again Lieutenant Lawton had time to whisper: "You and Miss Morton meet me, if you can, by the tree on the south side of the hotel porch just before you start for the houseboat.
A moment later they died down into a little heap of embers, without even faintly scorching the wooden door that they were expecting to set on fire.
I want you to take tickets at the door of hall to-night.
Luke Harrison boarded with a Mr. Glenham, a carpenter, and it was at his door that Harry knocked.
This wallet contains twenty dollars," he said: "Of course you will bring me back that amount, in addition to what you take at the door this evening.
Come in," said the old man, and opening the door wider, he admitted our hero.
Take tickets at the door and help him beforehand with his apparatus.
Frank, in a low voice, as the door opened, and a tall, portly man entered the room.
On the door above are the withdrawing-rooms communicating with the chapel-gallery.
The door here, like most of the others, has the old English wooden latch known as the “Drunkard’s latch” because its cumbrous woodwork affords so good a hold for fumbling fingers.
Those who have will go through that door to the right.
Once inside, the fugitive could fix the door with a peg, so that it could not be moved from without.
It is pleasing to see the towering mansions of the Blest on the left hand, with St. Peter waiting at the open doorwelcoming that, ah!
She recollected bending over Robin and the baby to kiss them before she came away, and locking the door safely upon them.
Meg locked the door of her attic, and laid her baby on the bed, while she lighted the fire and got their tea ready.
As he spoke the door opened, and Mrs Blossom came in with Robin.
The front attic door was locked, and the key was under Meg's pillow, not to be used again until she was well enough to turn it herself in the lock.
She lay quite still, with a dreamy thought that she was somehow in heaven, until she heard a pleasant voice speaking in the next room, the door of which was open, so that the words came readily to her ears.
Then drawing her old shawl over her head, she locked the attic door securely behind her, and ran as fast as her feet could carry her to Mrs Blossom's house.
If you like, you and Robin and baby may walk after me; but be sure see everybody out, and lock the door safe afore you start.
The door was divided in the middle, and the lower half was closed, while the upper stood open, giving a full view of the shop within.
And say that I will not come to his Court, until I have encountered the tall man that is there, to avenge the injury he did to the dwarf and dwarfess.
And when he came to the hall, the door was open, and he entered.
And Gwalchmai defended the door with a chessboard, that none might enter until the man should return from the chase.
With that Luned went forth; and the Countess arose and followed her to the door of the chamber, and began coughing loudly.
And before he reached it, another knight had been there, who gave a ring of thick gold at the door of the gate for holding his horse, and went into the Hall where Arthur and his household, and Gwenhwyvar and her maidens, were assembled.
And with the noise of the door opening, Peredur awoke; and the maiden was weeping and lamenting.
And Owain went to sleep, and the maiden shut the door of the chamber after her, and went towards the Castle.
Peredur rode to the palace, and the door was open, and he entered the hall.
And a short space from him he saw signs of a dwelling, and towards the dwelling he went, and he beheld a hall, and at the door of the hall he found bald swarthy youths playing at chess.
And he went to the castle; and as he entered it, he saw a hall, and the doorof the hall was open, and he went in.
And Owain put the lion in the place where the maiden had been imprisoned, and blocked up the door with stones.
Standing with one's back to these windows, the door was on the right hand side, and, facing it, a double door communicating with the conservatory.
Then she heard thedoor within open and shut, and the outer door open.
Thus, no sooner had Dick set foot upon the garden path than the front door was flung open, and there stood Fanny, beaming with good-humour, good news on the tip of her tongue.
They rose from the table, and almost directly the three who went into the drawing-room heard the front door open and shut.
For the credit of the Mother Country, we can't shut the door in their faces after a Colonial has given them a taste of real downright generosity.
The front door opened, and Dick saw a well-known figure outlined against the light of the passage.
When thedoor was closed upon Edmonstone, Miles sank into the armchair, and closed his eyes.
He went out into the passage, and peeped through the chink of the door into the tap-room.
Her ear was sensitive, attuned to her temper; common sounds startled her painfully; the unexpected opening or shutting of a door went far to unhinge both nerves and temper.
As for Jem Pound, his mate and his murderer--" The door opened, and the nurse stood panting on the threshold.
She turned the handle and pushed gently, the door was neither locked nor bolted; it opened.
From under the broad brim of the latter a pair of quick, dark eyes played restlessly among the people who passed in and out, or thronged the door of the hut.
Edmonstone had read to the end of his letter, when the door opened and Miles entered the room.
I alone to be followed about by jealous prying eyes, which take note whether I go in at a back door or at the front, and who the men are who happen to call on me in the afternoon?
He feared that by the Whig party a door would be opened in England to the most grievous of heresies, which never could be closed again.
Afterwards, Liberalism was the badge of a theological school, of a dry and repulsive character, not very dangerous in itself, though dangerous as opening the door to evils which it did not itself either anticipate or comprehend.
With these enigmatical words, he followed the colonel into the library, and the polished oaken door closed between him and Aileen.
But this is certain: when Mademoiselle Bourdon descended the stairs next morning he was standing at the dining-room door awaiting her, and his calm eyes lit up, as few had ever seen them light in his life.
Before the words of passionate scorn on her lips could be spoken the inner door opened and Helen Thorndyke stood on the threshold.
Before that rising sun had gilded the tops of the tallest oaks in the park, he, who had so lately called it all his own, had opened the heavy oaken door and passed from Thetford Towers, as home, forever.
There was a sound as she said it, the house door opening.
For the door opened, a howl of March wind, a rush of March rain whirled in, and lifting his eyes, Mr. Richard Gilbert saw in the doorway a new passenger.
The door opened as he asked the question and Aunt Hester came into the room.
He had heard no sound, but the chamber door had opened and she had come forth.
The door opened, and Colonel Jocyln, not Fanchon, appeared, an open note in his hand, his face full of trouble.
The housedoor stood ajar--some one had left them and driven away.
The door closed behind the small white figure, and he was alone.
Tell William to have the carriage at the door at a quarter-past three; and do you pack my dressing-case, and the few things I shall need for two or three days' absence.
As before, approached by a door which slides to and fro with a gentle rumbling noise, instead of swinging.
Falcon met us at the door with a telegram addressed to 'Miss Mansel.
As he did so, the door was flung open, and a man-servant appeared.
And then at the door of the hotel I had been handed the message.
I wonder----" A knock upon the door interrupted her.
Comfortably weary, we reached our own villa's door to make the grisly discovery that no one had remembered the key.
As it was, Jonah made his way to the door amid an enraged murmur of expostulation, whose temper was aggravated by suppression almost to bursting-point.
From behind a big cigar Berry was slowly enumerating the accessories without which, to make life worth living, no car should ever take the road, when the door opened and a servant, bearing a salver, entered the room.
For the next three weeks we locked not only the stable door, but every single door to which a key could be fitted--and suffered accordingly.
With a smile, I flung open its door and waved her into the car.
I opened thedoor instantly, only to see that to collect Berry now was out of the question.
Upon these, except for that framing the door and window, were rows of shelves.
I opened the door into the finest bedroom that I have ever seen.
Presently, and while I was musing on the subject, the door was opened, and a friend got in.
This cat had noticed how the cage-door was fastened, and so knew how to open it.
Illustration] A short time since I saw a white Persian cat with deep blue eyes sitting at the doorof a tobacconist's, at the corner of the Haymarket, London.
It was late when I reached the quiet street where I had taken up my abode, and as I mounted the steps I involuntarily felt for my latch-key, but to my surprise I found the hall-door not only unfastened, but a little way opened.
The story is that a Frenchwoman, a small shopkeeper at the eastern end soon after it was built, had a very faithful and favourite cat, and that in the lack of any other sign she put over her door the words, 'Voici un Chat fidele.
I have known them knock at a door by the knocker when wanting admittance.
Some prefer a box made like a rabbit-hutch, with sleeping place, and a barred door to one or both compartments which may be closed when thought necessary for comfort and quiet.
Newton was also a lover of cats, and there is a good story told of the philosopher having two holes made in a door for his cat and her kitten to enter by--a large one for the cat, and a small one for the kitten.
I saw her Cat walk up and try to open the door by the latch.
The name given to the strong hook used on the inside of a door or gate, which, being fixed to the wall, keeps it shut.
I never knew but one dog that would open a door by moving the fastening without being shown or taught how to do it.
When we reached her house, Monsieur Voltaire and Lord Peterborough sprang down, opened the coachdoor and let down the steps.
At the cottage door stood a pleasant-faced woman, with a little army of bright-eyed children around her.
Jacques Haret mustered the children on the stage, gave them such directions as were necessary, and then the sound of voices and laughter was heard, the door opened, and in came the Grand Prieur and his company of guests.
If she were at table and the door opened suddenly she would half rise, with the flash of expectation in her face.
I reached over, and getting a good grip on Jacques Haret, which I could do easily, as he was entirely off his guard, I flung him headlong through the open door into the garden below.
The fastening to the door leading to the balcony was indifferent, and marks showed that the dog, by scratching and pawing, had got the door open.
That door shut out our truce, and Monsieur Voltaire, in the presence of a number of persons, undertook to make me his butt on Count Saxe's account.
