falling door
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of falling door
First recorded in 1745–55
Example Sentences
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Answering the crash of the falling door, came another and more fearful crash within.
From Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
The rear of the cage was solid; the front had a falling door.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
The noise of the falling door had been heard by Manfred, who, directed by the sound, hastened thither, attended by his servants with torches.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
Rod, seeing what was about to happen, had swept his two comrades back so that none of them chanced to be struck by the falling door.
From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Ralph Marlow
He heard the crash of another falling door, and the voice of Teja now sounded from the study.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn
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