21. Steel drive shafts extend from the platform to the trapdoors at the bottom of the chute. 22. Beds inflated and deflated, appearing and disappearing _ as do people and props _ through trapdoors . 23. Teemers would open the trapdoors on rail waggons which had been positioned above the ships'hoppers. 24. A number of villagers escaped by hiding in cellars whose trapdoors were not discovered by the raiders. 25. The muscles shrink and swell on command, behaving like tiny trapdoors to release variable amounts of medication. 26. As many as three cars are stuffed inside, sometimes hidden behind trapdoors and surrounded by furniture and garbage. 27. Most of the action takes place in a spooky mansion filled with eccentric characters, trapdoors and secret passages. 28. The luminous plastic board is elevated on six stilts and underneath are three boxes, covered by locked trapdoors . 29. Larkin said, " because there are lots of trapdoors and alligators in buying a brownstone building ." 30. It was a clandestine organization, and it conjures up images of soft knocks on doors, whispers, trapdoors .