The commissionaire put his finger on the bell of the
outside door. She leaned forward, listening breathlessly.
He jumped for the
outside door and laid his ear against it and listened, pale and kind of panting.
There was the sound of a key being hastily fitted into the lock of the
outside door. The dog rose to his feet expectantly.
Someone moved from the window, and a minute or two later there was the sound of the passage door as it came unstuck, then the latch of the
outside door clicked and a tall white-bearded peasant, with a sheepskin coat thrown over his white holiday shirt, pushed his way out holding the door firmly against the wind, followed by a lad in a red shirt and high leather boots.
Suddenly steadied by the presence of this unlooked-for emergency, he closed the
outside door and relit the lamp with firm fingers.
It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and cemented, with a stairway and an
outside door by which the men came and went.
The
outside door had been left open, and Captain Nemo closed it as soon as we had entered the first cell.
"We lived just out of town, in a lonely place; the house was old, with convenient little back windows, and five
outside doors. Jack was the only man about the place, and he was barely thirteen.
Two of them, side by side, can be used to make an awning over an
outside door or window.
Police officers found that the thieves had come to the warehouse in a car, when no security guard was on duty, and had broken the surveillance camera installed on the
outside door.
-- Connection for up to four
outside door locations; -- Support for a wide range of doorbell intercoms (2 and 3 -wire configuration); -- Electronic door release; and -- Output for external chime.
Nine-year-old Jeremiah Calder was near the
outside door to his family's vintage mobile home in Magna, Utah, when his father, 33-year-old Dave Calder, did an inadvisable thing--he poured gasoline on a fire in a wood-burning stove.