The first time I went she took me up a breakneck ladder, through a square Trapdoor in which I almost stuck fast, and out on to the leads.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
Dot crept up to the Trapdoor and looked down.
"Dot and Tot of Merryland"
L. Frank Baum
Friday, listen to me: No condemned criminal standing on the Trapdoor of a scaffold ever occupied a more dangerous position than you do now.
"Her Mother's Secret"
Emma D. E. N. Southworth