But I am very tired of it!...I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture-chamber in my house and of living like a mountebank, in a house with a
false bottom!...I'm tired of it!
Taking it between my finger and thumb, and drawing it upward, I discovered that there was a
false bottom to the case, forming a secret compartment for letters and papers.
"Yes," he declared, after looking it over, "the thing certainly has a
false bottom. Now, I wonder what that is for?"
Barrois touched a spring, the
false bottom came out, and they saw a bundle of papers tied with a black string.
The drugs stash, believed to be worth about PS4million, was reportedly found in the
false bottom of a cupboard on a luxury yacht after three of the suspects had sailed from Morocco to Marbella marina.
The bottom of the terrarium is water-tight for creating a
false bottom for planted tanks or an aquarium water feature.
Democracies turn the concrete into the abstract, and as a result, words become like boxes "with a
false bottom": what you take out can be entirely different from what you put in.
This "
false bottom" turns out to be a mass of animals that journey hundreds to thousands of feet from the depths to the surface nightly in a living wave that wraps around the planet.
"Doble fondo" (
False Bottom), our exhibition at Proyectos Monclova in Mexico City this past winter, was titled after our work of the same name.
Hidden beneath a
false bottom, speakers emit lightly edited recordings that McGill began compiling six years ago in various campi throughout Venice.
"Usually you get a
false bottom, or two or three or four," Oxy's CEO said.