Them hasps is needin' mendin', as I've often said to Joseph,um!"

"Open the gate," pulling at the broken hasp.

" Bradford knelt down on the grass, and, unhooking his line, strove to undo the rusty hasp; but it resisted all the efforts of his fingers, and it was only by the aid of a knife and a stone that he opened the box.

braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet; impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise, miter, jam, dovetail, enchase^; graft, ingraft^, inosculate^; entwine, intwine^; interlink, interlace, intertwine, intertwist^, interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice up, screw up. be joined &c; hang together, hold together; cohere &c 46.

Yet such thoughts did not delay my purpose, and I possessed myself of the locket easily enough, finding a hasp in the chain, and so drawing it out from the linen folds.

Then I went over to the main door and hooked it open, so that the hook would have to be lifted out of the hasp, before the door could be closed.

Then I saw the hook slowly raised from out of its hasp, without any visible thing touching it.

The first test was made on May 15 with a heavy box whose hinged lid was held securely in position by means of a hasp and a padlock.

For thirty minutes he struggled with the box almost continuously, chewing persistently at the hinges, the hasp, or the lock.

But the portal stood wide open, the padlock hanging in a hasp.

These thoughts shot through Roy's brain, as he selected a file from his fortunate find, and began working away at the hasp of the padlock.

" At last the file had cut far enough into the hasp for Roy's strong fingers to be able to bend the metal apart.

With a beating heart, he replaced the little tool in its case and pulled the ring of the padlock out of the hasp.

Discs are often made almost solid and then fixed to the stick with an iron hasp, which is apt to snap or to split the stick.

A small brass hasp and lock.

He found brass strap hinges and a hasp and a lock that were well-matched.

He strain'd the dusky covers close, And fixed the brazen hasp; "O God, could I so close my mind, And clasp it with a clasp!"

They put a hasp and steeple on it so as to keep the children out when they was gone to the field.

One man stood on the front steps, and another slipped the hasp to one of the parlor windows, stepped in, took a very valuable French clock, given me on my silver- wedding day, and all the hats and overcoats from the hall.

"Cover it with tar paper so the rain won't come in, and hang the front on hinges with a hasp and staple and padlock, and what better would you want?" "Nothing," answered Ethel Brown, seriously.

What I ask of you, is, to acquaint my Customers (who are otherwise very good ones) that I am unavoidably hasped in my Bar, and cannot help hearing the improper Discourses they are pleased to entertain me with.

At the same time we have a Set of Gentlemen who take the Liberty to appear in all Publick Places without any Buttons to their Coats, which they supply with several little Silver Hasps, tho' our freshest Advices from London make no mention of any such Fashion; and we are something shy of affording Matter to the Button-Makers for a second Petition.

The outer hasp of our door clicked.

Margray was bending over my mother, with the hartshorn in her hands, and I thinkthe Lord forgive her!she allowed her the whole benefit of its battery, for in a minute or two Mrs. Strathsay rose, a little feeble, wavered an instant, then warned us all away and walked slowly and heavily from the place, up the stairs, and the door of her own room banged behind her and hasped like the bolt of a dungeon.

A great iron hasp with a heavy padlock and grilled area windows gave further the impression of a cell, and I fear that at this, as at many other things in the curious house, I swore—if I did not laugh—thinking of the money my grandfather had expended in realizing his whims.