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.

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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.

Hasps and padlocks enabled the experimenter to lock this "lid" after food had been placed in the center of the box.

During the fifteen minutes allowed him, he worked at the box in a great variety of ways, fooling with the locks which had been attached to the hasps as well as with the cross bars and continually reaching in at the one or the other end.

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.

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.

At last they stop before a house wall with a low blue door barred by heavy hasps of iron.

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!"

and he swore by the spear that had slain the destroyer of Perdóndaris that Singanee would think it a shameful thing that any stranger not unknown to the gods should enter the dancing hall unsuitably clad; and therefore he led me to another room and took silken robes out of an old sea-chest of black and seamy oak with green copper hasps that were set with a few pale sapphires, and requested me to choose a suitable robe.

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

"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.

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.

" Then I ran to the roof, and, though the stones chilled me to the bone and the frost-bitten iron hasps of the fastenings burned me like fire, I opened the trap-door and looked out.

The outer hasp of our door clicked.

can you lift the hasps of steel?

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.

CHAPTER XXIX A Strange Night Cold, cold with death, came up the tide In no manner of haste, Up to her knees, and up to her side, And up to her wicked waist; For the hand of the dead, and the heart of the dead, Are strong hasps they to hold.