213 examples of keyhole in sentences

They was seven deep at the keyhole.

Kookoo in his old age had become a great eavesdropper; his ear and eye took turns at the keyhole that night, for he tells things that were not intended for outside hearers.

Then Kookoo, peering through the keyhole, saw that they had been looking into the little trunk.

The man could fumble in his pockets with much discretion, and could always find his latch-key, for its shape was odd, but with that latch-key he could not find the keyhole in the door.

He had passed his usual evening at the club, had gone home at the usual hour, and had encountered even more difficulty than usual in discovering the keyhole.

He told Simpson of his trouble of the night before, and concluded his account with the earnest and almost pitiful exclamation: "I'd give fifty thousand dollars for a keyhole one could not miss.

No man could invent a keyhole which a man could not miss at night.

As a matter of fact, Simpson had not the slightest idea of how such a keyhole and latch-key as he had promised could be made, save that on one occasion he had been the author of a practical little invention utilized in a box-factory, and felt that he had a touch of the inventive genius in his nature.

"We'll invent that keyhole or latch-key, or break something," was all he said.

The first object to be sought was, naturally, a keyhole which could not easily be missed.

First, instead of the ordinary keyhole there was something exactly resembling the customary mouthpiece through which we whistle upstairs from the ground floor of a flat seeking to attract the people who rarely answer.

This mouthpiece tapered all around inside, and terminated in a keyhole which was rubber-lined.

On the other side of this keyhole was a hard surface, padded with rubber, but having just opposite the mouth of the keyhole a small orifice extending through to a metal surface.

On the other side of this keyhole was a hard surface, padded with rubber, but having just opposite the mouth of the keyhole a small orifice extending through to a metal surface.

The keyhole was all the design of Simpson, the electric part of the affair all the invention of Hastings.

He walked sideways, like a crab, resistingly, and could not help himself; and then, just as he had nearly reached the bell-shaped keyhole, he was whirled around, as is the end child in a school playground when they are playing "crack-the-whip," fairly in front of the keyhole, and literally hurled toward it, while the key shot fiercely into the lock.

He walked sideways, like a crab, resistingly, and could not help himself; and then, just as he had nearly reached the bell-shaped keyhole, he was whirled around, as is the end child in a school playground when they are playing "crack-the-whip," fairly in front of the keyhole, and literally hurled toward it, while the key shot fiercely into the lock.

So the front door was sent down town and another one put in its place, and in that front door down town Simpson and Hastings established and firmly secured the marvelous electric lock and keyhole.

He was literally "yanked" toward that sunken keyhole.

They went together to Monsieur Rushford's apartmentI followed, I listened at the keyhole; but they went on into an inner room, and the outer door was locked, so I could not" The Prince, who had listened to all this with blazing eyes, suddenly raised his arm with a furious gesture.

We could rather feel than see the houses, for the night was so dark, and, though here was evidently a village, there was no sign of a light anywhere, not so much as a bright keyhole; nothing but hushed, shuttered shapes of deeper black in the general darkness.

A prowling A.P.M. sniffed at the keyhole but did not investigate further, which was fortunate for the Babe, who had no regulation pyjamas.

By this time the old lady was ascending the stairs, and closing the door Maggie applied her eye to the keyhole, listening breathlessly for what might follow.

Through the keyhole.

Murder at the keyhole.

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