"A handsome piece of armour, there is no doubt about it; but it must have weighed pretty heavily on its wearer's shoulders," he muttered; and, urged by I know not what demon, he clapped it on his head and latched the gorget-piece about his neck.

But the side-gate's latched, and I can't ring the door-bellif only because it would be too ridiculous to have to ask the maid to tell Colonel Musgrave his wife wanted to see him.

He stood at the door and knocked loudly upon it, and though, when he tried the knob, he found that the door was latched, yet no one came in response.

But the bell didn't ring, and after maybe half an hour, I came out into the hall again to see if the woman had gone; and I walked past the door of this room but didn't hear nothing; and then I went on to the front door, and was surprised to find it wasn't latched.

" "Maybe you hadn't latched it," suggested Grady.

I had to open a door; and when it swung to behind me and latched, I turned around and looked at it, as if I never expected it to open again.

"That was shut and latched.

Each room has two windows, glazed and also covered with wire gauze to exclude insects, and a latched door.

After a long time the latch of the drawing-room door cracked warningly.

Then I heard the gate-latch click; I looked out through the vine-leaves, all scarlet with the glory of the season, and saw William coming up the walk.

Then, with the like precaution, he lifts the latch and gently thrusts the door open, listening at every inch to catch the sounds within.

My heart was in my mouth when Ratsey lifted the latch and led me into the inn parlour.

Nothing happened while he was gone, except that a friend of Biddy's "dropped in," and Mrs. Sharpe, burning and shivering in her sewing-chair, dreamily caught through the open door, and dreamily repeated to herself, a dozen words of compassionate Irish brogue: "Folks as laves folks cryin' to home and goes sailin' round with other women" Then the wind latched the door.

Of course, she denied this, and I let the matter drop; but I was more than a little puzzled, and did not know whether to believe my own explanation, or to take the mater's, which was to put the noises down to the mice, and the open door to the fact that she couldn't have properly latched it, when she went to bed.

"I led the way downstairs, shining my light into the lower passage, and afterward at the doors to see whether they were shut; for I had closed and latched them, placing a corner of a mat against each door, so I should know which had been opened.

He passed his hands lightly through his curls, pulled himself up with a jerk, and then quietly and sedately opened a latched door and entered the long low-roofed kitchen.

He was in a cage with a fail-safe door; the kind that are hinged at the bottomif they aren't positively latched shut, they fall open so you'll know to latch them."

Lifting the latch, he entered.

The slave raised the latch of the back door, and took the cake, doing no other injury.

The cellar door indeed, which latched imperfectly, stood open.

The doors were latched, and the lift dropped.

With a little bang the front door had swung to and latched itself.

The other door, leading to the rear, had closed too and latched itself with a little bang.

Some keep it always open; some keep it latched; some, locked; some, bolted,with a chain that will let you peep in, but not get in; and some nail it up, so that nothing can pass its threshold.

The dream in which La Vigne had prophesied my failure flashed over me like lightning, and my knees trembled beneath me, yet I still clung spasmodically to the cord I held, and with such desperate force that, when Gregory pushed against the door, he believed it latched within, and so desisted from further effort.