518 examples of latches in sentences

It was extremely ingenious in its structure, and, among other peculiarities, it had three or four latches, for children, for grown persons, for those who were tall and those who were short, and for the right hand as well as the left.

He was a little jealous of the distinction which had been made between him and Abe; and drawing closer to the fire, he shivered in growing distaste for the cot assigned to him with the crew up-stairs, where the white frost lay on the window-latches.

Cables were freely used; binder twine served as hinges on the doors and also as latches.

Normally you try to catch a croc by throwing a sort of a small anchor in and when the croc latches on to it you try and pull it out.

Rows of picketed palings and gates with latches and locks seem superfluous, when the passer-by can look, if he likes, into the very centre of your sitting-room, and your neighbors on the right hand and on the left can overhear every word you say on a summer night, where windows are open.

Hastening to the door of the house from which the alarm proceeded, I lifted the latch in great trepidation, when I saw a man just about to strike a woman (who proved to be his wife) with an uplifted chair.

The clumsy string-lifted wooden door-latches, and the wooden pins fixing the framing, and which have never been cut off, but stick up some inches from the wall, are still all there.

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.

There he finds the thumb-piece gone from the latch, to him a well-known sign that Mother Fitch has gone out a-nursing; so, pulling the hidden string he wots of, he lifts the latch within, and the door opens to his hand.

There he finds the thumb-piece gone from the latch, to him a well-known sign that Mother Fitch has gone out a-nursing; so, pulling the hidden string he wots of, he lifts the latch within, and the door opens to his hand.

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

There isn't even a latch.

I determined that my visit to England should bring me face to face with the people; that I should converse with the artizan in his workshop, and lifting the lowly door-latches of the poor, should become intimately acquainted with their lifewith their manners, and it might be, with their hopes and sorrows.

Lifting the latch, he entered.

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

They used buttons and door knobs whittled out of wood, and door latches with strings.

The stocks had hinges on one side and latches on the other.

Where it was impossible to obtain lumber, the doors were made of pieces of timber split into rough boards; and in some cases the hinges and latches were made of wood.

We had to bolt doors,latches were nothing,and bar shutters.

At Vagney and other places near it in the Vosges it used to be customary on the same evening to grease the hinges and the latches of the doors, that no harsh grating sound should break the slumbers of the infant Christ.

" "Come," said Charles, with his hand on the latch.

The doors were opened by wooden latches with leather strings, and sagged so much on their wooden hinges, that they were usually left open to avoid the difficulty of shutting them.

The doors open by wooden latches, raised by means of small bits of packthreadI imagine, the same primitive order of fastening celebrated in the touching chronicle of Red Riding Hood; how they shut I will not pretend to describe, as the shutting of a door is a process of extremely rare occurrence throughout the whole Southern country.

518 examples of  latches  in sentences