I almost think I fainted, if one can faint standing, for when I knew anything, after the appalling latching of that door, I was in quite another part of the room and the candle which I still held, looked to my dazed eyes shorter than when I started with it from the place where my sister lay.

Angy could not lift her eyes to him; with bowed head she was latching and unlatching the gate through which he must pass.

We stepped out; three of the females, with the baby, stepped in; the remainder went into the next pew; and after condensing our nerve power, we settled down in the corner from which we had been disturbed, quietly lifting one hand over the door and latching it firmly at the same moment, our idea being than an environment of five females, with a baby thrown into the bargain, was quite enough for the remainder of the morning.

Victor followed her closely, softly latching the door behind him.

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.

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.

At last, more puzzled than ever, the pair, having extinguished the candles, emerged again into the light of day, closing and latching the little door after them.

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.

Lifting the latch, he entered.

No stores beneath its humble thatch Required a master's care; The wicket, opening with a latch, Received the harmless pair.

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

That latch doesn't catch: I must go down and bolt it.

She went to her room and locked her door by sticking a pen-knife over the latch, and sat down to have a good cry.

In spite of this precaution, however, the flame was extinguished, for as I drew back the bolt and lifted the latch the blast threw the door violently back on its hinges, and rushed into the hall as though exulting in having finally made an entrance.

As the crude latch was lifted, with a very slight creaking sound, a movement was heard inside, and then a heavy body was heard striking the ground at the rear.

In the darkness he looked for, found, and lifted, the heavy latch.

Then the man who was looking out of the window turned and came back into the room, latching the shutters and putting the curtains into place.

The door-latch clicked promptly in answer to her ring, and at the top of the third flight she met Sally.

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

" "It does not lock; the latch is broken.