770 examples of unlocked in sentences

Grundy hung about at the top of the stairs, and as soon as he saw Browse come back and make for Allingford's study, he let us know the coast was clear, so we unlocked the door and skedaddled.

What is it?" "Just a suicide, I think," and I unlocked the door into the room where the dead man lay.

I could not think it right to refuse to comply, and I unlocked the door.

The inspector entered the hall and unlocked the drawing-room door.

"He says that he found this window unlocked, when he approached it with the idea of escaping that way.

This latter fact might have been regarded as proving an alibi, owing to the length of road between the Cumberland house and the place just mentioned, if there had not been a short cut to town open to him by means of a door in the wall separating the Cumberland and Fulton groundsa door which was found unlocked, and with the key in it, by Zadok Brown, the coachman, when he came home about three next morning.

" "Was it unlocked?

One of them unlocked the club-house.

"Then, of course, you left the door unlocked when you went out of the building?" "Nono, I didn't.

The lawyer calmly unlocked the tin box and drew out the sealed yellow envelope which Miss Merrick had recently given him.

"It's no palace," said Patsy, entering to throw down the bundles as soon as the Major unlocked the door, "but there's a cricket in the hearth, and it's your home, Uncle John, as well as ours.

Then she remembered a day when, on exploration bent, a group of girls had made the trip to the roof and the kindly Dave McGuire had taken a key from his pocket and unlocked the door of the little room for the more adventurous ones who wanted to climb up and see the inside.

"The girls must have had the door unlocked for me to-night, but I don't think they would follow me and lock it.

Lanyard smiled cheerfully and sat up in his chair, watching the captain while he unlocked the door in the pedestal and with shaking fingers manipulated the combination dial.

Mr. Tebrick unlocked the door and they went in.

Their silence assured him of their sympathy, and, as if that touch of friendliness unlocked his heavy heart, he eased it by a full confession.

It would seem that he had some secret means of satisfying the vigilance of the different keepers, for bolts were drawn, and doors unlocked, with little question, wherever he presented himself.

You may conceive of the wonder and amazement of our hero's dear step-father when aroused by Barnaby's continued knocking at the street door, and clad in a dressing-gown and carrying a lighted candle in his hand, he unlocked and unbarred the door, and so saw who it was had aroused him at such an hour of the night, and beheld the young and beautiful lady whom Barnaby had brought home with him.

As Miss Lavinia unlocked the door and the candle illuminated the interior of the apartment, the constable observed grimly: "I reckon this will keep him safe and sound.

Without answering, I went to the door and unlocked it.

The maid's unlocked it.

When I had unlocked the door of my boudoir and found Ivor Dundas gone, as I had hoped he would be, the next hope born in my heart was that he might by and by come back, or sendwith news.

Four men out of five in the reformatory at Jeffersonville need no coercion, they would not run away if the walls were razed and the doors left unlocked.

He unlocked an old carved cabinet and brought out a roll of parchments, spreading them upon the table and explaining: "I could not leave them while I went to call thee, for it is an order from the Senatethou see'st the sealand a copy of the letter of the Ambassador of the Republic to the Levant, with this folded thereintruly a curious scheme of color, but very rich, and the lines are somewhat uneven.

I found your study door unlocked, And thought you answered when I knocked.

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