Ordinarily officers of the U.S. Navy do not scuttle on deck like a crowd of curious schoolgirls, but all hands had been keyed to a high pitch over the elusive light, and the bet with Edwards now served as an excuse for the betrayal of unusual eagerness.

Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person.

At the end of that time, after repeatedly tripping-up its exasperated organist over wrong keys in the last bar, the accordeon finally relinquishes the concluding note with a dismal whine of despair, and retires in complete collapse to its customary place of waiting.

" What is the proper key for LOCKE'S music, is a question which we have never attempted to solve, but we heartily wish that the key were lost forever, since by its aid the singers open vistas of musical dreariness which are disheartening to the last degree.

And the old are in the sun, Seeing that the work is done As it was when age was young; And the harvest song is sung; And the quaint and jocund tale Takes the stint-key from the ale, And as free and fast it runs As a June rill from the sun's Dry and ever-drinking mouth: Mirth doth alway feel a drowth.

And when he had reached home, late in the evening, the colonel, not having taken his bunch of keys with him, laid down his dress-suit case on the dark porch, and reached out one hand to the door-bell.

I then returned and shut the wardrobe door, and slipped the key into my pocket.

There were no letters, no papers, no written documents of any kind in the pockets, the remainder of whose contents consisted of such odds and ends as any man might carry about with hima cheap watch, a pen-knife, a half-empty packet of French tobacco, a sheaf of cigarette paper, four or five keys on a ring, a silk handkerchief, and perhaps some other articles which I have forgottenbut not a thing to assist in establishing his identity.

It was always locked; the lock was intricate; he had never so much as seen the key at close quarters and, even had opportunity offered, was quite unpractised in the art of taking impressions of locksa thing not done with accuracy quite so easily as seems sometimes to be assumed.

Put the keys under the seat.

[Connor goes, and O'Malley, locking the door, throws the key out of the window.]

At least, I have turned over for you a few grand and strange pages in the book of nature, and taught you, I hope, a key by which to decipher their hieroglyphics.

The cipher note evidently had direct connection with the attack on Browse, but the translation of the letter was in itself like finding a key without knowing the whereabouts of the lock which it fitted.

Fortune may kill him but not deject him, nor make him fall into an humbler key than before, but he is now loftier than ever in his own defence; you shall hear him talk still after thousands, and he becomes it better than those that have it.

Throwing the gate to with great violence, he turned the huge key before pulling it rapidly out.

I have noticed sometimes that his honking is more steady and in a deeper tone, and that it is answered in a higher key along the line.

The key? (Mrs. James delivers up the key as one glad to be rid of it.)

And I'll get a Parson ready in my Lodging, to which I have a Key through the Garden, by which we may pass unseen. Bea.

Have you got the key about you?" He fumbled in his pocket, and presently produced a bunch of keys.

"What would be the use of a locked trunk if you kept the key around where everybody could see it?"

"Those keys among which you are looking are the keys of cupboards and not of doors.

Acton folded Diggory to his breast in a loving embrace, Shaw and Morris stuffed the door-key down Mugford's back, while the remainder of the company executed a war-dance round Jack Vance.

When learning to typewrite see that you always hit the right key during the early trials.

Coming out, I closed the door again, and carefully turned the key behind me.

Then how did the determined pursuer contrive to leave him and the key inside the locked room?