Word: latch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FOUND.- A brass latch key. No. 53 at Leavitt and Pierce...
...reading-room without contributing their share towards its support. The room is at present left unlocked and it would be a pity if the directors should be compelled, by such action on the part of a few men, to return to the old, unpleasant system of locks and latch-keys. The fault is probably the result of oversight and we have no doubt that a word will be sufficient to correct...
...single act is no basis for determining character," her judgment replied; "it may be quite in keeping with the actor's character; it may be merely a whim." She had been very rash, she knew; and she was growing more and more repentant every moment as she lifted the latch of her father's door...
...fatal moment was approaching, he devoted the remaining portion of his time to distributing among his friends those little articles which he would no longer want. To one he gave his cigar-case, to another his pipes and tobacco-pouch, and he charged his brother with his latch-key, with instructions to deliver it, after all was over, to his landlady...
...week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made him England's laureate; that he did not like to shave himself; that, however late he might stay out at night, he was always able to use the latch-key; that he wrote Maud; and that he was very fond of baked beans. I thanked Mrs. T. for this valuable information, which I immediately jotted down in my notebook...