"Latchkey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... one window, behind the yellow blind of which a light shone. She drew out her latchkey and at first fumbled at the opening with a shaking hand. Then she recalled her courage, found the latch at once, slipped in the key and pushed ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... was only a few hundred yards from where they had met, and they had now reached a postern which led into the grounds. Angelica opened it with a latchkey and then stood to let her ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... not been to see his family for some time and he had made up his mind to start out directly after luncheon and go to Freeman's Falls, where he would, perhaps, remain overnight. Therefore he came swinging through the trees, latchkey in hand, and hurriedly rounding the corner of the shack, he almost jostled into the river Mr. Lawrence Fernald who was loitering on the platform before ...
— Ted and the Telephone • Sara Ware Bassett
... the latchkey out of the door and entered his small flat in Kensington just as the clock in the tiny hall chimed the hour ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... for the clock struck twelve before Dr. Alec came, and Rose was preparing to end her reverie when the sound of someone fumbling at the hall door made her jump up, saying to herself: "Poor man! His hands are so cold he can't get his latchkey in. Is that you, Uncle?" she added, running to admit him, for Jane was slow and the night as bitter as ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... What is the time? It is only half-past ten. I am quite certain that Miss Keys is not in bed yet. Come, Flo, put on your hat; your mother won't mind. We will take the latchkey and let ourselves in. We will go to the ...
— The Time of Roses • L. T. Meade
... o'clock when he dismissed the motor and entered the dingy little house with the latchkey provided by Pender. He found the hall gas turned low, and a fire in the study. Books and food had also been placed ready by the servant according to instructions. Coils of fog rushed in after him through the opened ...
— Lords of the Housetops - Thirteen Cat Tales • Various
... that he fully merited the name of the Heavenly Worldling bestowed on him by an admiring duchess, and withal his texture was shot with a pattern of such genuine saintliness that one felt that whoever else might hold the keys of Paradise he, at least, possessed a private latchkey to that abode. ...
— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki
... was eight minutes past ten when he reached it, standing as black and lightless as when he left it four hours ago, and, after paying off the chauffeur and dismissing the vehicle, he fumbled nervously for his latchkey, found it, unlocked the ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew |
