"Latchkey" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was light when, at six o'clock, he put his latchkey into the keyhole and entered; he gave the long, low coo-ee which recalled old glad days, and Marie emerged from the kitchen, finger ...
— Married Life - The True Romance • May Edginton
... spare the time," he said, "but I must get home by twelve; I have unfortunately come out without my latchkey, and I do not like keeping ...
— The Blotting Book • E. F. Benson
... there ain't anybody in sight to register my fond farewells with, I gathers up my suitcase and laundry bag, chucks the latchkey on the stand in the front hall, and beats it. Not until I'm three blocks away does I remember that all the cash I've got in my clothes is three quarters and a dime, which comes of my listenin' to Mallory's advice about soakin' my roll away in a ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... father's object to appear in fear of them, because he was only awaiting an opportunity to lay plans for poor Elma's rescue from Finland. Therefore one evening Woodroffe called, and my father encountered him in the avenue, and admitted him with his own latchkey by one of the side doors of the castle, afterwards taking him up to the study. He knew that he had come to try and make terms for Oberg, therefore he saw that he must fly at once to Newcastle, where the Iris was lying, get ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... entered an automatic lift, which carried him to the third floor. Here, the landing and the corridor were illuminated by one small electric lamp sufficient to light him to the heavy walnut doors which led to the office of the Spillsbury Syndicate. He opened the door with a latchkey and found himself in a big lobby, carpeted ...
— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace
... ten thirty when Jimmy reached the plant. He entered the front door with his own latchkey, pressed the button which lighted the stairway and the landing above, and, ascending, went straight to Mr. Compton's office, turned the knob, and opened the door, to find that the interior ...
— The Efficiency Expert • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... He had his latchkey, so he went in without making any noise, delighted at the idea of the surprise he was going to give her. She had locked herself in. How tiresome! However, he ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... had a theory that the possession of a latchkey by their mistress makes servants slow to ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
... and continuous fight upon the administration at Richmond kept him vividly before the public. Though the genial doctor deplored the aggressiveness of the Examiner, he could not resist the temptation to employ his trenchant pen in treating of public affairs. This led to his possession of the famous latchkey which "fitted the door of the house on Broad Street, opposite the African Church," a key of which he wrote that it "has its charm," and certainly one which he made more enchanting to his readers than any other such article ...
— Literary Hearthstones of Dixie • La Salle Corbell Pickett
... down a steep side-street off the Strand, and turned on to their terrace. He let her in with his latchkey and followed her up-stairs. ...
— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair |
