1 This is the key that lock the tomb.
2 It was not wide open, but the catch of the lock had not caught.
3 I looked for the key, but it was not in the lock, and I could not find it anywhere.
4 I could see that the bolt of the lock had not been shot, but the door is fastened from the inside.
5 The friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton lock the gate we shall remain.
6 I shall lock the door and secure the key the same as before, though I do not expect any trouble to-night.
7 My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.
8 Her mother has spoken to me about it, and we have decided that I am to lock the door of our room every night.
9 The people of the house are careful to lock the door every night, so I feared that Lucy must have gone out as she was.
10 The Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open it from within should we be in a hurry making our exit.
11 With strained ears, I listened, and heard downstairs the grinding of the key in the great lock and the falling back of the heavy door.
12 My companion followed me quickly, and cautiously drew the door to, after carefully ascertaining that the lock was a falling, and not a spring, one.
13 The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key in the lock; I can hear the key withdraw: then another door opens and shuts; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt.
14 I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window at back and got in.
15 Rushing over to the great iron-bound oaken door, which Dr. Seward had described from the outside, and which I had seen myself, he turned the key in the lock, drew the huge bolts, and swung the door open.
16 The funeral held at noon was all completed, and the last stragglers of the mourners had taken themselves lazily away, when, looking carefully from behind a clump of alder-trees, we saw the sexton lock the gate after him.
17 No, no, my friend Jonathan, you go take the lock off a hundred empty house in this your London, or of any city in the world; and if you do it as such things are rightly done, and at the time such things are rightly done, no one will interfere.
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