hasp
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After an hour searching dusty corridors, I found a door with a smart padlock and the remains of a hasp lying on the floor beside it.
From Nature ● May 19, 2020
And then Matt hears the sound of the window hasp being turned and the sound of the window opening.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
After his testimony, Sokolove told me that he had initially thought he had mentioned the locked hasp in his 1986 statement.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2015
The garage door wasn’t locked; Gibson had the padlock on the door, but not through the hasp.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2014
But Aragon is a little lock-crazy: He has screwed a tiny hasp onto his plastic lunch box and hangs a combination lock there, because of the sodas he’s lost to pilfering officers, he says.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ministry of Bubbleblowing denied yesterday, with an oath, that the 15,000,000 missing hasps had been found in a field near Asminster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Poirot undid the hasps and lifted the lid.
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Judging from her personality, she appeared to have been reared on a diet of hardware: hasps and clasps and nails and old screws.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
Within, a tall wizened man, with dead fishy eyes, stalked nervously to and fro on a platform, beside which a hastily constructed coffin with a hasped cover stood on three sawhorses.
From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Samuel Hopkins Adams
The great padlock, however, on the former, with characteristic acuteness, was looked without being hasped, so that, in a few seconds, my old guide had undone all the fastenings, and we found ourselves under shelter.
From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever
He advanced to the iron door and lifted its hasped bar.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman
I hasped the window; I combed his long, black hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes--to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, lifelike exultation, before any one else beheld it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
As she did so, she made sure that her window was hasped wide.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.
From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Presently, hasping these things firmly in, she went to the door, and opened it a cautious crack.
From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris
These were her thoughts as she went about the house, hasping windows and bolting doors, with a dreary sense of the futility of caution.
From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
Bacon heard the rusty bolt shoot into its socket, and then the hasping and locking of the outside door, with a sensation of utter hopelessness.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
