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Sentences starting with lock

Lock the counting-house, you dog, and bring me the key. [12]
Lock the three up in a holeless, crackless, exitless prison-cell. [5]
Lock the doors! [10]
Lock it. [5]

Sentences ending with lock

Now, as Becky was passing by the desk, which stood near the door, she noticed that the key was in the lock! [5]
English auxiliaries were to garrison the fortifications of Alfen and defend the Gouda lock. [10]
What do you think was kept under that lock? [6]
Our prince has the grey lock. [10]
Another length, and the fated craft Would have swum in the saving lock! [5]
As it did so, there was a slight noise, then the click of a lock. [11]
With a little smothered gasp, she made a move forward as though to lock the door; then she remembered that it had no lock. [11]
M. Mennaval had played his part, had done his service, had called out from her every resource of coquetry and lure; and with wonderful art she had cajoled him till he had yielded to influence, and Ian had turned the key in the international lock. [11]
Presently, as the paroxysm lessened, he thought he heard the click of a lock. [11]
All the sons of your house from first to last, whether they be dark or fair, or brown, shall bear the grey lock. [10]

Short sentences using lock

You didn't lock It in. [5]
Quartermaster, lock the door. [5]

Sentences containing lock two or more times

The key was turned in the lock, and that lock had been the original device and design of Ian Stafford. [11]

More example sentences with the word lock in them

We have recognized you," he now seemed to hear the words she had uttered and to see before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling hood, and a stray lock of her hair... and there seemed to him something pathetic and touching in all this. [2]
If you will, you can lock the door, and fetch me out later, before you go to rest for the night. [10]
But I want you again this evening; so, if you feel weak, I shall lock you up. [10]
Here's Adam Hunt with both feet in the trough, and no more chance of the nomination than I have, and Bascom and Botcher teasing him on, and he's got enough votes with Crewe to lock up that convention for a dark horse. [9]
Everything depended on whether he was, or was not, in time to lock it. [2]
He rose and went to the door to bolt and lock it. [2]
Then Hume rose, went to a cupboard, took out some sealing wax and matches, and in a moment melted wax was dropping upon the lock of the box containing his Idea. [11]
He led the way silently around by the front; and after he had turned the lock he stepped aside with a bow to let me pass in ahead of him. [9]
You made your way past the guards to the senator's coach; you came across the lake, and through the darkness and the drunken rabble in the streets; if I were to lock you in, you would be brave enough to jump out of the window. [10]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
Male sperm-whales are very jealous at this season; and in their battles "they often lock their jaws together, and turn on their sides and twist about"; so that their lower jaws often become distorted. [1]
Let me lock up the letter, and then farewell. [10]
I will lock up the gold in the chest with my documents. [10]
There was an unusual lock of benignity upon his firmly moulded features, and an air of ease which rather surprised Mr. Bradshaw, who did not know all the social experiences which had formed a part of the old Master's history. [6]
Without vouchsafing the unfortunate man even a glance or a word, she entered the nursery before he reached her; but he, feeling that he must follow her at any cost, laid his hand on the lock of the door and tried to open it. [10]
She drew the trunk towards her, put the key in the lock, and opened it. [6]
He went, and tried to hurry, but his legs refused to move and he knew he would not be in time to lock the door though he painfully strained all his powers. [2]
Paula will not touch them; she is too high-souled to tell you who it is that you would indeed do well to lock up in the deepest dungeon-cell! [10]
They lock themselves together and chew each other's jaws for a while; then they roll and tumble on the ground till one loses a horn or a leg and has to haul off for repairs. [5]
Only permit me to lock up these papers. [10]
It is unsafe to let the lock rust; for, if once it has grown stiff, when we want to open it no pulling and wrenching will avail. [10]
It is well to know the trick of a lock and the hour that guard is changed. [11]
Now they dance to Bigot's whistling; he will lock her safe enough to-morrow, 'less some one steps in to help her. [11]
I haven't whispered to a soul--not a word--have had my countenance under lock and key, for fear it might drop something that would tell even these animals here how to discern the gold mine that's glaring under their noses. [5]
Upon each of these wharf-boats the association's officers placed a strong box fastened with a peculiar lock which was used in no other service but one--the United States mail service. [5]
To his mind there came on the instant the memory of a Rocky Mountain lioness that he had seen caged years before; lithe, watchful, nervously powerful, superior to its surroundings, yet mastered by those surroundings--the trick of a lock, not a trick of strength. [11]
The evening of the second day, another two thousand dollars was added to the treasure, and the lock was again sealed--with the utmost secrecy. [11]
The consul communicated the sad misfortune to the lovely Bianca, for that was the lady's name, who thereupon sent him a lock of her hair, with the request that he would come to see her on his return. [4]
The citizens returned, the portals of the gate closed, the old lock creaked, the iron-shod beams fell back into their places, the chains of the drawbridge rattled audibly, and the assembled throng now knew that the Englishmen had been refused admittance to the city. [10]
This is Askatoon, the place of peace and happiness, and we're going to be happy, if I have to lock up the hull lot of you. [11]
Although he turned the lock, the door would not open. [11]
We cannot violate the lock, nor steal the key from under her pillow. [9]
The bolts and the lock of the inner door were unfastened,--with unnecessary noise, I thought,--and he came into the passage. [6]
The lock on the left temple of the second son remained brown, and not a sign of grey could be discovered even with a magnifying glass. [10]
As he turned the key in the lock, he surveyed me with some astonishment which was not diminished when he looked from me to my companion. [12]
He looked to the fastenings, but they were solid, and he feared noise; he made one more attempt with the lock, and suddenly it turned. [11]
The lock gave, the door flew open, and Madelinette stepped swiftly into the room, in time to see George Fournel sway and fall, his sword rattling on the hard oak floor. [11]
So it was that, at last, Jo made no attempt to lock the door, but with a nod or a good-bye left him alone. [11]
And, oh, something that I presume is not in another pocket-book in North Carolina,--in an envelope, a lock of the hair of George Washington, the Father of his Country. [4]
I'm laying for that Encyclopedical Scotchman--and he'll need to lock the door behind him, when he comes in; otherwise when he hears my proposed tariff his skin will probably crawl away with him. [5]
He was outwardly surly--as rough as he was ever before the world, and without speaking a word to me, he had a soldier lock me in a cell. [11]
That evening at sundown thirty-three thousand dollars was deposited in the safe in the old stone wall of the tailorshop, and the lock was sealed with the parish seal. [11]
The sun was still slanting over the tops of the houses the next morning when Virginia, a ghostly figure, crept down the stairs and withdrew the lock and bolt on the front door. [9]
The lock was still on the doors, the walls were intact, there was no window for entrance or escape. [11]
His top was spinning hard, but already the force of the gyration was failing, and he must presently make his exit with what the Prime Minister called his Patent, or turn the key in the lock and enter upon his kingdom. [11]
Here, I'll lock some of you into the cabin, and you lay for 'em in the dark and kill 'em when they come; and the rest scatter around a piece, and listen if you can hear 'em coming. [5]
He stood for some moments helplessly regarding her before he gained the presence of mind to go to the door and lock it, returning to bend over her. [9]
The only safe shelter I can offer you is the prison down there; the room where they lock up the subaltern officers when they have committed any offence is quite unoccupied, and I will conduct you thither. [10]
He thought he saw in Gabrielle a woman who for a personal motive was trying to learn the trick of the lock in Noumea, France's farthest prison. [11]
No one ever saw her; but a gentle tinkling through the palace betrayed her presence, and when that ceased, the grey lock on the infant's temple was always found to have twisted itself into a curl. [10]
Rubbing away the rust, he used tallow from the candle, and tried the lock again; still it would not turn. [11]
Publius turned anxiously round, and his eye, seeking Klea, found her no more; then, hurrying to the door of the cave, he heard her lock it on the outside. [10]
This was the right way to work, for the lock was a peculiar one, and could not have been opened without spoiling it. [10]
A nail will pick a lock that defies hatchet and hammer. [6]
What should drop out of it, one day, but a small heart-shaped paper, containing a lock of that straight, coarse, brown hair which sets off the sharp faces of so many thin-flanked, large-handed bumpkins! [6]
So I slid out and slipped off up the road, and there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. [5]
After trying several of the keys in vain, the schoolmaster found one to fit the huge lock, which turned back, creaking, and admitted them into the house. [12]
That she had not deserted the ducal house altogether was shown by the fact that the lock on the temple of the first-born twined itself into a perfect curl. [10]
Neither by birth nor education were the travelers fishermen on Sunday, and they were not moved to tempt the authorities to lock them up for dropping here a line and there a line on the Lord's day. [4]
But he had no suspicion that the grey lock had grown on his head. [10]
By dint of much beseeching the government had been persuaded to allow the association to use this lock. [5]
When my poor mother had gone up the stairs on my grandfather's arm the strong soldier took me on his knee, and drawing his pistol from his holster bade me snap the lock, which I was barely able to do. [9]
There was affection mixed up in it--I realized afterward--but I longed to take her and shake her and lock her up until she should come to her senses: I couldn't. [9]
From Edwards to Mayhew, from Mayhew to Channing, from Channing to Emerson, the passage is like that which leads from the highest lock of a canal to the ocean level. [6]
A name to make villagers hide and lock their doors. [13]
When I entered, M. Gambetta was laying his last lock of hair upon the altar. [5]
How grieved your lovers would be--for their sakes I will take care before drowning the dog to lock in its mistress. [10]
But you?--I have long striven for courage to tell you so--you derive no benefit from suffering because you lock it up in your breast--as if a man were to enclose some precious seed in a silver trinket to carry about with him. [10]
Who wants a lock without a key, a ship without a rudder, a binnacle without a compass, a check without a signature, a greenback without a goldback behind it? [3]
Watermelon shows man, lock shows prisoner; and it ain't likely there's two prisoners on such a little plantation, and where the people's all so kind and good. [5]
It was a lock of her hair, her wonderful silken hair. [10]
Every finger, every lock of hair, must correspond with reality to the minutest detail, and yet the whole must be pervaded and penetrated, as the blood flows through the body, by the thought that filled his mind and soul. [10]
Now, I will lock it into this iron casket, Father, and as soon as the robber is caught you send for me: do you understand, Psamtik? [10]
It had a lock and key; yet it had never been locked in the years they had lived on the Sagalac. [11]
It was the letter-bag lock, a sacred governmental thing. [5]
She did not know whether the key would turn in the lock. [11]
But if I kill you, as I intend--" He smiled detestably, and motioned towards the couch, then turned to the door again as if to lock it. [11]
He heard the key turn in the lock. [11]
He put the key in the lock, then stopped. [11]
Who puts the key in the desk and fastens it tight with the spring lock? [6]
In drawing the key from her bag she dropped it: he picked it up and put it in the lock himself. [9]
Thou hast two jails, and one wherein I lock thee safe is warm and full of light. [11]
If she feared, it was easy to shoot the bolt and lock the door, to drop the bar across the little window, and be safe and secure. [11]
His key, if it could be made to turn in the lock, would open the door to possibilities of prodigious consequence. [11]
What pleasure will it afford you, if we lock up a few thoughtless lads for two days this sunny weather? [10]
The key turned in the lock. [4]
They wouldn't turn in the lock, either. [5]
The key turned in the lock, and State Senator Nathaniel Billings appeared in the doorway, with a look of polite inquiry on his convivial face. [9]
Its very turning in the lock awoke a hollow sound, and when she entered with a faltering step, the echoes that it raised in closing, made her start. [12]
On other occasions, in other crisis, she had waited and watched for him in the parlor window, and to-night she was at the door before his key was in the lock, while he was still stamping the snow from his boots. [9]
I'll lock you in here, an' when I get back have the saddle-bags full of meat an bread. [13]
On the whole, I judged it best to lock up my things. [5]
Back yonder, an hour's journey from here, we passed through an Arab village of stone dry-goods boxes (they look like that,) where Noah's tomb lies under lock and key. [5]
Stephen took from his pocket the clumsy key that General Carvel had given him, and turned it in the rusty lock. [9]
He now laid his hand upon the lock of the door--but it was flung open from the inside. [10]
Bring him in--bring him in, and lock the door. [9]
One look at her glass to make sure that a lock had not run astray, or a ribbon got out of place, and her toilet for a morning call was finished. [6]
He never saw her again, but the lock of hair was inclosed in a locket and worn about his neck, in memory of a radiant vision that had crossed his path and vanished. [4]
John felt that he would sacredly keep every lock of hair intrusted to him, though death should come on the wings of cholera and take away every one of these sad, red-ink correspondents. [4]
He would willingly have helped Klea to seek for his favorite, but the new lock for the tombs of the Apis had to be finished by mid-day, and his swollen feet were painful. [10]

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