Locking

Examples

• These she put on, out on the staircase, first shutting and locking the door and taking away the key. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• When the hour came for locking up, he supposed all strangers to be excluded for the night. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The different parts of these are called the tube, jacket, hoops, locking rings, trunnion rings, wire winding, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I had just taken the paper; and was locking the cupboard, when the young man seized me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These she put down upon the table without a word, glaring at me the while with exemplary firmness, and then retired, locking the door after her. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I exclaimed, locking her in my room and taking out the key, since you have forced your company on me you shall repent it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Moore was locking up his desk and putting away his St. Pierre. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sikes, locking her hand in his, fell back upon the pillow: turning his eyes upon her face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He put the phial out of sight, and carried the brandy-bottle down-stairs with him, locking it again in the wine-cooler. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Master Bates rolling up the new clothes under his arm, departed from the room, leaving Oliver in the dark, and locking the door behind him. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Again locking his arm in mine, we had proceeded into the audience chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• This sleeve is then withdrawn, the breech block forced in, and is there locked by a turn of the threads of a locking screw _b_ into the corresponding recesses _a_ in the breech. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• His wide mouth spread into an answering smile, and locking one of his intermediary arms in mine we turned and walked back toward his mount. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• He only succeeded in locking it up again by a violent effort. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

Edited by Fergus