Latches for gates and doors can be made entirely of wood, as represented in the illustration A, in which Fig.
Most of the house-robberies so common in all large towns are effected through the common street-door latches in ordinary use being opened by false keys.
I noticed that the latches on the two doors that the mob broke in, when they killed the Prophets, had been rendered useless by bending down the catches, so that the latches would clear them.
Wooden latches were used on both outside and inside doors in early days and the wooden latch persisted in the back country until comparatively recent times.
The window sashes, with their small well-shaped panes, give to the room an appropriate scale, and the old iron and brass hinges and latches lend an effective tone.
The old hardware is used on doors and windows, the thumb latches are finished in the natural black, and the H and L hinges painted white to correspond with the woodwork.
ADDEN HOUSE Many of the old houses still contain some fine specimens of old hardware that were used when they were built, more especially the H and L hinges and the old latches which have not been removed.
Every elephant that we ever have had has become, through his own initiative and experimenting, an expert in unfastening the latches of doors and gates, and in untying chains and ropes.
And really, Kartoum's ingenuity in finding out how to open latches and bolts is almost inexhaustible, as well as marvelous.
Each of these bunks had two doors, with brass latches on the inner side; so that the owner, if he chose, could shut himself up and go to sleep in a sort of cupboard.
He examined all the rest of the windows on the first floor, and found them all latched and their latches undisturbed.
He's probably detailed to look after all the latches he put on doors!
Latches do latch themselves sometimes, and that's what this one has done now!
And so the doors all stick, and the latches won’t latch, and the shades are sulky or wild, and the pantry shelves—have you noticed?
These things—tinkering oflatches and chairs, pump-mending, rescue work in the orchard and among the poultry—filled our evenings fairly full.
And so the evenings came and went, each offering a prospect of fair and quiet things—books and firelight and moonlight and talk; many in retrospect full of things quite different—drains and latches and fledglings and cows and pigs.
The way to stop them is to have two latches instead of one.
A human being has two hands, and lifts up both latches at once; a donkey has only one nose, and latch a drops, as he quits it to lift up latch b.
The iron work of their gates and railings, even of their hinges and latches and locks, has been admired and imitated by many generations since.
Door-latches were made of wood, also oblong buttons to fasten chamber and cupboard doors.
The doors had latches with strings hanging outside; by pulling in the string within-doors the house was securely locked.
Many colonial doors had door-latches or knobs of heavy brass; nearly all had a knocker of wrought iron or polished brass, a cheerful ornament that ever seems to resound a welcome to the visitor as well as a notification to the visited.
Foot Latch One of the simplest of the foot latches consists of a piece of wood cut out by the aid of axe and hunting-knife to the form shown by Fig.
Even if the latches had not been locked, there wouldn't be an answer in these windows--unless Clayte could fly.
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