First one and then the other padlock fell with a clank on to the bricks, the iron hasps were raised, and, with a "Here goes!
While her electric spotlight played upon this padlock she bent over and examined it swiftly but with care.
The man spent a couple of hours here, resealing the envelopes neatly and restoring them to the mail bag, after which, he attached the padlock and replaced the bag in exactly its former position.
Glad I was to have that gate between me and them and the strong padlock on it.
He guessed I'd be frightened, so he brought the padlock and put it on himself.
So when these two found themselves once more in their old haunt, it was as though a ceremonial padlock had been removed from their tongues.
And this speech seems to have the singular effect of removing a padlock from Adeline Fossett's tongue.
Frosty got down to swing it open, and his fingers touched a padlock doing business with bulldog pertinacity.
There's a lot uh fixing to be done on that gate--and I don't reckon I ever will find the padlock again.
He takes these off, opens the boy's mouth, apparently passes the bolt of a kind of padlock through his cheek, and locks it.
FN#10] In Ibn Jubayr’s time this large padlock was of gold.
He stood up, serene and bland, fully appreciating the advantage of having the key of the gate's padlock in his pocket and the ginger-jar in his hand.
Bill bungled a little, but the padlock was soon removed, and we all hurried through the gate and up to the piazza, where Jim still stood, the ginger-jar held reverently in his hands.
A chain of iron, about a hundred feet in length, was passed through the hasp of each padlock, except at the two ends, where the hasps of the padlock passed through a link of the chain.
Upon a closer examination of this frightful figure, I perceived that it wore a collar of iron about its neck, with a large padlock pendant from behind, and carried in its hand a long staff, with an iron spear in one end.
A strong iron collar was closely fitted by means of a padlock round each of our necks.
What was his astonishment at finding an enormouspadlock and a heavy chain upon the door!
Next morning David gave his friend such directions regarding the cache as had been given to himself, and surrendered the key of the padlock on the cabin door.
Penny glanced toward the storm cave, remembering that she had the key to the padlockin her pocket.
She jerked at the padlock several times, and then accepting the situation, turned toward the house.
The padlockalways is locked, and he keeps the key in his pocket.
From the debris in the end of a hollow log she took a key that unlocked the padlock of a large weatherbeaten old box, inside of which lay several books, a butterfly apparatus, and a small cracked mirror.
He took a duplicate key from his pocket, felt for thepadlock and opened it.
Honoria unfastened the second padlock with a return of her former decision.
He knew the door very well and it would be half an hour's work to break it down, also he knew the padlock having bought it himself.
After Murphy had snapped the padlock shut they crawled up to the alley again and he led them to a space between two buildings less than four feet in width, into which they crowded themselves.
Murphy removed the padlock from the basement door and opened it with precautionary slowness to minimize the rasping of the rusty hinges.
Murphy snapped the padlock on the door and they crept back to their hiding place between the two buildings.
Murphy unlocked the padlock and the door creaked inward on rusty hinges.
He happened on the padlock instead, and he laughed a little.
Herman had put a padlock on the outside of her bedroom door, and her hope of finding a second key to fit the door-lock died then.
He lifted the box from the safe to the table, and narrowly scrutinised its exterior, especially about the hasp, where the padlock had been.
He was provided with a spare patent padlock and key, of the sort you used on that black box, and his confederate had drilled him in the trick of breaking that particular sort of padlock open, with other spare specimens.
I've a broken lever padlock here, and of all things in the world I wanted to find the one key that fitted it; and you calmly walk in and clap down the very thing under my nose!
The padlock has been broken open, I see," Hewitt observed.
That's curious," he said, and straightway began fitting the key to the broken padlock on the desk.
Hewitt's client produced a screw-driver from a drawer, and in a very few moments the interior of the littlepadlock lay uncovered.
The stocks consist of two long and very heavy blocks of wood, hinged together at one end and opening at the other, with a padlock to close upon a staple.
He and men who had witnessed his imprisonment assured me that to make the top beam close down so that the padlock could be inserted in the staple two men had to sit upon it and force it down upon his legs.
He had a heavy padlock put on the cupboard, but otherwise he was a model lodger, giving no trouble, and requiring practically no attendance.
Here," said Mercer triumphantly, as he led the way to where an old corn-bin stood beneath one of the windows, the lid securely held down by a padlock whose key my companion brought out of his pocket.
I closed the lid of the bin and thrust the top of the padlock through the staple and locked it; withdrew the key, and had raised my hand mechanically to put it in its old hiding-place on the beam, but I altered my mind.
Mercer banged down the lid of the corn-bin, and was struggling hard to get the hasp over the staple and the padlock on, when Burr major seized him and dragged him away.
I laughed to myself as I took the padlock out and threw open the bin, with the intention of having what I called a game.
He threw the padlock to me, but the key dropped out, and one of the boys pounced upon it, while Dicksee threw his arms round me and held me tight.
They might break the padlock on the hatch, but the door lock is a pretty stiff one to get at.
Not a bit of it," answered Nelson, lifting the padlock out of the staple.
He knocked the mud off his boots loudly on the doorsill before proceeding to attach the padlock to the outer door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "padlock" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
