If the hour suited, this followed at once, otherwise it was postponed to the next day, padlocks being meanwhile placed on everything, and one or two guards being stationed.
The hands of Hassan Pasha trembled unusually when that evening he locked the golden padlocks on the hands of Azrael and Mariska.
But the padlocks were of the very kind with which The Lifter was most familiar; and ere a minute elapsed the heavy bolts were let down.
It was secured, the clergyman observed, by three padlocks besides an ordinary lock.
For security these were attached by a couple of padlocks to a strong double staple, which had been driven right through the solid floor of the landing-stage.
The padlocks were new, and the whole appeared impregnable to the simple minds of the children, and even to Mike and Peter Greg.
I rose and followed her as she left the palace and she threaded the streets until she came to the city gate, where she spoke words I understood not, and the padlocksdropped of themselves as if broken and the gate-leaves opened.
Duplicate keys have been made of all the padlocks of the fetters; the guards who are with us have each one of them, the others will have been slipped into the hands of one man in each gang as they returned tonight from work.
C, of locks and padlocks fastening with a spring catch.
The word "Padlock" therefore means "Road lock," and it is significant in relation to the way in which padlocks of like form may have become distributed over wide areas in early times.
The use of padlocks in the forms of animals in Egypt, Persia, and China, must also very probably belong to the same period.
Two padlocks precisely similar to this are in my collection from Mogadore, on the West Coast of Africa, having on them the peculiar Moorish ornamentation in brass which is characteristic of that country.
An endeavour was made to introduce these Bernasco padlocks into France during the reign of Henry II.
Iron padlocks of the cheapest class are now being made in this district (Willenhall) and delivered free in Bombay and Calcutta, at fivepence halfpenny per dozen!
But before that he bullyragged me because I had found out that there were other keys knocking about the place that fitted the padlocks on the bullion-room door.
Back, down a corridor, up more stairs; and we were confronted by a small scarred pair of doors from which hung two of the largest padlocks I had ever seen.
Padlocks were unlocked, chains rattled, and the door thrown open.
Slimak daily thought of putting bolts and padlocks on the farm-buildings, or at least long poles in front of the stable door.
Slimak's meditations now turned from bolts and padlocks to prisons.
But whenever he reached for the hatchet, it always lay too far off, or his arm was too short; anyhow he left it, and the thought of buying padlocks when times were hard, made him feel quite faint.
Purchases of padlocks are recorded, but there is no archeological evidence for them.
This mark of respect for the Peace movement is commendable in the French; and were I not such a strenuous friend of free speech, this act would cause me to overlook the padlocks that the government put upon our lips in the Congress.
They put padlocks upon their own mouths, and handed the keys to the government.
Petition against the introduction of padlocks or girdles of chastity, Montpellier, 1750.
Both hinges are treated in this manner and the cover pushed up, allowing the performer to get out and unlock the padlocks with a duplicate key.
A few minutes later, amidst the noise of iron bars and padlocks being removed, my cell door opens, and then a woman appears, and behind her I notice several men wearing blue uniforms braided with silver.
But the clang of iron bars and padlocks being replaced on the door, all this noise of iron, which so painfully affected me an hour ago, I now listen to with a sigh of relief.
All the shops--if a hatter or two be excepted--are barricaded with heavy wooden shutters and massivepadlocks of local or Russian make.
The shops and store rooms were neat and had wood-work in front, with gigantic padlocks of a primitive make.
Padlocks as large as horse-shoes, corroded by rust and rendered absolutely impracticable by age, confronted us.
Ach, I forgot to say that there are padlocks on the other side of the door, just as on this side.
We'll get a lot of new padlocks for the doors downstairs and you'll be as safe as can be, if you'll only keep quiet.
It was the third, the last of the three padlocks which had fastened the sarcophagus.
I must have been wrong,' he writes, 'in saying that one of the padlocks of my Counts sarcophagus was unfastened; I see tonight that two are loose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "padlocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
