The overflows from safesof the water-closets were practically untrapped.
In temperate climates, and in cold ones during their short summer, ice-houses and ice-safes afford a temperature sufficiently low for keeping meat fresh and sweet for an indefinite period.
In many cities and town safes containing the valuables have an electric alarm attached.
He demonstrated that by the aid of electricity he could, within a short time, reduce safes of the highest repute to old iron.
The most recent development in the burglar's advancement is the use of electricity to open safes in place of the old-time jimmy and the more recent dynamite.
However, these new one-piece safes have not discouraged the malefactors.
For years the walls and doors of safes and bank vaults have been filled with gypsum as a substance all but impervious to heat.
A resource long familiar to the builder of safes and strong-boxes is thus taken into household service with much profit.
Then he unlocked one of the safes and drew out from an inner drawer a parchment book bound in brown vellum.
Three great safes were ranged along one side of the wall, piles of newspapers and maps were strewn all over a long table, and a huge Ordnance map of the French and Belgian Frontiers stood upon an easel.
All original documents are now located in safes in the Document Room, where they will be secured until they are presented by the Prosecution to the court during the progress of this Trial.
Upon return from photostating, it was placed in an envelope in one of the several fireproofsafes in the rear of the Document Room.
But I strictly enjoin you entirely to demolish the more ancient part, which was chiefly occupied by myself, and to destroy by fire, without perusal, all the books and manuscripts found in the safes in my study.
Of course, the diamonds had vanished, whilst in the safesor on the tables we found the keys which had evidently been taken from his Excellency's pockets.
He unlocked one of the iron safes as he spoke, and brought out a lot of little paper packets, which were folded in a peculiar fashion, and which he opened with very gingerly fingers.
The homes may have been robbed, but the safes won't have been touched.
Safes that have been locked, for another," Malone went on.
Some seem to have manholes and some have safes or spiritual banks, and there are others who have convenient, dim, beautiful clouds in the sky to hide their feelings in.
My safes are your safesand my books are your books.
Evans, an expert insafes and vaults and the representative of one of the largest safe-manufactories in the country.
He met a number of safe-men, it being a business custom with safe-men to flock to the scene of an important bank robbery in order to supply new safes for the ones that have been wrecked.
After a brief delay the pouch was delivered to express messenger Van Waganen, who saw it placed in one of the small iron safes used by express companies in conveying money from city to city.
As a first step, all the seams of the safes formed by the doors were carefully puttied up, save two small holes, one at the top and one at the bottom.
Oh," said Ryan, "there are plenty of people who would put up well to know some of the things you know about safes and banks.
The Pinkertons knew that for years a band of professional thieves had been traveling through the country, operating on safes that could be opened with a key.
They found three Marvin spherical safes protected by a burglar-alarm.
I am having specialsafes made for them downstairs," said Miss Cheyne.
He saw the soldier throw a quick glance at one of those old safes which disguised themselves as necessary articles of furniture.
It was his experience that rich men knew little of the vulnerability of the safes to which they entrusted their valuables.
With improvements in safesthere has come a corresponding improvement in cracksmen's methods.
The burglar-proof safes have to be watched to keep burglars away from them.
I believe some very interesting people rent safes here.
Unpickable locks and invincible lock-pickers, burglar-proof safes and safe-specializing burglars, come equally from the States.
Spreading over those months he appeared at 'The Safe' in twelve different characters and rented twelve safes of different sizes.
The ground floor was occupied by the ordinary offices of the company; all the strong-rooms and safeslay in the steel-cased basement.
Two others he had ignored for some reason; the remaining two safes had not been allotted.
There is another kind of stock, which some companies keep in their safesto meet an emergency.
A bank, if not near one then a safe, is the best place for money, though safes have been broken into and robbed.
He knew they were blowing open the safes and did what he could to free himself.
He remembered the big but old-fashioned safes that had adorned the old office.
Some robbers have blown open your safes and they attacked the man, but he got away long enough to telephone.
Of course, I'll keep them in the old safes when they are not in the workshop.
Availing myself of this custom of the Bank of England, I put all the money into post notes, and locked them up in one of the safes from which the bonds had been taken.
The clerks were sent over in different vessels, and the keys were so distributed among them, that there were not keys in any one vessel by which any one of the safes could be opened.
The special detail of workmen who have been at work looking up safes in the ruins and seeing that they were taken care of, reports that none of the safes have been broken open or otherwise interfered with.
He found in one of the safes the certificate of the girl's birth, and also the marriage certificate of Aaron Norman in the name of Lemuel Krill.
Deborah, and Bart, who had witnessed it at the request of their master, told Mr. Pash of its existence, and he found it in one of the three safes in the cellar.
There is another cellar--a smaller one--off the large place he has the safes in.
I knew about it--got it from a peterman who has studied safes and all that sort of thing.
The four waited patiently for their opportunity, which came when the safes were sent to Chubbs' to be repaired; and Chubbs sent them back, but only with one key, in such a way that Tester had possession of this key for a time.
The two remaining safes were attacked and nearly entirely despoiled in the same way as the first, and the contents transferred to the courier bags.
The safes while on the line en route between London and Folkestone were in the guard's van.
The gold, packed in an iron-bound box, was securely lodged in safes locked with patent Chubbs.
But the safes had a double lock; the difficulty was to get a copy of the second key.
Here the safes were carefully taken out and handed to the authorities for shipment to Boulogne, and the train sped on its way to Dover.
Brooks and Heckett are alone with the massive safes of bullion, and everything now depends upon the use they make of the opportunity.
There are always people about at the office, and the safes are always well watched at the stations.
Why the safes are carried in the guard's van, and they're locked with patent keys, and they're weighed at start and finish.
The boxes had been reclosed and filled with shot of the exact weight of the abstracted gold, the safes were relocked, and there was nothing to tell that the guard's van had been the scene of a daring and gigantic robbery.
The loss was not discovered until the safes were opened in Paris, so that in the lawsuits which followed there really was no proof to offer as to where the responsibility really lay.
None but a professional could do the job with the safes and the boxes clean enough.
He also took away an impression in wax of the two keys that unlocked the safes which travelled up and down the line with thousands of pounds worth of gold in them.
Twice on the journey the safes would be weighed--at Folkestone and at Boulogne--so that the slightest difference in the weight of the precious packages would be detected.
For a few hours these valuable jewels would be protected only by ordinary safes in residences, and during those few hours the members of the Black Star's band would strike.
A crook works at night if he's breaking safes and vaults," Riley said.
He employed no workmen, lived alone over his shop on one of the lower streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues near Washington Square--and possessed a splendid contempt for such protective contrivances as safes and vaults.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "safes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
