"Hasp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... life. She scorns his exhortations, and attempts to browbeat him; but she finds him ready for a row upon the spot. He offers to fight her crowd of bullies singlehanded, and when she locks the door upon him, twists the lock off, hasp and all, with a turn of his wrist. Although they part,—he none the worse, she none the better, for the interview,—it is not without fruits; for he leaves her his address, and when, after being reduced to the lowest depths of degradation and brought to the last endurable ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various
... ladies climbed the hill on Mr. Pope's arm, and when they were almost abreast of the barrack door, who should appear at the garden gate, on the opposite side of the road, but Mrs. Treacher herself? Catching sight of the visitors she halted in startled fashion, with her hand on the hasp of the gate. ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... ponderous tome; With a fast and fervent grasp He strain'd the dusky covers close, And fixed the brazen hasp; "O God, could I so close my mind, And clasp it ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12, - Issue 340, Supplementary Number (1828) • Various
... opened the window first; and as he did so, I saw that his hand shook upon the hasp, and that his face was ...
— Monsieur Maurice • Amelia B. Edwards
... gave only casual interest, her attention still on the view beyond. The steel latch, fastened to the upper sash, locked into the socket on the lower sash by a lever-catch. "See? I must pull out this little lever before I can push the hasp back with my thumb—so. Now the window may be shoved ...
— The Million-Dollar Suitcase • Alice MacGowan |
