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...ed in the dim light and a closer look showed it to be a small key. I found a keyhole on the side of the desk, but the key didn’t fit it. I then tur... ...t. I then turned to see that each of the four drawers in the cabinet also had keyholes. I tried it on the top drawer, and it turned. One pull and t...

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...at, forgetful of her prey, sat winking at the rays of sun starting through keyhole and cranny in the door, and longed for her stealthy run and warm sl... ...s,’ said the child from within. ‘It’s me—Short’—a voice called through the keyhole. ‘I only wanted to say that we must be off early to morrow morning... ... anything but the curtain of the bed,’ said Brass, applying his eye to the keyhole of the door. ‘Is he a strong man, Mr Richard?’ Very,’ answered Dick... ...re! Hallo, hallo!’ While Mr Brass, with his eye curiously twisted into the keyhole, uttered these sounds as a means of at tracting the lodger’s atten... ...Miss Sally were lurking hard by, having been, indeed, only routed from the keyhole by Mr Swiveller’s abrupt exit. As their utmost exertions had not en... ... – Dickens 377 ‘A light in the passage,’ said Quilp, peeping through the keyhole. ‘A very soft knock; and, by your leave, my lady, I may yet steal u... ... one night, he plainly distinguished an eye gleaming and glistening at the keyhole; and The Old Curiosity Shop – Dickens 441 having now no doubt tha... ...ell upon you!’ said Dick. ‘Do you mean to say you were looking through the keyhole for company?’ ‘Yes, upon my word I was,’ replied the small servant.... ... occurs to me that you must be in the constant habit of airing your eye at keyholes, to know all this.’ ‘I only wanted, ’ replied the trembling Marchi...

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...e. ‘ And that’s not all. Ever so often calling names in through a person’s keyhole, and imitating a person’s back and legs. Oh! I know their tricks an... ...ors, and I’ d cram ‘em all in, and then I’ d lock the door and through the keyhole I’d blow in pepper.’ ‘What would be the good of blowing in pepper?’... ...er. And when they were all sneezing and inflamed, I’d mock ‘em through the keyhole. Just as they, with their tricks and their manners, mock a person t... ...hey, with their tricks and their manners, mock a person through a person’s keyhole!’ An uncommonly emphatic shake of her little fist close be- fore he... ...s nose, and he were taking a hint from his late experience. His ear at the keyhole seemed then, at last, to give him assurance that something stirred ... ... last, to give him assurance that something stirred within. His eye at the keyhole seemed to confirm his ear, for he angrily pulled the house’s nose a... ...ow, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door. But the light went out, and the main door opened,... ... As she spake thus, Miss Wren re- moved the key of the house-door from the keyhole and put it in her pocket, and then bustlingly closed the door, and ... ...h, lest he should be audible in the erect ears of Mr Fledgeby, through two keyholes and the hall, Lammle, making signals of discretion to his servant,...

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...NICLER’S ARE PRIVILEGED to enter where they list, to come and go through keyholes, to ride upon the wind, to overcome, in their soarings up and down... ...ed the door, and dropping on one knee before it, dexterously blew into the keyhole as much of these fine ashes as the lock would hold. When she had fi... ... he poked bits of stick into the lock to clear it— that he peeped into the keyhole, first with one eye, and then with the other—that he tried the key ... ... heard the voices of the foremost in the crowd so close to every chink and keyhole, that they seemed to be hoarsely whispering their threats into thei... ...ated this form of acclamation, that she was call ing the same through the keyhole of the door; but in the profound darkness she could not be seen. ‘I...

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... peremptorily called again. In his praiseworthy efforts to accommodate the keyhole, Ripton discovered that the desk was already unlocked. Mr. Thompson... ...m.” Now to see Time’s full face, it is sometimes necessary to look through keyholes, the veteran having a trick of smil- ing peace to you on one cheek... ... in Daphne’s Bower; a simple kissing of the fair white hand! Doubtless the keyhole somehow added to Benson’s horror. The two similar perfor- mances, s...

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...ears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the nar... ...ed by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of ... ...uler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost. At length the hour of s...

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...ears upon the palpable brown air. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the nar... ...ed by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge’s keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol: but at the first sound of Go... ... ruler with such energy of action that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost. At length the hour of s...

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... care I found them discontinuous with the frames. There were no handles or keyholes, but possibly the panels, if they were doors, as I supposed, opene...

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... lives, to look at him through a pane of glass. They was seven deep at the keyhole. They was out of their minds about him and his bold spirit. In the ...

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...e. ‘ And that’s not all. Ever so often calling names in through a person’s keyhole, and imitating a person’s back and legs. Oh! I know their tricks an... ...ors, and I’ d cram ‘em all in, and then I’ d lock the door and through the keyhole I’d blow in pepper.’ ‘What would be the good of blowing in pepper?’... ...ing and 14 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 2 inflamed, I’d mock ‘em through the keyhole. Just as they, with their tricks and their manners, mock a person t... ...hey, with their tricks and their manners, mock a person through a person’s keyhole!’ An uncommonly emphatic shake of her little fist close be- fore he... ...s nose, and he were taking a hint from his late experience. His ear at the keyhole seemed then, at last, to give him assurance that something stirred ... ... last, to give him assurance that something stirred within. His eye at the keyhole seemed to 65 Charles Dickens confirm his ear, for he angrily pulle...

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...in the Park Gardens, had listened to the alterca- tion through the library keyhole, and had been mighty sulky at being ordered to call a coach for thi...

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...n, in my glory. How catch the reins? Why, through the windows, through the keyholes—anyhow.” Finally this contumacious coachman lengthened the check-s...

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...er assertion of his newly-asserted power. ‘Bof—fin!’ he called through the keyhole. ‘Yes, Wegg,’ was the reply through the same channel. ‘Come out. Sh... ... with a grin. The door was hardly closed, when he again called through the keyhole: ‘Bof—fin!’ ‘Y es, W egg.’ This time Silas made no reply, but labou... ...y, but laboured with a will at turning an imaginary grindstone outside the keyhole, while Mr Boffin stooped at it within; he then laughed silently, an...

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...ded them as they passed by; the boldest schoolboy only shouted through the keyhole and made off; for within, it was supposed, the plague lay ambushed ...

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...ared. I don’t mean to read another line; it’s too much like listening at a keyhole.” “But if she wanted it published?” “Wanted it? How do we know she ...

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... on his retreat. He bade me go and leave the door wide open. “None of your keyholes for me, sonny,” he said; and I left them to- gether and retired in...

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...nto a fit, if it had not occurred to me that it must have come through the keyhole. I groped my way to the door, and putting my own lips to the keyhol... ...y an- gry with me? I could hear Peggotty crying softly on her side of the keyhole, as I was doing on mine, before she answered. No. Not very. What... ...at, in conse- quence of my having forgotten to take my mouth away from the keyhole and put my ear there; and though her words tickled me a good deal, ... ...delivered these words through it with as much feeling and earnestness as a keyhole has ever been the medium of communicating, I will venture to assert... .... Though I ain t no scholar. And I ll I ll - Peggotty fell to kissing the keyhole, as she couldn t kiss me. Thank you, dear Peggotty! said I. Oh, ... ...ou please, Peggotty? The kind soul promised, and we both of us kissed the keyhole with the greatest affection I patted it with my hand, I recollect,...

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... Crawley’s large confiden- tial butler (who, indeed, happened to be at the keyhole during the most part of the interview); and the Captain coming out,... ...and Rebecca entered the apartment, had also seen accidentally, through the keyhole, the old gentleman prostrate before the governess, and had heard th... ...ty Miss Briggs had not remained half a 149 Thackeray minute longer at the keyhole! Rebecca might, perhaps, have told more: but five minutes after Mis...

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...d towing facilities on the river. See? … Well—there’s always an ear at the keyhole—isn’t there? In fact,” he lowered his tone confidentially, “in this...

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...ck at the outside, by way of prelude; and, then, applying his mouth to the keyhole, said, in a deep and impressive tone: ‘Oliver!’ ‘Come; you let me o... ... of receiving, staggered Mr. Bumble not a little. He stepped back from the keyhole; drew himself up to his full height; and looked from one to another... ...n being excluded, the old ladies changed their tone, and cried through the keyhole that old Sally was drunk; which, indeed, was not unlikely; since, i... ...t the inte rior of Mrs. Corney’s chest of drawers. Having listened at the keyhole, to assure himself that no body was approaching the chamber, Mr. B...