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  • Latches snapped open and the torchlight played over the contents -- heavy bundles of dynamite.

    Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005

  • Muslins, Latches, Romals [23] and flowered Silke, unto Mr. Gardner of

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • It had also come to the knowledge of the police that the man Evans used to frequent the "King's Head," that was the house owned by the Latches; it was probable that she had made there the acquaintance of the man Evans.

    Esther Waters 1892

  • "Why cannot they leave me my son?" she cried; for it seemed to her that in that hateful cloth, buttons and cockade, he would be no more her son, and she could not forget what the Latches had been long ago.

    Esther Waters 1892

  • The prisoner had referred her employers to the Latches, who had lent their sanction to the falsehood regarding the year she was supposed to have spent with them, but which she had really spent in cohabitation with a notorious thief.

    Esther Waters 1892

  • Then, to flatter Mrs. Latch, Sarah spoke of the position the Latches had held three generations ago; the Barfields were then nobodies; they had nothing even now but their money, and that had come out of a livery stable.

    Esther Waters 1892

  • When the characters she had received from her former employers were being examined she had accounted for the year she had spent with the man Evans by saying that she had been staying with the Latches, the publicans who had given evidence in her favour.

    Esther Waters 1892

  • The Entrance is a space the breadth of ye Court and ffront, rail'd in and opening in ye middle wth sort of wicket, two such at Each End wth heavye Latches to pull up, and the gate swings both wayes.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • 'There is some interest from teams regarding Cardozo and where Benfica stand but no firm offers have been made yet,' agent Latches added.

    Football.co.uk news feed 2010

  • Number of External IOBs 96 out of 96 0% Number of Slice Registers 0 as Flip Flops 0 Number used as Latches 0 Number used as LatchThrus 0 Number of Slice LUTS 17 out of 69120 1% Number of Slice LUT-Flip Flop pairs 17 out of 69120 1%

    MSDN Blogs satnam 2010

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