I check the petals for an aroma as I fumble with the doorlock. From Wordnik.com. [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference
And eventually another sound: a card in the doorlock, the squeal of hinges. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
She glanced to her side and took one hand off the wheel to push down the doorlock button. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
Then he grabbed a quick snack from the refrigerator, exited, and resealed the doorlock from outside. From Wordnik.com. [The I Inside]
A closed door blocked the end, and as they approached it, he took something from his pocket, touched the device to the doorlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
They flew to disable the entertainment center, dumped it outside in the corridor; switched off the lights and the doorlock for good measure. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Several trollies and vacuum cleaners, a doorlock worth R100, an unspecified number of doorhandles, a toilet handle, a shower handle and a toilet seat also went missing. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
He turned and put his wrist to the doorlock and shot out the lock cylinder with the cobalt steel plunger of the cattlegun and opened the door and went in and shut the door behind him. From Wordnik.com. [No Country For Old Men]
I tried for the last time to correct the course but it was no go so I cut the ignition and snapped the doorlock home and waited with my knees bent double and my feet braced against the fascia board. From Wordnik.com. [The 9th Directive]
No. Check wardrobe, check window, no point in checking the main doorlock for signs of tampering because in a small hotel you don't have to force a lock, you get the concierge to turn his back on the keyboard for the required five seconds. From Wordnik.com. [The Mandarin Cypher]
What a coincidence. 456 is the passcode on my doorlock!. From Wordnik.com. [Schneier on Security] Reference
Instead of that, he went down the narrow steps, and through the dusty glass examined the doorlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Made Good] Reference
For those of you worried about security or just like the added conveniences and coolness factor, this doorlock might just be for you, or maybe you could just travel to the future to see if you're going to need one with this. From Wordnik.com. [Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech] Reference
Ben, he answered the curious inquiries of the children as to the broken doorlock with the remark that it was a matter that he should have to bring before the Trustees of the Board, and by the time that school was over and the pupils dismissed he had quite resolved upon this formal disposition of it. From Wordnik.com. [Cressy] Reference
She released the doorlock. From Wordnik.com. [The Coelura]
Thus, if we examine our stoves, or a doorlock, or long vertical hinge, or even a high tin cup, by holding a delicate magnetic needle in the hand near those objects, we find the earth has, by induction, attracted to the lower end of the stove utensils, etc., the opposite magnetism from its own; and repelled to the upper end of the stove, etc., the same magnetism which exists in our northern hemisphere. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884] Reference
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