" Perks had indeed unlatched the latch of the little front gate.
They were all busily engaged on him like watermen applying the Royal Humane Society's regulations to a case of long submersion, when the latch clicked, the door opened, and the field-mouse with the lantern reappeared, staggering under the weight of his basket.
"On the sidewalk Luke holds up the paper to me and puts a finger the size of a kitchen door latch on it and says: "'Decree of ab-so-lute divorce with cus-to-dy of the child.
Tom went to the door and began to softly lift the latch; then he pressed gently and the door yielded a crack; he continued pushing cautiously, and quaking every time it creaked, till he judged he might squeeze through on his knees; so he put his head through and began, warily.
As a result, there is "little cause for concern" about excess microwaves leaking out from your oven, unless there is damage to the door hinge, latch or seal, the FDA says.
Lectins have an affinity to latch on to leptin and insulin receptors.
They're making things harder after they work out, and that's exactly the wrong thing to do, because we know that our neurology will latch onto rewards.
The technology uses enzymes to search for particular sequences of DNA — but, just as it is possible for a search facility in word-processing software to pick out a string of letters in an unexpected place, the enzymes might similarly latch on to the wrong stretch of DNA.
And every night about midnight I turned the latch of his door and opened it oh, so gently!
People latch on to things.
" The wolf pressed the latch, and the door opened.
I had to start feeding him myself as he couldn't latch on to his mother.
When you add new words to your vocabulary, try spacing them in-between words you're already familiar with so they'll stand out—your brain will latch onto them more easily.
" The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and without saying a word he went straight to the grandmother's bed, and devoured her.
Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently lifted the latch, and then took up the glimmering lamp which stood in the ante-chamber of the hall.
The door was fastened, but she pressed against the rusty latch, and it gave way.