At the click of the latch Reddy turned his head, and in a flash he saw what had happened.
This mischievous little Night Breeze found that that gate would swing, so it blew against that gate and blew and blew until suddenly, with a sharp little click, the gate closed and the spring latch snapped into place.
As for hindrance to this step, there offered not so much as a creaking hinge or a clicking latch.
Of course, with a door only on the latch behind me, I lost not my opportunity.
I opened the door, I entered, I closed it behind me as quickly and quietly as a rather unsteady hand would permit; for to be slow or bustling, to rattle a latch, or leave a door gaping wide, were aggravations of crime often more disastrous in result than the main crime itself.
Emanuel entered with his vehement burst of latch and panel, and his deep, redundant bow, prophetic of choler.
I allude, of course—" Here the latch of Madame Beck's chamber-door (opening into the nursery) gave a sudden click, as if the hand holding it had been slightly convulsed; there was the suppressed explosion of an irrepressible sneeze.
It is a white wooden gate with a latch.
" I thumped on the panels, and rattled the latch angrily; and Catherine asked why I was still shut up?
I was half inclined to make it try; however, he moved off to open the door, and, as he raised the latch, he looked up to the inscription above, and said, with a stupid mixture of awkwardness and elation: 'Miss Catherine!
" Then the latch was raised and fell: they did not suffer him to come forth.
"The doleful silence was broken at length by the sound of the kitchen latch: Heathcliff had returned from his watch earlier than usual; owing, I suppose, to the sudden storm.
He now recommenced his moody walk, and I raised the latch, and escaped into the kitchen.
He leant against the side, and held his fingers on the latch as if intending to open for himself.
" So resolved, I grasped the latch and shook it vehemently.
Harding raised the inner latch of the gate and was about to push it back, when Top barked loudly.
Merry ran up the garden-walk alone, for Frank left her at the gate, and was fumbling for the latch when she felt something hanging there.
Cross X patch, Draw the latch, Sit by the fire and spin: Take a cup And drink it up, Then call the neighbours in.
She lifted the latch of the gate and walked in slowly.
" Perks had indeed unlatched the latch of the little front gate.
