door-key

The lamps were lighted in the little street, and the notary had his door-key in his hand.

No Thoroughfare 2007

He took out his door-key and let himself into the house.

Vanity Fair 2006

This astonishing proposal, which violates every recognized law of society — this demand which alters all the existing state of things — this fact of a woman asking for a door-key, struck me with a terror which I cannot describe, and impressed me with the fact of the vast progress of Our Street.

Our Street 2006

Even in her trouble she could not refrain from a faint smile at his scrupulousness, as she took the door-key.

The Woodlanders 2006

Jowl-face, looking in alarm at the trickle of dust flowing from where his blaster's trigger mechanism had been just moments before, pressed a remote door-key frantically.

The Wizard Of Karres Lackey, Mercedes 2004

With this admonition, she blew her work candles out, leaving him to the light of the fire, and, taking her big door-key in her pocket and her crutch-stick in her hand, marched off.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

She produced it from her pocket with an air, after struggling with the gigantic door-key which had got upon the top of it and kept it down.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Could it have been possible to convict the other man, merely because he had surreptitiously caused a door-key of the house in which he lived to be made for him?

Phineas Redux 2004

I walked on, jingling my new door-key in my hand; hummed, and whistled, and speculated as to means of procuring a candle.

Hunger 2003

She had a large door-key in her hand, and was evidently going out to perform an errand.

No Name 2003