Crossword-Solution: LATCHSTRING 11 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Soon after nightfall the latchstring was pulled in a timid sort of way, and Obadiah Weeks stood on the threshold, waiting sheepishly till Mrs.

Finally, he came out on the edge of the steep bank, and looked down across the brook to the familiar low windowless walls and sharp-ridged roof of Keeper's House; and when he came, at last, to the door, and pulled the latchstring, he heard the dogs inside--the soft, coughing bark of Brave, and the anxious little whimper of Bold--and he knew that there was nothing wrong in Keeper's House.

When the string was pulled in, the door was locked; but the free-hearted man always left his latchstring out, so that every comer could enter and share his fireside with him.

Don't all speak at once, but pull the latchstring, and come on into our little parlor!" It was simply impossible to stop Jimmy, once he got started, unless you took him in hand and clapped a gag over his mouth.

Moredock's hospitable remark that the latchstring of his library was always out for his friends, he resolved to borrow the book that very night after closing hours, and discover what there was in it that had "helped the Ware family out of more than one hole." As he and Mary left the office together the Captain called after her, "By the way, I noticed a foreign stamp on one of your letters.