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Definition of Hasped
1. hasp [v] - See also: hasp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hasped
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Literary usage of Hasped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Curiosity Shop: Pictures and Stories for Youngest ReadersChildren's literature (1884)
"... And up to the gold-hasped door there ran, On a carven ivory stair, The darling
herself, in rosy silk, With pearls in her yellow hair. ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1898)
"... whether there is any danger in it or not, but keep that door hasped back, and
there will be no danger"; that the mate then went out leaving the door ..."
3. Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Selected Poems by William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1916)
"When he was hasped in arms his harness was rich; the least latchet or loop gleamed
with gold. So, harnessed as he was, he heard his mass, offered and adored ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... as that he had been squeezed and hasped in a thing like a trough, in a dungeon
underground; which put him to inexpressible torment, insomuch that he ..."
5. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1871)
"gasped Tom, " and no mistake." But the girls did n't come out; that was one comfort.
" And they 've hasped the door, too," cried Dan, trying it. ..."
6. On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel (1897)
"She undid the bolts, only to find it hasped on the outside. A feeling ot being
trapped ... hasped also. TTie drawing-room door? Firmer even than the others. ..."
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