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Definition of Keyholes
1. keyhole [n] - See also: keyhole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Keyholes
Literary usage of Keyholes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pine Needles: Or Sonnets and Songs by Héloïse Durant (1884)
"The stars are the keyholes of heaven, And the angels keep the keys." If our
passionate hearts we have riven, Shall we rise from bended knees, ..."
2. Golspie: Contributions to Its Folklore by Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1897)
"[BC] Blowing smoke through keyholes. Filling the stalks of cabbage-stocks with tow.
Set the tow on fire at one end, and, having applied the lighted end to ..."
3. Sketches from Life by Laman Blanchard, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1849)
"And oh! ye privileged keyholes, peculiar to snug little tea-parlours where ...
You too, keyholes cut in quiet back drawing-rooms, and dressing-rooms where ..."
4. The Corona Song Book: A Choice Collection of Choruses Designed for the Use by William C. Hoff (1903)
"<• —Fg -Ч-Р- heard and un-es-pied, Thro' the keyholes we do glide, O-ver ta -
bles.stools and shelves We heard and un - es pied, we glide, ..."
5. The Blasting of Rock in Mines, Quarries, Tunnels, Etc: A Scientific and by Albert William Daw, Zacharias Williams Daw (1898)
"On the contrary, where there is a somewhat open joint or fissure along the wall
the keyholes should not quite reach to the same, as the charges must be FIG. ..."
6. The Blasting of Rock in Mines, Quarries, Tunnels, Etc: A Scientific and by Albert William Daw, Zacharias Williams Daw (1909)
"On the contrary, where there is a somewhat open joint or fissure along the wall
the keyholes should not quite reach to the same, as the charges must be FIG. ..."
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