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Definition of Latchstrings
1. latchstring [n] - See also: latchstring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Latchstrings
Literary usage of Latchstrings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the ... Annual Meeting by Southern Educational Association, Florida State Teachers Association, National Educational Association (U.S.), Southern Association of College Women (1906)
"The old Commonwealth's store-house is inexhaustible, and the latchstrings of the
Old Kentucky Homes still invitingly hang on the outside. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"... follows : " 1 warmly welcome you to our city and assure you that during your
stay the latchstrings of our homes shall be found always hanging outside. ..."
3. Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War by Daniel Wait ( Howe (1914)
"... latchstrings, immense canoes, typical of Tippecanoe, all these being prominent
features in the great processions that characterized this campaign. ..."
4. Who's who Among North American Authors (1921)
"... Began scientific career as 1884; The Crest of the Continent, 1884; To the
Shenandoah and Beyond, 1885; Down East latchstrings, 1887; The Silver Caves, ..."
5. Battles and Sketches of the Army of Tennessee by Bromfield Lewis Ridley (1906)
"... For the portals of our city open wide to let you pass, And the latchstrings
of the houses dangle outside in the air; While upon the threshold smiling, ..."
6. New England in the Life of the World: A Record of Adventure and Achievement by Howard Allen Bridgman (1920)
"... have their latchstrings always out." By 1790 the colony had become sufficiently
developed to warrant the employment of a permanent pastor as well as ..."
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