Ripe for thievery

Usage examples of unlocked.

Then she unlocked her escritoire and took out the large pocket-book in which she wrote her letters, as was customary in that time before the Penny Post.

Sir Perceval leaned forward eagerly as she found another key and unlocked the case itself.

In a moment I had unlocked the door and was fleeing along the passage, down the stairs and out into the street.

A minute or two later the monotonous howl of the yard-dogs turned into a series of frenzied barks as the sound of their chains being unlocked became audible.

I went to the front of the house, where I found that the vestibble-door was broken and the street-door unlocked and open.

Somehow he unlocked it and then smashed his way through the glass and wooden frames of the vestibble-door.

Instead it suggested that the murderer was someone not connected with the household who had been acting on a sudden oportunity to pick the lock of the door or perhaps had even found it unlocked for some reason.

Frank suddenly unlocked the door and threw a bundle of blankets into the room at me.

Here we stopped and when the giant had unlocked another iron-grilled door, Rookyard pushed me through it so hard that I fell sprawling on the ground.

Escreet would leave the back-door unlocked and since the servants would be out of the way celebrating the marriage below stairs, he would be seen by no-one.

I had resolved to eat some of the porage and was just on the point of doing so when I heard steps approaching, and in a moment Skilliter had unlocked my door and swung it open for Dr Alabaster to enter.

I heard the door being unlocked and the sound of footsteps as if several people were entering.

Mr Nolloth and I had accepted as the most likely : that my grandfather had been murdered and Mr Escreet assaulted by an unknown person who had entered by the street-door which was left unlocked by Peter Clothier as he left the house.

I took a knife from the drawer where I had hidden it earlier that day and then, feeling my way step by step through the absolute darkness, I climbed the stairs and unlocked the door of the Great Parlour.

I hated the thought of being trapped inside for the next few hours and so, although my reason told me it was pointless since I could not get out of the yard until the coach-house was opened, I unlocked the back-door before replacing the keys.