What is "securely"

Usage examples of "securely".

But the branks were locked securely in back and he had no tools to open it.

Where a brooklet led them onward, Where the trail of deer and bison Marked the soft mud on the margin, Till they found all further passage Shut against them, barred securely By the trunks of trees uprooted, Lying lengthwise, lying crosswise, And forbidding further passage.

The threadbare white towels were designed for midgets, but she still felt marginally more human by the time she stepped back into the room, clean underwear and a silk bathrobe wrapped securely around her still-damp body.

But by a combination of a simple secret that has been kept securely, many years of practice, a certain amount of audience misdirection, and the use of conventional magic techniques it has become the keystone of my act and my career.

It took me a long while to somewhat recover my composure and by then we were inside it as securely as Jonah in the belly of the whale and in almost as profound a darkness, for the close boughs of the evergreens blotted out the sky except when a lump of the snow with which they were lined fell on our heads like the dropping of a big, cold-blooded bird, and then a few scraps of red light from the fire we left behind us showed through the gap, bloodying the night-time clouds.

Into the gloves, and he pulled down on the grappler, pressed the plater in harder against the vessel and locked on the remaining arms more securely.

At the same time both Grimshaw and Plater appeared, each bearing a large package securely wrapped in canvas on his shoulder.

With a chill prickling his spine, he tried the restall, every one, securely locked.

He bound Shairn securely with strips torn from her own garments, taking especial care with the gag.

With one hand fastened securely on his collar, he pulled the Valeman into the trees, and Slanter followed hurriedly after.

Windows and doors were all securely closed, so as to prevent draught, for nothing is so bad as draught when you are hot, and nothing makes you so hot as being stived by hundreds in a narrow space without draught.

Having shaken the web several times to make sure that she was fastened securely, the gigantic strid, or spinner-scorpion, for such she recognized it to be, returned to the zandar near the center, and settled down over it to feed.

When the mournful Wawonaissa Sorrowing sang among the hemlocks, And the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin, Shut the doors of all the wigwams, From her bed rose Laughing Water, Laid aside her garments wholly, And with darkness clothed and guarded, Unashamed and unaffrighted, Walked securely round the cornfields, Drew the sacred, magic circle Of her footprints round the cornfields.

When a waterspout threatened, the growing craft was now simply moored as securely as the supply of rope would permit and allowed to float by itself.

The splattered paint, however, was still allover the place, and the new padlock was securely fastened.