Then, taking up my bundle of reports, I crept away from the room, carefully re-Latching the door.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
There came the click of the brickwork door; then slow shufflings; once a thump on the hollow boards that made his heart leap; then after what seemed an interminable while, came the sound of Latching the fifth stair into its place; and he felt his foot grasped.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson
Isabel indeed ran up to his room, after she had seen his feathered cap disappear at a trot through the gate, leaving her father in the hall; and after shutting and Latching the door, threw herself on his bed, and sobbed her heart out.
"By What Authority?"
Robert Hugh Benson