Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. ❋ David O. Russell (2011)
It took him two minutes to select the pass-key and determine how it worked, then the doors flew open one after another in quick succession. ❋ Dj Barber (2010)
He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, drew out a sort of a pass-key, opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the staircase, still carrying Cosette. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He had, and always carried about him, a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been searched, and his latch-key must have been taken from him. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He had implied that she should use her beauty, impaired though it was, as a pass-key. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Here he conjectured it would be proper to wait; nor had he been stationary above five minutes, when the cook, scalded as much with heat of motion as ever he had been by his huge fire-place, arrived almost breathless, and with his pass-key hastily locked the wicket behind him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“We want nothing but the pass-key,” said Miss Bellenden; ❋ Unknown (2004)
The attendant admitted them by means of a pass-key. ❋ Unknown (2004)
"There hasn't been a pass-key since eighty-eight," she told him. ❋ DeAndrea, William L. (1980)
A pass-key turned in the lock of the chalet door and the chambermaid came in. ❋ Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 (1973)
Finally he shrugged his shoulders, examined the lock, and picked a pass-key which opened it. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
Maigret said nothing but took his pass-key out of his pocket and quietly slipped it into the keyhole. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1963)
When she found the body, she locked the door with her pass-key and came down here to telephone me. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1958)
The power of modifying these instinctive adjustments, the capacity of learning, is like being put in possession of a pass-key. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
Then more time was consumed in getting the floor-maid with the pass-key to the room adjoining the drawing-room of the suite. ❋ John Reed Scott (N/A)
He would not have gone at that hour, except that he had been given a pass-key on the first day he was there, with a request never to fail to come in, no matter how late he might be detained. ❋ C. C. Goodwin (N/A)
Entering with a pass-key she saw at a glance that their father had not come home. ❋ Laura Lee Hope (N/A)
They ate and drank and slept and snored; they made pastoral visits through the surrounding community which were far from edifying; they gambled, and tippled, and sang most unspiritual songs; and keeping all the while their own private pass-key to Paradise tucked under their girdles, were about as jolly ❋ Various (N/A)
He seemed to have found the pass-key to nature's mysteries, and to have acquired a language by which he could communicate with all her creatures. ❋ Charles Frederic Goss (N/A)
Jim's car had been moved to his own garage the morning after the accident, and as I had a pass-key to the place I found it unnecessary to go to the house at all. ❋ Donald McGibeny (N/A)
