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After an hour searching dusty corridors, I found a door with a smart padlock and the remains of a hasp lying on the floor beside it.

From Nature ● May 19, 2020

And then Matt hears the sound of the window hasp being turned and the sound of the window opening.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

After his testimony, Sokolove told me that he had initially thought he had mentioned the locked hasp in his 1986 statement.

From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2015

The garage door wasn’t locked; Gibson had the padlock on the door, but not through the hasp.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2014

At one end was a hasp with a padlock taped up in a plastic bag.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Ministry of Bubbleblowing denied yesterday, with an oath, that the 15,000,000 missing hasps had been found in a field near Asminster.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Guffaw said, 'We know where these hasps are, but cannot reveal their whereabouts at present.'

From Time Magazine Archive

Poirot undid the hasps and lifted the lid.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Judging from her personality, she appeared to have been reared on a diet of hardware: hasps and clasps and nails and old screws.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

I looked round, mistress, and found he was quite alone, and that the companion-head was hasped down.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Hugh Miller

Half-way down the length of the train he found what he was looking for: a box car with its side-door hasped but not locked.

From The Real Man by Francis Lynde

The great padlock, however, on the former, with characteristic acuteness, was looked without being hasped, so that, in a few seconds, my old guide had undone all the fastenings, and we found ourselves under shelter.

From Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune by Charles James Lever

In one of the attics stood a great hasped chest, wherein the dead woman's dresses were mouldering.

From An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

The door was hasped and fastened with a stick; precaution enough in such a place, and for all that it contained, too.

From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever

These were her thoughts as she went about the house, hasping windows and bolting doors, with a dreary sense of the futility of caution.

From Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

So Nicky-Nan contented himself with closing the door carefully and hasping it.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Presently, hasping these things firmly in, she went to the door, and opened it a cautious crack.

From Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Bacon heard the rusty bolt shoot into its socket, and then the hasping and locking of the outside door, with a sensation of utter hopelessness.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers