latch on

Could the (thus far) timid trembling give way to a full-on, grand mal seizure?

I drew back from the rim of Writing-On-the-Stone, that set of whispered phrases echoing in my ears.

Sikes, with Olivers hand still in his, softly approached the low porch, and raised the latch.

To punctuate her observation Jessie Norwood lifted the iron latch and jerked open the door.

Kingston-on-Thames is still provincial in appearance, though now the centre of a great growth of modern suburbs.

Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder.