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Beyond them is a small vestibule with a set of sealed, lockless doors at the other end.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth

I drew the table against the lockless door, blew out the light, sat on the stool, resting my arms on the table, and my head on my arms, and slept peacefully till long after daybreak.

From The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont by Barr, Robert

Oh! if that shack were only hers—the rights of its lockless door.

From The Wrong Woman by Stewart, Charles D.

Jerry bethought himself of a lockless window off the back porch roof, which he and Tod had used more than once in time of need.

From Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island by Stuart, Gordon

Soon, between rugs on a bed in the "Silver Lion," between a single sheet doubled in two, she slept—propping the lockless door with her suitcase.

From The Happy Foreigner by Bagnold, Enid