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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Teach me the path to that uncharted land; Discovery's keel hath never notched its strand, No passport may unbar its sealed frontier,— Too far for utmost sight, for touch too near.
From The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
It takes only a minute to cross the hall and unbar the front doors.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
"It is I, Pierre," cried he; "come down and unbar the door!"
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever
That one, instead of standing his ground, was seeking to reach and unbar the corridor door.
From Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne
The book’s final moments are breathless, if suspiciously flimsy—it isn’t until the very last sentence that Monk unbars “the great gate” and is freed.
From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2017
Will the sun forget to streak Eastern skies with amber ray, When the dusky shades to break He unbars the gates of day?
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Behold! a hand unbars the door, Ye shall be captives held no more.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My lady waits!—'Tis now the hour When morn unbars her gates!—
From Poems by George Pope Morris
Hitherto, whenever, "I've wandered in dreams," it has generally been my unlucky fate to lose all distinct recollection of them before "The morn unbars the gates of light."
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
As a result, its classification was changed from unbarred spiral galaxy to barred spiral galaxy.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
Eventually, we decided that my father would not recover, and so, instead of continuing to try to stave off death, we unbarred the door and began to wait.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
In both barred and unbarred spiral galaxies, we observe a range of different shapes.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
Handel’s vocal writing can be fiercely demanding, nowhere more so than in the Angel’s opening aria, “Be unbarred, ye gates of Avernus,” in which Liv Redpath, a soprano, displayed lovely tone and fine agility.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2014
At last the window above the door was unbarred, but no figure could be seen at its dark opening.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Knees, shoulders, elbows, buttocks and teeth collide with one another, fleetingly unbarring a glimpse into deeper space before they slide closed again.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2011
He could be heard unbarring the outer door.
From The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
There was a noise and clamour downstairs beneath them—the sound of the slow unbarring of bolts, and angry voices without.
From Six Women by Victoria Cross
He had flattered himself that she was slowly unbarring the gates.
From The Furnace by Dame Rose Macaulay
And as soon as their parents had gone to sleep, he got up, put on his coat, and, unbarring the back door, went out.
From My Book of Favorite Fairy Tales by Jennie Harbour
