refuse admittance
Example Sentences
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The great bulk of the visitors have been curious correspondents and press agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Calvert's case, the court held that a suspect's absence may be simply another attempt to refuse admittance, and thus permits police to break in without service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Josepha, though so ill, of course could not refuse admittance to the freezing men, who were already on the threshold.
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
I be permitted to see whom I please? and to refuse admittance to those I like not?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Richardson, Samuel
He added he had reluctantly despatched mounted messengers to Leamington, Cheltenham, Bristol Well, Brighthelmstone, Harrowgate, Scarborough, Tunbridge and the Bath, begging his brethren to refuse admittance to any new arrivals until farther warning.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
