unbar
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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
He didn’t look as if the task were an agreeable one and the lads placed themselves beside him as he advanced and with trembling hands tried to unbar the door.
From Dorothy's House Party by Raymond, Evelyn
“Why, if this fate my country waits, should war, “And not my love unbar to him the gates?
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
"Some one is surely in distress," said Shakespeare, rising, "suffer me to unbar the door."
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry
You practical English!—will you ever unbar the shutters of your brains, and hang a picture or two in those state-chambers?
From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work by Ruskin, John
