"Unbar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of a summer sunset struggling through the branches and tangled leaves that intervened; and the downy peach peered provokingly from amongst the sheltering green, where, all the summer long, it had stolen the first blush of saffron-vested Aurora, when seraph hands unbar the gates of morning, and the last ray of golden light that paused at the flame-wrought portals of expiring day to look reluctant back. Another change came over the face of nature, and delicate-footed spring seemed to have ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various
... wish you to unbar yourself before dinner on Thursday evening," he said, turning round ...
— The Sowers • Henry Seton Merriman
... response. Josh, who was in charge below, did not mean to risk the loss of the precious motorcycles, as well as take chances of being shot as a spy, just because those lordly Uhlan cavalrymen demanded that he unbar the heavy door and let ...
— The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line - Or, With the Allies in France • Ralph Marlow
... eyes with the sun, and went with a good heart to his lessons, which for the first time he found dull, and the instant they were over he crept across the floor, undid the shabby little bundle, climbed on a chair, and thence to the table so as to unbar the skylight; said his magic charm, and was away out of the ...
— The Little Lame Prince - Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters • Dinah Maria Mulock
... but he hardened his heart, and would not unbar his door as the little, humble funeral went by. "The boy is a beggar," he said to himself: "he shall not ...
— Stories of Childhood • Various
... jailer with lying words, They have fooled the man with lies; The bolts unbar, the locks are drawn, And the great door ...
— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... moderate victor's clemency affords "Great blessings to the vanquish'd. Doubtless, he "Just warfare wages for his murder'd son. "Strong in his cause, and in his armies strong, "Which aid that cause, he must the conquest gain. "Why, if this fate my country waits, should war, "And not my love unbar to him the gates? "So may he conquer; slaughter, toil, and blood,— "His own dear blood, avoided. How I dread, "Lest some rash hand might that lov'd bosom wound! "None but the ignorant sure, the savage spear "At ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... in the great halls of the evil one could have been more bitter to endure than to unbar the door for the lost souls; for her sweet tenderness was tortured most of all by the despairing ghosts that passed to their eternal perdition, and her hands felt guilty at letting ...
— The Story and Song of Black Roderick • Dora Sigerson
... unaided through a hostile city and without a friendly land whereto to turn his flight. He had left her standing in the court, to be a first prey of the assailants, whether Capuans or Carthaginians, and she reasoned that it would be better, or at least quicker, to unbar the door before it should be broken in: she was wondering, in fact, at the forbearance that had preserved it thus far from more violent assault. Calavius had been gone some time. Doubtless he had escaped or, recognizing the uselessness ...
— The Lion's Brood • Duffield Osborne
... retainers, they waited for no order to unbar the gate for Mirliflor, being all eagerness to facilitate his departure. He strode unconcernedly out, and, finding a party of the Royal guard outside, he informed them that they would find one or two severed heads within if they ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... "old Ike was wakened by sounds as of someone fumbling to unbar and open the housedoor. It was an unwonted hour, and he peered from the window of his little room. By the dim starlight—it was just before dawn—he could see all of the open yard and roadway before ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... rationality of any private gentleman, who, having regretfully spent 164l. on pictures for his walls, paid willingly 24,000l. annually to the policeman who looked after his shutters! You practical English!—will you ever unbar the shutters of your brains, and hang a picture or two in ...
— Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne - Twenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work • John Ruskin
... That made him leave the fortress he possessed, For that the empire proud of Palestine This day should fall, to rise again more blessed; Or that he breaking felt the fatal line Of life, and would meet death with constant breast, Furious and fierce he did the gates unbar, And sudden rage brought ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... father is sorry, my mother is sad, And I am a maiden too kind by far At such an hour my gate to unbar.'" ...
— The Devil's Pool • George Sand
... the savage, 'not only you but your lives. All you have to do is to unbar this door and ...
— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware
... are ye still born In the rude stable, in the manger nurst! What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... "unbar the gate without noise, and I will look forth to observe the position of the mob. Gentlemen, hold yourselves in readiness ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede |
