"Unbar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and gruffness bar doors and shut hearts, kindness and propriety of behaviour, in which good manners consist, act as an "open sesame" everywhere. Doors unbar before them, and they are a passport to the hearts of ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles
... "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 the house, with the great barn ...
— Humorous Ghost Stories • Dorothy Scarborough
... knock at the door broke in upon her musings. She rose, trembling with fear, to unbar the entrance, and beheld a man closely muffled in a cloak. "My good woman," said he, "will you grant a poor traveler the shelter ...
— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders
... 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 ...
— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey
... have only, Gods, to look over and listen. Let the Hours unbar, draw back the clouds, and open the ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata
|
