Barred

Examples

• For the second time--with the frantic perversity of a roused woman--she caught me by the arm, and barred my way out. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Half-way up were a couple of small, heavily barred windows. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He found this barred, and the defeated Confederate cavalry, reorganized, occupying the opposite side. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He took us, first, to Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, where there was a house with barred windows, which he called Coavinses' Castle. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Caroline took a candle and went quietly all over the house, seeing that every window was fast and every door barred. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Gerald came down wearing a gown of broad-barred, thick black-and-green silk, brilliant and striking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They waited, while the person who had let them in, chained and barred the door. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A Plea in the Marshalsea Haggard anxiety and remorse are bad companions to be barred up with. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The chimney is wide, but is barred up by four large staples. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Having finished their work they made off, and the door was barred behind them by their confederate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• All sacrifice was barred to the faithful; no loophole was left for the sacrificial priest of the old dispensation to come back into the new faith. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was barred in the morning. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I said let the best man win, Bacchus barred, and the major started us with red wine in mugs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The soldiers thought I wanted to leave the city, and they sprang up and barred the way with their muskets. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Everything was bolted and barred that could by possibility furnish relief to an overworked people. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Standing on the chair, I could see in through the barred window into the hail of the _Ayuntamiento_ and in there it was as it had been before. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then it was barred after them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The man was scared also by the Colonel's dishevelled appearance, and barred the way as if afraid that the other was going to force it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And now she was thrust out, and the door barred against her by Lily's hand! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There was a small chimney, heavily barred across, a few feet within. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• On a table near her is a rich bauble of a casket, barred and clasped like an old strong-chest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was a six-foot wall which barred our path, but he sprang to the top and over. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Barred from any reform which would reabsorb the impulse into civilized life, the Commissioners had no other course but to hunt it, as an outlaw. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Below the Bank was a suite of three or four rooms with barred windows, which had the appearance of a jail for criminal rats. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As our escort left us they barred the door behind them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The shops as a rule were not raised from the ground nor were their doors bolted or barred, since thievery is practically unknown upon Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• There were low rambling buildings of concrete barred with heavy impassable doors, and no amount of hammering and hallooing brought any response. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Some of the windows had been walled up; of those that remained, all the lower were rustily barred. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Edited by Guthrie