Barriers

Examples

• The barriers between Europe and Asia set up by the religious feud of Christianity and Islam were lowered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The barriers between Africa, Asia, and Europe were lowered or bridged by that time, but mixing had not gone far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But, on the other hand, man is usually a wandering and enterprising animal, for whom there exist few insurmountable barriers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was cut off from the civilizations to the west and to the east by vast mountain barriers and desert regions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The latter, at the same time would travel further and further southward, unless they were stopped by barriers, in which case they would perish. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The assailants have won the barriers, have they not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• These barriers mean absence of fluent and free intercourse. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barriers opened than he paced into the lists. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The barriers were too many and too high for such a leap. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Tars Tarkas rode ahead and, leaning down to the latch, threw the barriers open, while I held the loose thoats from breaking back to the herd. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.

Editor: Miriam