Bars
[bɑrz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
Things found in harbors, hotels, fences, prisons, courts and music. (Those found in courts and in music are full of beats).
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- Seest thou, Isaac, said Front-de-Boeuf, the range of iron bars above the glowing charcoal? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The wings have two black bars. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But he just kept shaking his hands and arms against the bars and shouting, 'Kill them! Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not before the eighteenth century do we find rolled sheet iron (1728) and rolled rods and bars (1783). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When they passed a prison of the State, they kept far from its frowning walls, and looked up at its bars, and spoke in whispers. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These antique guns were made by welding longitudinal bars of iron together and binding them by iron rings shrunk on while hot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The spikes had never looked so sharp and cruel, nor the bars so heavy, nor the prison space so gloomy and contracted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When she saw me she rushed toward the bars that separated us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Beside the fireplace was a heavy oaken chair with arms and cross-bars at the bottom. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Jo thrusts the handle of his broom between the bars of the gate, and with his utmost power of elaboration, points it out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- O Mrs General, ask the Marshalsea stones and bars. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A man climbed on the chair too and stood with his arms around mine, holding the wider bars. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It looks in at the windows and touches the ancestral portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contemplated by the painters. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Kitty