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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

She is the blush of morn first caught by earth, When seraph hands unbar the gates of heaven, And from its courts bright beams of glory stream.

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice

From amid these heterogeneous articles he reached down a great key and slipping it into his pocket, proceeded to furtively unbar, unlock and let himself out into the young morning.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery

Who would unbar the gate of life, to re-admit them to existence? or what face would greet them back again to our world with a smile?

From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Hartley, Cecil B.

Mother rose quickly to her feet; kissed me fervently, and then, without delay, as if understanding that it was not well to prolong the parting, began to unbar the shutter.

From On the Kentucky Frontier A Story of the Fighting Pioneers of the West by Otis, James

The book’s final moments are breathless, if suspiciously flimsy—it isn’t until the very last sentence that Monk unbars “the great gate” and is freed.

From Slate ● Mar. 22, 2017

Will the sun forget to streak Eastern skies with amber ray, When the dusky shades to break He unbars the gates of day?

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

But when the night-wind wakes and thrills The shadows that the night unbars, Their music fills the dreamy hills, And folds the friendly stars.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Behold! a hand unbars the door, Ye shall be captives held no more.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Soon as to Ilion's topmost tower they come, And awful reach the high Palladian dome, Antenor's consort, fair Theano, waits As Pallas' priestess, and unbars the gates.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

As a result, its classification was changed from unbarred spiral galaxy to barred spiral galaxy.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022

Eventually, we decided that my father would not recover, and so, instead of continuing to try to stave off death, we unbarred the door and began to wait.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

In both barred and unbarred spiral galaxies, we observe a range of different shapes.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Handel’s vocal writing can be fiercely demanding, nowhere more so than in the Angel’s opening aria, “Be unbarred, ye gates of Avernus,” in which Liv Redpath, a soprano, displayed lovely tone and fine agility.

From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2014

The sentry unbarred the door, and his terrier dæmon quivered as the three figures maneuvered their burden with difficulty through the narrow entrance.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Knees, shoulders, elbows, buttocks and teeth collide with one another, fleetingly unbarring a glimpse into deeper space before they slide closed again.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2011

“Why, it’s the young lady from the Deanery!” exclaimed Manfred Hegner in a relieved voice; and both he and his wife began hastily unlocking and unbarring the great plate-glass doors.

From Good Old Anna by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

He could not get help from outside, even if he had someone whom he could trust, without the unbarring of doors, and considerable risk of detection.

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

We hear the unbarring of the house door, and a comely maiden, in her Sunday dress, welcomes us politely to her ground-floor sitting-room.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

After a while there was a sound of stealthily unbarring window-shutters, followed by a voice demanding the reason of the tumult.

From From the Easy Chair, series 3 by Curtis, George William