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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

"Dinah North," said Harrison, solemnly, "I have a message for you, which you dare not gainsay—I command you to unbar the door and receive us instantly."

From The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) by Susanna Moodie

The turnkey on duty that night went with the carriage to unbar the outer gate for it to pass.

From Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

"Wait while I unbar the door," called Redward to the fugitive, at the same time directing the others to assist him in removing the barricade.

From The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

What humble hands unbar those gates of morn Through which the splendors of the New Day burst!

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

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

It was not in such a fashion that I had thought to see my mission to Canaples accomplished; I had dreamt of gratitude, and gratitude unbars the door to much.

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Rafael Sabatini

My lady waits!—'Tis now the hour   When morn unbars her gates!—

From Poems by George Pope Morris

At any hour of the day—I won't speak positively about the night—women may be seen at the unbars filling large earthenware jugs, coming and going, going and coming.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens

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

There was a noise and clamour downstairs beneath them—the sound of the slow unbarring of bolts, and angry voices without.

From Six Women by Victoria Cross

There came to him a noise of unbarring doors, the yellow lamp-light went out in niche after niche.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

We wait receptively, unbarring all our rust-hinged doors to welcome the true favors that now find us.

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

“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 Marie Belloc Lowndes