refuse admittance
Example Sentences
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The great bulk of the visitors have been curious correspondents and press agents, to whom Carter reserved the right to refuse admittance.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Calvert's case, the court held that a suspect's absence may be simply another attempt to refuse admittance, and thus permits police to break in without service.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ask the nuns, to whom he is father confessor; they will have no other, and refuse admittance to one of our order who hath been sent to take this duty upon him.
From A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.
It may seem very ill-natured sometimes to refuse admittance on easy terms to such places, and to act apparently in a sort of dog-in-the-manger spirit.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various
He had opened the door only a little way, expecting that he would have to refuse admittance.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby
