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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

Teach me the path to that uncharted land; Discovery's keel hath never notched its strand, No passport may unbar its sealed frontier,— Too far for utmost sight, for touch too near.

From The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

“She is within and safe; Natalya is with her,” came Yossof’s quavering voice, as he labored to unbar the gates.

From The Red Symbol by John Ironside

She would have returned from her campaign with her baggage-train and her loot, and the palace would unbar its shutters and the morning flash back from its halls.

From The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

That one, instead of standing his ground, was seeking to reach and unbar the corridor door.

From Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne

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

Hitherto, whenever, "I've wandered in dreams," it has generally been my unlucky fate to lose all distinct recollection of them before "The morn unbars the gates of light."

From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

See, the Muse unbars the gate; Hark, the monkeys, how they prate!

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly

For as a gate of sorrow-land unbars   The region of unfaltering delight,   So may you gather from the fields of night That harvest of diviner thought, the stars.

From The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala by Henry Baerlein

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

At last the window above the door was unbarred, but no figure could be seen at its dark opening.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Haldane opened the tiny wicket, which enabled her to speak without further unbarring when she found it convenient.

From One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

Leaving their horses there, they came round to the front on foot, where Sara met them, unbarring the door herself, an apparition of innocence against the background of that gloomy hall.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

She had come to the first barn now, and, unbarring the door, went in.

From The Good Comrade by Anna Whelan Betts

Daddy Skinner heard the horse coming down the hill,62 heard Frederick as he said his low, "Good-night, my darling," and unbarring the door, the fisherman waited impatiently for his daughter to enter the shanty.

From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock