How To Use Unbar In A Sentence

Mrs. Dudgeon unbars the door and opens it, letting into the stuffy kitchen a little of the freshness and a great deal of the chill of the dawn, also her second son Christy, a fattish, stupid, fair-haired, round-faced man of about 22, muffled in a plaid shawl and grey overcoat. The Devil's Disciple
The group was welcomed by West Dunbartonshire's Lord Provost Alistair MacDonald, and presented with a silver quaich.
At 16, Dunbar applied to become a Butlins redcoat but, instead, found a job as a part-time face-painter, working weekdays in the post office.
That foolish sister of mine was actually unbarring the back door. The House on the Borderland
Yelling at him to be patient, she clambered into a pair of brigga, pulled on a shirt, and ran barefooted to unbar the door and let him in. A TIME OF WAR

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Barbed and Unbarbed, and feet into Manycleft, and Twocleft, like those of animals with bifid hoofs, and Uncleft or Undivided, like those of animals with solid hoofs. On the Parts of Animals
Hamper bent to Dunbar and whispered, beerily, in his ear: "P'r'aps 'e don't want to' ear, guv'nor! The Yellow Claw
East Dunbartonshire, to the north of Glasgow, is another region where aspirant parents try to send their children to top-performing state schools.
He is wearing his hair unbarbered, and combed over his bald spot. Globe and Mail
For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
Dunbar speculates that a change in our ability to mentalize - sometimes also referred to as Theory of Mind - could be the new cognitive function to have facilitated this improved capacity for social communication. BRAINETHICS
DUNBAR -- Some unusual meats were served to hundreds in Dunbar, all for a great cause. State Journal Featured Content
DUNBAR -- A boy walking along the river in Dunbar makes a startling discovery Saturday. 13 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
The Landlord unbarred the door.
She entered the gatehouse, unbarred the window and leaned outside.
Canaples accomplished; I had dreamt of gratitude, and gratitude unbars the door to much. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes
I ran downstairs and along the passageway, with the consul and Terentia at my heels, and together with Quintus and the Sextus brothers we dragged away the chest and the couch and unbarred the door. CONSPIRATA
We'll have a look at the town, and I'll stand you a drink as soon as the first dramshop unbars its door. The Urth of the New Sun
The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age.
When he reached the wire, however, he saw at once that its strength was an illusion, for the whole concertina was held in place by an unbarbed loop hung loosely over the twisted end of a broken railing: surmounting the cunning defences of Standingham Castle wasn't going to be such a problem after all, thank heavens! War Game
The Duke provided himself with bows from Prussia and from Caffa in Georgia, [1981] and with arrows barbed and unbarbed. The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
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Kathleen Dunbar showed up after all, but her behavior was reported as "ungracious" by those that were there. Archive 2005-12-01
She unbarred the front door and walked out into the cool air, glad to be out of the building.
It paints a portrait of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and then charts the tragic fallout from her death? courtesy of an alcohol-induced brain haemorrhage? at the age of 29. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth?
It happened otherwise, however; for, after the exchange of a few indistinct words, they were antonished when they heard the noise of the unbolting and unbarring of the gates of the inn, and presently after the footsteps of men upon the stairs; and the landlord entering, with an appearance of clumsy courtesy, prayed those assembled to make room for an honored guest, who came, though late, to add to their numbers. Anne of Geierstein
Adult: Tail unbarred pale rufous above, slightly paler and greyer below; broad black band along trailing edge of wing.
How did she escape from the house without unbarring door or window? Carmilla
Her attention fixed on the men unbarring the door of the Chamber, until that was all she saw. In the Hand of the Goddess
Should any official have to travel overseas on official business and it is necessary that she/he take the cellular phone with on the visit, written application should be made to the accounting officer (DG) through the correct channels to authorise the unbarring of the phone for the duration of the visit. ANC Daily News Briefing
There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
(Applications for unbarring must be made at least a week before such trips are undertaken). ANC Daily News Briefing
The four deaths in the Forth area included a double fatality when two divers descended 65 metres to a wrecked steamship off Dunbar, East Lothian.
Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter. Balzac
Dunbar was to run the art gallery attached to the shop, Miles would take care of the books.
Robin Dunbar, who studies baboons, thinks that human language started as a substitute for grooming, because humans lived in such large groups that grooming was impractical. The Benefits of Tickling
Some even unbarred their doors and stepped outside.
Only Enid could dare him at such a time, and even she felt occasionally that sinking of the heart which the bravest of tamers may experience as he unbars the gate of the cage. The Land of Mist
Similarly, scared by the fire alarm, the heroine decides to ‘unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open’ the door and cross the space that separates her from Lovelace.
Today, O Krishna, unbarbed arrows, impelled by my arms and sped from the gandiva, mangling Karna, will take him to Yama. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
It was perhaps significant that nobody in the village of that name in the Vale of Leven in West Dunbartonshire complained about a potential slur on their reputation.
Hence the epiblast can only by continual growth accommodate what it must embrace, and the process of tucking-in is accompanied by one of growth of the epiblast, as shown by the unbarbed arrow, over the yolk. Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
Dunbar was still working in pubs and clubs, singing and hosting karaoke nights.
The Gascons purchased the business from the Ogdens in 1956 and the Dunbars ran the operation for the next decade.
They knew they couldn't let York leave, that was their job, but too many people were escaping by the newly unbarred door, being counter-acted by the pushing reporters trying to get in against the flow.
East Dunbartonshire, to the north of Glasgow, is another region where aspirant parents try to send their children to top-performing state schools.
He staggers to the door, unlocks and unbars it, and lets Desdemona and Deuterium Boy in.
They are guarded better by their calculations than a virgin by her mother and her convent; and they have invented the word caprice for that unbartered love which they allow themselves from time to time, for a rest, for an excuse, for a consolation, like usurers, who cheat Camille
Buncan could not find a spot of mud, a chunk of decaying plaster, or a blighted structure anywhere as they passed through the unbarred gate into the city proper. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
Andy Ingles from Dunbar runs his own environmental consultancy.
If the broad doors opening from the horse fair into the burial ground had been unbarred, Cadfael would have entered the precinct that way, to reach the stables without having to ride round to the gatehouse, but he knew they would be fast closed. A River So Long
I groaned and headed for the stairs, but I saw the elevators were now unbarred. Arcane Circle
Dunbar, born in Mississippi in 1904, was one of the last direct links to the unpolished, pre-war blues.
In late June, a police bust at a small scale grow op on the same block of Dunbar Street yielded several pounds of marijuana.
The firm no longer shoes horses, but still practises all the other traditional methods - using an anvil, hammer and coke fire - that the first Dunbars used all those years ago.
Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar’s daughter. Balzac
Finally he pulls on his boots, slings the pack across one shoulder, and unbars the door, stepping into the dimly lit hall. The Towers of the Sunset
DUNBAR -- At about 3: 16 a.m. Saturday, a triple vehicle accident occurred at the 53 Mile Marker of I-64 Eastbound in Dunbar. 13 Top Stories, Sports and Weather
Dunbar was, for example, to have a central role in the operation to recapture Lord Maxwell, who had escaped from Edinburgh Castle on 4 December 1607.
Dunbar adopts an intriguing position on the origin of language, seeing it as taking over many of the social functions of physical contact and grooming that for many monkey species take up a considerable part of each day.
She unbarred the front door and walked out into the cool air, glad to be out of the building.
In English literature, satire may be held to have begun with Chaucer, who was followed by many 15th-cent. writers, including Dunbar.
“Robert Dunbar has the unique personal vision, command of language, and atmospheric style to enrapture you in the wildest, deepest nightmare.” 2009 March « Dark Whispers
Brian was a brilliant excavator - I remember attending a lecture he gave on his excavations at Dunbar, and thinking I ought just to throw my trowel away.
In the ensuing attempt, Dunbar survives and rallies the Union troops to win the battle.
In the eternal limbo room Madi snarled at the door until it showed itself, then threatened to blast it to bits unless it unbarred itself.
When I got to the three log doorsteps I heard them unlocking and unbarring and unbolting. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ramsay and Fraser reckoned that perhaps one-third might desert Dunbar when it came to the crunch.
Medals were worn in the 17th century by both Dutch and Swedish troops engaged in the Thirty Years War, and British parliamentarian troops who fought at Dunbar in 1650 were awarded a medal for that event.
Anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, Robin Dunbar offers two suppositions that are pertinent here. Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
The guard at the gate made no move to unbar it, however.
Dunbar-based drinks minnow Belhaven has continued to confound the pessimists with bubbling trading results and analysts now expect profits to rise from #5.7m to at least #7.2m in the current year.
At 14 he returned to being a full-time scholar at Dunbar High School, where he excelled at mathematics, and then at 16 he went back to the millwright's trade.
He showed no fear of any man, but neither would he leave gates unbarred, or fail to set good sentries on the walls. A River So Long
In towns such as Haddington, Dunbar, North Berwick and Longniddry, you'll find the full range of properties available - everything from one-bed flats above retail premises to grand country houses and manses.
In 1790, Meason, who became the area's leading ironmaster, built Union furnace on Dunbar Creek, along with nearby forges.
Dr. Bonnie Dunbar set the US space record of 112 days in space aboard the shuttle and Russian space station Mir.
Hark got a ladder and set it against the chimney, on which I ascended, and hoisting a window, entered and came down stairs, unbarred the door, and removed the guns from their places.
The doors were unbarred, opened and sunlight flooded into the gloom.
Polly Dunbar is the author-illustrator of many childrens books, including Dog Blue, Penguin, and six stories featuring Tilly and Friends. The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon by David Almond & Polly Dunbar: Book summary
Even the low two-storey army buildings seemed to smile a delayed welcome, as a gate was unbarred and I went through an elaborate signing-in ceremony in the guardroom.
It is hidden away and surrounded by park land and woods, with views to the north over Dunbar to the Firth of Forth.
Dunbars full-color illustrations, many stretching across two pages, nimbly dodge the prose. The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon by David Almond & Polly Dunbar: Book summary
He tried the gate in the high back fence and found it unbarred. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
We'll have a look at the town, and I'll stand you a drink as soon as the first dramshop unbars its door. The Urth of the New Sun
We must not only acquire that culture which is the golden key that unlocks all doors and unbars all gates, but we must cultivate that straightforwardness of purpose and unconquerable determination which enables a people to face conditions "without fear and without reproach. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
The head evil one shouted out some command, and the door was unbarred and then opened.
Wrongkong was founded in 2004 when the balletomane Dunbar linked up with local club act the Strike Boys (Yamaha and Kaiser). Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven
But humans don't behave that way. anthropologist Robin Dunbar posited that primates have neurobiologically-based limits to the size of their social networks. GigaOM
From the accrued points, I've mooched one title this past month -- Robert Dunbar's The Pines -- and that's not even a book I had on my wish list. Do You Book Mooch?
The labouring hunter tufts the thick unbarbed grounds Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete
For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
For Dunbar, 19, who cried during the ceremony, finishing boot camp was the high school graduation he missed.
It unbars the gates of Japan, and breaks down the Chinese walls of exclusion -- and filling her bays with the cast-away idols of Paganism, is teaching the land of Sinim the power of eternal Truth. The Bible or Atheism
Mustafah Abdulaziz for The Wall Street JournaL Dunbar housing, located between 149th Street and 150th Street off 7th and 8th avenues in Manhattan. Pinnacle May Lose Harlem Site
Similarly, scared by the fire alarm, the heroine decides to ‘unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open’ the door and cross the space that separates her from Lovelace.
Having spread his excellent bed of barbed and unbarbed arrows, that hero lieth on it like the divine Skanda on a clump of heath. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
The innkeeper unbarred the main gates and pushed them back to reveal the stranger. Father Swarat
Mrs Linton, on the third day, unbarred her door, and having finished the water in her pitcher and decanter, desired a renewed supply, and a basin of gruel, for she believed she was dying.
Although to a majority of white residents and newcomers Gray was the lesser-known candidate, he was well-known to longtime black residents who remembered the standout Dunbar High School graduate. For Gray, a methodical path to the mayor's office
Mother didn't stir for a moment, for the notion of unbarring the door went against her. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls
But it was perfect, with an unbarred window that overlooked the grounds of the camp on the side away from the barracks. SKORPION'S DEATH
To make that clear she unbarred the door, left a note tacked to it explaining that only if it was a true emergency would they disrupt her peace.
So with no one else in the room and Rana sleeping, her door was unbarred.
No man of the dull crew saw him slip through the door unbarred. Archive 2010-05-01
When she hears that it is Mak she unbars the door, but when she sees what her husband brings she is afraid. English Literature for Boys and Girls
Tomochichi and other Indian Chiefs re-embarked on board the Prince of Wales, commanded by Capt. George Dunbar, who was bound for Georgia with a Transport of Salzburghers and German Protestant Refugees.
The bronze doors of the sanctuary were unbarred.
Daniel Dunbar, Michael Hooley and Kev Brown, all in their late twenties, say there's no entertainment like it.
Dunbar's departure rendered the whole operation quite fruitless.
Though this was done with an almost extraordinary timidity, I hailed it with happiness, as being the first word, voluntarily spoken, since the critical moment, when I had caught her unbarring the back door, to go out among those waiting brutes. The House on the Borderland
When the officer had seen him to the porch, he returned, and again unlocking and unbarring the door of the cell, set it wide open, informing its inmate that he was at liberty to walk in the adjacent yard, if he thought proper, for an hour. Barnaby Rudge
Each carried an iron-headed axe in a girdle, a bow about six feet in length strung with twisted bark, and a few ill-made arrows with peacocks 'feathers at one end and an iron unbarbed head tapering to a point at the other. My First Voyage to Southern Seas
It represents the fruition of a year's negotiations by a man virtually unknown in Scotland, even though he was reared in Dunbartonshire.
Dayna Dunbar is a native Oklahoman who currently makes her home in Los Dayna Dunbar biography
Yelling at him to be patient, she clambered into a pair of brigga, pulled on a shirt, and ran barefooted to unbar the door and let him in. A TIME OF WAR
The signed note will be one of several historically significant documents to be sold as part of a rare book auction at Dunbar Sloane's Auckland salerooms on May 13.
Dunbar contends that humans evolved vocal grooming as a more efficient form of bonding.
This is attached to a long line and fitted into a copper cap on the end of a long pole, the whole constituting an unbarbed spear. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
Kevin Costner's character, Lt. Dunbar, appears to be the only decent White in the movie, apart from his love interest, who is a White captive among the Indians, and thereby 'ennobled' by the Indians 'benevolent influence. Vanishing American
Flameless -- motionless -- hurtless -- the fine arrow; unplumed, unpoisoned, and unbarbed; aimless -- shall we say also, readers young and old, travelling or abiding? Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
There, when the sentence of the Fathers stands fixed for battle, the Consul, arrayed in the robe of Quirinus and the Gabine cincture, with his own hand unbars the grating doors, with his own lips calls battles forth; then all the rest follow on, and the brazen trumpets blare harsh with consenting breath. The Aeneid of Virgil
Adult: Tail unbarred pale rufous above, slightly paler and greyer below; broad black band along trailing edge of wing.
Moray, of March, and Dunbar [1] departed from the great host, they took their way thinking to pass the water and to enter into the bishopric of Durham, and to ride to the town and then to return, brenning and exiling the country and so to come to Newcastle and to lodge there in the town in the despite of all the Englishmen. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Through careful strategy, Cromwell gained an unlikely victory at the Battle of Dunbar.
Dunbar balanced his apparently cavalier attitude towards the Kirk by occasionally cracking down on papism, a proven means of garnering positive public opinion without risking controversy.
Given the potential for expressive articulations to be negative rather than positive, and the potential for manipulative articulations to be coercive rather than diplomatic, we might want to relate Dunbar's protolinguistic gossip to the antagonistic systems of status-struggles as well as to grooming, factor in the bluster and breast-thumping, the antipathic as well as the sympathic, but otherwise ... Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
Okay, so I'm going to try to get through the window, and you guys have to hold on to my ankles, and then I'll unbar the door so we can get out.
The visit instigated several poetic exchanges between Dunbar and Cotter.
The soldiers murmured as a few of their number did as Amerial requested, unbarring and unlocking the door.
I threw open the newly unbarred door then reached for her arm, but she had mist drifting around her ankles. Fatal Circle
Even the low two-storey army buildings seemed to smile a delayed welcome, as a gate was unbarred and I went through an elaborate signing-in ceremony in the guardroom.
Dunbar, born in Mississippi in 1904, was one of the last direct links to the unpolished, pre-war blues.
Performances by Susan Daniel, Elaine Dunbar and Dawn Sadoway were flawless and the height of craft - as was the music and choreography.
Also Robin Dunbar argues human intelligence evolved in a Machiavellian social skills arms race. Redistribution: Blocking the Revenge of the Nerds?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The second supposition offered by Dunbar is the idea that gossip essentially performs the same function as grooming, that language evolved primarily with this function, as a more ergonomic surrogate for grooming. Notes on Strange Fiction: Narrative's Function (3)
The Moon rose to meet his daughter, the star Ishtar, and the Queen unbarred the door to the tower.

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