Bruce was beforehand with her and barred the way, standing with his arms outstretched and his back to the door.

"If you bar the door, mother," he would say, "I'll wash the floor;" and wash the floor he did, times without number!

At the moment of embarking, a whale barred their passage.

At length, after attaining an elevation of about 12,800 feet, I found myself at the foot of a sheer drop in the bed of the avalanche channel I was tracing, which seemed absolutely to bar further progress.

Ever since the battle of the Marne halted the German advance on Paris early in September, 1914, the forces of the Crown Prince had been striving unsuccessfully to break through the French lines north and east of Verdun, but the fortress had well maintained its reputation for impregnability and continued to bar the high road to Paris.

Find that my thankless soul, deprived thereof, Declines to death, while heaven still bars the gate.

" He barred her path.

I never saw a Big Tree that had died a natural death; barring accidents they seem to be immortal, being exempt from all the diseases that afflict and kill other trees.

Tutt went to the doorway and stood there barring the entrance and expostulating with him.

And stout grilles of bronze barred every window on the level of the street.

It is a strange concept that would bar the business man from the ideal; that would limit his life to an account-book, a ledger, a roll of stocks, rents, and possessions, instead of granting him the freedom of the universe, the privilege of ministering to the race.

Day was breaking, and before them in the pale light rose a steep cliff, whose jagged outline clothed here and there with brush and vines loomed up before them, barring their advance.

Does this bar the States from calling forth their own militia?

The deluge ceased as suddenly as it had begun, and an instant later the door was flung open, and the figure of a Sixth Form boy was seen barring the exit.

His right remained still "opposite Fredericksburg," barring the direct approach to Richmond, but his left extended up the Rappahannock beyond Chancellorsville, and all the fords were vigilantly guarded to prevent a sudden flank movement by the enemy in that direction.

The boat had to turn its course to the west, just as the winds were blowing from the west, barring its route.

His father, Count Raymond, having poisoned Alphonso, forged a will barring Godfrey's right, and naming Raymond as successor.

[Illustration: "His three patrons, with a hopeless attempt to appear unconcerned, were coming down the road"] "FETCH'EM OUT," vociferated the old gentleman as the landlord barred the doorway with his arms.

" The road was a smooth and easy one, barring a few cumbering bowlders.

And barring the fact that the few who are left at seventy rapidly drop away, the time of the greatest disasters would rather closely correspond with that of crime.

his young brother Valentine, for not content with repudiating the family property for himself, the old father was desirous, it was evident, through his step-son, to stand in the way and bar his own son's very remote chance of inheriting it either.

It is well known to you that there are at all times Exchange members who will commit any crime, barring perhaps murder, to gain millions.

On seeing them, he came out hastily and placed himself in front, quite plainly barring their egress.

And this wall of the South Downs, too, marked but another frontier of the same great government; beyond it lay the horizons unknown, and it barred out the sea.

State psychiatric institute here bars Negro patients and doctors.