" Though in these times monopolized by Mars There's not a day that passes but one reads Sandwiched between unprofitable "pars" And other wholly negligible screeds Of decorations, crosses, medals, bars, Bestowed for valiant and heroic deeds; Over these records we must often pass Unless we've got a magnifying-glass!

Any old tune to trip the bars, Any old voice to ring it; Love will wend it away to her; Love will mend it and pray to her; Love with his love will wing it.

Forgotten fugue, a solemn tune, The bars of stately rigadoon.

He turned from the road and passed through the iron railings; then climbed the twelve stone steps and stood facing the black wooden door with the heavy bars of iron, a door he had once loathed and dreaded with the hatred and passion of an imprisoned soul, but now looked upon tenderly with a sort of boyish delight.

Thus the two following couplets are each of them divided into five bars of triple time, each bar consisting of two crotchets and two quavers; nor can they be divided into bars analogous to common time without the bars interfering with some of the crotchets, so as to divide them.

The common time of musicians is divided into bars, each of which contains four crotchets, or a proportional number of their subdivision into quavers and semiquavers.

The one at the front handle bars threw forward the clutch lever, and then turned on the power sharply to drive the last of the gases out of the twin cylinders.

Some had fled, some were behind bars as prisoners of the Germans, and a great many were dead.

The Germans had taken down the bars and sight-seers came by autobusses from as far away as Aix-la-Chapelle and from Liege and many from Brussels.

gavilanes, m. pl., cross-bars of the guard of a sword; guard (of a sword-hilt).

The heat was intolerable, and a tremendous invasion by the little pests, who were not retarded by fly screens or mosquito bars, drove the legislators almost frantic, and caused them to append their signatures to the document with almost indecent haste.

As if his soul to Erech's weal belonged, And heeded not the enemy which thronged Before the gates, that now were closed with bars Of bronze thrice fastened.

It has bolts, scourges, and bars, wherever the coloured man goes.

Prejudice stands at the door, and bars him out.

But, even suppose that he can get this first bolt removed, he finds other bars.

Wherever we go, it has for us bolts, bars, and rods.

In 1657 the Indians sold it to the Dutch for 10 shirts, 30 pairs of stockings, 10 guns, 30 bars of lead, 30 lbs.

He ordered them, after scaling the wall, to proceed to this gate, and break down the bars on the inside by force, and when they were in possession of that part of the city, to give a signal with a cornet, that the rest of the troops might be brought up, observing that he would have every thing prepared and ready.

The sea-street was filled with merchants and traders, and we were obliged to pick our way between bars of iron, skins of oil, heaps of oranges, and piles of building timber.

IN CAPTIVITY Gorgo was only three years old, and had not as yet thought about marrying and procuring a home for himself, when he was captured one day by a hunter, and sold to the Skansen Zoölogical Garden, where there were already two eagles held captive in a cage built of iron bars and steel wires.

I passed through the gate which ordinarily bars passengers from the tracks, but which that night had either been left open or opened by Roland.

"But I have more faith in my own vigilance than in bolts and bars.

"Bolts and bars!" cried Furbisher, "something must be done for the fair Amabel.

By dint of great exertion, and with the help of his sword, which snapped in twain as he used it, he managed to force off one of the rusty bars, and to squeeze himself through the aperture.

As we pass the antiquated moss-covered bars that admit us into the dear old orchard, and cross the little brook that bubbles on forever in the same monotonous sound, requiring but one smooth round stepping stone for a bridge, we sigh and feel that the change of years is upon us, for here almost every thing speaks of decay.