Do we say entrance or entrants

entrance 6541 occurrences

One of the crew was endeavoring to force an entrance into the locked lazerette, doubtless with the intention of destroying the valuable aeroplane.

By the original plan devised at Hampton Court, it had been arranged that the entrance of the Scots into England should be the signal for a simultaneous rising of the royalists in every quarter of the kingdom.

arco, m., arch, archway, entrance arch, niche, recess; iris, rainbow.

boca, f., mouth; de , on (his) face; de manos á , all of a sudden; unexpectedly; punto en , silence, hush. boca-calle, f., entrance (end or opening) to a street. bocado, m., morsel, bite.

emblema, m., emblem. embocadura, f., mouth, entrance.

entrada, f., entrance.

penetrar, to penetrate, enter, gain entrance; refl., to enter, penetrate.

It is not to be taken for granted that the particular regimen of studies, best fitting the student to pass the entrance examinations of a college or university, is the best possible for the nine out of ten students, who go directly from the high school into the world, and must fulfill some measure of moral leadership for American democracy.

Thus it is apt to keep its bars down and its entrance requirements flexible.

Well, in the mood cited, the institution raises and standardizes its entrance-requirements and generally excludes special students.

He therefore stood for the western entrance of Magellan's Straits, sighting Cape Descada on 17th December, following the coast round to Christmas Sound, which they reached on the 20th, the country passed being described as "the most desolate and barren I ever saw."

Cook says that on the charts he had, a large entrance or strait was represented, and in the account of Martin d'Aguilar's voyage in 1603 mention is made of a large river, near where he struck the coast, but he did not see any signs of either.

The Board of Engineers were also directed to examine and survey the entrance of the harbor of the port of Presquille, in Pennsylvania, in order to make an estimate of the expense of removing the obstructions to the entrance, with a plan of the best mode of effecting the same, under the appropriation for that purpose by act of Congress passed 3d of March last.

The Board of Engineers were also directed to examine and survey the entrance of the harbor of the port of Presquille, in Pennsylvania, in order to make an estimate of the expense of removing the obstructions to the entrance, with a plan of the best mode of effecting the same, under the appropriation for that purpose by act of Congress passed 3d of March last.

And almost since the arrival of the Marshalls in La Chance and his unceremonious entrance into the house as, walking across the fields on a Sunday afternoon, he had heard Professor Marshall playing the Doric Toccata on the newly installed piano, he had spent his every Sunday evening in their big living-room.

She looked up at his quiet entrance, and her face must have given him his cue.

Sitting beside a window, chin in hand, her lower lip compressed between her teeth, she saw Fyfe, after the lapse of ten minutes, leave by the front entrance, stopping to chat a minute with Linda and Charlie Benton, who were moving slowly toward the house.

The British landed at the entrance of Lake Borgne in December, 1814, and hurried to the banks of the Mississippi.

We present a perspective view of the bridge as seen from the entrance to the exhibition building, which is situated in close proximity to the southern end of the bridge.

" An hour or two afterwards, when he paid his usual visit to the Regent, her Majesty rose on his entrance, according to the established etiquette, and made him a profound curtsey.

The cabin hatchway was closed, and the only entrance was at the farther end, through the hold, by means of a small doorway in the bulk-head, to which was attached a sort of porch, with a curtain of deer-skins hung in front of it.

According to the public voice, Lady Monteagle at his solicitation had fled to his house, and remained there, and her husband forced his entrance into the mansion in the middle of the night, while his wife escaped disguised in Lord Cadurcis' clothes.

There was a debate of some public interest, and a considerable crowd was collected round the Peers' entrance.

There is a stoup at the W. entrance, and another in the N. chapel.

Worle, Hutton, Locking, Loxton, Banwell); (2) arch with quaint finial at entrance to rood-loft stair; (3) old glass in S. chapel.

entrants 8 occurrences

At eight o'clock the championship entrants from the Indefatigable came aboard, accompanied by many of their companions, who would be present to cheer them on.

The running broad jump was won by the Queen Mary's entrants.

For the beauty of this scheme of mine was that there was no limit to the number of entrants.

The puffy wind had scared most of the entrants of the freak types and only five of the more conventional kind of aircraft were on the starting line.

The Constituent Assembly declared the Order of St. John to be a foreign Power possessing property in France, and, as such, liable to all taxes to be levied on natives, and immediately afterwards a decree was passed declaring that any Frenchman belonging to an Order of Knighthood which demanded proofs of nobility from entrants could not be considered a French citizen.

The revisions of the Tweedmouth Inter-Departmental Committee came into force in 1897, involving many concessions to the male staff, and simultaneously the minimum salary of the Women Clerks was, without any warning, reduced for new entrants to £55 per annum, and the increment for the first six years was reduced to £2, 10s.

And our trench-line, with its infinity of salients and re-entrants, is itself only part of the great salient of "Wipers."

Others are young and vigorous, recent entrants in the planet-wide contest for pelf, possessions and power.

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