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ingress
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  • I could find no means of ingress.†  (source)
  • They stood in a silent line, blocking Clary and Jace's farther ingress into the City.†  (source)
  • Once having decided to open the letter, he took out his pocketknife, opened the big blade, and inspected the envelope for a point of ingress, found none, held the letter up to the sun to make sure not to cut the message, tapped the letter to one end of the envelope, and cut off the other end.†  (source)
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  • "The multitude, washed or unwashed, always has free egress and ingress" into the White House, an astonished visitor wrote earlier in Lincoln's presidency.†  (source)
  • A small door, close to the lodge of the concierge, gave ingress and egress to the servants and masters when they were on foot.†  (source)
  • Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants' carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult.†  (source)
  • Beside the arched ingress hung a small bronze plaque.†  (source)
  • A door off this same porch gave into a living room which separated this room from the other parts of the house and permitted ingress and egress without contact with any other portion of the house.†  (source)
  • He passed between the scene behind which I stood and a set piece, went to the wall and pressed on a spring that moved a stone and afforded him an ingress.†  (source)
  • They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within.†  (source)
  • Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.†  (source)
  • The door had just opened to give ingress to a gentleman who stepped forward and whose face Newman remembered.†  (source)
  • The victims must have been sitting with their backs toward the window; and, from the time elapsing between the ingress of the beast and the screams, it seems probable that it was not immediately perceived.†  (source)
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