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  • Of course, you can purchase much longer leases, but barring further arrangements, if there is no activity on an account for fifty years, the contents of that safedeposit box are automatically destroyed.†   (source)
  • Just like earlier, two men were stationed at either side of the doors, and when I tried to run for them, one of them stepped in my way, the spearlike staff in his hand barring me from the exit.†   (source)
  • The first task was drawing steadily nearer; he felt as though it were crouching ahead of him hike some horrific monster, barring his path.†   (source)
  • Barring any more convoys or checkpoints.†   (source)
  • Within two trips we had it all—barring my school books in the loft—at his.†   (source)
  • We're traveling light; Evan thought we could reach Wright-Patterson in two or three nights, barring an unexpected delay like another blizzard or one of us getting killed—or both of us getting killed, which would delay the operation indefinitely.†   (source)
  • Barring a complete computer failure or other critical event, Vogel's vast knowledge of astrodynamics would never come into play.†   (source)
  • Sensing another's presence, Tita spun around; the light clearly revealed the figure of Pedro, barring the door.†   (source)
  • He was right: The worst thing that would happen to him (barring some terrible accident) was that he'd be grounded.†   (source)
  • I ran mindlessly toward the cabin door only to find Alice's mother there barring my way.†   (source)
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  • Barring bad luck, he tells himself, he might make it to the border.†   (source)
  • They acquired big houses on streets named Harvard and Yale that were lined with elm, ash, sycamore, and linden and posted with signs barring all but essential wagon traffic.†   (source)
  • There was no utility in that, just as there was no utility in barring all prisoners from contacting the outside world.†   (source)
  • …applying/removing cosmetics, beverage-spill management, etc For this reason, rather than trying to package bathroom tissue in small onetransaction packets (as is done with premoistened towelettes, for example), which can be wasteful in some cases and limiting in other cases, it has been traditional to package this product in bulk distribution units whose size exceeds the maximum amount of squares that an individual could conceivably use in a single transaction (barring force majeure).†   (source)
  • Barring mechanical failures, turbulent weather and terrorist acts, Tweedy said, an aircraft traveling at the speed of sound may be the last refuge of gracious living and civilized manners known to man.†   (source)
  • What's the idea?" asked Mo, barring his way.†   (source)
  • This she did, however, rather rapidly and the next moment I found she had overtaken me and was standing before me, effectively barring my way.†   (source)
  • Dozens of beggars lay in wait for this brief moment of encounter with a prosperous citizen, mobbing him by pulling at his clothes, barring his way, begging, weeping, shouting, threatening.†   (source)
  • Barring access to an apothecary.†   (source)
  • It occurred to me that they were intentionally barring me from any possible crime scene.†   (source)
  • Clary went to the door and was not surprised to find no resistance barring her way.†   (source)
  • Barring atomics, I know of no explosive powerful enough to destroy a large worm entirely.†   (source)
  • While Jenny was in the hospital, shirts would be worn twice, even three times, barring obvious mustard stains, between washes; milk could be drunk directly from the carton, and toilet seats would remain in the upright position unless being sat on.†   (source)
  • He still stood barring the entrance to the sanctuary, so that Dan started to get the feeling that the preacher wanted him to leave.†   (source)
  • Saphira labored in silence for another few minutes, then added,However, barring any other unpleasant surprises, we should arrive at Du Weldenvarden by evening .†   (source)
  • Although they were barring me from heaven.†   (source)
  • "We can leave here early on the morning of the twenty-second," he said, "and barring accidents, we should make the campground in plenty of time for the grand opening.†   (source)
  • Barring that, they'll lease you a car.'†   (source)
  • "Johnnie," he began, facing around and barring her way, when they were finally alone together between the trees, "do you remember the last time you and me was on this piece of road here—do you?"†   (source)
  • Colonel Aureliano Buendia, convinced that the majority of those who came into his workshop to greet him were not doing it because of sympathy or regard but out of the curiosity to meet a historical relic, a museum fossil, decided to shut himself in by barring the door and he was not seen any more except on very rare occasions when he would sit at the street door.†   (source)
  • Barring blizzards or bouts of projectile vomiting, I attended Sunday services every week, and that week was no exception.†   (source)
  • He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.†   (source)
  • Driven in part by conservative Christians, Republican presidents, including both Bushes, instituted the "gag rule," barring funds to any foreign aid group that, even with other money, counseled women about abortion options or had any link to abortions.†   (source)
  • Before them rose Bree-hill barring the way, a dark mass against misty stars; and under its western flank nestled a large village.†   (source)
  • Major Danby stood barring the door, waving everyone else away in ashen silence.†   (source)
  • Father stood in front of the door, barring their entrance.†   (source)
  • I'm not suggesting we start barring the doors, but I am suggesting we give contingencies some thought.†   (source)
  • The owner of the bar had threatened to post a sign barring all Russians, but of course he could not.†   (source)
  • Barring a miracle, it was the end of nineteen years of planning and effort.†   (source)
  • Barring the unforeseen, she should be on her feet well before then.†   (source)
  • Onward, please, through the connecting door and into the final space, where stands the elaborate containment vessel in which 89-58 now lives and, barring any unforeseen and calamitous developments, in which he will spend the rest of his unnatural life.†   (source)
  • Because it's your body that's barring my way.†   (source)
  • Richter's office, Max saw members of the Red Branch barring his way.†   (source)
  • Then Loma appeared on the trestle, barring my way, flapping her arms at me like a farm wife trying to keep a goat out of the garden.†   (source)
  • Human nature is the same—people at the South are the same as those at the North, barring the difference in circumstances……†   (source)
  • Tired of barring their doors every night and wondering if Rattleshirt or someone like him would break them down to carry off their wives.†   (source)
  • Having first knelt down and peered under the doors of all the cubicles to make absolutely certain we were alone and could not be overheard, he explained in an agonized whisper that I must never, on pain of banishment, address the Deputy as anything but "Chief," or, barring that, by his Boer War title of "Colonel."†   (source)
  • It's been west and north-west winds all the way, barring an occasional calm.†   (source)
  • At night now, in the increasingly crowded main streets, there was the atmosphere of the village, with unsteady groups around the little drinking stalls in the shanty areas, the cooking fires on the pavements, the barring off of sleeping places, the lunatic or drunken old men in rags, ready to snarl like dogs, taking their food to dark corners, to eat out of the sight of others.†   (source)
  • and were certain, barring accidents or illness, of completing your training and your term.†   (source)
  • Each man eventually receives his just desserts-barring unfortunate accidents, of course-and so each man, rather than society as a sudden whole, may come into the divine inheritance which the ambitious Accelerationists wished to scatter wholesale before everyone, even those who were unready.†   (source)
  • He would have been ninety next month if he had caught it, barring any more crazy doings.†   (source)
  • The wind often held him up, barring his way with clouds of dust and sand.†   (source)
  • There'll be nobody here Saturday and Sunday barring one officer and six men on watch.†   (source)
  • And it came to him that he was barring every exit to this house, except the exit through the kitchen, where Esther sat.†   (source)
  • As she watched they deepened and turned vivid yellow, barring the room with gold, which made it look smaller, lower, and more bare than it had at night, in the dim lamplight.†   (source)
  • It will take me forty minutes at least to reach SFO, barring any accidents or roadwork on the 101.†   (source)
  • Barring earthquakes or a rain of blood?'†   (source)
  • Barring some major revelation, she's got a pretty good shot."†   (source)
  • Barring complications, my car should be running by then.†   (source)
  • But the surgeon says he has high hopes that she'll survive, barring unforeseen complications."†   (source)
  • She looked at the window, at the mountains barring the sky in the east.†   (source)
  • A gigantic dragon was tethered to the ground in front of them, barring access to four or five of the deepest vaults in the place.†   (source)
  • The high hedge curved into them, running off into the distance beyond the pair of imposing wrought-iron gates barring the men's way.†   (source)
  • I moved in front of her, barring her way to the door—A ndie, please—and she reached up to slap me, and I grabbed her arm, just for defense.†   (source)
  • It was unfortunate, then, that I could not for much of the time give to them the attention they warranted; for one may as well declare it, one was in a condition of some preoccupation with the thought that - barring some unseen complication - one would be meeting Miss Kenton again before the day's end.†   (source)
  • They reminisced that three years ago no one would have even thought of locking their doors at night, let alone barring them.†   (source)
  • Whatever had built these tunnels possessed not only the capacity to delve through rock but also the foresight and skill to devise a barrier capable of barring intruders or trapping prey.†   (source)
  • A wall, too, the men of old had made from the Hornburg to the southern cliff, barring the entrance to the gorge.†   (source)
  • Two dozen guards had formed a line by the platform, barring them from following Qurong, who was just now guiding his horse past a hastily formed perimeter guard.†   (source)
  • The season aged not, even as the afternoons and evenings lengthened, barring the forest with rich shadows.†   (source)
  • Just as Angela finished retying the last strip of cloth around Nasuada's arms, the dwarf captain outside the pavilion shouted, "Halt!" and there came a chorus of shimmering, bell-like notes as the human guards crossed their swords, barring the way to whoever sought entrance.†   (source)
  • Barring any complication, he will be brought directly to the Scarborough S.P. barracks for charging on vandalism and possession of illegal drugs.†   (source)
  • Max looked on as the soldier barring Jason's way was knocked unconscious by the strong blond boy, who then wrenched the doors open and disappeared down the corridor.†   (source)
  • 'This is the house of Theoden, not of Aragorn, even were he King of Gondor in the seat of Denethor,' said Hama, stepping swiftly before the doors and barring the way.†   (source)
  • Then the black mass barring the road in the distance took shape, it was not mere darkness and it did not recede as he came closer-it was a mob squirming at the main gate, trying to storm the mills.†   (source)
  • The huge gynecologist, in his white coat, rose as though from under the ground in front of him, barring the way.†   (source)
  • "Hear, hear," said a sailor, "I'll say the same, barring the bit about the coracle, which wouldn't bear me."†   (source)
  • It seemed as though with outstretched arms they were fending off Pamphil, who had cut them down, and that their tangled green foliage was barring his way to his tent.†   (source)
  • All the men of that description, barring the badly maimed ones, have already got something to do.†   (source)
  • Barring the way to the window squatted a swollen purple plush chair, embroidered with agitated parrots of various hues.†   (source)
  • I must have opened it, for instantly there issued, like a guardian angel barring the way with a flutter of black gown instead of white wings, a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.†   (source)
  • Barring accidents.†   (source)
  • I lighted a fresh cigarette from the butt of the last one and asked myself the following question: "For what reason, barring Original Sin, is a man most likely to step over the line?"†   (source)
  • The Vicarate of New Mexico will be in a few years raised to an Episcopal See, with jurisdiction over a country larger than Central and Western Europe, barring Russia.†   (source)
  • It was Sutpen face enough, but not his; Sutpen coffee-colored face enough there in the dim light, barring the stairs:. and I running out of the bright afternoon, into the thunderous silence of that brooding house where I could see nothing at first then gradually the face, the Sutpen face not approaching, not swimming up out of the gloom, but already there, rocklike and firm and antedating time and house and doom and all, waiting there (oh yes, he chose well; he bettered choosing, who…†   (source)
  • The essence of his position was that the principle of exclusion has no inner check; that arbitrarily barring one minority from the exercise of its rights can be both a precedent and a moral sanction for barring another, and that it creates a frame of mind from which no one can expect justice or security.†   (source)
  • All the time they ate, Beorn in his deep rolling voice told tales of the wild lands on this side of the mountains, and especially of the dark and dangerous wood, that lay outstretched far to North and South a day's ride before them, barring their way to the East, the terrible forest of Mirkwood.†   (source)
  • She stood before the door as if she were barring them from the house--a dumpy, fat little woman with a, round face like dirty and unovened dough, and a tight screw of scant hair.†   (source)
  • Tarrou replied that obviously a mere official announcement couldn't stop an epidemic, but it certainly looked as if, barring accidents, it would shortly cease.†   (source)
  • The loneliness of the huge room, made tenfold lonelier by the bare, steep walls, the long rows of vacant chairs sunken in shadow, the barred windows barring in vacancy, oppressed him with a despair so heavy, so final, it numbed him like a drug or a drowsiness.†   (source)
  • You were always hard as a hickory nut, even as a child, and I don't like hard females, barring myself.†   (source)
  • For here again we come within range of that very interesting and obscure masculine complex which has had so much influence upon the woman's movement; that deep-seated desire, not so much that SHE shall be inferior as that HE shall be superior, which plants him wherever one looks, not only in front of the arts, but barring the way to politics too, even when the risk to himself seems infinitesimal and the suppliant humble and devoted.†   (source)
  • And Clytie sleeping in the hall below, barring the foot of the attic stairs, guarding his escape or exit as inexorably as a Spanish duenna, teaching him to chop wood and to work the garden and then to plow as his strength (his resiliency rather, since he would never be other than light in the bone and almost delicate) increased—the boy with his light bones and womanish hands struggling with what anonymous avatar of intractable Mule, whatever tragic and barren clown was his bound fellow…†   (source)
  • The tram was quite near now, and the "Jolly Cricketers" was noisily barring its doors.†   (source)
  • Nothing on earth, barring the chances of life, can keep me away.†   (source)
  • He could see her, like a little hen, with her wings spread barring his passage.†   (source)
  • How significant that shadow—a blackness barring gold!†   (source)
  • BILTON [barring the way] You can't take anything explosive in here, Sir.†   (source)
  • "I was rode," says Bill, "the ninety miles to the stockade, not barring an inch.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he strode across in front of her, barring her way.†   (source)
  • It's the hardest, barring Murrell and Cheseldine, on the Texas border.†   (source)
  • But, barring unusual circumstances, it will take place precisely at the hour designated.†   (source)
  • Even barring the Europeans there are a dozen Americans can do what North did.†   (source)
  • What's happened is a damn good thing really, barring of course its application to present company.†   (source)
  • And Dain Waris—their son—is the best friend (barring you) I ever had.†   (source)
  • But, barring such interruptions, the deliberations upon Jim's fate went on night and day.†   (source)
  • "Mot d'ordre," repeated the sentinel, barring the way and not replying.†   (source)
  • He said he believed that men were about all alike, and one man as good as another, barring clothes.†   (source)
  • They are little children rioting and barring out the teacher at school.†   (source)
  • A black figure barring the way stops the wild beast short.†   (source)
  • Now, barring all that, I mean to say she is a deuced fine girl!†   (source)
  • Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting.†   (source)
  • And barring that about Christianity (of which my opinion is quite otherwise, or I would be nae Christian), I am much of your mind.†   (source)
  • Barring rum, his match were never seen.†   (source)
  • "If thou do but touch him, thou animated offal, I will spit thee like a goose!" said Hendon, barring the way and laying his hand upon his sword hilt.†   (source)
  • Incredulously he perceived women asserting that all Germans were baby-killers, universities barring the language of Heine, orchestras outlawing the music of Beethoven, professors in uniform bellowing at clerks, and the clerks never protesting.†   (source)
  • Believe me or not, his intelligence was perfectly clear—concentrated, it is true, upon himself with horrible intensity, yet clear; and therein was my only chance—barring, of course, the killing him there and then, which wasn't so good, on account of unavoidable noise.†   (source)
  • The youngest man on board (barring the second mate), and untried as yet by a position of the fullest responsibility, I was willing to take the adequacy of the others for granted.†   (source)
  • They remained in great quietness till the caretaker should have come to shut the windows: as a precaution, putting themselves in total darkness by barring the shutters as before, lest the woman should open the door of their chamber for any casual reason.†   (source)
  • Moreover, that part of the forest had fewer trees, and scarcely any sage or thickets, so that the lambs were safer, barring danger which might lurk in the seamed and cracked cliffs overshadowing the open grassy plots.†   (source)
  • They demanded that the system be abolished, and that ten hours be considered a day's work, barring unavoidable delays, with $2.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp's impulse for altruistic enterprise was stronger than his cousin's reluctance—manifest primarily in Joachim's silence and lowered gaze—because, barring an admission of a lack of Christian charity, he had no cogent explanation to offer.†   (source)
  • And then, as she stood hesitating, about to speak, he seized her by the arm, and half flung her from the room, slamming the door and barring it with a table.†   (source)
  • He had at last found himself clear of Marygreen and Alfredston: he was out of his apprenticeship, and with his tools at his back seemed to be in the way of making a new start—the start to which, barring the interruption involved in his intimacy and married experience with Arabella, he had been looking forward for about ten years.†   (source)
  • In this particular instance, the article of her code which made it highly improbable that—barring an outbreak of fire—Francoise would go down and disturb Mamma when M. Swann was there for so unimportant a person as myself was one embodying the respect she shewed not only for the family (as for the dead, for the clergy, or for royalty), but also for the stranger within our gates; a respect which I should perhaps have found touching in a book, but which never failed to irritate me on her…†   (source)
  • And then a gentleman gave me a guinea a night to tell the story at the Empire Music 'All—just to tell 'em in my own words—barring one."†   (source)
  • "Sith that is thy humour, thou'lt NOT pass, till thou'st drunk to the Prince of Wales, I tell thee that," said the waterman, barring the way resolutely.†   (source)
  • Barring all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether.†   (source)
  • "—though on reflection he might have urged that Mr. Casaubon's codicil, barring Dorothea's marriage with Will, except under a penalty, was enough to cast unfitness over any relation at all between them.†   (source)
  • With these words, he pushed them from the room: and carefully double-locking and barring the door behind them, drew from its place of concealment the box which he had unintentionally disclosed to Oliver.†   (source)
  • Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge—barring the rare sound of the watchman—was broken in Elizabeth's ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs; ticking harder and harder till it seemed to clang like a gong; and all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her…†   (source)
  • I've been thinking of the wisdom of putting all old Tom's stores into the Ark, of barring and locking up the Castle, and of taking to the Ark, altogether.†   (source)
  • [Barring the way] If you only knew how I am tortured by the thought that beside me in this house is another life that is being lost forever—it is yours!†   (source)
  • He had not noticed, that at the moment when he was closing the doors, the archdeacon had passed close to him and betrayed some displeasure on seeing him bolting and barring with care the enormous iron locks which gave to their large leaves the solidity of a wall.†   (source)
  • He was deeply grateful and sincerely rejoiced that he had done his 'little possible' towards bringing their venture to—barring the lost baggage—a successful issue, he had forgotten the blows; denied that any blows had been dealt that unseemly first night under the pines.†   (source)
  • Why are you barring our way?†   (source)
  • This could not be done and was not done, because Poniatowski, advancing on the village through the wood, met Tuchkov there barring his way, and could not and did not turn the Russian position.†   (source)
  • "Pull, Deerslayer," cried Judith, hastily barring the door, in order to prevent an inroad by the passage through which the Delaware had just entered; "pull, for life and death—the lake is full of savages, wading after us!"†   (source)
  • It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and who was barring the passage and waiting.†   (source)
  • "It is possible that the old chap has dropped into the river," said Hurry, after looking carefully along the whole of the eastern shore, which was about a mile distant, and open to his scrutiny for more than half its length; "for he has taken to trapping considerable, of late, and, barring flood-wood, he might drop down it a mile or so; though he would have a most scratching time in getting back again!"†   (source)
  • The French army melted away and perished at the same rate from Moscow to Vyazma, from Vyazma to Smolensk, from Smolensk to the Berezina, and from the Berezina to Vilna—independently of the greater or lesser intensity of the cold, the pursuit, the barring of the way, or any other particular conditions.†   (source)
  • …that threatened Russia, the hopes the Emperor placed on Moscow and especially on its illustrious nobility, Sonya, with a quiver in her voice due chiefly to the attention that was being paid to her, read the last words: "We ourselves will not delay to appear among our people in that Capital and in other parts of our realm for consultation, and for the direction of all our levies, both those now barring the enemy's path and those freshly formed to defeat him wherever he may appear.†   (source)
  • Just short of his room, Murtagh slid out of a wall alcove, barring my way.†   (source)
  • Nine tenths of them all could be caged or trained, nothing beyond the art of man barring the bees.†   (source)
  • Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.†   (source)
  • As to the first sin, in superfluity of clothing, which that maketh it so dear, to the harm of the people, not only the cost of the embroidering, the disguising, indenting or barring, ounding, paling, <8> winding, or banding, and semblable [similar] waste of cloth in vanity; but there is also the costly furring [lining or edging with fur] in their gowns, so much punching of chisels to make holes, so much dagging [cutting] of shears, with the superfluity in length of the foresaid gowns,…†   (source)
  • I'm wrong to forestall Your marriage to Tartuffe, and my defiance Is apparent in barring that alliance.†   (source)
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