close-barred

The first speaker glanced unconsciously at the close-barred doors and velvet-hung windows, and smiled bleakly.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

The first speaker glanced unconsciously at the close-barred doors and velvet-hung windows, and smiled bleakly.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

He is here represented on foot, dressed in the chain mail and tunic of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with a close-barred helmet, with a broad flat crown, such as was worn in France in the time of

Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

Undaunted by their snarls, the crickets flew over the drawbridge, and finding a way into the castle through the close-barred windows, swarmed round the Sorcerer's head.

The Fairies and the Christmas Child 1912

Behind, on the hillside, was the convent, with its avenue of stunted elms, its close-barred windows, its terrible prison-like silence.

The Master Mummer 1906

How they sigh in the gloom of their close-barred tomb

Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

The Light beats up against the close-barred doors,

Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

Tall flat houses rose in the chill mist to our left and stared blankly down upon us with close-barred green eyelids.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

Behind the close-barred door of the tower the love letters of Edward Gibbon to the village belle were preserved, among them that cold and cruel epistle in which for prudential reasons he renounced the love of Mademoiselle Curchod, whom he would "always remember as the most worthy, the most charming of her sex."

In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886

Before the war it had been a tobacco warehouse, situated close by the Lynchburg Canal, and a short distance from James River, whose waters ran by in full view of the longing eyes which gazed upon them from the close-barred prison windows.

Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877