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And now he could only bar himself in and wait for the great flint to come singing into his heart.

- Earle Birney
  'Bushed'.

When I went to the Bar as a very young man, (Said I to myselfsaid I), I'll work on a new and original plan, (Said I to myselfsaid I).

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Iolanthe, act1.

   Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

- Aemilia Lanyer
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza1.

His Majesty entered the House, and as he passed up towards the Chair, he cast his eye on the right hand near Ruskin the Bar of the House where Mr Pym used to sit; but His Majesty, not seeing him there (knowing him well) went up to the Chair and said,'By your leave, Mr Speaker, I must borrow your chair a little.'

-John Rushworth
  His account of the attempt made by Charles I to arrest five Members of Parliament on 4 Jan.

   Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.

- Robert William Service
  Songs of a Sourdough,'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'.

One can scarcely imagine a speaker at a meeting of a county medical society discussing the possible elimination of some disease by public health measures, and then qualifying his observations by the statement that many practitioners make a living out of treating the disease in question; and that unless the physicians are vigilant to prevent the adoption of such measures, this source of business will be taken from them.Yet speakers at barassociationmeetings arefrequently heard tomake similar observations about the effect of proposed reforms.

- ArthurJr Sutherland
  'A New Society and an Old Calling,' in the Cornell Law Quarterly.

Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.

-Tennyson
  'Crossing the Bar', l.9^16.This wasTennyson's last poem.

He sat at the cocktail bar† It wore the air of a fashion magazine, once stiff and shiny, which too many people had handled.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Officers and Gentlemen, bk.1, ch.8.

'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through the court, and round the judges thronging thickly, With prayers they dare not speak aloud Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar You can see them through the gloom In the pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are Awaiting their death-doom.

-Jane Francesca ne  e Elgee Wilde
'The Brothers'.