Thanks to his directions, we found a doorway in the wall which gave admittance to a large courtyard.
While the capital of the Celestial Kingdom languished in the grasp of the accursed barbarian, admittance to the Forbidden City was granted to anyone who obtained a written order from one of the Legations.
In the light of the present state of affairs in the East, it is curious to note that an English ship which visited China in 1673 was subsequently refused admittance to Japan.
In a short time both of us left our own house, and tried to gain admittance to some other, but all were in the same confusion.
The men tried to gain admittancethrough some of the doors or windows; but not succeeding in this, they rode off.
It must therefore have been very much stretched to swallow Jonah, or Jonah must have been very much compressed and elongated.
The interpretation of the Bible has been (as already stated) an art in all Christian countries for ages.
Yet, such as it was, admittance to its halls could only be aspired to by the warriors and heroes, the great among them; the common herd was not deemed worthy of immortality.
They soon got admittance into the unfortunate man's house, where they immediately, without the least remorse, and with more than brutal cruelty, scalped the tender parents and the unhappy children.
Such persons cannot gain admittance to Jòm-aròng unless there are elaborate funeral ceremonies performed for them.
To have presented himself there in his proper person would be to have been refused admittance or subjected to a suspicion that would have kept Olly from his hands.
Hepworth had been too often behind the scenes not to know how to gain admittance there on this occasion.
Returning homewards, we crossed the Ponte Vecchio, and went to the Museum of Natural History, where we gained admittance into the rooms dedicated to Galileo.
Each arch of the nave gives admittance to a chapel, in all of which there are pictures, and sculptures in most of them.
The same afternoon he went in and out half a dozen times, gaining admittance on each occasion by springing at the knocker.
The greatest pressure to obtain admittance took place about half-past two o'clock.
The pressure to gain admittance was so great, that early in the day several females fainted away; many lost their shoes, and endeavoured to extricate themselves from the crowd, but this was quite impossible.
Locked in her own apartment Olga denied admittance to even her mother, who improved the opportunity to answer a number of neglected letters, and Regina was left to the seclusion of her room.
To-day she clung convulsively to her daughter, unwilling that she should leave her even for an instant; to-morrow she would lock herself in, and for hours refuse admittance to any human being.
You are in an Age where Hearts are young and tender; a pleasing Object gets Admittance soon.
There is no admittance for plebeians to this 'august assembly,' without a written order from a peer; but we were not to be daunted on this wise.
The custom of the age, necessity, circumstances, forced her to knock at one of those doors that, in the life of these modern days, opens to women who seek admittance alone.
I am quite sure that any circumstance, or necessity, or custom, that forces a woman who knows herself to be a woman to seek admittance at any one of those doors through which she must enter alone is not right.
While her dreams were of the life that lies beyond the old, old, door that has stood open since the beginning; while she waited on the threshold and longed to go in; she was forced to turn aside, to seek admittance at one of those other doors.
In consequence of this reviving information, I committed my school without an hour's delay to my trusty usher, and went with Sarah Peters to Newgate, where we had admittance to the cell wherein they were confined.
This afternoon, as I was talking with fine Mrs. Sprightly's porter, and desiring admittance upon an extraordinary occasion, it was my fate to be spied by Tom Modely riding by in his chariot.
Even the private soldier was not denied admittance to the President's private office, and no request or complaint was too small or trivial to enlist his sympathy and interest.
McClure, whose intimacy with President Lincoln was so great that he could obtain admittance to the Executive Mansion at any and all hours, called at the White House to urge Mr. Lincoln to remove General Grant from command.
We had great difficulty to gain admittance into any inn, and still greater to procure refreshments of any sort.
It began to rain very heavily; nor could we gain admittance until we had given many assurances that we were particular friends who only wished to be sheltered a few minutes from the inclemency of the night.
A moment afterward he recollected himself and said, "I am not quite sure that I could procure you admittance to them, because the rule has been that Americans were not to be admitted.
She would herself have accompanied them, had she not repeatedly been refused admittance to her sister.
