She had always the key, he remembered, and the power ofegress from her prison.
There was another black, the general had warned her, beyond the door, and there would be bars and bolts on any egress from the harem, but with the revolver in her possession some desperate escape might be achieved.
There, looking out, they see that egress is debarred them.
A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford freeegress for troops in a sortie.
Their thickness is therefore enormous; and yet free egress is required between them (into balconies) which is obtained by doors in their lattice glazing.
But when entrance and egress are constant, or required by crowds, certain further modifications must take place.
Even in this event, however, a great part of the lubricating material will be lost from finding rapid egress through the opening of the brasses.
A and circulates around B, finding egress at C into the fire.
Reaching the slip where the boat awaited passengers, she was vexed to see it backing out into the stream, and leaned against the chain which barred egress until the next trip.
Verily I say, the human soul is exalted above all egress and regress.
State was upheld on the ground that it affected freedom of egress from the State "only incidentally and remotely.
Had it been otherwise, they must have died of hunger or suffocation, as all avenues of egress were absolutely blocked up.
The great wall has five gates on its southern face, the central being the great gate, which is opened only for the egress or admission of the Great Khan himself.
But as I said, the many minor barriers have disappeared, and there is no bluffing the men who guard the entrance and egress to the town.
Without, one was challenged on all sides by vigilant sentries who guarded entrance and egress to the place, to say nothing of the upturned anti-aircraft guns, whilst grey naval cars panted in and out on their business.
With this, he was preparing to follow his friend, when their egress was prevented by the sudden appearance of Jonathan Wild and Blueskin.
This obstacle, which appeared to preclude the possibility of egress in that quarter, was speedily got rid of.
This is a very wonderful house, if you will not think me vainglorious for saying so, and the egress is well out of Pekin.
They had reached theegress now and held their breath.
Provision must be made for keeping the bedding off the ground and for allowing an egress of moisture in the summer and a retention of heat in winter.
This door opened into an adjacent court, little used save by the domestics, and thence egress was easy to the street.
He was ordered to cut an opening through the rampart-walls of the cantonment to allow the egress of the troops, more rapidly and less confusedly, than they could pass out through the gates.
The Wuzeer appealed to the King, who strictly prohibiting the egress of any Arab families, suffered more than seven hundred other women and children to pass out of the fort.
With a new and feverish strength possessing him he forced it open wide enough to permit his egress when the wind caught him as a feather, rolled him over and over, and then, grappling him again, held him down hard and fast against the drift.
But here, as Captain Dick was clearly blocking up all egress from the church, the sexton obliged him to move on, and again he was stopped in his conversational career.
The only coarse appearance the place had was owing to some rough ragged edged planks being nailed across the window on the inside, so as effectually to close it against the egress of any wandering stream of light from the fire.
With a slow and cautious step Ada traversed the whole of this gloomy place, and what surprised her much was that she could see no means of ingress or egress from it.
In the Cowgate this infamous system flourishes, and occasionally to such an extent that the outer room is the only mode of ingress and egress for three or four others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "egress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
