give admittance

My heart was scarcely large enough to give admittance to so swelling a thought.

Moments later, he came to the doors that gave admittance to the bridge.

Yet completeness is worth nothing, if it gives admittance to a crowd of lies.

Frequent entryways from the banquettes gave admittance to the interior of the wall.

Maybe like an elevator with glass walls, which hovered at each floor but gave admittance to none that was not an anchor.

Two more gates facing the fountains gave admittance to the fortifications of the Sandhold.

Gryphus followed his daughter, and the trap-door closed over his head, just as the broken gate gave admittance to the populace.

Be ready-" They were at another door, and before them was a long corridor with tall window openings near the ceiling which gave admittance to the sunlight.

Lamps set into the walls and the central pillar shed plenty of light towards the doors which lined the walls, giving admittance to Orison's secret passages.

The panel, if swung outward from the wall on open air, would have the peculiar property of giving admittance to the world Cykranosh, many million miles away in space.

A few apparently reliable steps led to a narrow porch which inspired less confidence; then an open door gave admittance to the small room where the merchant showed his wares.

The school is only one out of two in Lower Manhattan that also gives admittance to English as a Second Language (ESL) students.

Out of the recesses of a dark closet, into which this aperture gave admittance, he brought a large pasty, baked in a pewter platter of unusual dimensions.

Sire de Coucy was married to King Edward III's daughter, Isabella, and was given admittance to the Order of the Garter on their wedding day."

For a moment that seemed eternity he had to struggle against the impact of that hatred, fighting to clear his mind of it and drive out the alien thoughts to which he had given admittance.

This is a thing that the arts that address themselves to the eye do not do, for if one is not disposed to give admittance to their impressions, one has only to look the other way.

The neighbouring Market House and Town Hall abutted against its next neighbour the Church except in the lower storey, where an arched thoroughfare gave admittance to a large square called Bull Stake.

Noah could distinguish between clean and unclean animals inasmuch as the ark of itself gave admittance to seven of the clean animals, while of the unclean ones it admitted two only (Sanh.

Long ago, massive gates in the southeast curve of the watchtower's base had protected a passage under the tower-a tunnel which gave admittance only to the closed courtyard between the tower and the main Keep, where stood a second set of gates.

A large arched doorway gave admittance to a passage, lighted at the other end by a small court, on the far side of which was the shop into which Madame de Lamotte had been taken on the occasion of the accident.

While Dougal, unwillingly, and with as much delay as possible, undid the various fastenings to give admittance to those without, whose impatience became clamorous, my guide ascended the winding stair, and sprang into Owen's apartment, into which I followed him.

As he was endeavoring to settle himself again to his task, the shop-door opened, and gave admittance to no other than the stalwart figure which Peter Hovenden had paused to admire, as seen amid the light and shadow of the blacksmith's shop.

Babur whose bold and elastic mind never gave admittance to despair but even in the lowest depths of danger turned to any gleam of hope saw that matters were fast advancing to a crisis and that some stirring and energetic measures were indispensably required.

In obedience to the summons, there was a general gathering of rank, wealth, and beauty; and the wide door of the Province House had seldom given admittance to more numerous and honorable guests than on the evening of Lady Eleanore's ball.

With the smoke and jets of flame issuing from the chinks and crevices of this door, which seemed to give admittance into the hill-side, it resembled nothing so much as the private entrance to the infernal regions, which the shepherds of the Delectable Mountains were accustomed to show to pilgrims.