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Entrance in sentence

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By July 3 we were at the entrance to the Strait of Magellan, abreast of Cabo de las Virgenes.
In the Rouquayrol device that has been in general use, two india-rubber hoses leave this box and feed to a kind of tent that imprisons the operator's nose and mouth; one hose is for the entrance of air to be inhaled, the other for the exit of air to be exhaled, and the tongue closes off the former or the latter depending on the breather's needs.
So the Nautilus hove before the entrance to the world's most dangerous strait, a passageway that even the boldest navigators hesitated to clear: the strait that Luis Vaez de Torres faced on returning from the South Seas in Melanesia, the strait in which sloops of war under Captain Dumont d'Urville ran aground in 1840 and nearly miscarried with all hands.
On January 27, at the entrance to the huge Bay of Bengal, we repeatedly encountered a gruesome sight: human corpses floating on the surface of the waves!
"It won't be long before we reach the entrance to the tunnel."
On February 18, near three o'clock in the morning, it hove before the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar.
The Church is on the other side of the street, twenty paces farther down, at the entrance of the square.
Her soul, tortured by pride, at length found rest in Christian humility, and, tasting the joy of weakness, she saw within herself the destruction of her will, that must have left a wide entrance for the inroads of heavenly grace.
like a sudden entrance into something new and strange, whose splendour terrified him.
Then, in order to proceed "by rule," the beadle conducted them right to the entrance near the square, where, pointing out with his cane a large circle of block-stones without inscription or carving—"This," he said majestically, "is the circumference of the beautiful bell of Ambroise.
A small and extremely dark man presently made a noisy entrance, and began speaking from the door; he had a sallow complexion and a slightly eccentric air.
He had thought that he would recognise the building from a distance by some kind of sign, without knowing exactly what the sign would look like, or from some particular kind of activity outside the entrance.
K. had been told that the building was in Juliusstrasse, but when he stood at the street's entrance it consisted on each side of almost nothing but monotonous, grey constructions, tall blocks of flats occupied by poor people.
In contrast with his usual habits, he remained standing a while at the entrance to the yard taking in all these external details.
At the entrance he nearly fell over, as behind the door there was another step.
Old, unusable forms, empty stone ink-bottles lay scattered behind the entrance.
Down in front of the bank my poor bride is waiting for me at the entrance, I'm so ashamed of myself, it's pitiful."
When it was nearly morning, and he had been working for twenty-four hours with probably very little result, he went to the front entrance, waited there in ambush, and every time a lawyer tried to enter the building he would throw him down the steps.
Down by the staircase there was a small child lying on its belly crying, but it could hardly be heard because of the noise from a metal-workshop on the other side of the entrance hall, drowning out any other sound.
The stove alone was three times bigger than normal stoves, but it was not possible to see any detail beyond this as the kitchen was at the time illuminated by no more than a small lamp hanging by the entrance.
K. went back to the main entrance, stood there indecisively for a while, and then walked round the cathedral in the rain in case the Italian was waiting at another entrance.
'What is it you want to know now?' asks the doorkeeper, 'You're insatiable.''Everyone wants access to the law,' says the man, 'how come, over all these years, no-one but me has asked to be let in?'The doorkeeper can see the man's come to his end, his hearing has faded, and so, so that he can be heard, he shouts to him: 'Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you.
At one place he says he can't allow him in now, and at the other he says this entrance was intended for him alone.
Whether they're right or not, you have to concede that his simplicity and arrogance, however little they show, do weaken his function of guarding the entrance, they are defects in the doorkeeper's character.
Also, although he's in the service of the law he's only there for this one entrance, therefore he's there only in the service of this one man who the door's intended for.
At the end, speaking about the entrance he says, 'Now I'll go and close it', although at the beginning of the story it says the door to the law is open as it always is, but if it's always open - always - that means it's open independently of the lifespan of the man it's intended for, and not even the doorkeeper will be able to close it.
Even if he has to stay at the entrance into the law his service makes him incomparably more than if he lived freely in the world.
So that he would not remain entirely dependent on the priest, K. asked him, "We're now near the main entrance, are we?""No," said the priest, "we're a long way from it.
Harris didn't know, and suggested that the best thing to do would be to go back to the entrance, and begin again.
For the beginning again part of it there was not much enthusiasm; but with regard to the advisability of going back to the entrance there was complete unanimity, and so they turned, and trailed after Harris again, in the opposite direction.
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