The ingress of the baby into the world gave the family hope for the future. From LearnThat.org.
It generally had two outlets for ingress and egress. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
To facilitate ingress, a notch was dug in the wall about. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
It is important to provide means for the ingress of fresh air. From Wordnik.com. [Study of Child Life] Reference
To facilitate ingress a notch was dug in the wall about 8 inches from the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198] Reference
He has a means of ingress barred to strangers, and can strike home as no other can. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The other portion of the opening containing the ladder is used for ingress and egress. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The door was similarly barricaded, save for one post left out for present ingress and egress. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
The ingress of air is made possible whenever the lower sash is raised or the upper one is lowered. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)] Reference
An open dining-room window indicated their method of ingress, the trampled snow beneath their number. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
Every window must be effectively screened to prevent the ingress and egress of flies and other insects. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
A window broken in the kitchen, and a wide-open sash had showed the exploring Gussie the means of ingress. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
The door was old and feeble, so that one good slam would doubtless hurl it back, and give them free ingress. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats] Reference
The children, however, were not dispossessed by this precaution, finding ingress and egress through the window. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
A separate air-lock, with doors, ladder, etc., complete, is provided to give ingress and egress for the workmen. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
A half inch opening is made from F to F, just above the alighting board, for the ingress and egress of the bees. From Wordnik.com. [A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive With an Abstract of Wildman's Complete Guide for the Management of Bees Throughout the Year] Reference
In Australia and the United States it was found necessary to enact special laws regulating the ingress of Mongols. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
They resolved to leave means neither of ingress or egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
At either end of each street is a gate, which is shut at that hour, and ingress or egress put a stop to for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
What for him had been the thing by which he lived no one ever knew; his sardonic laughter barred all ingress to his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
It is provided also with a natural cover, which when closed prevents the ingress of leaves or rubbish falling from other trees. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
The headquarters palace was surrounded by a numerous guard, and all ingress by the main entrance appeared to be completely barred. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-Six Years in the Army] Reference
The raw, damp, frosty air of our ever-changing winter temperature ought not to have uncontrolled and constant ingress to our dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
Had it suited the State policy to check the ingress of the Chinese, nothing would have been easier than the imposition of a P50 poll tax. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Their general mode of ingress was by the key-hole, and of egress by the chimney, up which they flew, broom and all, with the greatest ease. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
The family pet protested volubly as he blocked her ingress with one foot and closed the door as slowly and noiselessly as it had swung open. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
In lieu of the box-cars, there are now coaches of the American type, with windows and great sliding doors which permit of easy ingress or egress. From Wordnik.com. [Some Naval Yarns] Reference
Messrs. Palmer and Haskell, so I felt that, while Fremont might be suspicious of others, he allowed free ingress to his old California acquaintances. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The past would never have been as sweet as Janet knew it, had she depended upon Eliza Jane's movements to govern her ingress and egress to the place. From Wordnik.com. [Janet of the Dunes] Reference
She heard her rush across the floor, as she did so, and, with a face of terror, she emerged from the door and stood before it, as if to bar ingress to the room. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
The doorway was low and arched, the stone work about it coarse and massive, the door had fallen from the upper hinge, and lay so far open that ingress was very easy. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Chattanooga he was directed not to move on Rome as he proposed, but simply to hold the mountain-passes, so as to prevent the ingress of the rebels into East Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The bursted crust of the sawdust heap had given free ingress to the wind, and a draught being started, it sucked the flames directly up the tall chimney the tree made. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference
The West Branch of the mighty Susquehanna, which has plagued generations of residents with its spring floodings, was the primary means of ingress and egress for the area. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
In an English fort, to think to have a mosk open to the ingress of a large body of Malays at all times is wholly incompatible with a certain reserve and security required from it. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
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