Leontes goes on to lament that he has 'no barricado for a belly', which will 'let in and out the enemy/With bag and baggage'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
Confounded by a thousand ideas which arose in my mind in an instant, I sprang upon the barricado and plainly descried two ships of considerable size, standing in for the mouth of the Bay. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Botany Bay] Reference
One of the escort alighted, and, having struck upon the bars, a folding door within was immediately opened, and a man bearing a torch appeared behind the barricado, whose countenance, as he looked through it, might have been copied for the. From Wordnik.com. [The Italian] Reference
For, you having so long time solicited me, one while with affable language, then againe with tokens and entisements, of such prevailing power: as have broken the verie barricado of my former deliberation, and yeelded mee uppe as your prisoner, to be commanded at your pleasure for now I am onely devoted yours. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron] Reference
When enclosed they become outrageous, and charge on all sides with great fury, but without any effect on the strong barricado; they at last gain the narrow path of the enclosure, the extreme end of which is just large enough to admit one elephant, which is immediately prevented breaking out by strong bars laid across. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829] Reference
Man is enemy to virginity; how may we barricado it against him?. From Wordnik.com. [All's Well That Ends Well] Reference
Am I excluded from my own fortress; and by the way of barricado?. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
Renounce your defiance; if you parley so roughly, Ill barricado my gates against you. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXX] Reference
The Doctor falls down before the barricado, and is stretched all his hapless length fainting on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2] Reference
Their Door is a Pendent Mat, when they are near home; but when they go abroad, they barricado it with great Logs of Wood set against the Mat, which are sufficient to keep out Wild Beasts. From Wordnik.com. [The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts] Reference
I think about twelve, and set fire to the barricado of the rebels, in the face of their whole army, while they were pouring in their shot, by which eight of the twelve that attended him fell. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745] Reference
This was to draw him out of the doore, where the bait was guarded with at least two hundred men, and thirty lying vnder a great tree (that lay thwart as a barricado) each his arrow nocked ready to shoot. From Wordnik.com. [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference
But even a rhetoric lecture must have an end, and so, tossing my gown to the porter, I set off at last for Magdalen Bridge, where the new barricado was building, along the Physic Garden, in front of East Gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Spur] Reference
But this unwalled part was not without a very good barricado of wine-butts or pipes, filled with earth, full and thick as they might stand on end one by another, some part of them standing even within the main sea. From Wordnik.com. [Drakes Great Armada] Reference
Hamer hauing finished a letter hee was a writing, followed after to see what was the matter, but quickly they shot an arrow in his back, which caused him returne and barricado vp the doores, whereupon the Saluages set fire on the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference
Chatham, fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither, but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are ordered to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the barricado at Woolwich, to come up again. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
By and by comes an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to Chatham, fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither, but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are ordered to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the barricado at. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 55: July 1667] Reference
By and by comes an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to Chatham, fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither, but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are ordered to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the barricado at Woolwich, to come up again. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1667]
(Heylin) or ‘escalado’ (Holland) ‘escalade’; ‘granada’ (Hacket) ‘grenade’; ‘parada’ (J. Taylor) ‘parade’; ‘emboscado’ (Holland) ‘stoccado’, ‘barricado’, ‘renegado’, ‘hurricano’ (all in Shakespeare). From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
"But the fellow hath a pretty notion of a barricado!. From Wordnik.com. [Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims] Reference
The cunning shark was so deeply engaged, that he didn’t discover me, entrenched as I was behind a barricado of — what d’ye call ’ems — niver greens. From Wordnik.com. [The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity] Reference
No barricado for a belly: know't. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter's Tale] Reference
No barricado for a belly; know't. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter's Tale] Reference
No barricado for a belly: knowt. From Wordnik.com. [Act I. Scene II. The Winters Tale] Reference
Doth barricado hope from your soft ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Lucasta Poems] Reference
Maurice thus playing his part upon the stage -- as the general proceeded to observe -- "was a skittish horse, becoming by little and little assured of what he had feared, and perceiving the harmlessness thereof; while his companions, finding no safety of neutrality in so great practices, and no overturning nor barricado to stop his rash wilded chariot, followed without fear; and when some of the first had passed the bog; the rest, as the fashion is, never started after. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
No barricado for a belly; know’t. From Wordnik.com. [The Winter’s Tale] Reference
Time was that a three, four, sometimes sevenfold barricado of dedication, preface, complimentary poem, address, poem, or advertisement, defended the subsequent pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Castle of Tynemouth. A Tale] Reference
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