barring-out

_ The old bell will never again ring out the gay 'larums of a 'Third Entry' barring-out.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

Christmas holidays, of _barring-out_ the master, and keeping him out of the schoolroom until the boys 'grievances had been listened to and promise of redress given; and the best account of this custom that I have ever met with is in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1828, vol.ii. p. 404, etc.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Suddenly waving his hand, he exclaimed aloud, 'Three cheers for the barring-out, and success to our cause!'

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

He observed that delays were dangerous; 'the barring-out,' he said, 'should take place the very next morning to prevent the possibility of being betrayed.'

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

Of this interval his biographers have given no account, and I know it only from a story of a barring-out, told me, when I was a boy, by Andrew Corbet of Shropshire, who had heard it from Mr. Pigot his uncle.

Life of Addison, 1672-1719 1909

The practice of barring-out, was a savage license practised in many schools to the end of the last century, by which the boys, when the periodical vacation drew near, growing petulant at the approach of liberty, some days before the time of regular recess, took possession of the school, of which they barred the doors, and bade their master defiance from the windows.

Life of Addison, 1672-1719 1909

Of this interval his biographers have given no account, and I know it only from a story of a barring-out, told me, when

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

The practice of barring-out was a savage license, practised in many schools to the end of the last century, by which the boys, when the periodical vacation drew near, growing petulant at the approach of liberty, some days before the time of regular recess, took possession of the school, of which they barred the doors, and bade their master defiance from the windows.

Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

See them among their grandchildren and great-grandchildren; how garrulous they are, how they compare one with another, and insist on likenesses which no one else can see; how gently the old lady lectures the girls on points of breeding and decorum, and points the moral by anecdotes of herself in her young days -- how the old gentleman chuckles over boyish feats and roguish tricks, and tells long stories of a 'barring-out' achieved at the school he went to: which was very wrong, he tells the boys, and never to be imitated of course, but which he cannot help letting them know was very pleasant too -- especially when he kissed the master's niece.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

See them among their grandchildren and great-grandchildren; how garrulous they are, how they compare one with another, and insist on likenesses which no one else can see; how gently the old lady lectures the girls on points of breeding and decorum, and points the moral by anecdotes of herself in her young days -- how the old gentleman chuckles over boyish feats and roguish tricks, and tells long stories of a 'barring-out' achieved at the school he went to: which was very wrong, he tells the boys, and never to be imitated of course, but which he cannot help letting them know was very pleasant too -- especially when he kissed the master's niece.

Sketches of Young Couples Charles Dickens 1841