Re: Bar
I am asking because I have seen it only in an older literature.
Chains are useless; nothing keeps a man still. Bar anaesthesia. And anaesthesia is the
one thing barred. (Aleister Crowley, The Soul-Hunter, 1908)
Angela had always admitted, but distinctly preferable to nothing. For those few clippings were all that remained to her of the one episode that had relieved three decades and a half of drudgery—the only piece of ‘luck’ or colour (bar the legacy) that she had known. (Not There, J. Metcalfe, 1948)
Thanks for your replies.