In that era, debt was still punishable by imprisonment, and prison gates were almost ready to unbar in hospitable welcome to Marguerite and D'Orsay.
"Superwomen"
Albert Payson Terhune
No sooner had she made this dreadful out-cry, but I heard her lady's door, with hasty violence, unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open, and my charmer's voice sounding like that of one going into a fit.
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
"I think we had best make a rush at them, Boduoc, shouting at the top of our voices as we go, and bidding the woman stand in readiness to unbar the door.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty