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...that nothing lessens the relish to an understanding man, nor does it dero- gate from the glory of those ancient authors who, ’tis likely, first brough... ...ight judgment in an affair, or maintained the discipline of the guard of a gate of their city, the more they think to exalt their heads the more they ... ...on planned to surprise my house and me in it; his scheme was to come to my gates alone, and to be importu- nate to be let in. I knew him by name, and ... ... in him, as being my neighbour and some- thing related to me. I caused the gates to be opened to him, as I do to every one. There I found him, with ev... ...een surprised in disorder, and his party being too weak, he had fled to my gates for refuge; and that he was in great trouble for his followers, whom ...

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... some plumed Lamachus, with enemies periodically firing the land up to the gates of London, and a Samuel Foote, of prodigious genius, attacking him wi...

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...d up the alley and disappeared into the darkness. Easing the car to the chain-link gate of the parking lot, she saw it was padlocked. Damn. Tw... ... dilapidated, but the barn had a shiny new tin roof. He drove through a split rail gate and inched along the goat track of a road. At a clearing sa... ...the killer is — and the man who shot at you — most likely came and went by the back gate, which is by Hiram’s shed. Besides the shelter, do y’all k... ... which made him wonder again, where Royce’s was. Suddenly his headlights struck the gates of Nawithla. As much as he disliked Clay Hartwell, he lov... ...e saw only three foursomes since passing through Paskova Creek Country Club’s stone gates. Driving up the hill and around the circular driveway to ...

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... one night, as he was riding home from Fallow field, and just entering the gates of the town, a mounted trooper spurred furiously past, and slashing o... ...T SUN was in mid-sky, when a troop of ladies and cavaliers issued from the gates of Beckley Court, and winding through the hopgardens, emerged on the ... ...was written in it? I never saw it—but I know all.’ Their eyes fronted. The gates of Rose’s were wide open, and he saw no hurtful beasts or lurking sna... ...55 George Meredith made him a Dolphin—him that was one o’ the oldest Green Dragons in Fallifield. My thanks to you most sincere.’ Mrs. Mel sent out to... ...EY’S PROPOSITION THE APPEARANCE of a curricle and a donkey-cart within the gates of Beckley Court, produced a sensation among the men of the lower hal... ...spirit hurried out of all shows and forms and habits of thought, up to the gates of existence, as it were, where she took him simply as God created hi...

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...f Barset Mrs Crawley would not allow herself to be driven up to the garden gate before her own house, but had left the car- riage some three hundred y... ...hould have passed by. ‘ And I will,’ he said to himself, as he entered the gate of his own pad- dock, and saw his child in her perambulator before the... ... fall. On the Thursday morning, at about ten o’clock, a fly stopped at the gate at Hogglestock Parsonage, and out of it came two men. One was dressed ... ...the house, shutting the door after him noiselessly, and closing the wicket gate of the garden. For a while she sat herself down on the nearest chair, ... ...urbing him did him a real service. Just at ten there arrived at the little gate before the house a man on a pony, whom Jane espied, standing there by ...

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...n, straight avenue through a double row of lime-trees, leads away to lodge-gates, which stand in the centre of the village of Chaldicotes; but to the ... ...forest: four open green rides, which all converge together at a large iron gateway, the barrier which 24 Framley Parsonage divides the private ground... ... that were very stern, he might perhaps have me beheaded before the palace gates. ’ Mrs Proudie drew herself up in her chair, showing that she did not... ...me himself; and now, on this morning, carriages and horses thronged at his gate, as though he were as substantially rich as his friend the Duke of Omn... ...ds, close to that long for- mal avenue of lime-trees, but within the front gate. Their walk, therefore, after reaching Mr Sowerby’s house, would not b...

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...l not go anywhere unless I am asked.” Heroic resolve! Downstairs the great gate was shut, as it usually is in houses occupied by the proprietor; the k... ...re he dines are so tired of him that they are going to turn him out.” “The gate, if you please!” Madeleine had scarcely uttered the words when they he... ...ls—” “Look here, my dear Mme. Cibot,” said the doctor as they stood in the gateway, “one of the principal symptoms of his complaint is great irritabil... ...ed the marine store-dealer. He was sitting smoking on the curb-post in the gateway, and now he rose to join in the conversation. “Yes, Daddy Remonencq... ...are few things more dan- gerous than the practice of standing to chat in a gateway. Partings are like postscripts to a letter—indiscreet utterances th...

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...ron appeared. After half an hour’s grace, Mr Wegg pro- ceeded to the outer gate, and there executed a whistle, con- veying to Mr V enus, if perchance ... ... of respect for him.’ Here Mr Boffin was heard lustily calling at the yard gate, ‘Halloa! Wegg! Halloa!’ ‘Keep your seat, Mr V enus,’ said Wegg. ‘He m... ...bring me!’ And so with a show of much cheerful alacrity stumped out to the gate with a light, and there, through the window of a cab, descried Mr Boff... ... So they both rolled on the floor, and, as they did so, Mr Boffin shut the gate. 74 Our Mutual Friend – V ol. 3 Chapter 7 THE FRIENDLY MOVE TAKES UP ... ...the floor, panting and eyeing one another, after Mr Boffin had slammed the gate and gone away. In the weak eyes of V enus, and in every red- dish dust...

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... gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint “No Admittance” on my gate. I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtledove, and am stil... ...ot want any,” was the reply. “What!” exclaimed the Indian as he went out the gate, “do you mean to starve us?” Having seen his industrious white neigh... ...t, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty handed without anxiety. While one thick garment is, for most p... ...sible is a rod of stone wall that bounds an honest man’s field than a hundred gated Thebes that has wandered farther from the true end of life. The rel... ...an. I think that the man is at a dead set who has got through a knot hole or gateway where his sledge load of furniture cannot follow him. I cannot bu...

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...him one look of a confiding softness that was to the youth like the opened gate of the innocent garden of her heart. ‘You pardon me, Margarita? I may ... ... our betrothal, I conjure thee to meet me in all haste without the western gate, where, burning to re- veal to thee most urgent tidings that may not b... ...side. She threw a kerchief over her head, and left the house by the garden gate. 49 George Meredith THE MONK BY THIS TIME the sun stood high over Col... ...he moment was wanted, to be wooed, objurgated, and regret- ted. The prison-gate was in a secluded street. Few passengers went by, and those who did ed... ...he wall to its farthest course. Turning back, he perceived the monk at the gateway. ‘A sharp hand!’ thought the Thier. ‘Intrude no question on me,’ th...

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...m heart all love, And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear! Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in, [Striking his head. ] And thy dear judgment ou... ...ive or six and thirty of his knights, Hot questrists after him, met him at gate; Who, with some other of the lords dependants, Are gone with him towar... ...es: Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain. If wolves had at thy gate howl’d that stern time, Thou shouldst have said ‘Good porter, turn the... ...Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him! REGAN: Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell His way to Dover. [Exit one with GLOUCESTER. ] How... ... bleed. GLOUCESTER: Know’st thou the way to Dover? EDGAR: Both stile and gate, horse way and foot path. Poor Tom hath been scared out of his good ...

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...nd unfettered, a few minutes would place him by her side. He rushed to the gate, and grasping the iron rails with the energy of des peration, shook i... ...s anxious friends. They drew near the house. The ladies were at the garden gate, waiting for their arrival and their breakfast. The spin ster aunt ap... ...sign. Mr. Tupman and the rest of the gentlemen left the garden by the side gate just as he obtained a view of it; and the young ladies, he knew, had w... ...the chaise stopped. ‘What’s the matter?’ inquired Mr. Pickwick. ‘There’s a gate here,’ replied old Wardle. ‘We shall hear something of the fugitives.’... ... in his shirt and trousers emerged from the turnpike house, and opened the gate. ‘How long is it since a post chaise went through here?’ inquired Mr. ... ...l be sufficient for our purpose to relate, that escaping the snares of the dragons in white aprons, who guard the entrance to that enchanted region, h...

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...resence that has aroused Donatello’s wrath.” They had now emerged from the gateway of the palace; and partly concealed by one of the pillars of the po... ...ne of the paths that lead from the obscurer part of the ground towards the gateway. “Look! is it not Donatello?” said Hilda. “He it is, beyond a doubt... ...ey beheld the tall palatial edifices, the church domes, and the ornamented gateway, which grew and were consolidated out of the thought of Michael Ang... ...he first thing that the modern traveller sees after entering the Flaminian Gate! Lifting their eyes, Hilda and her companion gazed west- ward, and saw... ... no artist paints him as the cripple whom St. Peter heals at the Beautiful Gate of the T emple,—was just mounting his don- key to depart, laden with t...

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... “Victory! victory!” cried the lieutenant as soon as he reached the garden gate. “Madame, the colonel has not been ill a moment; he is coming back—com... ...nsieur Butscha!” “Here am I, mademoiselle,” said the cripple, reaching the gate as Modeste herself opened it. “Will you be good enough to tell me whet... ... be heralded with such clatter, and it brought all the women to the garden gate. There is many a father and many a child—perhaps more fathers than chi... ... the house of Herouville. The mat- ter was nothing less than putting flood-gates with double bridges, draining three or four hundred acres, cutting ca... ...accompanied her father and Dumay to the carriage stationed at the gar- den-gate, and said to Desplein at parting, her eyes shining with hope,— “And wi...

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...r pretended church soever, that the Christian knowledge ought to be propa- gated by all possible means and on all possible occasions. It is on this pr... ... all the rivers, passes some considerable hills by the help of sluices and gates, and goes up to the city of Pekin, being in length near two hun- dred... ...hout trespassing on our orders (for so long the caravan was in passing the gate), to look at it on every side, near and far off; I mean what was withi... ...end so; the next day came a great number of the country people to the town gates, and in a most outrageous manner demanded satisfaction of the Rus- si...

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...roft after their native home, and, to jus- tify the title, had flanked the gate with two copper beeches, which had attained a fair growth, in spite of... ...and spikes at the top, and a narrow, rather giddy path beyond. There was a gate in the wall, the key of which Aunt Jane kept in her own pocket, as it ... ...them walk before her to keep the peace, and was by no means sorry when the gate of ‘The T amarisks’ was reached, and the Varleys could be disposed of.... ... and only wishing for Mysie to share it. She would have rushed down to the gate umbrellaless if Aunt Jane had not caught and conducted her, while Gill... ...tened almost out of her wits, managed to fly over an impracticable-looking gate into a field with her children, but Fergus wanted to follow the drum. ...

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... Come in by the fire, old man, and wait! Why do you chatter out there by the gate? And why are you going so late, so late, — Why are you going, John ... ...m going to Tilbury T own.” 17 E.A. Robinson Luke Havergal Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal, — There where the vines cling crimson on the wall, —... ... as they fall; But go, and if you trust her she will call. Go to the western gate, Luke Havergal — Luke Havergal. No, there is not a dawn in eastern s... ... of a grave I come to tell you this — To tell you this. There is the western gate, Luke Havergal, There are the crimson leaves upon the wall. Go, — fo... ... they fall; But go! and if you trust her she will call. There is the western gate, Luke Havergal — Luke Havergal. 18 E.A. Robinson The House on the H...

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...of the camp, in full view of besiegers and be- sieged, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly b... ... give it the true weight. Such duty kept the senti- nel at his post at the gate of Pompeii, even when the stifling dust of ashes came thicker and thic... ...d clouded with grey olive, and of the cool cisterns of living water by the gate of which he loved to sing— ‘He shall feed me in a green pasture, And l... ...ould give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate?’ Three of his brave men, apparently Abishai, Benaiah, and Eleazar, he... ...And hied them to the wall. ‘They held a council standing Before the River Gate: Short time was there, ye well may guess, For musing or debate. Out s... ... traditions often are prompted by the sight of the fossil skeletons of the dragons of the elder world, and are generally to be met with where such min...

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...; Where, sitting in a chariot burning bright, Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons’ necks, He views the clouds, the planets, and the stars, The trop... ...ircumference, Within the concave compass of the pole, >From east to west his dragons swiftly glide, And in eight days did bring him home again. Not lo... ...er of the days contain’d Within the compass of one complete year; Beside the gates, and high pyramides, Doctor Faustus – Marlowe 32 That Julius Caes... ... of eight days We view’d the face of heaven, of earth, and hell; So high our dragons soar’d into the air, That, looking down, the earth appear’d to me... ...by power of art To cast his magic charms, that shall pierce through The ebon gates of ever burning hell, And hale the stubborn Furies from their caves... ... are the sweetest grapes that e’er I tasted. [The CLOWNS bounce at the gate, within .] DUKE. What rude disturbers have we at the gate? Go, pacif... ...ttons, and lov’d only delicates, And laugh’d to see the poor starve at their gates: Doctor Faustus – Marlowe 72 But yet all these are nothing; thou ...

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...n, and the manifold array of them, even as they wrought there: and all the gates of the burg were full of men. So they rode up to the burg, and the ga... ...up to the burg, and the gates thereof were shut; then Hogni brake open the gates, and therewith they ride into the burg. Then spake Vingi, “Well might... ...a,” said the king, “we will do after thy counsel.” So she was bound in the gate of the burg, and horse were driven at her to tread her down; but when ... ...aves. But with the third seven O’er dry land we wended. There the gate-wardens Of the burg, high and wide, Unlooked the barriers Ere...

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...u are thinking of tyrants, it may be so. Say the tyrant dies?” “The prison-gates are unlocked and out comes a skeleton. But why will you talk of skele... ... when she comes near, any one might notice.” “My love,” he opened the iron gate into the garden, “you encourage the naughty little suspicion.” “But it... ...t the worst it’s no worse than a rise in rates and taxes; soup at the Hall gates, perhaps; license to fell timber in one of the outer copses, or some ... ...Miss Dale had found Colonel De Craye in company with Miss Middleton at her gateway. They were laughing and talking together like friends of old standi... ...ugh the past and find the fair Eden of it sulphurous; to be dragged to the gates of the future and glory to behold them blood: to adore the bitter cre...

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...us himself before his fane shall wait, And keep the dreadful issues of his gate, With bolts and iron bars: within remains Imprison’d Fury, bound in br... ...the stately tow’rs, Which late were huts and shepherds’ homely bow’rs, The gates and streets; and hears, from ev’ry part, The noise and busy concourse... ... some condense Their liquid store, and some in cells dispense; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burthen, and their friends relieve; ... ...d, and view’d, with lifted eyes, Their lofty tow’rs; then, entiring at the gate, Conceal’d in clouds (prodigious to relate) He mix’d, unmark’d, among ... ...fears release. The Trojans, coop’d within their walls so long, Unbar their gates, and issue in a throng, Like swarming bees, and with delight survey T...

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...d of time between Queen Anne and George II.—dines with Curll at St. John’s Gate, pinks Colonel Charteris in a duel behind Montague House, is initiated... ...mishing took place along the pleasant fields that lead from the University gate down to the broad and shining waters 18 Thackeray of the Cam, and und... ...tal to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cam- bridge was in an uproar—the college gates closed—the shops barricaded—the shop-boys away in support of their br... ...no, and began to sing, Lord Codlingsby felt as if he were listening at the gates of Paradise, or were hearing Jenny Lind. “Lind is the name of the Heb... ...he Crusades ere ever my beard grew.” “I stood by Richard of England at the gates of Ascalon, and drew the spear from sainted King Louis in the tents o... ...aying robbers, rescuing the distressed, and achieving noble feats of arms. Dragons and giants existed in his day no more, or be sure he would have had... ... fro, amidst old black canvas, Gothic halls, thrones, paste- board Cupids, dragons, and such like. Such dirt, darkness, crowd, confusion and gabble of...

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...the two Gordons,’ it was resolved, says Kirkton, ‘should be pitched on the gate of Kirkcudbright; the two Hamiltons and Strong’s head should be affixe... ...ad should be affixed at Hamilton, and Cap- tain Arnot’s sett on the Watter Gate at Edinburgh. The armes of all the ten, because they hade with uplifte... ...atcoat, wooden leg and wooden board, who acts as our representative at the gate of Alma Mater?’ But alas! he had no choice: Mr. T atler, whose career,... ...and we think you will admit that, if we have not made it ‘an habitation of dragons,’ we have at least transformed it into ‘a court for owls.’ Solemnit... ...into his proper vein. Three cuts conclude the first part. In the first the gates close, black against the glory struggling from within. The second sho... ...r; the nude, depilated devil bounding and casting darts against the Wicket Gate; the scroll of flying horrors that hang over Christian by the Mouth of...