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Example sentences for "gate"

Lexicographically close words:
gastrula; gastrulation; gasworks; gat; gata; gateau; gated; gatehouse; gatehouses; gatekeeper
  1. The gate of the palace was guarded by two lions of an enormous size.

  2. Now a loud, ringing voice was heard speaking in Spanish, and commanding some one to go to yonder house and inquire where was the gate to the Old Hall.

  3. They passed the gate which was opened for them and began to mount the slope beyond.

  4. Meanwhile John Castell, for it was he, turned through the park gate and walked to a little house by the roadside, where a stout man sat upon a bench contemplating nothing in particular.

  5. Just then the three children came running up, bursting through the gate all together.

  6. At any rate both of them rose, somewhat stiffly, and walked to the gate to look.

  7. At length, towards evening, they entered the eastern suburbs of the vast city and, passing through them and a great gate beyond, began to thread its tortuous streets.

  8. At that moment they reached the gate of the Alcazar, which they had approached from their prison through gardens of orange-trees, and soldiers came up and separated them.

  9. No, it is useless; we have no time to saddle them, and the outer gate is locked.

  10. Through the silent streets of the Tartar City we drove, passing for the last time through the Gate of Sublime Learning on to the sandy waste outside, jolting along under the great Walls, with the sun rising to meet us.

  11. Each gate is surmounted by a square tower of many storeys, loopholed for archers and musketeers, and with quaint heavy black roofs, decorated often in gay colours.

  12. The approach to Peking, which signifies the "Gate of Heaven," is indeed synonymous with the biblical definition in one particular, for it is narrow.

  13. We return to the Gate of Sublime Learning, and ascend by it on to the great Tartar Wall.

  14. This is the Temple of Buddha, and the gate of the Eternal, and should therefore be entered with reverence.

  15. Having thus prepared every thing, the full moon was no sooner up, and shining in all its brightness, but he privately opened the Gate of Paradise, and shut it after the same manner, as soon as they had passed through it.

  16. No one could count on advancement who did not show himself at the gate of the king; indeed it was difficult for any one whom the king did not see to obtain a hearing from him.

  17. Then Darius was to attack the city on all sides, and place the Persians against the gates of Belus and the gate of the Cissians.

  18. On the western side of the terrace towards the northern edge, two flights of steps, receding into the terrace, and joining at the top, lead up to the surface and the gate of the palace.

  19. When Darius became king, Syloson went to Susa, as Herodotus relates, placed himself at the gate of the palace, and told the door-keeper that he had done a service to the king.

  20. On the top of the terrace behind the landing of the steps, there was a gate in the wall, the place of which can be found by a break in the ruins; through this was the entrance into the citadel.

  21. On each side was a gate of brass, and near it poles of brass, 20 cubits in height; the first for security, the second to strike terror.

  22. Directly behind the gate to which the great staircase on the terrace leads, King Xerxes, the son and successor of Darius, erected a portico.

  23. The spur on which the wall lay was so steep that even when the morning broke a jutting piece of rock prevented the garrison from seeing what was going on, and when Antiochus led his army against the Persian gate the garrison went to meet them.

  24. When the girls stopped at Bell’s gate the little flaxen and brown heads had both disappeared.

  25. And so our Father in Heaven doth wait, Lovingly, patiently; once and again Calling us back from the broad, gilded gate Which leads down to death, through sorrow and shame.

  26. Jenny good-naturedly, as they stopped before the gate of the small cottage where Sarah lived.

  27. Can’t go frough the gate for one, two, three days; mamma said so.

  28. At last, however, she gained admittance, having been vociferously welcomed at the gate by all the younger children.

  29. This morning his widow, his orphan sons and daughter, and many of the students and citizens went out to the Eastern Gate of the city to meet the funeral procession.

  30. Our doors stand open; and timid hands which could never knock to demand admittance at castle or convent gate can venture gently to lift our latch.

  31. He rode to the convent gate with an escort of twenty horsemen, and gave his son a present of twenty florins.

  32. So that, at the moment of thy death, the gate by which souls pass into the place of torments will be shut upon thee; while, on the contrary, that which leads to the paradise of joy will be open unto thee.

  33. And when we saw the Black Bear, lo, whereas all the other landlords had refused us shelter, the landlord there came himself out at the gate to receive us, bade us welcome, and led us into the room.

  34. We who know him are only too sure that he will be a true monk, and that for him there is no gate from the cloister back into the world.

  35. But if the angels at the gate of paradise should be of the same mind as Dr.

  36. And now Flavia Domitilla lived quietly on her estate not far from the Ardeatine Gate of Rome.

  37. This end was dignified with two towers, with a central gate between them and four arched doors on each side closed with ornamental wooden gates.

  38. He snatched a torch from an attendant, and advanced towards a postern gate that communicated with a flight of steps leading to the Forum.

  39. Then through the Triumphal Gate came the Circensian procession.

  40. He drew one of them on and walked down to the gate to enter the car, when he suddenly fell upon the pavement outside.

  41. He took the path which skirted the lake, and then cut down the straight way which leads to Alexandra Gate into Rotten Row, while I followed him far behind though I kept him well in sight.

  42. At the entrance to the graveyard is the lich-gate and mortuary, where many wrecked seamen were taken for burial.

  43. They meet for solemn severance, knight and king, Where gate and bulwark darken o'er the sea.

  44. As the last guard filed out behind the ragged line and the big gate swung to, Jacquelin hobbled back to his cot and lay with his face to the wall.

  45. It did not come, however, and at the main road, when her gate was in sight, Captain Allen pulled in his horse and lifted his hat.

  46. Cary held the gate open for them to pass through.

  47. Just as the messenger turned away Ruth caught sight of someone standing in the shrubbery, and as the man went out of the gate the person came forward.

  48. They were at the gate now, and Ruth invited him in; but Rupert said he had an engagement.

  49. They at length came to a gate and were just considering turning in at it when a carriage drove up in front of them.

  50. When he opened the gate he saw that there were several persons on the porch; but as he approached they all rose and disappeared in the house.

  51. The gate fell to with a thud and a click.

  52. As she crossed the field she heard the farmyard gate open and shut.

  53. The road kept on curling round like a snake, bringing her back and back to the white gate of the Farm.

  54. A stripe of darker green, where their feet had trodden down the blades, led straight as a sheep's track from the garden gate to the opening of the ring.

  55. When she got through the gate she stepped off the field on to the low bridge over a black canal.

  56. It was five minutes before she returned; and she then, with the same prim, smileless expression of countenance, opened the gate and motioned him to follow.

  57. Harassed in this world of action, he knocks at the gate of that world of idea or fancy which he is privileged to enter; he escapes from the clay to the spirit.

  58. The camels that come down from Mongolia and wind their unhurried way from Chien Men Gate to the Gate of the Heavenly Peace form one of the most picturesque of the many picturesque sights in fascinating old Peking.

  59. I left and went out to the gate where the snake-charmers were juggling with a dozen hissing cobras.

  60. Fifteen years ago," said he to me as I alighted at the gate of his shrubbery, "I was taken up in Piccadilly and set down here.

  61. After no long while he removed within the walls of Trinity, and resided first in the centre rooms of Bishop's Hostel, and subsequently in the Old Court, between the Gate and the Chapel.

  62. As I walked through the gate into the Red Square I saw the usual crowd of peasant women at the little chapel of the Iberian Virgin, where there was a blaze of candles.

  63. There was scaffolding round the gate of the Kremlin which was damaged at that time and is being carefully repaired.

  64. I walked through the snow to the white gate at the end of the bridge which leads over the garden up a steep incline to the Kremlin.

  65. A big fellow in the meager guard at our gate was a host in himself.

  66. The natives declare that the Mersina gate was built by Harun-al-Rashid, hero of the Arabian Nights.

  67. The night we arrived in Tarsus, after our weeks of camping in the Taurus, we rode our tired horses under the arch of the college gate at ten P.

  68. They went toward the city, these joyful messengers, but when they came to the gate they heard the sounds of mourning and lamentation.

  69. Down the ram flew, and alighting on the ground, stood before the gate of that city.

  70. He came at last to the great gate that opens upon the world of the dead.

  71. He bade him stand by the prow of the Argo, ready to loose the pigeon as the ship came nigh that dreadful gate of rock.

  72. He and Persephone bowed their heads and stood aside, and Orpheus went through the gate and came amongst the dead.

  73. He went to the city's gate and he met such a man.

  74. As he played, the silent watchers gathered around him, leaving the gate unguarded.

  75. Still in the guise of an old woman she went through the streets of the city, and out through the gate and along the highway that led from Iolcus.

  76. They went through the gate and came amongst the watchers that are around the portals.

  77. The values of the world no longer held good after you had passed the wicket gate of the Garden, and spoken with the Deliverer.

  78. Great was the tumult there within, and the envoys turned about and came to the gate and mounted their horses.

  79. They dismounted at the gate and entered the palace, and found the Emperor Alexius and the Emperor Isaac seated on two thrones, side by side.

  80. The Greeks had set Englishmen and Danes, with their axes, at the gate and right up to the palace of Blachernae.

  81. On that day Henry, the brother of Count Baldwin of Flanders, was mounting guard over the engines of war before the gate of Blachernae, together with Matthew of Wallincourt, and Baldwin of Beauvoir, and their followers.

  82. And, notwithstanding all this, the Greeks ceased not to attack them, by this gate and by others, and held them so short that six or seven times a day the whole host was forced to run to arms.

  83. Yet another sortie was made from a gate further up; and there again did the Greeks lose heavily.

  84. The envoys were conducted to the gate, and the gate was opened to them, and they dismounted from their horses.

  85. A great part of the Greek lords had fled towards the gate of 63 Blachernae.

  86. And the Burgundians ran upon the Greeks and drove them in very fiercely, and followed so close to the gate that stones of great weight were hurled upon them.

  87. The stock of the poor man who had killed his goat for the poor men, sent to his gate by God, escaped the plague and multiplied so that he became rich.

  88. Not that he had ever done anything to make his reception at heaven's gate in any way doubtful, but the accident of the day makes things certain.

  89. Join voices, all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.

  90. The Prince and Philip go out through the gate and step into the carriage which has been driving up in the meantime, and which now carries them off.

  91. Did you also notice the little gate that leads directly into the woods?


  92. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.