Gateway

Examples

• It was built in the Moorish fashion,--a square building enclosing a court-yard, into which the carriage drove through an arched gateway. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Presently, Edward stopped at a gateway, and Wegg discreetly lost no time in slipping out at the back of the truck. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As Mr. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested the entrance of a pony phaeton driven by a lady with a servant seated behind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was at the top of the house nearest to the gateway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He lived at the last house in Bleeding Heart Yard, and his name was over a little gateway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• But that one dark glimpse of the river, through the gateway, had instinctively prepared me for her going no farther. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• An old brick house, so dingy as to be all but black, standing by itself within a gateway. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So blackened by the flying particles of rubbish as to be unrecognisable, they ran back from the gateway into the street, crying and shrieking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• That she then saw, on the wall over the gateway, the shadows of the two clever ones in conversation above. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Standing now, close to the gateway of his mother's house, he looked down the street: but it was empty. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• They were very near the end of their walk, and they now came out of the gateway to finish it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Behind one of these clumps I took up my position, so as to command both the gateway of the Hall and a long stretch of the road upon either side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is frequently stated that a person learns by merely having the qualities of things impressed upon his mind through the gateway of the senses. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The sisters passed in silence through the stone gateway and up the steps, on the red carpet, a policeman estimating their progress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Throughout the day the old house within the gateway remained untroubled by any visitors. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Early in the morning, I sauntered through the dear old tranquil streets, and again mingled with the shadows of the venerable gateways and churches. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The power and prosperity of the towns find their best expression in these and in the fortifications with their strong towers and gateways. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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