47 examples of gate-keepers in sentences

" Tsz-lu, having lodged overnight in Shih-mun, was accosted by the gate-keeper in the morning.

Information of this discovery was immediately sent to Kai-káús, who was delighted to find that Mázinderán was truly a blessed region, the very garden of beauty, where the cheeks of the women seemed to be tinted with the hue of the pomegranate flower, by the gate-keeper of Paradise.

The temple of the Dioscuri in the Roman Forum he cut in two and made through it an approach to the Palatine running right between the statues, to the end (these were at all events his words) that he might have the Dioscuri for gate-keepers.

This letter he brought to the castle gate-keeper, and caused it to be taken to Ella.

After leaving the city pavements, they bowled along merrily over an excellent toll-road, built of oyster shells from the neighboring sound, stopping at intervals to pay toll to the gate-keepers, most of whom were white women with tallow complexions and snuff-stained lips,the traditional "poor-white."

Undaunted by the despair of others, she looked straight into the eyes of the somber gate-keeper and, with every art, told the story of Robert le Marchand, brave young officer of France; of his American girl and his deep longing for her.

Down at the outer end of the train-shed the stuttering pop-valves of the locomotives, the thunderous trundling of the heavy baggage trucks, and the shrill, monotonous chant of the express messengers checking in their cargoes, lift a din harmonious to the seasoned traveler; a medley softened and distance-diminished for those that crowd upon the gate-keepers at the iron grille.

" Kent moved nearer and stood in the shadow of the gate-keeper's box, leaving M'Tosh, who was on the track platform, free to show himself.

More words, more gesticulations, but the gate-keeper was obdurate.

It was not the fault of the gate-keeper or of the lady who drove the car.

This he unstrapped and slipped into his knapsack, presently joining Hermia, who was making her peace with the gate-keeper.

By saluting next the Yaksha called Mankanaka, that mighty gate-keeper (of Kuvera), he obtaineth the fruit of giving away a thousand kine.

O king, one should then proceed to the tirtha called Tarandaka situated in the Saraswati and belonging to the illustrious chief of the Yakshas who is one of the gate-keepers (of Kuvera).

When I saw that, I said to myself, "Nota bene: Gate-keepers take people's word in Scotlanda thing that I have not seen before since I left Long Island.

The gate-keeper stepped in front of me, and when I asked him and the raving crowd that was running at me, 'What in the world is the matter?''What's the matter!'

At night-fall of the third day, with this little troop he rode down the toll-gatherer and the gate-keeper who were standing in conversation in the arched gateway, and attacked the castle.

The little box of a house where the gate-keeper lived made a bulge in the uniform blackness of the wall and its shadow.

" The gate-keeper bowed, and slipped the coin, warm from Foh-Kyung's hand, into his ready pocket.

She looked back, down the wide gravelled way, through the gate, where the gate-keeper sat, tipped back against the wall on his stool, to the shop of the money-changer's opposite.

"An auspicious day," the gate-keeper had said that morning.

The house was still unlocked, the gate-keeper at the feast.

Solomon had appointed 212 Levites to be porters or gate-keepers, to guard the entrances to the temple.

He commanded the gate-keepers to shut the gates on Friday evening, about half-an-hour earlier than usual.

"You don't mind my coming out here alone, papa?" said Dorothy, as, after a little chat with the gate-keeper, they left the park.

Except that his outward insignificance was so great as to pass the extreme, he was not one to attract attention; but those who knew Wingfold well, heard him speak of Mr. Polwarth, the gate-keeper, oftener than of any other; and from what she heard him say, Dorothy had come to have a great reverence for the man, although she knew him very little.

47 examples of  gate-keepers  in sentences