" As she spoke the last words, she caught at the gatepost which was too broad and ponderous to offer her any hold.

As was usually the case when this happened, Jane, designated by mournful Mark as "the Pindling One," was sitting on the gatepost gazing disconsolately down the road.

It rests on the northern side of Fishergate-hill; between Bow-lane and Jordan-street, is surrounded with houses, has two entrances with gateposts which might, owing to their solidity, have descended lineally from the pillars of Hercules; is entirely out of sight on the eastern side; and from the other points of the compass can be seen better a mile off with a magnifying glass than 20 yards off without one.

I looked up at George's house as I passed, but except for a black cat sunning herself on the top of the gatepost there was no sign of life about the place.

So on the wall's outside we stand, Admire the keyhole's contour grand And gateposts' sturdy granite; But, ah, is Science safe, we say, With one who treats Trustees this way?

Bar-hold: A stone cylinder or pin, let into a gatepost in such a way as to permit the gate bar to be tied to it.

Sometimes the bar-hold is part of one of the ashlars of the gatepost.

The sharp end of this I inserted in a hole in the left-hand gatepost of the chancel gateway.

"I foundon comparing thephotos, that the onetaken in thedaytime, showed a thicker left-hand gatepost, than the one taken at night by the flashlight.

Two days afterwards the notice was fixed on the gateposts, but a week went by without its attracting fresh customers.

Quickly glancing from side to side, and then at the horse's back, which ought to occupy a medium position between the two gateposts, she safely steered the front wheels through the dangerous pass, although a grin of delight covered the face of Plez as he noticed that the hub of one of the hind wheels almost grazed a post.

Thank you very much, madame"; and he sort of slid down the stairs, tiptoed out, and wrote in chalk on the gatepost, "Weitzel.

As we passed between the stately gateposts, whirled up the splendid, tree-lined drive and came to a stop in front of the terrace, a dozen officers came running out to meet us.

Mrs. Egg chuckled as the favoured virgin went red, fingering the top of the gatepost.

Here, having dismounted, and tied their horses to the gatepost, they stood an instant, and Osra again veiled her face.

Shawnik lies in the gate to the open country, the gateposts being two huge bastions of rock from which a few riflemen could defy an army until they found a way around through the rough country of Voinik, the chain which lay between us and Niksich.

'Filbard be just like a gatepost,' she mutters; 'a' don't take no notice of anybody.'

Billy, his face worn and his eyes holding that tired look which comes of nights sleepless and of looking long upon trouble, turned and began to pull absently at a splintered place in the gatepost.

I got up one morning and found that Spot chained to the gatepost and holding up the milkman.

I thought then I would climb the high gateposts, which had a flat top, and take there the position of the little girl in "The Shawl Dance."

The fences are slate; the gateposts are slate; the stiles are of slate; the very "sticks" up which the climbing roses are trained are of slate; churches, schools, houses, stables are all of one dark iron-blue shade; floors and roofs are alike; hearth-stones and threshold-stones, and grave-stones all of the same material.

Then he went off raging to where he had left his horse by a gatepost.