the gate


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the gate

n. a forced exit; sending (someone) away. (see also give someone the gate.) I could see in his eyes that it was the gate for me.
See also: gate
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Mavra Kuzminichna opened the gate and an officer of eighteen, with the round face of a Rostov, entered the yard.
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Relocking the gate the two strolled arm in arm to the little bower which was their trysting place.
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Meanwhile, standing on the other side of the gate, he calmly put the key in his pocket.
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A hundred yards to my right was the gate from which the troops were evidently expected to issue, but to reach it I must pass the flank of the green warriors within easy sight of them, and, fearing that my plan to warn the Kaolians might thus be thwarted, I decided upon hastening toward the left, where another gate a mile away would give me ingress to the city.
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PETER was most dreadfully frightened; he rushed all over the garden, for he had forgotten the way back to the gate.
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Like a bitterly angry croaking ran the sound through the long corridors when the leaves of the gate opened: ungraciously did this bird cry, unwillingly was it awakened.
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Cautiously opening the gate the fellow peered carefully along the wall upon the outside in the direction from which he had come.
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Then the boy got off and gave him a hard thrashing, and knocked him about the head; then he got up again and tried to make him leap the gate, kicking him all the time shamefully, but still the pony refused.
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There was a bell beside the gate, and Dorothy pushed the button and heard a silvery tinkle sound within.
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It was only now, with the day drawing to a close and with them approaching the gate of the road to Berkeley, that he had broached the important subject.
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You are all dressed as are the people of this wicked city so perhaps we may pass unnoticed, but at the gate it will be a different matter, for none is permitted to leave the city at night.
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But, there was no loud irruption into the courtyard, as he had expected, and he heard the gate clash again, and all was quiet.
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From the Hump we can see the gate that is called after Miss Mabel Grey, the Fig I promised to tell you about.
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And though she looked dubiously at the house-front as if inclined to return, it was with a breath of relied that she closed the gate.
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The Farmer, beginning to be alarmed for his own safety, opened the gate and released the Lion.
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