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The history informs us, then, that before they reached the country house or castle, the duke went on in advance and instructed all his servants how they were to treat Don Quixote; and so the instant he came up to the castle gates with the duchess, two lackeys or equerries, clad in what they call morning gowns of fine crimson satin reaching to their feet, hastened out, and catching Don Quixote in their arms before he saw or heard them, said to him, "Your highness should go and take my lady the duchess off her horse."
On reaching the gates of the town, which was a walled one, the municipality came forth to meet him, the bells rang out a peal, and the inhabitants showed every sign of general satisfaction; and with great pomp they conducted him to the principal church to give thanks to God, and then with burlesque ceremonies they presented him with the keys of the town, and acknowledged him as perpetual governor of the island of Barataria.
"Be not angry or annoyed at what thou hearest, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "or there will never be an end of it; keep a safe conscience and let them say what they like; for trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain.
Master and man dismounted from their beasts, and as soon as they had settled themselves at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who had had a good noontide meal that day, let himself, without more ado, pass the gates of sleep.
I could snap it like a twig, only there are long galleries here with many doors--I don't think I could find my way along them; and even if I could, I know there are iron gates below which they keep locked and barred.
Now, taking this, as an isolated fact, unaccompanied by any attendant circumstances, there was nothing very extraordinary in it; because in many parts of the world men do come out of gardens, close green gates after them, and even walk briskly away, without attracting any particular share of public observation.
Into the lane where he sat, there opened three or four garden gates, belonging to as many houses, which though detached from each other, were only separated by their gardens.
We no longer suffer them to appeal at the prison gates to the charity and compassion of the passersby; but we still leave unblotted the leaves of our statute book, for the reverence and admiration of succeeding ages, the just and wholesome law which declares that the sturdy felon shall be fed and clothed, and that the penniless debtor shall be left to die of starvation and nakedness.
Houses, gates, churches, haystacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose.
The boy had some slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which he shook his clinched fists at him.
A double carriage-sweep, with a snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates which closed the entrance.
"I will not say that I am disappointed, my dear sister," said John, as they were walking together one morning before the gates of Delaford House, "THAT would be saying too much, for certainly you have been one of the most fortunate young women in the world, as it is.
On one side stood the Political Resident of the State, planted there to teach him good government, and, above all, economy; on the other side that is to say, at the palace gates might generally be found a commercial traveller, divided between his contempt of an evasive debtor and his English reverence for a king.
The white-haired, soft-spoken Political Resident, Colonel Nolan, who lived in the pink house a bow-shot from the city gates, was often thwarted by her.
We meet in an evil landThat is near to the gates of Hell;I wait for thy commandTo serve, to speed, or withstand,And thou sayest I do not well?
There is danger beneath and o'erhead,And I guard at thy gates in fearOf peril and jeopardy,Of words thou canst not hear,Of signs thou canst not seeAnd thou sayest 'tis ill that I came?
What he had found to do was particular enough; it should be done forthwith, and it should bring him first the Naulahka," and then if he was at all the man he took himself for Kate IAs he approached the gates he saw Kate, in a brown habit, riding with Mrs. Estes out of the missionary's garden.
her companion cried, as the stored heat from under the city gates beat across their temples.
The shopkeeper people are at my gates day and night.
On the side nearest to the railroad, sloping causeways, paved with stone, ran down to the plain under many gates, as the gangway of a ship when it is let down, and through the gaps in the walls time and the trees had torn their way to and fro there was nothing to be seen except the horizon, which might have been the deep sea.
Between the roars of the ordnance, strains of uncouth music would break from the red walls, and presently some officer of the court would ride out of one of the gates, followed by all his retinue, each man gorgeous as a cock-pheasant in spring, his moustache fresh oiled, and curled fiercely over his ears; or one of the royal elephants, swathed in red velvet and bullion from shoulder to ankle, would roll out under the weight of his silver howdah, and trumpet till the streets were cleared for his passage.
From some temple hidden among the hills a lone priest chanted sonorously as he made the morning sacrifice to hi god, and from the city in the plain cam the boom oi the first ward-drums, telling that the gates were open and the day was born.
A man on a camel rode out of one of the city gates at right angles to his course, and Tarvin noted with interest how swiftly a long-legged camel of the desert can move.
He plied her with a hundred questions till they halted before one of the gates in the flank of the palace that led to his mother's wing.
The gaudy tile-work on the walls had flaked and crumbled away in many places, the shutters lacked paint and hung awry, and there was litter and refuse in the court-yard behind the gates.
D’Artagnan and his companions remembered their audience, and as they would very much have regretted that such an opportunity should be lost, they succeeded in calming their friends, who contented themselves with hurling some paving stones against the gates; but the gates were too strong.
At a hundred paces from the gates of Calais, d’Artagnan’s horse gave out, and could not by any means be made to get up again, the blood flowing from his eyes and his nose.
The horses went like the wind, and in a few minutes they were at the gates of London.
Even if you gained the yard, there would still be three iron gates for you to pass.
At length she heard the grating of the hinges of the opening gates; the noise of boots and spurs resounded on the stairs.
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