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Wicket in sentence

32 examples of Wicket in a sentence

On the forms along the wall five or six miners were waiting; while the cashier assisted by a clerk was paying another who stood before the wicket with his cap in his hand.
But the wicket being free he went up to be paid.
Mr. Luffey retired a few paces behind the wicket of the passive Podder, and applied the ball to his right eye for several seconds.
The ball flew from his hand straight and swift towards the centre stump of the wicket.
Was it thrown straight up to the wicket, Dumkins had reached it before the ball.
As I passed out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side.
A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it.
Afterward, but not too immediately afterward, a long-drawn howl made itself heard the howl of a weary warlock invoking a dilatory ghost"O Moti!Moti!O-o-h!""Ah there, Moti" murmured Tarvin, as he vaulted over the low stone wall, gripsack in hand, and stepped out through the ticket wicket into Rajputana.
"Ah, bah!" said d’Artagnan; "you have at some wicket of the Louvre a CONCIERGE who is devoted to you, and who, thanks to a password, would--"Mme.
"Present yourself at the wicket of the Louvre, on the side of the Rue de l’Echelle, and ask for Germain."
In two bounds he was at the Louvre; as he entered the wicket of L’Echelle, ten o’clock struck.
Bonacieux to take twenty steps ahead, and then followed them, ready to execute the instructions of the noble and elegant minister of Charles I.Fortunately, he had no opportunity to give the duke this proof of his devotion, and the young woman and the handsome Musketeer entered the Louvre by the wicket of the Echelle without any interference.
He has followed us several times, as I think, when I have waited for my wife at the wicket of the Louvre to escort her home."
Only take care that I am not seen through the wicket."
It was he who, after the affair of the Black River, determined at any cost to keep his place at the wicket of the telegraph office, and after having announced to his journal the result of the battle, telegraphed for two hours the first chapters of the Bible.
The travellers crossed the ditch upon a drawbridge of only two planks breadth, the narrowness of which was matched with the straitness of the postern, and with a little wicket in the exterior palisade, which gave access to the forest.
Reuben, a dark-brow'd and black-bearded Israelite, obeyed her summons, with a torch in his hand; undid the outward door of the house, and conducting Gurth across a paved court, let him out through a wicket in the entrance-gate, which he closed behind him with such bolts and chains as would well have become that of a prison.
The bolts screamed as they were withdrawn--the hinges creaked as the wicket opened, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, followed by the two Saracen slaves of the Templar, entered the prison.
Go in by the shrubbery, through that wicket."
I make for the wicket leading to the shrubbery, and I see Mr. Rochester entering.
I was sheepishly retreating also; but Mr. Rochester followed me, and when we reached the wicket, he said--"Turn back: on so lovely a night it is a shame to sit in the house; and surely no one can wish to go to bed while sunset is thus at meeting with moonrise."
At the churchyard wicket he stopped: he discovered I was quite out of breath.
The great gates were closed and locked; but a wicket in one of them was only latched.
Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate--a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it.
I hid my eyes, and leant my head against the stone frame of my door; but soon a slight noise near the wicket which shut in my tiny garden from the meadow beyond it made me look up.
Both he and I had our backs towards the path leading up the field to the wicket.
He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket.
The vehicle had stopped at the wicket; the driver opened the door: first one well-known form, then another, stepped out.
Where is the staircase, from which Charles VI. promulgated his edict of pardon? the slab where Marcel cut the throats of Robert de Clermont and the Marshal of Champagne, in the presence of the dauphin? the wicket where the bulls of Pope Benedict were torn, and whence those who had brought them departed decked out, in derision, in copes and mitres, and making an apology through all Paris?
One would have pronounced her a poor sinful soul, being tortured by Satan beneath the scarlet wicket of hell.