The rain had dwindled to a thin drizzle by the time he reached the gate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, a detachment returned through the gates with two of their number dead, arms sprawling, the hair on one a ruddy sop. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Looking up from their chores, two men dropped their garden tools and hurried over to open the gate for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Legolas stood before the gate and turned his bright eyes away north and east, and his fair face was troubled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The robot waited by the front gate, which was open. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And her mother would be there, leaning over the gates of Heaven, to see her daughter burning in the pit. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dragon stared at them as he approached the gate. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They ran to the gates, expecting to see them wide open and Mr. Wonka standing there to welcome his workers back. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Of course the calf kept running off in every direction, but eventually I did get the two cows in with the gate shut. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He woke the next morning just in time to see Gebu cross the courtyard and let himself out the gate, with the bundle of shentis under his arm. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“You must leave the city at once. They may not follow you outside the gates of the Outer City.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When they see a police car coming or that officers are conducting a sweep, they unlatch their front gates and usher migrants in to hide in their gardens and backyards. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

People went through a gate where a policeman with a rifle slung over his shoulder stood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to get better than that. I heard you coming all the way from the gate.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turned and went out the gate and walked across the street toward the gas station. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped forward, past the gate to the walk, and then toward the steps. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there, seemingly calm, until Falconer was nearly to the gate. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nettie stood there at the gate holding tight to my hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Hamlet’s birth we have lived in a stone cottage near the convent gate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So the day came and he and Henry rode the forty miles again, into the gates and up the drive to the house. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He think if he down to the gate, Miss Caddy come back. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grand gate tore apart as if made of paper, scattering tiles and stone on the earth like sudden rain. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

After lunch, Zeitoun was taken from his cell and again handcuffed and brought to the same building near the front gate of the prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had only to open the gate latch and step out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scamper across the mined beach with no cover to one of the locked gates. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We’re escorted through the gates, and moments later, the slaver is circling me, sweating in the heat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She walked Tino out through the gate without saying a word. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You come in through the front gate,” he said, “but the only way out is through the chimney.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He is stunned by the house, a Greek Revival, admiring it for several minutes like a tourist before opening the gate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon Tree-ear made his steady way through the crowds and found the main gate of the palace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The debils’ attacks were getting worse and worse, and we began to feel unsafe, even behind our gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other half of the Abbey overlooked undulating sweeps of meadowland, its ancient gate facing the long dusty road on the western perimeter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Roy walked back to the gate and opened the container of crickets and held it up to the fence. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us met outside the quest gate on Tokusatsu and entered it together. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She leaves her porch and walks down the stairs where she says she finds herself sleeping at night, and opens the gate and stops right in front of me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A long truck moved through the gate at the fence. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised you got to the front door without my gate guards alerting me,” the executive said, as nonchalant as could be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was a kitten, With a meow Like the rusty latch On a gate. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place he took me was on private and gated land owned by an old friend of his. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They stare at the clock that sits just inside the gates that no one can properly describe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the faithful who remained there at their posts were few; most had fled beyond the second gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And out of the gate an army came. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A few guards watched as we walked out the front gate of the prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This postern was the least of Harrenhal's gates, a narrow door of stout oak studded with iron nails, set in an angle of the wall beneath a defensive tower. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the fence past the gates borders the edges of tents, so there isn’t really anywhere to enter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the gates leading from the drive are open. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This time Pollard halted him in the gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those seem to fit,” she said, and opened the gate for Ash. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a wooden paling around it, broken by a small wooden gate, and at length—there being nobody in sight to ask—we walked through to the garden and so to the house. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when I escorted some inmates to the commissary and we were all hanging around in the hall waiting for a gate to open, two female officers fixed their attention on Sam. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate guard phoned the Castros, and another guard drove me to the house. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At the gate to Tres Marias there was a group of wretched people waiting with anxious eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only places I’d seen within a stone’s throw from Shady’s place were the cemetery and that broken-down shack of a house with perdition written on the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At the gate a dim orange glow shone through the bars where the guards had taken refuge from the wind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a gate, locked with a chain and padlock. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pushed the little gate and went to the door of the cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In front of us, a laden family was hiking out toward the main gate. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back down the stone walkway, through the sturdy gate, and away from his home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I didn't go out the gates," she blurted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He thought as he walked out of the gate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is but one working castle gate and it is guarded by perhaps a hundred men.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was back in B-block a few days later, responsible for half of Q-gallery, on the flats, as well as the center gate—the main access point from the flats to the galleries above. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

W hen I got to the gate, I nodded at him. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the gate for a long time, looking at it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I walked on, passing through the gates and onto the highway. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The first rider through the gate carried a long black banner. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He started banging around the gate like Chance-view and refused to settle down. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few minutes, the metal gate clanks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came to a low metal gate that hung open but could be shut to prevent access. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He nudged his head up and lifted the handle, and the gate swung open. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When we arrive outside the spiky gates, I realize I'm actually chanting the words out loud. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

No moon gates or fan windows or stone lions. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Large tree, smaller tree, steps, garden, stone path leading to a gate with a picket fence on either side. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of us talks on the way back, but once we’re inside the gate, I think of something else. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Why somebody would want that word welded on their gate, I can’t say. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Very true, Rick thought as he opened the gate to his little pasture and approached his electric sheep. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Leather masks in white and black and silver with ribbon ties are set in baskets by the gates and around the circus for patrons to wear, should they wish. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At once there was great jostling and cursing as each troop tried to get first to the gate and the ending of their march. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had to say goodbye, I had to tell her I’d never forget her, but before I reached the gate, she was gone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she say, ‘You done got took to the gates of Heaven and turned you’self back ’cause you might not never see me again? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Diffidently Ranofer raised the latch, opened the gate just wide enough for them both to squeeze through, and closed it carefully behind them. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The archway of the gate above which he had stood a moment before crumbled and crashed in smoke and dust. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With great relief he finally saw the tall pillars on either side of the gates, each topped with a winged boar. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Our arms strained under the awkward weight, dragging it around to the back gate, through the yard, and finally in the back door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To reach it one had to pass through two impregnable walls, each with armed guards; and once inside, four massive gates had to be unlocked before one even reached the area where I was kept. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a dozen officers rushed upstairs through the center gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good luck getting in, though. Not like you can just dougie on through the front gates.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I realized I’d rhymed myself into a corner with orange when my stick came to a gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He could not realize that when he walked back through the gate there would be a woman walking behind him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She keeps her right fist clenched around a spar of the open gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, almost trotting in anticipation, they walked down the hill, past the first few houses clustered near the road, and directly to the gate of the fort, about a half mile ahead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now are you going to open the gate, or do you need a clout on the ear to help your hearing?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And he shut the gate quickly out of shame. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry was too busy digesting the horrible idea of Inferi to have much attention left for anything else, but as they reached the front gate, Dumbledore stopped dead and Harry walked into him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At length they came to a halt before an unseen opening that led to the lower gates of the mines, on the eastward side of the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then we went through the gate and an outer check-point, and the driver picked up speed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bad Leg at the corner, he’s not just a crazy man. He is Papa Legba and he is opening doors and big, big gates. I will show you. I promise.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A herd of roe-deer in a European zoo stepped out of their corral when the gate was left open. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I never received the full amount from the gate receipts from 1972,” Bobby suddenly accused Thorarinsson at a party at his house. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the next home, a dog starts barking so loud when we approach the gate that all of us freeze. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Lady Meng and Yishan crouched next to her, and when the soldiers struck at the door of the gate, they all clutched one another. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Shall I go to the gate to be there when they enter, think you?” asked Robin anxiously. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

In front of the gate they met a large crowd gathered in amiable conversation around a bonfire on which a pig was roasting. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I opened the chain-link gate to the enclosure and went inside, shutting it behind me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked back at the cottage, thought of Nina standing behind the gate, eyes full of pain and longing, a longing she could fill. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Its gates lay in ruin; but over the barricade of beams and stones within no enemy as yet had passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Once, though, I watched them get drunk on some foul brown corn brew, stand at the enclosure gate, and shout for me in accented Lingala, their eyes dancing mad. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, there was a new padlock on the gate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Scarlett pulled at them desperately, but the gates were padlocked for the night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He set the cub down outside the fence and then quickly closed and locked the gate again. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

We walk with it through the back gate to find Mom and Javier asleep on a blanket on the grass in our backyard. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Abuela is knocked aside when the crowd surges forward, but I’m carried high on the back of the beast as it forces its way through the gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from where they stood they felt the malice of the Watchers beating on them, black silent shapes on either side of the gate through which the glare of Mordor dimly showed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I asked her, disbelieving, as I walked her back to the gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His yellow bike is usually chained to the iron gate, but it’s gone—he’s at work. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They opened the back gate, and I saw the man writhing in pain on the ground. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The children’s eyes widened when they heard the cabin had two lamps, two stoves, and grass growing in a yard with a fence and a gate. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning after morning, he was out at the gate with the horse, repeating the lesson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I can make it into a sailing boat like the fishermen bring to Belin’s gate, or a barge such as the King uses,” he said. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He comes to a trail, climbs into the Bronco, and drives, opening and closing gates with keys from a ring that holds scores, given to the agents by ranchers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had trouble sleeping, so she walked Cuttyhunk at all hours, visiting her sheep and cattle, which roamed the island freely everywhere except the gated places where most of the people lived. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They left through a postern gate in the north wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We must close the gates and put every fighting man upon the walls. No one enters, no one leaves.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Annabeth grabbed a blanket from the nearest stable gate and spread it across part of the glass floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kaz said, "Go on back to the gate and check it out." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the residents tossed her bucket and rags, her baskets and reed broom, down the stairwell, past the letter boxes, through the collapsible gate, and into the alley. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The yard gate was open, and I went in and sat on the jungle gym for a few minutes, letting myself feel how strange it was to be there alone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Two men and three women, relatives of The General, had bullied Adamu to open the gate, and now stood at the front door, shouting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

"Is that what you call it? You haven't left this room since Bran was hurt. You didn't even come to the gate when Father and the girls went south." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A split second after we heard the thunderous boom, my perspective shifted, and I found myself looking at our three avatars, standing there frozen in front of the open gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The fact that his people were already in arms and the still more ominous fact that the Rutulian Army had encamped before his gates were too much for King Latinus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went in through the gate to the train. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She saw Dustfinger standing beside their camper van at the gate of the farmhouse, and it was almost as if she heard his voice again.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I opened our iron gate and we climbed the stairs to the landing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I held my own bag close, ran out of the school gates, and jogged across the road toward the tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The house has a white wall and a gate and an empty driveway. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Again, the line moved forward, and now the gates had almost swallowed me; I was almost out upon the plain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mama had told Adamu not to open the gates to all the people who wanted to throng in for mgbalu, to commiserate with us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha stood there a long time and looked through the open gate into the garden. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed the old man’s unsteady gait until he walked out through the gates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When we have passed through the city gates.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate of a picket fence in front of one of the big houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Check out that gate, man! What is that?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can tell us everything later, Matthias. Right now I insist that you come to the main gate. There’s something you must see.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If he attacked too soon, they might run back to the gates. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Only half a gate, in truth, it had a drawbridge that spanned the frozen moat but no corresponding gateway through the outer wall, offering access to the outer ramparts but not the world beyond. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The truck slows as we approach a wooden gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They were barred with ornate wrought iron fences and gates, and inside, women in flowered shifts dusted plastic covered furniture or sat on shaded balconies looking out over the commotion below. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The door beyond represents both the entry to Mary’s womb and the gates of Paradise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When we reach the fence, we see the Dauntless standing in our headlight beams, blocking the gate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

A guard at the gate on Lwowska Street let us through, and we saw right away what was different: There were no more people. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the gate of the pen, he went inside, “Get along there now,” he said, pushing the woman and her two children out, separating them from the others. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked around the fence corner and went in the intimate gate with her heaping plate of mulatto rice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I walk a little closer to the gate and look up suddenly, like I’ve lost my way. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We opened the fence gate at the bottom of the backyard and ran down the alley. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we stepped out of the quest gate, our avatars were each awarded a huge amount of experience points and several thousand credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He waits, watching the closed iron gates, wondering if the circus will be different than he remembers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I came to a sudden stop halfway between the gate and my parents and looked back. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

White birds scattered as she made her way down the long driveway and up to the gate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All the gasoline is going to the war, and few cars come trundling through the school gates; food is delivered by the same withered mule, its ribs showing as it drags its cart. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then—this was starting to get embarrassing—a sergeant responding to the incident failed to secure a gate and had liquid of an unknown nature thrown in his face. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Count Rugen was the only other person in the room, and the commotion at the gate had him on edge. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped through the opening after the other detectives and helped them close the gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They opened the further gate, and some came over the bridge. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

One group sat by a farm gate, trying on new shoes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she reached him, he took her by the hand, helped her through the gate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I saw my mother pass through the gates without incident; when my turn came, a guard yanked me out of line. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The lips are the gates of their desire. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some convicts were whitewashing stones along the edge of a pathway that came toward the gate near where he stood. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come for a run to the lodge gates?” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They drove across a cattle guard gate in the woven wire fence. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

A small crowd of black brothers was waiting by the gate when Jon and his companions emerged south of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra screamed, and flung herself at the gate into the avenue of lights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The first place was a farm where there was a gate with big white posts and round knobs on top of them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

With so many “cast members” not returning, there are a lot of new hirees—including an eighteen-year-old ticket taker at the front gate whose mother forced him to take a summer job. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The bullet struck the wall as they slammed the gate. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed through the first set of front gates and entered the visiting room. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hawkers, girls much younger than I, defied the school gate men, edging closer and closer to the cars to offer peeled oranges and bananas and groundnuts, their moth-eaten blouses slipping off their shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guardsmen were forced to wait outside the gate of Tres Marias until they received an order from the capital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, he would laugh at me if I tried to get back out through that gate. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They found Fossie squatting near the gate in front of the Special Forces area. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unlatch the gate and walk down the path and knock on the door. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Malcolm could only just make out the windows because the gate light was on the other side of the building, and the half moon shone on that side too; but finally he made it out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The core of the core lives in Pyongyang in large apartments or single-family homes in gated neighborhoods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“These five were sent to open our gates before the main attack,” she said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Box had a doorbell and a heavy metal door with a peephole, and a barred gate as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the palace gates, the sun hung straight overhead, beaming down hot on their heads. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was driven out of Sing Sing through the very gate I sat astride, in an official van that was soon hijacked by his confederates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit with their backs to the gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I parked and found my way to the prison entrance and walked inside the main building with its dark corridors and gated hallways, where metal bars barricaded every access point. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Lord Wyman, gather your White Harbor men by the east gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a double guard stationed at the nunciature gate, but when they recognized Senator Trueba and saw the diplomatic plates on the car, they let them in with a salute. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pitted alley beside it led to a sheet-metal gate into a rear yard, where a lean-to shed stood crazily over a floor of frozen mud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, we stand before the tall stone gate while Ma examines the tumultuous sky. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Muthu waved wildly as soon as he spotted us returning, and Celina Aunty practically ran to the gate to let us in. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As we pull up to the gate, reporters and fans cluster on the sidewalks, flying little drones in the sky to take as much video as they can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I follow Lily down the same path as last time—through the heavy wooden gate, the cemetery, and finally through the church that leads to the inner courtyard where I am to meet Ethan. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When Abuela had moved in, my mom and dad had wanted to give her a quieter unit away from the gate so she wouldn’t have to hear everyone coming in and out. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The garden gate swung shut behind them, and they set off back down the hill through the dark and the swirling mist. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Religion called—Angels beckoned—God commanded—life rolled together like a scroll—death’s gates opening, showed eternity beyond: it seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a second. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I passed on my way to the gate shacks whose windows had been shattered, whose doors had been busted. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two huge towers flanked the castle’s main gate, and smaller ones defended every angle of its walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But approaching the gate are a few moving specks—silver, when the light catches them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I peered through the wrought-iron gate, hoping that someone would come to take me away. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heads toward the gates, and after a dreadful few moments of indecision, I turn away from Veturius and follow him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He watches the clock by the gates for some time before he departs the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Already the gates of the east glowed purple, and Dawn had opened her courts full of rosy light. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the sanitation trucks enter the gate and see the men in their khaki uniforms fan out around the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The entire cloister was now on fire, and although firefighters raced toward the blaze, they were intercepted by a young man stepping out of the main gate. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The gate was chained like I figured, so I had to scale over the tall fence. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A woman walked down the stairs behind them and straight through the fare gate, like she did this all the time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a man at the gate of the playground. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Outside, snow swirled through the castle gates, and the yard was all noise and chaos, but inside the thick stone walls it was still warm and quiet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He was a clockmaker. He made the clock inside the gates.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The gate was only a few more steps. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners were supposed to be standing in orderly lines, too, but the children had run up to the gate to wait for the Governor's boat. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Started it up again right away though, pulled away smoothly—didn’t even look at Paul as she drove off, left him to close the gate himself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I hear someone yell at the guards, who are spilling outside the gate to help the police control the Occupy protestors. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They heard rumors about it from passengers at the gate. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I dove into the patch of tall dried grass in front of the gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass long, gated driveways, the kind that always fill my family with wonder and awe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He tilts his head at the campus gate across the street. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’d bring the first calf back to the pen, open the gate, and let the next one out. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was allowed to come and go through the gate whenever he liked, with D’Ath at his heels. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Now it was dawn and the gate was locked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mariam had just picked up her spoon when there was a loud knock at the front gate. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I walked toward the gate that led to the lobby of the visitation room, where I expected a routine pat-down before entering the visitation area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The gates were closed at nightfall; but just inside them were small lodges for the gatekeepers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ask, pushing open the gate to the churchyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

After a moment the latch lifted, the white gate opened, and Abra emerged. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This he would have done but he was ashamed lest men see him, who was no longer held a farmer within the gates of the town, but a landowner and a rich man. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tally called over the roar of water rushing through the dam’s gates. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He is the Iwa of crossroads. When there’s no way, Papa Legba will make a way. He opens doors and unlocks gates,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With the advent of the first primitive, unpadded starting gates in the early thirties, some riders actually died in the saddle, speared into the exposed steel overhead bars by rearing horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many mornings as I returned to Sing Sing—leaving home at the gate, in this direction—I asked myself the same question. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the gate was a young Latino officer from the Bronx whom I had helped train and whom I liked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next moment he realized what it was: the horns of Tashbaan blowing for the closing of the gates. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Koss went out the postern gate and brought the goose back, and two chickens as well, and Yoren allowed a cookfire. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If there were a side gate—” he muttered, and she nodded after a little thought, as though she did not understand too quickly what he said. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As she was closing the dirty white picket gate behind her, Agnes touched her arm and handed her a note. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only then did he bend to gather up his things and walk over to the rest of the group by the front gates. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Turning at the gate, he always added: “An Astroturflawn! And plastic flowers! That proves I’m right!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Lord Odysseus prayed there in the grove the girl rode on, behind her strapping team, and came late to the mansion of her father, where she reined in at the courtyard gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate of the fence was locked like a jail yard, but Mrs. Bedlow wasn’t deterred. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Alyssa’s little brother, who stood up for me back at the gate, so I think I’ve already won him over. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Let us walk you to the gates, Bailey, please?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone rattled the gates and the block literally shook. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the drones hover too close to the gates—when they try to cross over, they hit an invisible shield that disables them, sending them clattering to the ground. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a final shudder, the jetliner came to a stop at the gate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, he had scrambled over the third gate, and he was in the field next to the one that belonged to Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He simply carried the buckets to the Locktons’ gate for me, then walked away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small caravan of cars drives down the road and stops at the Mobius entrance gate so guards can check IDs and inspect the vehicles. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But she had woken up refreshed and anxious to run through the gates and explore. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I do have her blood,” I said, looking now at a young girl standing before the gate of a Buddhist temple in a dark velvet suit. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an instant he did not move, only stared toward the gate while visions of khefts and horrors paraded before his eyes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

All of our neighbors had driveways, some with fancy, cast-iron gates. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

By now she was level with the open gates. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When I walked up to the gates, she was swaying on her feet, like she was too weak to even stand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We found seats next to each other at the gate, which was lucky because everyone seemed to be flying to Atlanta on that day at the same time. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Think about it. If three avatars enter the Third Gate at the exact same moment, then it becomes a race to see who can clear the gate and reach the egg first.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t feel the gate at all, but I could smell the bright cold. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The General sent a message on the limo’s computer to seal the gates of his house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had been dozing, but woke quickly, hearing the sentries yell and the corporal commanding the gates to be opened. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have a nice day,” she says, and walks on past us, towards the gate. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had slowly edged her way to the front of the gate, nudging Olanna to follow her each time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He turned and raced for the gate in the green wall which, now for the first time, he remembered seeing. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A narrower gate stood closed on the riverbank side. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The gates in the wall were guarded by Jackboots and Flops. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They have been placed here before the gates were opened. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holding his bike and wheeling it along beside him, he sprinted through the gates. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The gate opened and three huge dogs came pelting out into the lane, and dashed towards the travellers, barking fiercely. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A hush fell on the hobbits beyond the gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what would happen if I got three strikes in a row, but my guess was that I’d either be expelled from the gate or that my avatar would simply be killed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the other two he brought away, through the enemy, past the city gates, out into the country, his father on his shoulders, his son clinging to his hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards hauled her back through the prison gate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the duffel, dropping the stake as I did, and passed through the gate with Otto and the duffel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He takes out a notebook, and after about ten minutes, he opens the massive gates and lets us in. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Once I walk in that gate, I ain’t free anymore, she thought. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If we seal the gates, we cannot send out rangers,” he pointed out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I really do apologize, ma’am,” the gate agent finally says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Slaves done ris,” was whispered in the cabin and at the master’s gate: slaves in another county had fired the masters’ houses and fields and dashed their children to death against the stones. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Baker dismounts and opens the property’s main gate. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

That sinners have always, for American Negroes, been white is a truth we needn’t labor, and every American Negro, therefore, risks having the gates of paranoia close on him. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Seven carefully slid the two heavy boxes atop the pile in Pixel’s arms and watched as she practically sprinted up the hill toward the side gate entrance of a bright orange house. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sprang from his pony, and seeing the notice in the light of the lanterns, he tore it down and threw it over the gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Praba ran after him, and when she saw us, she swung the gate open. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the gate of the corrals two men took tickets from the people that went in. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I went through the gate, pausing at the far side until the electricity hummed back on. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The guards on the gate were not queen’s men, but they passed her all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The gate opened a little, and I peeked through it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tucker scrambled through the gate into the cage and pranced all around inside it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once at the gate of the house he was seized with terror. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Now she’s shutting the gate. She strides along like an Englishman.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no Lannister crimson to be seen, but Ned was reassured by the number of gold cloaks visible on the ramparts and at the gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eventually Bando climbs the hill, closes the sluice gate, and comes to my outdoor kitchen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fastened her collar with the gold pin, and she was putting on her hat when Pa drove up to the gate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the open park gates he rode, shooting between the twisty slide and swing set. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They came to a small green gate half-buried in the hedge on the right and almost hidden by the overhanging hazel branches. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nine wolves were on the path behind her, all pacing restlessly, all watching her as she crossed through the gate. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he had stopped an inmate passing through the gate and asked to see what he was carrying. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The florist rattles shut his gate next door, securing it with a fist-sized lock. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly the owner never expected a horse and carriage to arrive—the fence gate is wide enough for a stout woman but no more. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Josiah cut a cow away from the rest of the herd, Tayo swung the gate open wide and stepped back to let it run into the holding pen. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She decided to investigate and discovered a car-painting shop on one side of the property and several empty warehouse bays with roll-front gates on the other. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Harry, who did not feel as sanguine as he had pretended when reassuring Hermione, was glad to reach the gate and the slippery pavement. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She told him she had stolen them, that she knew a postern gate that was never guarded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I had him on the leash, he was pulling toward the backyard gate. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The field was right up at the end of a dirt track, three wooden gates to open and shut on the way—“guards” of our own posted on each gate already. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The crowd “ooohs” and “ahhs” appropriately, but a few in the front gasp in surprise when the massive sign above the gates begins to sputter and spark. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"Some people find it easier if they close their eyes," Mya said as she led the mules through the gate into the dark wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The red walls of the Inner City loomed tall and forbidding, and every gold-studded gate door was guarded by at least two soldiers, their silver armor reflecting in the hot sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Where is Stella, anyway?” she asks, and she goes to Stella’s gate. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

In fact with every step towards the gates of Mordor Frodo felt the Ring on its chain about his neck grow more burdensome. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Arrogant black policemen kept the multitude away from the gates with vulgar language and sjambok stabs. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked at a splinter of wood on the gate. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as they drew near to the further gate, Frodo saw a dark ill-kept house behind a thick hedge: the last house in the village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I reached the wrought-iron gates, Ali was waiting on the other side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro was awakened by the general confusion when Shadrach at last drove the team up in front of the yard gate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The luminous tower fascinated him, and he fought the desire that was on him to run up the gleaming road towards its gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes, still puffy, took a moment to acclimatize, then he saw a pair of wrought-iron gates at the foot of what looked like a long drive. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The voice trailed away as a man inside the compound strode toward the gate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She started off as a reservations associate, then moved to gate agent after Charlie was born. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit bounded out of the gate in front and galloped away from his competition. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the house my mother reaches for the gate latch. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When we got there, Doc unwound the chain from the ironwork gates and pushed them open. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, I knew, that same emblematic letter adorned the front gates of Castle Anorak, his avatar’s impregnable stronghold. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Charlie keeps moving in and the horse edges closer to its gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

On the outskirts of Concord, they stopped at the small wooden gate and waited for the custodian’s signal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I never took my eyes off the gate, hoping at any moment she’d come running through it, panicked and out of breath, her hair glistening with that coconut oil she loved. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He glances nervously in the direction of the perimeter gate behind the trees. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The air was red with flags, which dipped and lifted as the marchers ducked under the level-crossing gate and swept across the railway tracks in a red wave. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approach the exit gate, a cluster of people rush forward near the ticket booth and flash cameras at us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He nods to the other Dauntless by the gate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was going to say more, but the doorbell rang, the card game was about to begin, so I got up and went down to open the gate. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Outside the main gate he reined up, and one of his men shouted for the castle to open. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A car has crashed into a corner of the gatehouse and torn the gate off its hinges. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The key that would open the third and final gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a guard of orcs crouching in the shadows behind the great door-posts towering on either side, but the gates were shattered and cast down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Order! Order!” he said, and opened the gate. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Val waited by the gate in the predawn cold, wrapped up in a bearskin cloak so large it might well have fit Sam. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mya helped her mount one while a guardsman in a sky-blue cloak opened the narrow postern gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There were few other people walking, and the stores all had their steel gates locked in place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Like the three gates at the receiving entrance, the doors were large rectangles of rounded steel bars that slid on rolling tracks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The wooden gate in the mud wall behind the house creaked open and Aniekwena came into the compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And they went on, until it seemed to Vetch that what Ged had spoken would come true, and they were going beyond the sources of the sea and eastward behind the gates of daylight. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was leaning against the corral gate with her ears pointed at him, alert. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My tiny old gran was out the gate, going up and down the block, calling to all the other old grannies for an emergency prayer meeting. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And this time, instead of slamming the gate and stumping noisily across the courtyard as usual, he had slipped as silently as his hulk would allow up the stairs and into his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

‘And, maybe,’ said Imrahil, ‘the road that leads thence to the pass above will prove an easier way of assault upon the Dark Lord than his northern gate.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The carriages sit before the southern gate like a series of pomegranates dipped in honey and lined up on a tray. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I had coasted along the lower wall of the orchard—turned its angle: there was a gate just there, opening into the meadow, between two stone pillars crowned by stone balls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He leapt down the path from the inner gate, and he can move like a wind when he is roused. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The ticket booth clearly visible behind the gates is closed and barred. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I often wondered what he’d be thinking about, down there at the gate, watching the girls going home from school, trying to want something he couldn’t even remember he didn’t and couldn’t want any longer. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the alleys, fifteen-year-old boys are making their way toward mine elevators, queuing up with their helmets and lamps outside the gates. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I moved closer and peered through the gates, I saw what looked like Jay’s bag on the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she’d always wished she had. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, having watched Matthias since the first day he arrived at the Abbey gates, a woodland orphan, always polite, willing and cheerful. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It was not what she agreed to. Did you meet the amiable old retainer at the gate?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment the old bear, the final act of the day, appeared through one of the side gates. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In one hour, Helena stands at the gate to the ghetto, playing with her ball, the note in her pocket, and I am at my post beside the old ice cream shack. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She locked the gate door after them and went inside the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I will not forget,” she told him, and then the footman stepped back onto his perch, and the small white carriage rolled away through the crowded courtyard and vanished through the main gates. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For if ever a fish is able to swim up the waterfall and pass through the gate, the dragons will shake with power. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Leave it at the gate,” you hear time and again in corrections. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dogs fell quiet and got down from the gate. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, while she was waiting her turn to draw a pail of water from the well, she heard the hinges of the east gate groaning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He realized that this side of town was what he and Somkit had seen from the river gate every night when they dreamed of someday walking free under all those lights. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t always come to the gates by the stables,” she says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Gebu brushed him away with a careless gesture that nevertheless sent him sprawling, and strode on past Ranofer to the gate, where he looked this way and that along the street, holding his torch high. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

An explosion sent the airfield’s gate spinning into the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The thought seemed as impossible as leaving this gated estate behind me for good. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The scurrying procession came at last to the big gate in the wall of the doctor’s house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she had to smuggle Tea Cake out by the back gate and that made it seem like some great secret she was keeping from the town. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I heard Brandon banging and pushing at the gate, trying to get it open, but I didn't look back. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She shed him and burst through the open gates. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He turned the horse back toward the Wood, and within the blink of an eye they had vanished and Ash was left alone outside the garden gate. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frontispiece to that book shows Euclid controlling the gate which leads not only to knowledge of ballistics but to all philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate just wide enough to pass the paper back. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the guards talking excitedly at Blackcliff’s gate as two horsemen came up the road. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then he drew his sword as well, and followed the others through a gated archway that the Tonists always left open for lost souls seeking tonal solace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing to see, she willed as they neared the gates. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Things started to be freed, and the prison gates swung open. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Disturbed by the man’s alarum, we looked up from our labor and found a detachment of Redcoats running in formation for the gates. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The click of the handcuffs was like the click of a gate latch at the big house where the boy had once gone with his father to work. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of us could open and enter the gate before Sorrento caught up with us. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Griswold turned to go through the fare gate, but the tall one stepped in front of him and blocked his way. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then one day—a bright, soft morning with a whisper of rain in it—we got there to find the gates closed and guards posted along the iron railings that encircled the compound. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The compound was deserted and she peered through the locked gate for a while. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jem clipped invisible pince-nez to his nose, cleared his throat, and said, “The text for the day, my brethren, is from the Psalms: ‘Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, O ye gates.’ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Erik and the rest of them caught up with Arthur at the gate. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the fort gates, Percy stopped and gazed across the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My mind swam in a fog of terror, my eyes were bathed in tears, and I saw only blurs as I tore through the yard toward what I hoped was the direction of the gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squirmed my way through the throng of guests and slipped through the wrought-iron gates. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Billy blacked out as he walked through gate after gate. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the stores were still closed, their steel gates locked and protecting whatever had survived the days and nights of looting. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He drove down Leesburg Pike to work, turned through a gate, parked his car, and went into the main building of Hazleton Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven stopped at the gate to catch her breath and, despite her anger, sent one more quick text. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the Hill on its western side they came to the gate opening on to a narrow lane. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Presently the gate clicked open, and there appeared a short, slender white woman with silver hair and slightly drooping shoulders. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the reindeer leg in the dirt and slumped on all fours to the gate. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The entire gate began to glow, as if the metal had become superheated, and its double doors swung inward, revealing a field of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They hauled Moira out, dragged her in through the gate and up the front steps, holding her under the armpits, one on each side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is your wife ... ?” The woman nodded at the gate. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eight or nine men dressed as hunters, armed with swords, staves, and spears, emerged from the side gates and began prowling through the greenery, as if searching for game. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I debate with myself all the way to the school’s gates. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And now that the gates were shut he knew there was no chance of the others joining him that evening. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He gave away presents to all and sundry — the latter were those who went out again by a back way and came in again by the gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But you didn’t want to bring them to the gate in a lather. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Once I got through that gate it seemed to take forever to get to the building where the guard said the new students should report. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to get home before the storm got any worse, but something held me at the gate of the evil women. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should find your gate, and then I have to run. I’m already late.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He looked in through the gateway at the dark porch, slowly opened the gate, and went up the overgrown path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was sure Grover was going to barrel straight through the gates of Hades’s palace, but his shoes veered sharply to the right and dragged him in the opposite direction. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When they found tracks and sagging wires on the fences with bits of light hair caught in the barbs, they rode through the Acoma gate and brought the cows back again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Holding tightly with her hands, she placed one foot on the gate, then the other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The man Jack stood outside the gates to the graveyard. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Please, please,” she mouthed over and over as we drove right through the gates. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was ten then, and I watched the military shuttling the cleaner citizens to new settlements and gated communities. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The car pulled up to the main gate and Ben pulled down the sun visor and tried to age his face five years by assuming a stern, no-nonsense expression. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had begun gathering by the track gates just after dawn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma rolled the car down the road that led to the university entrance gates. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey took the little girl’s hand and walked slowly out through the gates. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up her skirts and came down the path to the gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meeting a neighbor coming from the village as he passed through the town gate, he answered the man’s inquiry, “This day I am back from my sons’ school.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The gate to the land of the dead is on this island,” said the boatman. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She went through a white gate, past a row of rose bushes, up the stairs to the house. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lazlo they regarded with curiosity, and the rest of the strangers as well, once their camels had been brought through the gates into the central plaza of the fortress. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A gate in the wall led out into a kitchen garden, where beds of vegetables and herbs lay baking under the morning sun. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The huntress undid the latch and pulled the gate open for her, and then Ash set the bucket down on the ground for the bay mare. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if you offered them self-rule, those rebels would mount your head on a pike before the gates of Orynth.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Even if we get the gate open, we still have to contend with the gate itself,” he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was trying to talk to Madame Delacour while glancing repeatedly at the gate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the artichoke doesn’t stop, and Zola pushes through the gate and grabs the metal bucket and throws it into the pond of frogs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

At the point where Ida's garden bordered the canal there was a gate in the wall, just a few inches above the waterline. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She broke over an iron gate, crimping it on impact, and there she hung, impossibly arched, graceful as a temple dancer swooning on a lover’s arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The big gate of the bull-ring was open, and inside the amphitheatre was being swept. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The bus turned and passed through a gate of red brick. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Jaimito’s father’s Chevy was parked in front of the house by the gate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You hang around the gate complaining and accusing and they sack me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to smile, but we were driving past our house just then, and the sight of the looming black gates and white walls stiffened my lips. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stops at the eighth one, and Hie gate clicks open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Piper tried to imagine Jason becoming a god when he died, standing on some beach guarding the gates to an ocean long after Piper and everyone else he knew in his mortal life were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Other than the front gate, there was only a driveway, the entrance to which was securely locked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

"This is as far as we go, unless you have a man inside to lift the gate for us." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

With the help of the ring he escaped from the orc-guards at the gate and rejoined his companions. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the driver of the truck began unloading huge white bags at the gate, I sounded out the letters until I could read the red-and-blue print. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—only when the Birthday falls on a Full Moon. But—you must excuse me. I must attend to the gate.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He tore himself free of the clawing fingers, half-fell, half-threw himself out of the alley, and by the time the last shivering wail had died away was tugging at his own gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

When we return, I see the crowd of green shirts getting ready to head through a side gate. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’d stand outside the gate, bundled in her thin coat and mismatched scarf, waiting for the doors to open. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were destined to live on unhallowed ground, beyond the gated city of God. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the starting gate he broke through over and over again, delaying the start for three minutes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His main entrance was so close to one of the busiest exposition gates that some visitors thought his show was the world’s fair, and were said to have gone home happy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, they turned into a gated subdivision. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Wylan, how hard would it be to disable one of these gates?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We watched him through the gate, playing with the girl. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I shoved my foot between the pug and the steel gate, hoping to slow Fig’s heart a few beats closer to calm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I saw what appeared to be a gate in the wall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance was designed to look like the facade of a castle, and you entered the maze through its open gates. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Out on the street, a dozen small boys clung to the iron gate watching the neighborhood’s only horse being washed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned out of the gates into the twilit, deserted lane to Hogsmeade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Not that he knew the word himself, but he guessed the gate, two doors to the right of the bridge, and he asked one who passed and the letter was the letter of Liu. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Ada shrank back, and her gaze flicked to the gate. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the gate, they had to wait a few moments before Dolorous Edd Tollett appeared to slide back the bolts and swing open the iron bars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stop or the truck will stall. Can you shut the gate after I drive across?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“So now I have no way to fly up there and reach the gate.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He walked straight up to the back gate, opened it, and went in. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse reverted to his rebellious habits in the starting gate, bulling forward and raising a fuss. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is already trying to come up with something he can use as proof without having to go in, when he reaches the gates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A fence here and there, a gate there and here. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s nothing,” she said, and carried it to the back gate. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced out at the courtyard that led to the embassy’s ringwall gate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Past the gates, distant chimneys belched black smoke and a sickening stench filled the air. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

More often a guard would chase him away from the gate or from standing near the high fence with the barbed wire along the top of it. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steel lock clicked loudly when the gate shut behind us. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The gate to the street was closed, too, and the latch too high for Ruth to reach. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A German policeman patrolled back and forth in front of this gate, and when he saw me staring, he yelled and waved his machine gun. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tells us that there’s more trouble for El Li'der, that a busload of people seeking asylum crashed the gates of the Peruvian embassy early this morning. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the gate and watched Doc drive off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As she got close to the checkpoint, she saw the guard closing the gate early, long before the curfew. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When she arrived at the place, Pheoby Watson didn’t go in by the front gate and down the palm walk to the front door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They stole to the gates and threw them wide, and into the sleeping town marched the Greek Army. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard gates slamming, music playing, men yelling, and showers running as though B-block were one immense locker room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now were they going to open the gate and let him in to board the Third Expeditionary Rocket, or was he going to have to kick it down? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And King's Landing is not, as we both know perfectly well. While Father plays lion and fawn with the Stark boy, Renly marches up the roseroad. He could be at our gates any day now!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A little distance up the road, past the hedge of lilacs and under the silver poplars of the dooryard, Jenny stood at the gate, waiting for them. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to wonder seriously whether the mastiffs only guarded the gate... The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I heard rough voices shout as I raced maddeningly toward the gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parade pranced, staggered and reeled to the gate of the Dresden slaughterhouse, and then it went inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gate banged,” Candy said, and he went on, “Jesus Christ, Curley’s wife can move quiet. I guess she had a lot of practice, though.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were security guards, dressed in the same uniforms as the men at the gate. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The earth, where it was worn bald under the gate, was cracked, and hard as rock, a lifeless tan color; and the road was an aisle of brilliant velvet dust. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least I got to see the White House in person, even though it was from behind the front gate. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was closed fast, two great wooden gates, painted black and bound and studded with iron, closed upon each other. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After the soldier left, the gates swung open. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had not seen any of it, only gone a little way down the lane at the bottom of the drive, and leaned on a gate. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, a girl appeared from behind the gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After half a kilometer or so, Helena slid from my nearly numb arms to the ground in front of the Zielinskis’ gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My mom brings me a bottle of water that she buys from the newsstand close to our gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

A cabin with a gate and green grass in the yard is almost a big house, the boy thought as he followed the man. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate was opened by a Pass Card. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A soft rain began to fall as Nok arrived at the tall wooden gates. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Two triceratops riders headed toward the gate but the mounts pulled away, spooked by the humongous carnivore. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Gilly patted the skinny, freckled arm and swept up the walk into the house, leaving the open-mouthed fledgling outside the gate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

In a few moments Gebu came in the gate, banged it carelessly with no regard for noise, and climbed the stair to his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A tree stump that used to be there is now gone, and so is the rickety gate. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, well, well,” sneered Snape, taking out his wand and tapping the padlock once, so that the chains snaked backward and the gates creaked open. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were already inside, standing in front of the gate, waiting for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This is a trash can chained to a gate, This is my father with his eyes half-closed. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate swung open and Tree-ear stepped inside the royal courtyard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

They heard the roar of voices and the thudding of the rams; and then in a sudden flash of light they beheld the peril of the gates. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We went inside the station and stood with a crowd of people just back of the gates, and the train came in and stopped, and everybody started coming out through the gates. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Once you enter the gates of Infosys, though, you are in a different world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I froze, watching the man open the gate. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We passed another long stretch of farmland before finally coming to the gate, where Javi instructed the driver to drop us off. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Traditional gate schooling has always been a matter of standing still, teaching a horse to tolerate the huge, clattering metal contraption around him while he awaits the loading of other horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this flashed through Digory’s mind in a second; then he took to his heels and ran for the gates as hard as he could pelt; the Witch after him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

They had driven through heavy iron gates into an open area inside a compound of buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was stationed by the outer gate,” he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I do that, then circle the entire ghetto, walking toward the gate like I’m coming from the other direction, from the Minerwa building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You are never wrong, in prison, to lock a gate,” a sergeant had reassured us at lineup one day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they did not know this, because as soon as he reached the gate, they arrested him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green Ford pickup rolled into view and parked in a space near the gate. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evenings when I heard the rattle of his cart I ran out to open the garden gate for him, and each time, he searched the lower cabinet to see if he had any oranges left. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When we reach the main gate we file through it, two by two. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the wrought iron gate, with all its welded forks and pans, and tender-footed my way to the porch. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Rooms for staff were not included in B-block’s plan, so a few cells near the front gate have been converted for that purpose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the Protectorate’s gates closed behind them, though, and the citizens returned with their melancholy broods of children to their drab little homes, the Elders quickened their pace. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I move silently to the wooden gate leading to Blackcliff s grounds and ease it open. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two dockers who had started their watches when Seabiscuit actually left the gate stared at their watch hands in disbelief. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"When he told me he planned to leave, we...argued. He unleashed his demons in open warfare against my ugallus. He demolished the seven gates between here and the world of the living." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That morning, my brothers and I peered out the gate as hundreds of people filed past our house on their way to the rally. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The path continues to the other end of the iron gate, but from where I stand, I can’t see the security guard anywhere. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the president of France reached the gates of Heaven, God got up from his throne to greet him. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was a dilapidated place—one former rider compared it to an outhouse—but like everything else in Tijuana, it was innovative, offering the first primitive movable starting gates and photo finishes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These trees were without a doubt the gates into a meerkat arboreal city with more bustle in it than Calcutta. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when order is restored at Black-cliff, Serra’s ports will shut down, the legionnaires will bar the city gates, and the streets and tunnels will be flooded with soldiers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We run across the street in the falling snow, open the small wrought-iron gate in the cemetery fence, go in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We waited for the gate to quit squeaking before we gave up our hiding spot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The family lined up near the river gate, in the shade of the big mango tree. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As she fell through the gate, gasping for air, she was shocked to see Dragon lying in front of the stone lions, sleeping. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The old man opened the gate to his yard next door and ushered them through. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The reservoirs were full, and the River Board had had to release a lot of water into the river and keep the sluice gates open. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could not believe that there were hoods in suits out by the gates who were not stabbing each other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was possible—considering the shouting, sloganeering crowd of Party workers that Comrade K. N. M. Pillai had managed to assemble outside the gate. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the corner of my eye, I notice a small logo on the side of the gate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jesse tickled her to get her giggling again, so that when the four of them clambered down over the tail gate, they were flushed-faced and happy once more. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

His focus was now on the group of people he’d not been able to see from so far away: a line of imposing cops in riot gear who stood in front of the gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As he opened the heavy door and stepped out of the porch into the sunlight, two magpies rose up from the gate, and flapped through the air above his head. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The front of the house had a Chinese stone gate, rounded at the top, with big black lacquer doors and a threshold you had to step over. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The guards on the gate, at the sides of the wall, were restive and nervous. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A Bedford truck used to drop him off at the school gates. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She also knew the curls in the wrought-iron gate, and how many steps led up to the big front door; she could almost see the black-and-white tile on the floor of the foyer. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she worked up the courage to ask one of the gate guards if he'd gone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The subway doesn’t concern us. We have to get through this gate.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

That was why I called from the gate, so quickly and without hesitation. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men shoved and lifted it with crowbars into position against the gate. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a gate out front where the buses pulled up, and the principal could throw a switch in his office and the gate would automatically open and close. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But now we're on the third floor, and Mabel and I reach for the gate at the same time, and our hands touch. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I’d cleared the Third Gate, the eighteen Sixer avatars who were still inside had been ejected from the gate and deposited in front of the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Men stumble through the smoke, trying to find the front gate of the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Only too clearly Sam saw how hopeless it would be for him to creep down under those many-eyed walls and pass the watchful gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lindsey pointed the light next to her, and then drew a line back to Colin, like she was bringing an airplane into the gate. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If I opened the gate, I would be a criminal. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I found that I couldn’t open any windows at all while inside the gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lacking any help, I had to escort him to the north gate personally and get the attention of officers on the mess-hall bridge. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gaze around the airport at the high ceilings and the wide windows, excitement coursing through my veins as we walk to gate 17 for our flight to Rome. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It was between twelve and one o’clock when I reached the Temple, and the gates were shut. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the guard released him from the room and escorted him as far as the main gate. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He inserted the ticket and went through the gate. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She opened the gate and made her way back inside the house on shaking legs. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also worried constantly that someone had forgotten to lock the gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wagon driver wore a gray uniform similar to the ones worn by the guards at the gate but absent any sash or decoration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the scene, we found the high metal gates to the township locked and our volunteers waiting patiently outside, demanding entrance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cherry dropped me off at the gate to Nicole’s community, or “the village,” as she liked to say. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I turned him around so he was facing forward, unlatched the gate, and went inside. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

A rattling: someone at the main gate of the graveyard was pulling and shaking it, rattling the old gates and the heavy padlock and chain that held them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Done, he led Nathan back to the truck, closing the corral gate behind them. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Cluny made it clear that the success of the attack depended solely on the battering ram breaking through the main gate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He wavered for a moment and then forced the gate open. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sneak out quietly, and Henry touches Alex’s shoulder at the gate near where his SUV waits, presses his palm into the wool of his coat and the knot of muscle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But she doesn’t talk about what happened to her between unlocking the gates of Buchenwald and her later life as a civilian with a family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ash began to pull it shut, the hinges squeaking, and the bottom of the gate dragged against the ground until it lodged in place, still partly open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to the gate and one of they guys said, “Two bucks a cup.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He paused at the garden gate and turned back to Mama, who joined Anya at the house’s door. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Just then one of the dancing little bits of light from the lantern jumped between the bars of the gate, and Laura saw long, shaggy, black fur, and two little, glittering eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad showed people his ticket, and we eventually made our way to the gate, weaving our way through the obstacle course of people lying on the floor. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as the shape was inside the gate the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her at the house. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I stopped to hover in front of the open gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her staff from where she'd left it leaning against a wall and sprinted out the gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She head-butted him again and stuffed herself under the gate, which couldn’t have been easy considering the load she was carrying. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the fish goes through, its spirit enters the gate and bursts out of one of the ornaments — changing the fish into the form of a flying dragon! Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody was playing loud music from a gramophone; soon, a cluster of men by the compound gate began to laugh and jostle one another, mimicking the song. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as I get beyond the gate, we run toward each other, all three of us embracing, all hesitations and expectations forgotten. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seasons of rain and snow had turned the iron gate rusty and left the cemetery’s low white stone walls in decay. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When they stopped outside the garden gate she tried to dismount hastily and he had to catch her hand, wrenching her arm back painfully, to prevent her from falling. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gran still tells the story of when I was three years old and, fed up with being a prisoner, I dug a hole under the gate in the driveway, wriggled through, and ran off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of them types a series of numbers on the keypad, and the gate slides open to admit us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ran from gate to gate to gate, taking it all in. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eying her, he moved back from the gate. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

This time, since it was after high noon, the gates were ajar and the keeper of the gate idled upon the threshold, picking his teeth with a bamboo sliver after his meal. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a bizarre makeshift barricade just beyond the broken gate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The gate opened with a loud clang and I jumped. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the gate opening and closing and him being safe on the outside. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then, realizing the gate was missing, she turned and walked briskly back to the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And after him Johnny Pacheco was knocked off when Sunflower bucked into the chute gate Nick Rael couldn’t swing open fast enough; Johnny almost broke a leg. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Werfel emerged from the sphere, feeling dizzy and a little sick to his stomach, the Foreign Secretary was already talking to the watchmen at the gate. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

However, after they passed through the gate, Pinmei realized they were now in the Imperial Garden. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I watch Miss Skeeter come in the gate, walk around the pool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, “And sixteen?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced around and saw that there was now a wrought-iron gate embedded in the bedroom wall, in the exact spot where the WarGames poster had been a second before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Burst from the gates and swarm across the siege lines, smash the Yunkai’i as they come stumbling from their beds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I let him into the shower, allowed two officers and an inmate through the center gate, and then returned to the task of trying to clear W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pass by a security box right by the locked gate. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They followed what was left of the road from the gates to Orthanc, going slowly, for the flag-stones were cracked and slimed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Bod unlocked the gate with his key, and they went in. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Approaching the wrought-iron gates, we came across the relics of a strike. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was the familiar gate, the ugly street, reality. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“He said that she’s fixing all the gates and the doors,” she told the cat, “to keep you out.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When they turned in at Lem’s gate, they could hear him raging. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, very good. Reznak, see to it. Once the Second Sons ride out, close the gates and double the watch upon the walls.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She left the kitchen garden behind her, closed the gate with a soft click, and set off across the field. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the gate there now appeared a broad thick-set hobbit with a round red face. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Regardless of what you may think, we don’t want to have to kill anyone unless it’s absolutely necessary. Besides, there are two more gates, right?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He saw men, some sitting on cots, some standing behind the iron gates with their hands on the bars, looking at him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of February 26, 2012, Martin had engaged in an altercation with Zimmerman, who was the neighborhood watch coordinator for the Sanford, Florida, gated community in which the confrontation took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Her body felt weightless, and she seemed to float down the path to the gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dreadfort men made their way across the moat and through the inner gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I could walk right up to the front gates of the camp and walk away. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I open the white picket gate and continue, past the front lawn and towards the front gate. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an open gate a little way along, and Lyra could have followed him, but she hung back uneasily. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

From what I could tell, the Sixers still hadn’t figured out how to open the gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But when he tried to pull the handle, the gate proved too heavy to move. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Winterfell’s great main gates were closedand barred, and so choked with ice and snow that the portcullis would need to be chipped free before it could be raised. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, he struck the gate a crushing blow with his fist. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, heavily, the procession advanced toward the gate of the ghetto. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dark eyes stayed on me as I got closer and closer to the front gates of the school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Before her eyes she found the lusty suitors casting dice inside the gate, at ease on hides of oxen—oxen they had killed. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now when Telemakhos and Nestor’s son pulled up their horses at the main gate, one of the king’s companions in arms, Eteoneus, going outside, caught sight of them. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All eyes went to their bodyguard, who had left off tending the roses and was oiling the gate hinges. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pa packed his fiddle carefully in its box and put it in the big sled that was already waiting at the gate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the gate, the sign proclaimed that work meant freedom. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this baked, desolate, treeless landscape, scattered with small tin-roofed huts and dusty walking paths, we drove through a gate and onto smooth pavement. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

When he stopped the buggy at her gate she did not offer to get out alone this time. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rode for many days through the deepest parts of the Wood, and at last, driven by her desire to claim Rois’s heart, she found the crystal gates leading to Taninli. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all get out to clear a path to the gate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then, just as they’re about to start boarding, the gate agent comes on the loudspeaker and makes an announcement. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“The rule is that they can’t be leaning against the bars of the cells,” the regular officer said to us, “and the cell gates are supposed to be closed.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he reached the city walls, the gates were shut against him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the time I found my way to the right gate, I’d missed my flight. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the boat struck, we would use its force like a springboard to jump the gate. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Old Dan trotted out to the gate, stopped, turned around, and looked at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herdsmen were driving beasts into the keep—and all the beasts strayed, or got muddled with each other, or would not go through gates. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lasted three hours outside the gates before the legionnaires brought him in to face the Commandant—longer than most. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He went with his eyes fixed inward, and he went through the gate of the wall about the town, and he went to the house that had been great. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We pulled the oxen through the gate and drove them into the barn. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara took him by the arm and accompanied him to the gate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monet and his friend stopped at the park gate to pay their entrance fees. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no encampment outside this gate, only brown fields with patches of moss growing over the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Firing her out of the gate, Pollard sent her up alongside the favorite, then drew off to a commanding lead on the backstretch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The field visible beyond the gates when they reach the other side is not crowded at this late hour, though a few scattered patrons coming or going linger nearby. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She thought awhile and decided that her conscious life had commenced at Nanny’s gate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He saw three gates during his wanderings—the main entrance with its gatehouse, a postern by the kennels, and a garden gate hidden behind a tangle of pale ivy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If I forbid them to carve stone or lay bricks, the chandlers, the weavers, and the goldsmiths will soon be at my gates asking that they be excluded from those trades as well.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It curved away without a window or opening except for a single gate directly in front of them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A trickle of cloudy white sewage runs past the front gate. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No, only a gate at the entrance and hedges to keep out curiosity seekers.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as they went his soldiers blew their horns in signal long arranged; and even before they came to the gate Sauron sprang his trap. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The man in the dark coat had given up on rattling the main gates and was now examining the smaller side gate. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They stopped, just inside the gates, one behind the other. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew, of course, was never allowed outside the gate unless he went with Miss Lark for a walk in the Park, or with one of the maids to have his toes manicured. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Though Jesper didn’t think anyone would be lying in wait, some guard might be charged with protecting the gate mechanism at all cost. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the heart of Tokyo is the secure neighborhood of Mejiro, where a gated estate of luxury quarters house Warcross teams for the duration of the tournament. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She opened the low gate and turned down the long, silent, flaming street. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

What he means is that he was watching, that he knew we were here the moment we passed through the gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In all his dreaming—and indeed, all his despairing—he had never foreseen this: that his impossible dream might simply...ride through the gates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A bundle of something was thrown at the gate, and then the riders galloped on. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows swooped along with her and fell into formation at the gate. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

By the time he pulled into the gates of Fort Detrick, he had decided to go ahead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we do not act, Hizdahr will kill the dragons and open the gates to the queen’s enemies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Outside of my parents’ house were white balloons, tied off on either side of the white fence’s gate, floating arrows that pointed us up to the open front door. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After a moment the big gate opened a few inches. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the sixth day since Shinae had deserted them, there was a loud knocking on their front gate. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

With only ten minutes before the gate opens, the men at the juice joint mix up another batch using water from the animal troughs. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The buildings they passed on either side were dark, and some of their courtyard gates were wide open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Tam Lin said, if you didn’t know Tom well, you’d think he was an angel bringing you the keys to the pearly gates. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we came home one evening and found the cats strung up by their tails from our front gate, gutted and skinned and bleeding out, their heads chopped off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Down below, about fifty of the Calormenes, dismounted, were steadily swinging a great tree trunk against the gate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, we’ll know in a few minutes,” she said, seeing him at the gate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The legionnaires manning Blackcliff’s gates seem not to see us as we pass out of the school, and I wonder if Cain has used Augur sorcery on them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I dashed through the gate and looked about. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Faces appeared on the wall above the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The step through the gates that takes you from painted ground to bare grass feels heavy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Did you leave the gate unlatched when you came in, Jason. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck had no passenger seat, and the back was cluttered with gate equipment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We did not come too soon,’ said Aragorn, looking at the gates. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There would be no difficulty now about getting the two horses out of the North gate and then on to the Tombs. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

They probably didn’t even know yet there was a gate. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I just turned around and went out through the yard gate instead. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The Welsh have taken the town and are at the gates of the outer bailey. The food is giving out. The water low in the well. You must get help. You must get it soon.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Two men in woolen flat caps are sitting on a makeshift bench near the camp gate, talking over the headlines in Unzer Sztyme. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His teacher had gone home to the gated Bowi- won village. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Kaisa’s elbow brushed against Ash’s arm as she passed through the gate. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she went through the garden gate she found herself in a clearing in the middle of the woods. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

They rattled the gates, hacking at them with their swords. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t tell us who, but the house had been huge, behind stone walls and an iron gate. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

If that gate opens, the horse could bolt out and crush us. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

All of them began to slowly back up, and Moss hoped desperately that they could find a way past the cops who still stood motionless in a line by the gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A large evil-looking rat, covered in tattoos and carrying a rusty cutlass, had turned up at the gate. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I go to inform myself,” and he closed the gate and slid the bolt home. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeezed my skinny body between the school’s chain-link fence and padlocked gate. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as my friends and I passed through the school gate and the video camera recorded our every move, it felt as if we were going to a funeral. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This time the gates of Hel were opened for him, as he left, and he retraced his steps. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The day began at 6:00 a.m. as my mother and Granny left me at the school’s entrance gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dreaming about the wicked sister at the gates of Hill House.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that many officers, rather than plow through all this when their shift was over, would just drop the contraband in a trash can by the front gate and be done with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked over my shoulder as they walked me through the gate, but she still wasn’t looking at me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Alba heard the vehicles, the shouts, and the gate being closed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate was latched, the ground inside the fence undisturbed. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Kino looked down at his closed hand and the knuckles were scabbed over and tight where he had struck the gate. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would sneak away from home, quietly climbing the dark-green gate in our front yard and jumping over it so our parents wouldn’t hear it creak. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Telling Mama, “Here he is,” I grabbed my jumper and cap, and ran out to the gate and waited. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her through my bedroom window as she went out of the gates and turned left, and I remember calling out to her to come back, come back, come back. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yelled after them as they waited for the officer down-stairs to open the center gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck stopped just outside the camp’s gate, where more Jews were being unloaded from trucks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he crashed against the largest column of the gate just as it collapsed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When he paused before the fare gate to remove his Fast Pass from his wallet, a voice from behind spoke his name. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Were quiet until we clear the barrier gate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was in August when they gave me a lecture, a cheap L’il Abner suit, and a small amount of money, and I walked out of the gate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd just finished signing my autograph in steamy yellow when a rusty gate opened up with a tiny shriek and there stood a sour aunt from black-and-white times. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Harry stopped at the gate into the garden, staring out at its overgrown plants, rubbing his pounding forehead and thinking of Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for an answer, I turned the corner and drove through the cemetery gates and down the narrow wagon road that wound around old graves and old trees. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He made us sing one of the English songs that Teacher Sarah had taught us as a car drove through the orphanage gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cedulas are stamped when we come back through the gates. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We waited till she went inside, then crossed the highway and opened the gate in the picket fence that was about to topple over from the weight of Carolina jasmine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then out of doors went the parade, and through gate after gate again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked along past this fence until we reached a gate. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was darker than usual when I walked Teacher Sarah to the gate that night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we walked down the gravel path in the park in the dark, under the trees and then out from under the trees and past the gate into the street that led into town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

We clustered near the gate like a small herd of doomed sheep, looking at the galleries above. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to love nothing more than to stand at the gate and greet the children in the morning. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m about to cross the street, I hear a crunching sound—someone walking down the little gravel path that leads from the graveyard to the gates. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Minli followed his hand and saw crimson gate doors painted with a cheerful greeting. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the canoe tight against the gates and stood carefully to feel how high they were. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The gate opened after many locks and bolts had been undone, and an enormous woman stood before them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he did not see the crazy old bag standing by the gate or behind a section of fence, Harlan naturally strode straight across the plaza area. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the gates Tashbaan did not at first seem so splendid as it had looked from a distance. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Forget running a gate or being an escort or doing construction supervision or transportation or manning a wall tower—a good robot might almost do those. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people are released from Illinois prisons, they are given as little as $10 in “gate money” and a bus ticket to anywhere in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A woman walked down the stairs behind them and straight through the fare gate, like she did this all the time. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He turned in at the gate and went up the steps. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mully had the keys for the j three gates, where bars of black iron as thick as a man’s arm closed off the passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Charlie glanced back over his shoulder and saw the great iron entrance gates slowly closing behind him. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we returned home from that visit to Shangla, we found a letter for my father taped to the school gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The herbs brushed against her skirt as she went down the path and out the low iron gate to the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A swollen red sun hung low against the western hills when the gates of the castle opened. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Near the gate, Baby was on her knees playing in the sand while Ugwu watched her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Harry felt the ground shudder under his face as the brother and sister and the enormous Death Eater obeyed, running toward the gates. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance they could see in the dim light the movement of the black guards upon the wall, and the patrols before the gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Either Og had cut their voice links to me, or Halliday had coded this final stage of the gate so that no outside communication was possible. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A heavy chain hugged the two elaborately crafted sides of the gate together. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Hachiya tripped over something, looked down, and saw it was the body of a soldier, crushed under a fallen gate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bracken did not mean to break the gates of Raventree nor storm its high, thick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"Now we just sit and watch everyone who enters or leaves that gate!" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I heard that I was invited here as a guest of Doctor Montague’s. When you open the gates I will go inside.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They joined two others standing alongside a white man by the entrance gate to one of the yards. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jalil guided her, one palm cupped around each of her shoulders, through the same gates outside of which, two days before, Mariam had slept on the sidewalk waiting for him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He went out and walked down to the gate at the bottom of the path, and then on a short way down the Hill Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They stood together at the far end, their heads toward the gate where the bull would enter. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Shutting the gate, she looked back at the Crown Prince. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When the wheels touched the ground, Percy floored the brakes, and they swerved to a stop just inside the gates. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They went through the gate and walked around the back of the building. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I trembled with fear as we passed through those gates of hell on earth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s out of my hands. They all think the ancestors sent you, and Garikayi has forbidden me to open the gate.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another officer locked and unlocked the gates that controlled inmate movement off the galleries. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman, entered and took my father aside. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

David Alspeth stopped at the locked gate, felt in his hands the weight of the small box which he could not stand to see yet, looked down on the sailboat, and tried not to cry. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We demand that the gates of Mobius be opened,” I begin. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just raise the gate,” he said with a frustrated growl. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Fossie suddenly pulled away, twisting sideways, and fell back against the gate. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod walked down to the main gate of the graveyard, and looked out through the bars. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

So he began to wander through the city, and found himself at the gates. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before I got to eat my breakfast, I saw what looked like about a hundred police officers, park rangers, and school staff, all gathered around the front gates to the school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wait at the gate of the coal yard and watch him cycle toward me, slower than ever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Outside the gate they stopped, and three black figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Right there,” I said, pointing to the gates a block away. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode down the guards at the gate and vanished from the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time I reach the house’s gate, my hair is wet, limp, and heavy against my forehead and cheeks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He turned his face away from the river gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There’s a metal gate separating the hallway from the lab, and Mr. Gideon unlocks it with a key around his neck. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But it is the clock, the elaborate black-and-white clock situated just inside the gates, that the winemaker thinks might particularly interest Herr Thiessen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She remembers the German pacing outside Hubert Bazin’s gate, the edge of his newspaper rattling the bars, and closes the door a fraction. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pressed her lips together and hardened her heart and rode on toward the gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Padre de Jesus was in the passenger seat, another man was driving, a third jumped out from the back, unlocked the courtyard gates, and closed them after the truck pulled in. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out a high iron gate and beyond it a big mansion with lots of flowers and the hedges all cut to look like animals. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red-faced man took a big iron key on a ring as big around as the boy’s head and unlocked one of the iron gates. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few more struggles, Lassie made it home and met Joe at the school gate as she used to. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The crowd, running, went out the gate with him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In doing so, he sheared off an inch-square hunk of his forehoof, leaving it lying on the track by the gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that he placed it around Milo’s neck, pushed back the heavy iron gate, bowed low, and motioned them into the city. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the Fair Folk opened the gate and the white pig burst out, wriggling and squealing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd of crows beyond the gate had swollen to two score by the time they emerged from beneath the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled on the gate and it swung free. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, people are released from prison with only the clothes on their backs and a pittance in gate money. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the whistle blows at half five men in caps and overalls swarm through the gate, their faces and hands black from the work. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Julian hardly had time to react before we were at the gate. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a lantern from the porch, walk to the pasture gate. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Yep, this is me right here on the left. The one with the open gate." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s no gate that I can see. I went in and out by hovercar.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They have to park way out by the chain-link gate and walk a long distance to the gym. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The chickens weren’t in the chicken yard, of course, because I had shut the gate when I chased them out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I sat on the floor for a long time, watching people check in at the counter and head off toward their gates. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No one has a proper answer, yet as dusk approaches there is a substantial crowd of spectators gathering outside the gates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I see she hasn’t changed, either,” he said at the gate. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he opened the door—and stared beyond the picket gate at Willis Hurd and his friends, who all broke into sudden and uproarious laughter—all except Willis, who was smiling his chicken-killing smile. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I point to the sign on the gate to the court. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It was all dim and obscure in his mind, the gebbeth, the burning staff, the running, the whispering, the gate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A wrought-iron fence surrounds the parking lot, and Supreme has to let security know who we are before they let us through the gate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I followed him out the back gate and then watched as he poured everything into the creek. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate and walked swiftly and silently up the garden path, Harry at his heels, then pushed the front door very slowly, his wand raised and at the ready. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance ahead, we see the gate to the kibbutz. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Wilton shrugged his shoulders, walked out of the gate, and that was the last anyone saw of Wilton in court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there’s still a guard at the gate of the ghetto, so someone must be alive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And with that, he turned his mount and led them through the gate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“That was true for the first two gates,” I replied. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally at five o’clock in the afternoon the people near the gate started cheering. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even caught glimpses of his sinuous form, silhouetted against the light-colored stone of which Rome was built, a sinister shadow sliding past walls and closed gates. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Bear was gazing at it intently, but when I started to ask him what it meant, I realized he’d shifted his gaze to the gate. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Turner closed the gate and, leaning over the fence, dropped the noose over the pigs head. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sorrento recites the words on the gate in Latin. And Elvish. And Klingon. Then they get hung up on reciting First Corinthians 13:13, a Bible verse that contains the words ‘charity, hope, and faith.’ Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The lieu-tenant arrived and told us to lock the two middle gates, which effectively divided the group in half. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the road from the gate they fled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the police car, which was parked just outside the gate. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was practicing my lefty dribble next to the iron gate that surrounded the courts when one of the guys fell hard to the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was old and simple in design, a small, forgotten stone house with a metal gate for a door. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We passed through the sanctuary gate shortly before dark. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I left through the service gate. Didn’t see anybody following me.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A very few minutes brought them to the palace gates. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The gates underneath the arch were flung wide open and manned by security men in dark brown uniforms and matching berets. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our neighborhood is gray and white and black cement; you have to peek through metal gates into hidden courtyards to find trees and flowers. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audrey drove past the security gate and parked on the side of the winding driveway. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And when I got to the gate a man said to me, “I think someone’s looking for you, sonny.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The attendant swung the gate aside, and for the first time in my life I stepped onto the wooden-plank platform of the lift. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It takes up half a block behind black iron gates. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then Hornet saw two adults walk through the gate: a woman with a black hat and a bearded man. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t believe it just happened, that I didn’t plan it when I turned in those cemetery gates. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She'd been the last one inside, and she remembered shutting the gate behind her. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Outside, wagons and riders were still pouring through the castle gates, and the yard was a chaos of mud and horseflesh and shouting men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When my bat meets ball, the ball takes off like a missile toward right field, and I take off for first like a Thoroughbred exploding from the starting gate. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I yanked Georgie to the right, planning to run along the fence, but he slipped in the snow and fell by the gate, pulling me down with him. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She saw the hyenas, bloody-mouthed, being driven back through the gate by a hoard of slaves armed with whips and spears. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’m actually surprised Rufus is chaining his bike to a gate and following me into the hospital. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now they were fighting in the wreckage at the main gate. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Wherever it was, the entrance to it was a great gate of clouds kept by the Seasons. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they always wanted to know what treasures their big brother had found, crowding around him to see his trophies when he came back through the garden gate. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He opened the gate, passed through it, and strayed away down the glen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The gate buzzed open, and Seven pushed it and slipped onto the front lawn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The legionnaires will have sealed off the Quarter by the time we get to one of the gates. We’ll have to take the tunnels and hope they haven’t sealed those off.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The gold dotted line stops in front of the gates of a warm, well-lit estate with a curved wall and carved lions outside its doorway. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Past the gate, the Yards was a labyrinth of brick walls the color of spoiled meat, smoke-guttering flues, and rickety wooden ramps crammed within two square kilometers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But in any case, alone now, at the front gate of Lumumba’s prison house in Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Leo suspected, the loft had doors on either side—folding metal gates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Down from the gates they roared, over the causeway they swept, and they drove through the hosts of Isengard as a wind among grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It felt surreal, to be driven past the electronic gates, the high walls, the wires. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But all they saw for now was a single young man, an apprentice standing at the open gate, his back to the crowd. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We waited for what seemed like an eternity until the gate opened. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The street looked strange, unfamiliar; the compound gate was broken, the metal flattened on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The gate shrieked but, thank God, stayed shut. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of people at the gate, all amassed at the entrance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After several minutes that seemed a lifetime each, he turned away, walked to the gate and went out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Leo slammed both gates shut and summoned fire to his hands, fusing the locks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cursing my own foolishness, I dropped the duffel behind a bush by the enclosure gate and skirted the nursery wall. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Put a little gate around them so they wouldn’t get trampled by the customers going to the house next door to buy drugs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Exclusion Guards at the gate entrance clear the drivers after a visual inspection of the inside, outside, and underside of the buses. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I swooped up and around, then turned back toward the gate, aiming straight for it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They stood on a wet floor of polished stone, the doorstep, as it were, of a rough-hewn gate of rock opening dark behind them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He pauses at big black gates in front of the market and calls out, “c' Va a querer especias? Who wants spices?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed it to again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and fetched a lantern and looked over the gate at them in surprise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not look back to the gate, but only forward, toward the peeling sycamores. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the seats around the gate started to fill, Augustus said, “I’m gonna get a hamburger before we leave. Can I get you anything?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He says little has changed since the time of the Greeks for the barbarians are within the gates and their names are legion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We stop before the ornate iron gate of a slaver's home, and the Tribesman checks my manacles, his tan robes swishing softly as he moves around me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Ruane, you got the north- end gates? Bailey on the split. Baker, Smith, Singleton on the pat- frisk.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On your vow. Not until we’re safely past the city gates.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bill Ferny flinched and shuffled to the gate and unlocked it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re not leaving until those gates are opened and we can all walk out together,” I bark into the bullhorn. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We left the house, went through the gate, entered the zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luis started walking, in his limping style, through the gate and down the sideline. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One more moment and he would fall straight on top of the dog, or else Gebu would open the gate and find him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

They drew rein before the city gates, and looked up to see Dany on the wall above them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“And since you seem unable to stop them, I wish to change some plans. All the gates have been sealed to my castle except the front one, yes?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No bodega gates rolling up, and shopping-cart wheels on jagged sidewalks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My mom greets a few people working at the gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Someone has been here,” my father said as we entered the school gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Store managers juggle key rings and extra-large coffees, then the cage gates fly up in the air. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko returned to the gate and checked the padlock, which was secure. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, her head spinning with these thoughts, she passed the church on her way back to the seamstress, and the black iron gate to the cemetery was hanging open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also there are offices, and art studios, and storage facilities, and banks with safe- deposit boxes, and gates to yards, and parking lots. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could even think to knock, the gates opened by themselves. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Mellower obtained two Pass Cards for the gate, one for the departure and another for when they returned. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every day since her escape from the Red Keep, Arya had visited each of the seven city gates in turn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

From their car seats, Groves and Oppenheimer peered through the gate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when she saw the huntress outside the garden gate with a black horse in tow, she had to look twice to make sure she was not imagining it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a hint or rumor in two hundred years, and now Tizerkane warriors were riding through the gates of the Great Library. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The road to the gate was blocked with barrows and handcarts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For all she knew, he might be dead, his head impaled upon a spike above the city Keep’s gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I arrive a full hour early, just as the guard is opening the iron gates. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hwin said it looked to her as if the safest thing was to go right through the city itself from gate to gate because one was less likely to be noticed in the crowd. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gate, leaves and dandelions lined a long grassless swatch of ground all the way to a dilapidated old house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ride to the gates and bring me Grey Worm and fifty of his Unsullied.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Behind me, leading up to the gate, were three sets of footprints, four counting mine. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Slats grabs the gate in his teeth and rattles it, then thrashes his head up and down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I could stomp off in a huff, Kutti raised his head and galloped toward the gate, barking madly, his tail wagging so fast, it almost disappeared from view. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Out of the way, out of the way!” sang Mrs. Weasley, coming through the gate with what appeared to be a giant, beach-ball-sized Snitch floating in front of her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When we got to the tree line beside the baseball field, they glanced around, then leapt over the metal gate in front of the access road and bolted down the dirt road. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Out the gate, up the road, on your left,” he said, looking at Rahel. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the lodge gates and picked up Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They saw no one until they reached the dock, and the first man they saw there was Tony Costa, guarding the gates. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With light steps I made my way through the outer courtyard and the gates, descended through the meadow, and crouched amid the rushes by the brook. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We were just going to meet you outside, but the back gate wasn’t locked. Figured it would be a fun surprise. We found your friends, by the way!” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The magazine was stuck in the gate, exactly where my face had been. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mohammed, the gate man, wiry in his dirty white caftan, flung open the gates, and raised a hand in greeting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I finally decided that I was more afraid of losing Winn-Dixie than I was of having to deal with a dog-eating witch, so I went through the gate and into the yard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When at last they saw the crystal gates ahead of them, the Huntsman pulled his horse to a halt and turned back to look at his human charges. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rose was all aggression out of the gate. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The guards dragged Inej through the courtyard, past gaping onlookers, and out the ring wall gate as the bells continued to toll. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The crowds were pushing and shouting, and policemen with arms linked were trying to hold them back from the gates. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the days he succeeded in getting outside the gate, he waited for a bus to stop, then hung on its back rails. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to walk out of the gates of Victor Verster and be able to thank those who looked after me and greet the people of Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another group of six protesters, including Lucy Burns, was arrested at the west gate for obstructing traffic. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How far are we from the Outer City gate?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary heard the gay ringing of sleigh bells, growing louder every moment, and then the big bobsled came out of the woods and drove up to the gate. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gate guarding the driveway opened the moment I turned into it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At the gate, she skulked; she felt like a thief. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He walked into the cool darkness of the city gate. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When I sensed I had passed through the gate to the ghetto side, I broke sharply to my right, popped out of the parade, and bolted. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A low wooden gate keeps us from entering. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I stared back at the menacing detective and remembered what it had been like growing up here in the Dakota—a gated island on an island. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I did not want the oni—ogres who I knew guarded the gates of hell—to take my brother in the night. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry inmates emerged up and down the gallery, closing the cell gates behind them in a chorus of metal-on-metal thumps. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the gate with Goddess Lakshmi’s name on it, I knelt on the wet sidewalk and hugged Kutti close. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had huge iron gates leading in to it, and a high wall surrounding it, and smoke belching from its chimneys, and strange whizzing sounds coming from deep inside it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Newly freed inmates streamed out the front gate. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“No one’s guarding the main gate. If you hurry, you’ll make it out. Go now!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Two great trees stood there, one on either side, like living gate-posts; but there was no gate save their crossing and interwoven boughs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper, that boy in the stable, a guard on the gate ... or one of his own? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Red Jack meets us a little ways from the barrier gate to the homestead proper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But he could not help but think of the gallows, just beyond the town gates, how they had loomed up at him through the dark of the night like a warning. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a quick flight to Detroit, where the little electric car met us as we disembarked and drove us to the gate for Amsterdam. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone’s yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of officers is milling around a cell near the front gate of B-block when I get there; this cell is the office of the officer in charge, or OIC. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Khushal School carries on—and each day students pass through that gate—but he is not there to see it. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Once we sealed the gates, he devoted the rest of his life to recording them.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The words burst out of me like racehorses galloping from their gates. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

On that day, a horse named Brick Top speared Tommy’s head into the steel overhead beam of the starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of shouts and songs, we now heard only the clanging of doors and gates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within, they found a pair of iron bars the size of saplings, with post holes in the ground and metal brackets on the gate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The walk from the outer wall to the main castle gate was slanted slightly down, not much of an incline, but a steady one. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The video clip opened with a shot of Sorrento’s avatar standing outside the front gates of Castle Anorak. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They dressed quickly, and all in war gear sallied from the gate, led by Odysseus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm quickly worked his way up the gate until he couldn’t find any more locks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed a gate and began to cross a field in a northerly direction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A flock of ravens rose from inside the walls when,they climbed through the broken gate, and the caged ravens in their wagons called out to them with quarks and raucous shrieks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Down below, the racehorses burst from the gate, like inkblots in the glow of the setting sun. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She jumps down from the tree and opens her mouth and lets out such a scream that I’m sure the gates of hell are ripping open. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun is warm for the last day of February, like the world is remembering spring, and when I get to the ghetto gate, it’s the Polish rather than the German police on patrol. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I looked straight up at the crystal gate floating twenty meters above me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She...it...had landed on a gate, and was curved over it backward, hair streaming long, ginger blossoms raining down from it like little flames. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The moment I entered the gates of Płaszów, I was convinced I would never leave alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Reaching the gate, Odysseus and the forester halted and stood outside, for harp notes came around them rippling on the air as Phemios picked out a song. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard at the main gate stops us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The main gate was padlocked and topped with barbed wire. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Matthias was lying, or all this stuff about Black Protocol is a fake to keep people from even trying to open the gates. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“To quote Cleopatra,” Miss Volker sang out, ‘“The enemy is at the gate.’ Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For half a moon, they rode through the Forest of Qohor, where the leaves made a golden canopy high above them, and the trunks of the trees were as wide as city gates. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the gate, he spun the bracelet around his finger. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Veturius gives his mother a short salute before releasing me and sauntering through the gate without so much as a backward glance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The horses were coming back, through the gate, wet and sweating, the jockeys quieting them and riding up to dismount under the trees. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

"Make no secret of your approach. Sing all the brave songs you like. I want them to close their gates." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gate swung open with a high-pitched whine. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There’s no pool in our backyard, just the one at the condos across the street that we used to sneak into when Doña Rosa loaned us her gate key. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If I opened the gate, a judge could order me flogged. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crossed a high hibiscus hedge through an unlatched gate and came upon a muddy backyard, strewn with logs and stumps like a carpenter's yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The guards dragged the men to a solid wall that stood next to the gate. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had waited for her at the arrival gate, taken her to a hotel for one night, paying for it with the money he’d made at the restaurant. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we started through the gate into the cemetery I heard a car stop and then the sound of someone splashing after us over the soggy ground. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sooner than she would have liked, the iron and glass gate of the castle appeared, latticework doors opened, and a dozen guards flanked the cobblestone path that led through the archway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The pyramid’s main gates fronted on Meereen’s central plaza, but the Domishmen made their way to a side entrance opening on an alley. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Aye, I might have. And you crows might decide to close that gate. A few fighters on t’other side, well, that way the gate stays open, don’t it?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He moved backward to the gate, thinking he’d better run away. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edna had discovered it accidentally one day when the high board gate stood ajar. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The earth’s surface slipped past and there, standing at the gate still in her church clothes, was my mother. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hector felt the wisdom of the advice and sped through the gates to the palace, where his mother did all as he said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder—” Momma began, but we were turning in at our own gate, and she didn’t finish the sentence. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Meng pulled the horse to a stop, and Pinmei turned to see two guards on either side of the gate of the Inner City, neither of whom she had noticed before. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And 5:25 when the screaming started outside the main gate. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The silence is broken when I push myself out of the car, past Darma, and stomp down the hill through the mud toward the farm gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Very slowly, with a loud creaking of rusty hinges, the great iron gates of the factory began to swing open. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Past the gate they followed the road toward the parking lot. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The helicopter shot of their school, the gates with yellow police tape like party streamers, the shots of students huddled in tears on the front steps. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Afore I knowed what was happening I was through Cooter’s gate and right in the middle of a good long hard run home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the women clutched their baskets and peered over the gate and muttered about these relief people wasting time. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Curfew was ringing as they turned up Creed Lane to Ludgate Hill, and only because the guard knew Brother Luke’s habit were they allowed to pass through the city gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

But the giant school gate clanged shut as the car left. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the Drinker gate I push ahead some. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Ayesha and I find the others and hurry to the open yard between the Hub and the entrance gate. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The goldfish man wheeled his empty cart to the indicated gate. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the entrance gate, Dad bought our tickets, muttering about the idiocy of paying money to look at animals, and led us down the walk. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our school is gated too, and the campus has new, modern buildings with lots of windows and marigolds blooming along the walkways. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The guard handed him to another guard, who walked him down another hallway and to a final gate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I left the yard, closing the gate behind me noisily, so they could hear me leaving even in the moonless night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At the gates of Daznak’s Pit two towering bronze warriors stood locked in mortal combat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a woman at the gate to whom Lee was introduced. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch till they disappear over the rise, then I heft my old bones down onto the sidewalk at the gates, close at hand but out of kicking range. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A door opened somewhere down the carriageway, and Dorian Greene came walking toward the gate. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the gate was opened, others flooded in and began battening down for the thirty-six-hour vigil. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loaded them into a crate and onto a handcart and trundled them out of the library, through the front gates, and down the long road that spiraled around Zosimos Ridge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Determined not to be left behind as they had been in the Bay Bridge Handicap, Pollard shot Seabiscuit from the starting gate and sent him blowing past the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins, the neighborhood kids, they’d open the gate and head out and roam free and come back at dusk. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My heart flutters as the guards unlock the gate. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I climb down, and while the rest of the girls disembark I study the gates. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Is that why she summoned her lover, Papa Legba, to block you from entering the gates to this freedom, to this sister of yours, to your nieces, and to me? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dock was a high chain-link gate and the fence that surrounded the ranger station. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I followed Doc out to the back gate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Triple Crown winner was a hellion, repeatedly barging through the gate and dragging the assistant starter with him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lixxa knew her business, and followed when the others filed out through the gate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sam had seen no arrows, but he guessed that the orcs had been shot down by others on the battlements or hidden in the shadow of the gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The faces of the gate guards blur as we gallop past them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘They hide in the robes of these Arab men as they’re walking towards the gates . ‘I remember,’ Kat said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

"To ask you to open your gates, my lord," Catelyn replied politely. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Through the gate and past the great seated figures with their glittering eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

My job, by comparison, was humdrum: I was posted at the front gate, the main passage into and out of B-block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I remember is that I never looked back at the gate. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shut the gates in her face with a loud clang and tapped the chains with his wand again, so that they slithered, clinking, back into place. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You always waits at the gate; don’t you, dear boy?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the stage, a sudden commotion broke out near the courtyard gate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A boy leans against the outside of the gates. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

She pulls down Axel’s long driveway, pulls all the way up to the gate in front of Axel’s house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The servant from the gate came to the open door and stood waiting to be noticed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a gate at this edge of the camp; I could see it now that I was within a few hundred feet of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The inmate had sprinted for the gate, but Stone had caught him and found ... a “16 in. shank.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in airports, there were hanging TV sets tuned to CNN so that you could get an O.J. update as you made your way to a gate. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up from the chair, and I got up and snapped to attention, showing the first real sign of respect I had given him since walking through the gates. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I taught him how to take the T—how to feed his card through the slot and push through the rotating gate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I guess maybe it’s not rich by normal standards, but it was built in the last ten years and it’s gated. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Right beside the gates, in a small group that was carefully shielded from the crowds by the police, stood the five famous children, together with the grownups who had come with them. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I reached the gate and stopped and looked at her for a while. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It landed on the archway above the temple gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The wringmaster was holding one arm out, making a gate behind which the wringers gaped. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

We take up our positions on either side of the gate in the square that surrounds the mosque. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Others join us until we are a small knot of men walking slowly out the fort gates and down to the river. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I thank her very much and hurry down the steps to the gate. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to go there," Hot Pie squeaked as Harrenhal opened its gates to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Please tell Signora Spavento that the habits have to be back before tonight,” the nun had whispered to Prosper after she had passed the clothes through a hatch in the orphanage’s gate. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arm laid his sensitive fingers on the gate, but even he could detect nothing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The outer gates swung open to let him pass. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Instead she said, “Close the gates. Will you make me say it thrice?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Gollum, it seemed, had crawled off along the ledge into the darkness beyond, when the gates of Minas Morgul opened, leaving the hobbits where they lay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then I would turn one of the big black switches on my control panel, the other gate would open, and the vehicle would proceed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the street paused to watch as the train leaped past crossing gates waving a raccoon’s tail of white and black smoke. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He thought about that Then he hit a buzzer and the security gate swung open. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the gate, my breath rasping in my throat so hard I couldn’t speak. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, the gate had been unadorned but for a stone steer’s head. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The rattle of chains...The gate opened upward and he was pushed forward. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t make it past the front gate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their table, they had a clear, if distant, view of the Ice Court’s outer gate and the first guardhouse. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I was just passing, when I heard a baby cry, and I looked through the gates and I saw him. Well, what would anyone do?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But his back was to her as he slammed the lift gates apart, and told her to take her end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The SS men waited for him at the gate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mya says when we find our gate, holding up her phone as we squeeze together, smiling big for the camera. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Without closing the gate, I told them to wait. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several red-necked white men in safari suits and fatigues, guns drawn, paced briskly about the entrance gate, shouting orders and supervising the roundup. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They returned now to the ruins of the gate. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

From the gates old Priam, his father, and his mother Hecuba cried to him to come within and save himself, but he did not heed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran up to her every afternoon, grabbed her hand and pulled her away from the gate where she waited with Maybeth silent beside her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of it echoed off the ice like rolling thunder, and the first of the free folk began to stream toward the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“When you came in at the gate and asked the watchman the way here, had you any one with you?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

"We'll stay in the holdfast, with the gates barred," the old man said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I opened the gate and they stopped, turning. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having shut the gates, most of the soldiers began to stroll away, leaving only two behind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The car reached the main gate, where there was a security cabin and an electronic barrier. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was not much traffic in the High Street, and when they turned down the steps opposite Magdalen College toward the gate of the Botanic Garden, they were completely alone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Certainly it was one of the ninety-nine rules—inmates were never to touch gates, apart from the doors of their own cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, Lev enters the gate, counts out eighteen steps along the side of the garden and four steps toward the house, crouches down and begins to dig with his hands. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They'd come frightened and helpless, and her brother had taken them in when most lords would have closed their gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The gate was built of stones and arced from one side of the trail to the other. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“In my mama’s garden, I saw two or three right in front of the gate. There were dead people all over. We had to bury them.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were greeted with cheers at the castle gate and followed across the courtyard to the inner gate and to the keep by the cheering crowd. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The horse had proved fairly useful as a stakes horse, but he was an incorrigible rogue at the starting gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the incarnation of Christ restores to human beings the possibility of salvation, reopening the gates of Eden, which had been closed against Adam and Eve, and opening to believers the gates of paradise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Musicians and attendants led the way as Hamlet passed through the gates on a gray mount with a black braided mane. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Come in,” she said briskly and she opened the gates wide enough to admit him and then behind his back, while he stood astonished in the court, she barred them securely again. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The gate was outdoors, but there was a little shack next to it where I sat with Martinez. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked outside the gates into the city and found no one there to meet me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is worth quoting at length: As I entered through the so-called “gates of the Sun,” I was immediately confronted with the brilliant beauty of the city, and my eyes were filled with pleasure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The next night I again went up my secret path and found my rocket waiting for me in a cardboard box outside the gate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The simple rule I had to remember was to always close one gate before opening the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He yanked on a chain hanging by the gate, and a bell rang somewhere inside. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He goes out the front security gate and to our driveway next door, where he puts down the bowl, takes the canteen that hangs over his shoulder, and pours its entire contents into the bowl. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks perhaps it would be best to get to the gates as soon as it could even remotely be considered dusk and wait if necessary. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We stopped outside the gates and retrieved the Story Box from where Old Familiar had left it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the gate he paused, his hand already on the latch, and suddenly leaned his head forward against the worn, familiar wood. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I looked up and through a broken window in one of the library’s blackened walls I saw two army trucks enter the stadium through a fallen gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the main camp gate is a secluded place I've been escaping to. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, please,” Mama says to Nuredin, who backs the car out of the driveway and through the gate. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

We make our way back to the carriage at the graveyard gate but the carriage is gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was standing in front of the open gate again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I went back to Pop’s to tell Elizabeth and Bertrand that Francis and I had probably beaten Pauling to the gate and that the answer would revolutionize biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t just walk past the gate guards so late at night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The bull picked another man running in front, but the man disappeared into the crowd, and the crowd was through the gate and into the ring with the bulls behind them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lumpy picked up the pace as soon as he saw the park’s gates. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Look at that,” I say as we drive out of the gate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In time, the Stockyards’ gate towered before us, all ivory limestone and rising turrets, as grand as any wall in the White City. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘Half a sticky mile from here to the gate!’ muttered Pippin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Finally, a gray uniform appeared among them, and an officer in his early thirties plodded up, stuck a key in the gate, and pulled it aside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A column of demigods emerged from the gates, their armor and spears glinting as they hurried toward the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The goldfish man, speechless with surprise, let himself be led through the gate doors. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She led them through another gate to the inner courtyard and past the side hall, her finger pressed to her lips for silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Poppet and Widget stand by the circus gates, just out of the way of the ticket booth, though the line for tickets has waned in the late hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure tries to remember everything she knows about the lock and latch on the gate, everything she has felt with her fingers, everything her father would have told her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mama was standing on the other side of the baby gate, ready for Franz’s appearance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The music from the harmonica was very clear now, and they could tell that Willie was playing while he waited at the front gate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We could hear the whoops and hollers and splashing as soon as we walked up the driveway to a wrought iron gate standing ajar as if it were personally saying, Come on in. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On the mornings of the fourth and fifth of August, Etienne stands at the front door mumbling to himself, then pushes open the gate and goes out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was still wondering where Sister Redempta had come from and what the dictionary might have to say about what manifest meant when I opened Miss Sadie’s gate and plodded up the creaky stairs. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The clock by the gates ticks off the minutes later and later, the ornaments upon it twirling and shifting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One of the PSFs barked out a terrifying “Stop!” but she kept running, straight for the gates. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I went as far as the inner gate to the tracks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A worried crowd gathered by the White House gates to hear the latest news. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ranofer waited until he was a considerable distance down the street, then jumped from his perch, ran to the gate and let himself out cautiously. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Traveling doggedly on wearied legs, he realized that his entry to Redwall would have to be from the Mossflower side, as the main gate would probably be under attack. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as papa and I entered those gates that afternoon and began to go up the drive toward the house, I could feel it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

From beyond the cemetery gates, her mother waves to us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this: ‘On the west wall will be situated a main gate so that creatures may come and go, obtaining entrance to or exit from the Abbey of Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then Kaede heard the red gates open, and her mother’s voice calling her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dray asks just as Kasim walks out of the café and pulls down the gate. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He followed her inside and pulled the gate closed behind them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the colt around to the front of the gate, had the assistant place a pair of tongs on the horse’s lips to distract him, then had him backed into the stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through the gates and into a smaller hall, where queues were forming in front of twenty golden grilles housing as many lifts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Away from the gates and the stables, the great castle was largely deserted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as his back was turned, a dark figure climbed quickly in over the gate and melted into the shadows of the village street. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And for him a new refrain: I am the guard who opened the gates and let the foe march through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Lekki Expressway, the traffic moved swiftly in the waning rain and soon Gabriel was pressing the horn in front of the high black gates of his home. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She ran out the door, through the picket gate, and onto the porch next door, stomping and jumping to keep warm. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I’d stepped into the gate, it had transported my avatar into a stand-alone simulation, a virtual location separate from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Lock shields and advance in turtle formation to the main gates. Try to stay in one piece. Draw their fire. Second line—” Gwen turned to Frank’s row without much enthusiasm. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After a while Widget goes off in search of something else to eat and Poppet waits by the gates alone, occasionally glancing over her shoulder to check the time on the clock behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A two-lane road led up to a tiny stone building just in front of the entrance and exit gates. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Open this gate or I will kill you!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a respectable gate built plainly of wood, and Wang Lung struck it with the palm of his hand. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That week, a man put chicken wire around his garden, five feet high, complete with a little gate and padlock. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already, hundreds of black men and women thronged outside its gates. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I weaved through several people already gathered by the boarding gate. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A moment later the gates began to stir, creaking, dripping, and slowly, slowly opening against the current, making the water seethe and churn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Portia said good-bye to her husband and brother at the gate and knocked on the screen door. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The seven great gates which were the Thebans’ pride remained closed, and famine drew near to the citizens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I returned to the well, Mother came through the garden gate. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He became agitated when he saw riders moving past the farm’s front gate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My God, I feel as if I’ve just been through the seven gates of Hell.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Police opened the gate and waved them through. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jimmy locked the steel gate, leaving Alex with the uncomfortable sensation of being a prisoner, even though he knew he and Julie were safer if the store was locked shut. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Hearing shouts and loud cries, the crowd shifted its gaze away from the stage and began to surge toward the gate. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But this time there was no boat at the jetty and no dogs barked as Prosper and Scipio vaulted over the gate. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the southwest, he found an open gate flanked by a pair of animal skulls on high poles: a bear to one side, a ram to the other. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A line of planes stood at the gates and on the tarmac, one of them painted with the bright red Virgin Atlantic symbol. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Dany put her heels into her horse and showed them the way, trotting beneath the shattered arch of an ancient gate and down a silent street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To stop the colt’s gate rages, Smith used a daring method. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my father came up with a compromise: The older girls would enter through a different gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pong couldn’t see much of what was happening, but he swore he spotted his friend’s silhouette standing at the gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ranofer watched until the shadow swallowed them, then walked on through the dusk-filled streets, in which an occasional torch bloomed now over doorway or gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Mary Poppins walked down the garden path and opened the gate. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

As I neared the gate, a sentry stepped out and blocked my way. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while I approach the new school, go toward it through the gate, walk slowly around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The gate to the ghetto is just down the street, a German policeman walking back and forth in front of it. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He surged forward with such power that it was as if, said one witness, “he were breaking from the gate again.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cart track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been a real pleasure teaching you. I feel sure we’ll meet again sometime. Headmaster, there is no need to see me to the gates, I can manage....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And then, as though embarrassed at having revealed such a secret part of herself, she quickly pushed open the gate and walked up the path. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he forgot to lock the gate tonight. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the great gates were locked and Wang Lung pounded against them with both fists and no one came. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Closing the gate behind him, he stopped and looked about warily. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Frank looked around to make sure there were no campers or Lares nearby, but the main gates were still a hundred yards away. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Full of nervous energy, Doha hurried to slip on his shoes and wait for his sister at the front gate. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It undid the bolts of the gate but left the chain on. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was always bad news, so sometimes days went by before he bothered to take out his strangely sharp little key and open the metal box by the front gate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Breathless, he reached the courtyard gate and pressed his ear against it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We say our goodbyes, and Rani walks us to the gate. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The stone lions that flanked either side of the gates were wearing wigs and beards of snow, and they grinned as the horse passed through. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a vidcap of their first attempt to open the gate.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The car reached the top and pulled up to a gate with a sign reading Los Alamos Ranch School. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she reached the iron gates to the palace grounds, the guards asked for her invitation, and she said, “Is not every eligible woman invited? You must let me through.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dauntless guards close the gate and lock it behind them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“You need a bigger gate,” Tormund complained to Jon with a sour look up at the sky, where a few clouds had blown in. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She assigned me to the center gate and Q-south, the gallery next to her office and told me, “I don’t want to see nobody out where they ain’t supposed to be.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me, it’s so weird to have a gate around a neighborhood. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Close the gates! he tried to shout, but it was too late. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Once a year at the Moon Festival, they open the gates to everyone.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the gate, I paused to watch as she straightened up to catch her breath. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He rode northerly, and he followed the path down until he saw before him a huge high wall and the gates to Hel, which were higher than the tallest tree. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

To get to the top, we had to pass through a locked staircase gate on every single floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex led the way through the front gate, carrying a plastic food container under his arm. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, you couldn’t even hear cars, like as soon as we walked through the gates, we entered some new dimension—some secret land where drama didn’t exist. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As I contemplated all this grandeur, an enormous motorcar rumbled through the western gate and the men sitting in the shade immediately arose. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny rode through the town gates, telling his business to the British sentries there, then went first to report to Paul Revere. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gate in the first fence opens to admit us, and then a gate in the second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

While luxury stores, miraculous finance companies, exotic restaurants, and import business were flourishing, the unemployed lined up outside factory gates waiting for a chance to work at the minimum wage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I examine the front gate leading to the house, Papa Legba disappears again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Here comes our feast,” Muthu said as a man came and stuffed some bags into the dumpster outside the back gate of the wedding hall. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Fischer remained apparently unmoved: He wanted 30 percent of the gate receipts and was not traveling to Iceland unless his demands were met. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I went out the door and I couldn’t hear them, and I went down to the gate, where the girls passed with their booksatchels. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard inside dumped down a bucket of oil on the first men to reach the gates, but as he’d had no time to heat it, the bucket caused more damage than its contents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The prison children would press their faces against the metal gate and sniff the sweet scent of mangosteens and rambutans, the acid aroma of the pomelos and green oranges. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were talking every day now, ever since the bullet, ever since the new hole in the gate. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I want to come in, please. Please unlock the gate.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Encircled by an electric fence with imposing metal gates, Emalia now had a sinister look. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pat is mumbling at the gate, rubbing his leg. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A boy could walk out through the garden gate and straight into the rye, and beyond that into meadows strewn with wildflowers to pick, pine forests to ramble in, and streams to follow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A square house, ivy-covered, with no name on the gate, which we had already passed twice. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have been thrown over here by the force of the blast. You can use it to become Ultraman and fly up to the gate!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

People just getting home from work had swelled the crowd at the gate. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad to hear the gate clang to behind them, as they rode forward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had complete text transcripts of every audible word she’d spoken while clearing the first two gates. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When they were all together on the wall top, Inigo stretched out the dead man and then hurried along until he could get a better view of the main gate. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wave goodbye and head for the gates of the graveyard, where a few yellow leaves have already fallen onto the grass. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lord Manderly had brought musicians from White Harbor, but none were singers, so when Abel turned up at the gates with a lute and six women, he had been made welcome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He heard what sounded like a gate creaking open, and they were herded forward, shuffling along in their shackles. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So anyway, over the next gate was this medium-sized field. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the first weeks of the demonstrations, Woodrow Wilson actually nodded and tipped his hat to the women as his chauffeur drove him through the White House gates on his way to play golf. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He turned around to grin shyly at Gilly and then, as though carrying the crown of England, came down Mr. Randolph’s walk, the sidewalk, and into Trotter’s gate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The school had a director of discipline, and he would watch the front gate to see who showed up late. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A single mule was hitched to one of the cages and dragged it up against the gate in the corral wall. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five-barred gate behind them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She paused at her door to find her keys in her handbag, and then there we were, standing by her gate, watching her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his attendants withdrew and closed the gate behind them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jay whooped and followed behind his friends, leaving me to walk through the gate on my own. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Shadow ran through the airport, but the doors were already closed when he got to the gate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Three Indian messengers bring it to the fort gates, and I rejoice to see Captain Smith’s handwriting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Digory was just turning to go back to the gates when he stopped to ha\\e one last look round. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I caught up to him just past the school gates. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some must bribe the gate guards or tunnel guards, but surely there’s another way out of here. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“So long,” he said patronizingly to the Warden, who had accompanied him as far as the lift gates. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. You would close our gates forever and seal them up with stone and ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mv father had accompanied the deportees as far as the ghetto’s gate. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school, I walk through the gates, conscious of my hair swinging behind me and, despite reason, bracing myself for a crowd to begin taunting, Longa, dirty Indian. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as her hand was on the gate, he ran before her, and slammed the gate shut. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"In his name, I command you to open these gates." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Helene shoves past the gate guards toward the Commandant's house, apologizing to a group of Yearlings when she knocks two of them over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Michah slips an envelope into the hand of the British guard at the gate, nods, and we cross the threshold of Bergen-Belsen for the last time. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gates had been a solid press of people. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Per procedure, he exited the block and locked the gate from the outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a moment to locate the ridge of scales that hid the gate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now the gates have sentries and there are ugly new floodlights mounted on metal posts above it, and barbed wire along the bottom and broken glass set in concrete along the top. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he was sure that it had seen the gate on its own side and meant to go to it, Blackberry turned and climbed the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt the mice would be interested to learn of his scheme to attack the main gate with a battering ram. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Vanderbilt didn’t want to be strong-armed into dismissing Milton, whom he and virtually all observers agreed had done nothing wrong in his effort to load War Admiral in the gate the year before. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are at the gates to the Caucasus, proclaims Hauptmann’s radio, we have taken oil fields, we will take Svalbard. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I went and waited and waited in a line at the gate. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Aragorn stood above the great gates, heedless of the darts of the enemy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The sound of shoes slapping against the pavement, and two men were on the other side of the gates, rattling them, pulling at them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

When I got to school that morning, I was more elated than ever to walk through the gate. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t rank in the top five at the end of initiation, you will probably end up here,” says Four as he reaches the gate. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The humble home she lived in sounds so different from Thaya Jaan’s three-story house with its green gates, carport, manicured lawn filled with fruit trees and flowers, and my favorite veranda. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He picks up a silver mask from a basket by the gates and slips it over his face. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When he paused before the fare gate to remove his Fast Pass from his wallet, a voice from behind spoke his name. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We went to a steel gate in the back of the yard, where Granny rang a bell. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw three police cruisers and what could have been an unmarked police car parked on Seventy- second Street, right at the front gates of our apartment building, the exclusive and infamous Dakota. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The departure facility isn’t more than an old, converted ranger station beyond some gates to the National Park. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Silently we watched Daddy drive the truck through the gate. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

By then we had opened the gate and the cows were following us back. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prevailed upon a fellow named Bikitsha, whom I knew from home, to help me carry the suitcase to the front gate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened like the great gates of the Forbidden City. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood outside the gates of my father’s house, feeling like a stranger. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I climbed a shaky gate and crossed a paddock with jumps for horses made from police cones and stripey poles. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I only have to pass a few gates to reach the scruffy field called the Meadow. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

People who never had known what it was to enter the gate of the Mayor’s yard unless it were to do some menial job now paraded in and out as his confidants. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He calls everyone here Mother. He has belonged to the whole village ever since we found him abandoned outside the gate. At first, no one wanted him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hwin, stumbling and nearly fainting, was just entering the gate: Aravis still kept her seat but her back was covered with blood. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The horse began to relax in the gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me and spoke to me as if she were the guard to the very gates of hell. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis saw him right away and yelled for the guards at the gate to catch him, but he wasn’t headed for the gate. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she rode through the gates all the fairies looked at her in wonder, for few humans had ever walked their streets. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if through a gate they saw the sunlight before them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Brother Methuselah stood at the gate with the Abbot. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Okay, buster,” Frieda called through the gate as she closed it. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winded and annoyed, Seven finally reached the front gate of Valley Pepperhorn’s mansion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Increasingly, the nation’s richest are spending their money on personal services or exclusive experiences and isolating themselves from the masses in ways that go beyond building gated walls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Once McCorkle’s bus arrived, we circled around the facility to the “sally port,” or vehicle gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood at the gate and looked out at all the tombstones, white and gray, sprouting from the ground like weird teeth. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I never learned any prayers, so I wander away into the fields, beyond the gates and watchtowers, as far from the barracks and bodies as my atrophied muscles will carry me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When she was listening to me, Tessie’s tongue often pressed against that divot, that gate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were seven champions to attack the seven gates of Thebes, and seven others within as bold to defend them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, the traveler walked through the gate, and the guards turned to the next person, who was also permitted to pass. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Wishbone sat outside the gate and whined to get in, but he wasn’t allowed because of his digging. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was raining less heavily as the driver made a neat U-turn in the middle of the road to bring us outside the main gates of the museum. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hear the sanitation trucks enter the gate and see the men in their khaki uniforms fan out around the camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Red Helm waved a hand, and three corpses were dumped in front of the gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They’ll be lining up at the outer gate first thing tomorrow morning.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Take it to the gates of the cemetery and leave it there. When you have done this, return to me for a final cleansing.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I command you once more, in King Joffrey's name, to prove the loyalty you profess and open these gates," said Ser Amory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But Celebrimbor was aware of him, and hid the Three which he had made; and there was war, and the land was laid waste, and the gate of Moria was shut. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Past the SS guards standing sentry, Papa and I walked through the scrolling iron gates, stopping at every place where a bulb pushed its new leaves through the warming ground. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Very soon the thorned fence they were building would enclose the area completely; she supposed they would create some kind of gate, and then they would shove their chickens and their tykes inside. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn, open the gate, keeping my hand on it a moment to steady myself, walk in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

To get the key, you presented yourself at the gate and waited for the officer you were relieving to drop the key down in a bucket on a rope. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a considerable crowd outside when Herr Thiessen finally reaches the gates, and despite the crowd, he would have spotted his clock instantly, even without having been informed of its placement. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With help from Paul and Billy, he bolted the big bulldozer blade to the front of it, rumbled it up through the barnyard gate and stopped it near the rosebush. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

She put her head out through the car window and said with fury, “My name is Eleanor Vance. I am expected in Hill House. Unlock those gates at once.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then all at once the crowd parted and seemed to dissolve, and there were the castle gates before her, and a line of spearmen in gilded halfhelms and crimson cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Pollard wrapped the reins in loops around his fingers and waited in the gate. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my friend Nigel’s family’s country house. He had me here in the summer as a guest, and no one is using it, and—I knew the gate code, didn’t I?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sprung one of his nails out of the pad of his right forepaw and lifted the latch of the gate to the cage. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening, a little after sundown, I opened the back gate. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is to be done,” he said to himself desperately, and slowly he turned his way to the great gates. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

So they turned aside and spent some hours at the fair, tethering the horses near the gate, giving a penny to a lad for watching them. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“A white-haired man came to the gate bearing this letter, as he said, ‘for the young traveler who had sought aid at the convent.’ Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He jerked open a log- and-barbed-wire gate that led into a pasture and motioned for me to walk through. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was the largest in the camp, and the best sited; sitting atop a low rise beside a stream, it commanded a clear view of two of Raventree’s gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As she walked toward her own gate minutes later, she looked back often, hoping to catch a glimpse of the son from overseas. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You walk toward the gates, reading the card in your hand again. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“So we checked our stuff real fast, then rushed—I mean, ran like track stars, even Mr. Dimming—down to the gate to get that early flight.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gated community at Alexandria, then, Hellenistic Egypt was a stewpot of roiling antagonisms, contained only by an elaborate system of regulations, appeasement, and, if necessary, military force. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The band of reporters reassembled at the front gate, and I watched the attractive newscasters flipping their hair and fastening microphones to their collars, using the backdrop of the Dakota for their on-air reports. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We saw the camp only when we stood right in front of its gate. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or rather, left behind. These are the people who’ve dawdled and been left inside when the gates were shut. Got to put ’em somewhere, so we keep ’em here. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then he said somewhat sadly to the old woman, “Wake and let me into the gate.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel sat nervously in the palace’s imperial archives, waiting to go down to the city gates and greet the guest. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They came finally to a gap in the hedge on the left-hand side of the road where there was a five-barred gate. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sign upon the gates of Le Cirque des Rêves tonight is a large one, hung with braided ribbon that wraps around the bars just above the lock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The cell had two doors: a metal gate or grille with iron bars on the inside and a thick wooden door outside of that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy and the rest were wooed through gate after gate, and Billy saw his first Russian. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

War Admiral was a raging lion behind the gate, and Smith was concerned that Seabiscuit would take one look at his opponent’s tantrum and throw one of his own. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached the gates of the ghetto, I was seized by panic. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Somebody was going to meet me at the plane, but I didn’t realize the person couldn’t come all the way to the gate. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you did”—she started crying again—“you’d just give her the gate and start going out with me again.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the appointed hour I stood squarely before the main gate of the zoo and started rubbing my eyes with both hands. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He prayed for them as they were driven from the city gates, the histories said, but would not look at than. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sitting on Pumpkin by the gate, he ordered Pollard to rush Seabiscuit into the gate, pause for only an instant, then gallop out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we came to the house Maxim drew up a little way ahead of the gate. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Abdullah gave me a shove toward the gate, not caring that I had lost my only remaining connection to my mother. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign on the gates dances in the wind, shimmering and wet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As they approached the front gate, the barracks got bigger and nicer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He entered the gate and asked the first man he saw if Reverend Cooper was still there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good while and he no longer carried the flowers, and when he returned to the gate, he was engaged to be married. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice and a pitched whistle produced by the tall figure of a young man at the gate of the drowned man’s house made the mammoth canine stiffen in the backseat. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When the president of the United States reached the gates of Heaven, God got up to greet him as well. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

A different guard motioned them through the gate, waving a torch at them impatiently. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the gate a field sloped down very steeply so that it fell out of vision only twenty yards or so in front of me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before the windows go completely dark, I catch a glimpse of the main courtyard leading out to the security gate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I walked over to the old gate and looked around. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood shoulder to shoulder for some time; until, my eye being drawn by a motion in the far part of the stockade, I saw that there was activity at the gates. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“There are rumors it is hidden in an ancient engineering work. We believe it could be sealed within one of the gates of the Panama Canal.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Before Wang Lung could move in his horror, the horde was pouring past him into his own gates and he was powerless in their midst. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

No sign of gate or entrance, not a fissure or crack could Frodo see in the frowning stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sergio and another boy from New York were at the gate, early for their flight home. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In the gate and down the hill, I knew the lions were pacing in their cages. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have arrived before sundown and can enter the castle before the gate is closed.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Hallis Mollen went before them through the gate, carrying the rippling white banner of House Stark atop a high standard of grey ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Grandma was outside, we followed her into the gated backyard, where we rolled around with our big red wagon and helped her water all the plants. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not long after, a large military vehicle drove up to the gate and rapped on the door. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As they passed through the huge palace gates, Werfel warned Spurge, “You should be prepared to dance.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Beauty Minister opens the southern gate, prancing forward in a body-length mink coat. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When every guest had been welcomed and was finally inside the gate, there were songs, dances, music, games, and, of course, food and drink. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he rose slowly to his feet and stole toward the gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

As they came to the gates Círdan the Shipwright came forth to greet them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And Wang Lung drew the child to him hastily when he saw their faces and he murmured, “Let us go and lock the gate. They are not good men to see, my little heart.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I waited near the fence gate for it to leave again and jumped in the back, squeezing in between two piles of wooden crates under a blue tarp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When the starter shouted, “Row!” both boats bolted off the line like nervous racehorses held too long in the starting gate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He does, but for the entire distance to the gate, David walks with his head turned back, half smiling at me, like he’s willing things to be okay. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There were a few people about but not very many, for the city gates had been open several hours and the early morning crowds had already gone in. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

My parents and I live in a gated community called Dove Canyon. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We walked through the gate and the splashing stopped. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was an electric gate at the end of the driveway. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We fairly well danced our way up to the gate and through the town walls with not so much as an unkind look from anyone. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most other procedures had to be followed to the letter, many of them having to do with not opening more than one gate at a time, to ensure the strictest control over inmate movement. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defenders clustered on the wall above the gates, yelling insults at the tortoise formation as it staggered back and forth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Deborah would always be waiting for me outside our gate with the Vaseline. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The girls kept marveling at the sight as we neared the gate. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Some tallied up numbers like card players: four marks down and one across, like little gates. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

We crammed our suitcases into the small space and I slid the gate closed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Jason’s gold sword cut through the padlock, and the metal gate creaked open. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As he stared out into the gloom, a black shadow moved under the trees; the gate seemed to open of its own accord and close again without a sound. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But when I returned, the gate was wide open and they’d let themselves through—a significant offense, I thought. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made a detailed sketch of the prison grounds with particular emphasis on the exact location of the prison hospital and the gates leading out of it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just let it come toward sundown and he’d head for the gate like a cow for the barn, hanging onto it and bobbing his head and sort of moaning to himself. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the empty flats in our building would soon be overflowing with families as more Jews were marched in through the gates. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream, I was turning the corner that led to the B-block front gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any urging from Pollard, Seabiscuit shot from the gate as he had in the World’s Fair, but this time there was a horse to go with him, Cloud D’Or. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You turn left, then right, then left again. And the gate’s got no top bar.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We are free at last, but here, just at the moment the gate swings open, and we can fly the coop, Tía Carmen's love revives our old homesickness. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The truck stopped at the gate and Mother stepped out to open it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

It followed all the nooks, all the extensions; you had to squeeze past shrubs, you went under two ivy-covered arches and through a rusted gate. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the very bottom and the wall rose frowning above them, Lasaraleen was shaking so that she could not unbolt the gate. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I passed through the gate, paid my way. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ran on and on, limping and sobbing, until she had reached the big wrought iron gate. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Aiyi smiles at me as we wait for our gate to be called. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rounded the last corner, nodded at the officer at the gym door, and headed toward the front gate and freedom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lead singer was ripped and ripe, the chicks had freaked, so it was no surprise there’d been a lot of tit-tight Brown Bag Ts coming through the gates that day. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

That’s when the Mask emerges from the darkness and walks through the gate. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Crown Victoria, looking as good as new, sat outside the locked gate. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was arched over a garden gate, head tilted back, arms loose around her face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the gate the park guard checked me out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the gates, Jack could see a town. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Albert pulled his fur coat tightly around himself, opened the latch on a gate, and walked down a long series of battered concrete steps to the rocky beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The women soldiers at the gate seemed meaner than the men. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Only ten more minutes. I’m going to check you all in at the gate.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the gate men were turning, hurriedly trying to brace for the shock, tyrion lifted his axe and shouted, "King’s Landing!" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer arrived at the gate of the Tech Area each morning at 7:30, flashed his white badge, and walked to his office. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have fuzzy memories of the trip: a large house with a green metal gate, and a guard in front, and a big buffalo in the backyard. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The eldest son and Wang Lung watched the gate day and night and the second son came when he could, and they watched as carefully by night as by day. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They passed through the gates that marked the end of Utgardaloki’s stronghold. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

We came to a gate in the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

After all, it wasn’t her fault that a young boys first and only welding job had been to make her a gate with her family name, Redizon, at the top. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Zeitoun heard the guards footsteps again, and again Zeitoun rose up to meet him as he passed the gate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At Christmas and New Year’s, she kept the gate open so that anyone could come in and have a meal of rice, meat, and beans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to let the gate close now,” he said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Since they were, I sprinted into the courts and kicked the wire gate closed behind me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then the gates to the amphitheater burst open. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had just resolved to speak to Taisin about it directly when they caught sight of the town gates in the distance. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Even if she does find the right river, she might not be able to get to the gate.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They left the palace through a small door by the main gate—the guard nodded them through sleepily—and walked on the paving stones to the great square in front of Notre Dame. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I followed his gaze over my shoulder to the group of Panthers heading toward us from the front gate. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the alley they reach a narrow gate. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gates open and the Red Cross vehicles are allowed in. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Then we heard the front door open, heard him say something to the gate man, Adamu. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And here he was, an old man, opening the gate he had built with his own hands, his hair blowing silver in twilight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, there was her legend, her history, which would have been enough, even had she not been so wholly unattractive, to put her forever beyond the gates of any honorable man’s desire. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The lilac jacaranda tree by the gate, leaning backward over the fence as if the wind had made it laugh, was exactly as I remembered it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And Turner, Turner skipped across the front yard and through the picket gate. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Our pegasi set us down in the outer courtyard, in front of huge silver gates. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Then the Nine Riders issued forth from the gates of horror, and we could not withstand them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But with the gate out of operation, the courtyard battlements were as deserted as the rest of the building. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Cape Town was thirty-five miles to the southwest, but because of the unexpected crowds at the gate, the driver elected to take a different path to the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled on the gate and it swung wide. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I assumed a confident pose as I passed through the gallery gate and slid it closed behind me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall had no gates as such, neither here at Castle Black nor anywhere along its three hundred miles. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Killconey lay watching the gate from behind a sycamore in the woods. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“The gate guard wouldn’t let us visit you the other day. Seriously nasty dude.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We ran through the gate and down the path to the sky god’s palace. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Before Hazel could change her mind, she urged Arion through the gates. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Volantis closed its gates at dark, and the guardsmen on its northern gate were grumbling impatiently at the stragglers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What was more frightening was the unknown: the occasional corpse hanging on the gate without an explanation, the swift kick by the blokova for no reason. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His knuckles are white around the knife handle as the gate swings open with a moan. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His voice broke when he told of how two of his father’s household slaves had risen up the night the gate broke. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the gate the man went along the fence, studying some plants tied up to stakes. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which means, whoever it is, he closed the gate first, then shut the door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The gates have been thrown wide open, and natives—men, women, and children—are walking in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wagoners cracked their whips and the scarlet dragon swung forward, sluggishly at first, heading for the town gates. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the only way I could get back would be to clear the gate by completing the quest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The road curved, and before us, on the left, were two high iron gates beside a lodge, open wide to the long drive beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the corral a gate opened and two steers came in, swaying their heads and trotting, their lean flanks swinging. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Magdalys thought, sprinting through the big ornate gates enclosing the orphanage. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I stood at the gate as I did most evenings when Teacher Sarah left. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old metal gates hanging off the hinges were gone, and the headstones were barely visible through the thick tangles of weeds that had claimed the plot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He saw pikemen strike down sentries of the enemy at the town gate and take prisoner the Welsh guards. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Nearby was also a locked gate with a seldom-used path that led to the little shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He led him out to the gate each morning, walked him inside it, and asked him to halt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This specimen carries her parasol on her left, toward the gate and her fiance, though the sun inflames her right. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one side was a gate with a tiny latch on it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I limped hurriedly back to the gate, to find Mr. Armin and Falconer engaged in heated combat. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she feels her way back to the gate and locks it behind her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Come on, kids,” he said, heading for the gate. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Big Tony whispered as he opened up a gate from the other side of the fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Upon returning to the construction site, Curly locked the gate behind him and high-stepped to the safety of the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, and from wall and gate no cry or sound was heard in answer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And this many Recruiters certainly weren’t required to guard the bridge gates. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we set up an ambush at the tipple gate, the miners going on shift got into the spirit of things, whooping and returning our imaginary fire. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ged did not know what she meant, for to him the enchanted gate was as plain to see as the stone archway of the court through which he saw it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The travellers passed within, and the gates shut behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

So Lloyd hung around outside the gates until Richard was out of school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The gate was open, and through it I could see Halliday’s bedroom. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The gate was locked, the compound empty and she waited around for an hour until the crowd began to disperse. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dead ahead at some twenty meters was another gate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The lane went back to a barred gate, became defunctive in grass, a mere path scarred quietly into new grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They told us to run to the army barracks. Those madmen were chasing us like runaway goats, but once we entered the gates of the barracks we were safe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every day a parade of body wagons backed up at the Gesia Street gate of the cemetery. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Tendai pointed at the front gate, which was certainly behaving strangely. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are you going?” the inmate had asked when he saw me on the gate at the end of my shift. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are no gates, an invisible line divides the village in two halves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On that side a narrow path ran round towards the great gate, between the wall and the sheer brink of the Rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I stole a glance at Tsalig for reassurance, but he kept his gaze directed downward and wouldn't meet my eyes as we passed by the guards and through the gate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The padlock on its double doors was huge, more suitable for the gates of heaven or hell, I thought, than a little West Virginia church. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were subjected to a very cursory pat-down in the prison lobby by a male officer before being admitted through the barred gate to the main prison area. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From the long hugs at arrival, to the reassuring hands on shoulders in the security line, even a young couple, arms around each other, waiting at the gate, touch is everywhere. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The rats in the ditch were ordered to continue pressing home the attack until Cluny and his party scaled the walls from behind and fought their way across the grounds to open the Abbey gates. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Clinging to the gate, she closed her eyes. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t crying, and I held to the gate. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel dropped the canteen, slung her backpack over her shoulders, and rushed to the gate. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey joined Matilda outside the school gates and the two of them walked in silence through the village High Street. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I stalk past the gate guards, I fervently hope not to run into my mother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘I will!’ said he, and drove out of the gate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

War Admiral crashed through the gate several times before settling down to break with the field. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought back to their days at Namwon, when Somkit would hoard any little bits and bobs they could fish out of the river through the prison gate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A reporter stood directly in front of the gate in the chain-link fence, speaking rapidly into his microphone as the cameraperson panned around him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A da-zi-bao was posted on the gate, and a solemn crowd had gathered around to read it, wiping their faces with handkerchiefs and shading their heads with palm-leaf fans. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman led me to the front gate and I saw Miss Simon waiting for me on the steps. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We took the escalator up to our gate. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had the mule all saddled at the gate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“The guards on the bridge will assume we passed through the embassy gate and had our papers scrutinized there.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The giant crow landed near a familiar forest with the golden fence and gate running around it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Yellin, from his position by the gate, was reasonably upset at the roaring giant gliding down toward them through the darkness. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A wide wrought iron gate that had every manner of doodads welded right into it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Turner concluded: “‘It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the fifties, less discrimination, a truer merit system, and leveler playing fields existed inside the gates of our military posts more than in any Southern city hall or Northern corporation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He can just see through the gate into a low space, bounded by a grate on the far side. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Moments later the grannies came streaming in with their Bibles, through the gate and up the driveway, a dozen or more at least. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the cemetery gates, I close my eyes in wonder. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Even the gate was some kind of black metal that looked impossibly heavy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Far below them, down by the bridge gate, the loading area was completely deserted. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was so embarrassed and angry that I couldn’t stop scowling when I finally exited the gate with the other pikins. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for just a minute, and for the first time since he died, I let down the gate and I thought about my buddy Stan. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

And I did detecting by watching and I saw that people were putting tickets into gray gates and walking through. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His master clanged the gate shut, missing Wilcox's fingers by a tenth of a second. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“That may be, Your Grace,” Jon said, “but the mammoths are too big to pass through our gate.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Just arrived at the gate,” the servant girl said, breathing heavily. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A bus would be dropping him off at the gate. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Having knelt, the wildlings shuffled past the ranks of the black brothers to the gate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o’clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

More goons from the Kidnapping Club sat astride each trike, rifled muskets trained on the front gate. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Those doors are even nicer up close, but I still can’t stand them because they’re like gates to a whole other world. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Then we open the gate and go in. That is what Rekh said.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“There he is!” said Michael, pointing suddenly to a shape that banged heavily against the gate. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I looked back, wondering if I should thank him, but the gate clanged shut. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As they approached the gate he stopped, staring. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So that we can reach the gate ourselves?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Richard and I run to the front gates of the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was returning home from playing soccer when a neighbour accosted me by the gate and told me that there had been a bloody fight at my home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I pass through the heavy front door of B-block, there are ten locked gates between me and freedom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Miss Sadie’s story, Jinx himself had welded that on the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Across the street, in front of a school gate, two heavily dressed figures were handing out leaflets. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was even commissioned to make a wrought iron gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So out of the gate of the railroad yard and into the streets of Dresden marched the light opera. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their escorts would collect them shortly, the gate guards said. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got off my bike and went up to the gate and hollered, “Winn-Dixie, you better come on out of there.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to walk to the gate to see if my father has come calling for me.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bolted down the ramp nimbly, and as each cow saw the open gate ahead, she lowered her head and snorted, racing out the opening. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fingerprint-smudged glass walls and electronic gates separated them from the escalators and stairs that went down to the level where the trains came and went. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They felt better after they passed through the main gate, and felt better still as they drove down the long white-fenced driveway and reached the road. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When we reached the gates, we both stopped. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two wooden gates hung open, and from the other side of the road, Alex could see a shed with a security window and beyond it the tottering piles of dead and broken cars. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing’s maze of corridors, gates, and staircases had grown organically over the years according to the demands of the partic-ular era; no master plan had guided the development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron gates opened, and she glimpsed the wicked name of the mine before it split in two and swung wide. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Every sense alert, he watched Gebu walk across the courtyard, open the gate, and go out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Drinking deep from the water jar, he yanked his sash tight around his hollow middle and let himself out the gate. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But he dared not go anywhere outside the gate of the house, by himself. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Frayed yellow threads of dawn were trailing through the sky when we finally reached the gate. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A gate opened at the opposite end of the stadium and the giant marched out in triumph. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ana was outside when we opened the gate to Mabel's front garden. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She scraped open the gate against the cement walk, and I quickly buttoned my blouse. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My dear boy, how good to see you! Delighted! Charmed! Overjoyed to have you with us! And these are your parents? How nice! Come in! Come in! That’s right! Step through the gates!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

By the out gate, the fairground man was snarling at Ross Wilcox by the in gate. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The gate’s locked,” he calls out, as if he’s read my mind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much security Hideo usually has at his residences—but tonight, at least five cars are sitting here, and two bodyguards are at the front gate, waiting to greet me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marv comes with me through the gate to where the Doorman waits. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Silas said, “Would you like me to walk you to the front gate?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“That gate probably got rammed on the first day.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The gates opened again, and this time a young warrior came out. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I went home, my monkey, Kiki, would be waiting for me by the front gate, jumping up and down. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This voice was like a gate slamming shut. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If I opened the gate, I might die of fright. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every last detail is planned, and a massive crowd gathers outside the gates long before sundown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, when we finally collected our luggage and passed through Customs, we found Baba waiting outside the international arrivals gate at Chicago O’Hare Airport. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Two more statues posed on either side of the gate, and they made my neck itch—I felt like they were watching me trespass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Through the canopy of shaking orange light and through the smell of burning pitch black horses, whitened with lather and dragging a heavy ruby coach, slowly crawled to the safety of the gates. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably left some guards on the gates and the armory. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Gods be good, Theon, how can you do this? You know I must attack, have sworn ..." "If this host is still in arms before my gate when the sun sets, Beth will hang," said Theon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a crowd had formed beyond the back gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The gate closed after you went in, but when the Sixers arrived, they used three of their own keys to reopen it.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned across the gate of the door to see what she was writing, and it was E. Greenwood, E. Greenwood, E. Greenwood, E. Greenwood. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Part of her wanted to open the gates and explore the city. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Kiki would climb to safety at the top of the front gate. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I soak in this bizarre nightmare, scanning the camp and what appears to be the only entrance gate—heavily guarded—and the watchtowers and the razor-wire fence as far as I can see. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I cracked my knuckles, then flew forward into the gate, and my avatar vanished into the whirlpool of stars. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If Yellowstone were going to blow in a really big way, you would be on your own once you left the park gates. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Places where they got electronic gates and garages big enough for six cars, and more rooms than people to live in them. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ents in a solemn row stood like statues at the gate, with their long arms uplifted, but they made no sound. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Bronn was waiting by the gate with his litter and an escort of mounted Black Ears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z