On the west side a postern gate for horses and carts was protected by a gatehouse with two portcullises and doors reinforced with iron.
They are bombarding the rear gatehouse with mangonels," de Puys said.
In front, facing the piazza, a two-story gatehouse with a peaked roof and arrow slots jutted out from the center of the building.
The doorway was in the side of the gatehouse on the second floor, and to reach it one climbed a flight of narrow stairs.
He and his associates were committed first to the gatehouse and thence to Newgate.
It was still the mere gatehouse prison, and its accommodation must have been of the most limited description.
Without this benevolence it would have gone hard with the poor population of the Gatehouse gaol.
For many years he was a member of the Choral Society and of other musical associations, held the situation of music master at the Diocesan Training Institution, and was instrumental in forming the Norwich Gatehouse Choir.
The great gatehouse of the curia, of which many fine examples remain, was the main entrance to the monastery, and was usually a building with one or more upper floors and a vaulted passage or gate-hall on the ground-floor.
The precinct of a religious house was separated from the outer world by an enclosing wall or dyke, on the line of which a gatehouse gave admission to the outer court (curia).
In the earlier examples, as at Peterborough, the gateway was a single wide arch, as is also the case in the early fourteenth-century gatehouse at Kirkham.
She forgot that time was passing, almost she forgot that she had not breakfasted, and she might have been nearly a mile from the Gatehousewhen she was startled by a faint hail that seemed to come from behind her.
She had made an end of that, the rather as from this time onward the Gatehouse would be closed to him by her presence.
The solitude in which her days had of late been spent had left her peculiarly open to new ideas, while the quiet and wholesome life of the Gatehouse had prepared her to answer any call which those ideas might make upon her.
Life at the Gatehouse could not go on on this footing.
Even at the Gatehouse I doubt if you will escape the excitement, though there is not a field of wheat within a mile of it!
The old horse plodding on, with the hill that mounts to the Gatehouse sadly on his mind--he should have oats, if oats there were in the Gatehouse stables!
The library at theGatehouse was, he owned it frankly, his true sphere.
After that nothing happened, and of the four at the Gatehouse Etruria alone was content.
Probably John Audley comes from the Gatehouse by the Yew Walk.
Well, after that kind of life, I am afraid that theGatehouse will have few charms for you.
It was in the stormy blackness of a February midnight that he rode up through the lighted gatehouse to his home.
Its gatehouse and turrets were built for him from plans by Holbein.
At the red brick gatehouse the dole is distributed by the archbishop, as from time immemorial, to the indigent parishioners.
In the gardens, not far from the house, is the site of the old episcopal palace of Bishops Hatfield, of which one side remains standing, with the quaint gatehouse now used as an avenue of approach up the hill from the town to the stables.
The palace itself was built in the days of the Tudors, and the gatehouse of red brick in 1499.
The gatehouse still remains, and is at present devoted to the use of fire-engines, but there is not much else remaining of the abbey save a remarkable chimney and fireplace and some fragments of walls.
He turned round, retraced his steps to the gatehouseand slipped close up to it in a very unprincely way.
These words were fraught with the fate of the gatehouse and its inhabitants, for the removal of the "hideous hut" at the entrance of the palace was one of the "small matters" of which Hadrian spoke.
But the young sculptor had not been at the gatehouse when Arsinoe went by.
And I would not go to thegatehouse with anybody but Unc' Simmy.
When they were out of ear-shot of the Lady of the Gatehouse Ruth asked: "Who keeps house for Miss Grogan, Uncle Simmy?
They arrived at the gatehouse and Ruth begged Unc' Simmy to stop and ask if Miss Catalpa would receive them.
They had a day to wait there, and so they went across in the ferry to Old Point Comfort, found Unc' Simmy, and were driven out to the gatehouse to see Miss Catalpa.
Bridget looked forth, but saw nothing worthy of remark save an oldgatehouse over a dark lazy moat, secured by heavy wooden doors.
This gatehouse was apparently the entrance to a court or quadrangle, enclosed by buildings of wood and plaster of the like antiquity.
She said that the figure of a human hand was visible, in her slumbers; that it led the way, pointing to an old house like a fortified mansion, with a moat and gatehouse before the main entrance.
It was most unfortunate for the spy, Captain Bailey, who was sent to the Gatehouseat Westminster.
Tounson, the worthy Dean of Westminster, came to visit him in the little room which was allotted to him in the Gatehouse prison.
The outbuildings on the east side of the gatehouse are of contemporaneous date.
The moat, which still encircles the castle grounds, is spanned by a modern bridge with a turretted gatehouse of early 15th century work.
The antiquity of the houses in High Petergate, and the mediaeval narrowness of the street, enable one looking towards Bootham Bar to realize the former appearance of the approach to a gatehouse from within the city.
The gatehouseadjoins and is now a private dwelling.
From the tower the abbey walls stretch to the gatehouse and from there continue to the river, where they terminate in a circular tower, which is seen in the view taken across the river from near the railway bridge.
Dear me, I had meant to tell about Gatehouse too (which happened before Newton Stewart, only I forgot).
And I think the children of Gatehouse must have benefited too, owing to the nice bareheaded minister.
In Stephen's room at the Gatehouse there was silence, too, all the weary afternoon.
When the property was sold, however, it was found that the Gatehouse had been made into a separate lot, and had been bought, not by the rich descendant of the old Harcourts who had got Dura, but by some one whose name was unknown.
The change that had come upon the lives of the two ladies in the Gatehouse was, however, scarcely apparent to their little world.
He was never even thrown into such mental anxiety, such stress of painful calculation, as that into which the inhabitants of the Gatehouse were cast by his downfall.
I mean that dear old grandpapa has been awfully good to me,' said Ned, 'and the Gatehouse is mine.
It had been made that there might be a rapid means of communication between the Gatehouse and the mansion, but it had never been used since the Drummonds came.
It was a productive, wealthy garden, which, even when the Gatehouse had been empty, was worth keeping up, and its doors and fastenings were all in good order.
Not far from this rectory gatehouse is a half-timber building almost contemporary, with narrow Gothic doors, made up-to-date with an artistic shade of green.
But were it not for this natural protection the gatehouse would probably share the fate of one of the round towers of the northern court, whose ivy being removed some sixty years ago brought it down with a run.
It is a typical Jacobean manor-house of stone, with ball-surmounted gables and heavy mullioned windows, approached from the road through an imposing archway, with a gatehouse beyond containing curious little niches and windows.
But one thing we should like to see, and that is the ancient gatehouse that was standing in Nash's time.
The water close at hand, the old abbot's elm, and the little church and gatehouse beyond, altogether make this a spot in which to linger and ruminate.
The gatehousehas remarkable mitre-headed turrets, and a triple bay-window bearing the royal arms of France and England quarterly, supported by a lion and a dragon.
But the oldgatehouse of Tixall to the east of Stafford, and Wootton Lodge to the north of Uttoxeter, fortunately still remain intact.
Moreover, the road has been diverted, so that now the fine old gatehouse stands not against the highway, but well within the boundary walls.
Not the least interesting feature is an Elizabethan timber gatehouse with carved barge-boards, entrance gate, and corner brackets, and the timbers shaped in diamonds and other devices.
The entrance gatehouse is fairly perfect, but the clinging ivy obliterates its architectural details and the carved escutcheon over the doorway.
It was not until the Saturday morning that the courier rode in through the gatehouse with the news that Sir Nicholas was to be released that day, and would be down if possible before nightfall.
The roar had sunk into silence for a moment; and there came back the quick beat of a horse's hoofs outside on the short drive between the gatehouse and the Hall.
The gatehouse stood up black against the glare of torches, and the towers threw great swinging shadows on the ground and the steps of the Hall.
He rode up through the village just after dark and in through the gatehouse up to the steps.
Towards eight o'clock Lady Maxwell was so anxious and restless that Isabel slipped out and went down to the gatehouse to look out for herself if there were any signs of the approach of the party.
The gatehouse stands, and in a room over the entrance the Court-leet of the Archbishops is still held.
This mansion makes a framework to the gatehouse of the old Priory, the entrance-chamber being formed out of the ancient gateway.
The passage, the secret passage from the old gatehouseto the castle here," he answered.
Down in the old gatehouse at the foot of the hill.
Why, that must be the lake he was telling me about this morning in the gatehouse when he told me something of his boyhood.
Under the gatehouse arch, a sturdy short man with the black hair, high cheekbones and small, twinkling dark eyes of his Pictish origin, was busily shovelling away the drifts.
He has gone to the Gatehouse to smoke a pipe with Baxter, so you and I can have a cosy evening.
Well, the legend is that the attacking enemy made a breach in the masonry of the Gatehouse tower, and that a bull jumped out through the hole and fell into the ravine.
As she spoke, the big clock over the gatehouse tolled eight in its deep, sad tones.
Sometimes there were too many beasts for this place, and on one occasion, at least, some of them were stabled in the Gatehouse with the garrison--but perhaps Guyse has told you all this?
Her hand was on the latch of the gate, when in the gatehouse doorway, she beheld a grotesque, deformed human figure.
She stared intently at a trail of footprints which led from where she stood to a circular stone gatehouse only a few yards away.
Grumbling to himself, the hunchback stepped into the gatehouse and pressed a button which rang a bell inside the building.
She sensed rather than saw a dark figure crouching in the arched doorway of the circular stone gatehouse to the right of the snow-banked driveway.
The hunchback was nowhere to be seen and the gatehouse remained deserted.
Near the gatehouse was the almonry, a shelter used in very early days to house visitors who sought free lodging.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gatehouse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crib; gatehouse; hut; hutch; kiosk; lodge; outbuilding; outhouse; pavilion; shack; shanty; shed; stall
