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Example sentences for "gateman"

Lexicographically close words:
gated; gatehouse; gatehouses; gatekeeper; gatekeepers; gatepost; gateposts; gater; gates; gateway
  1. The mate bawled loudly for the tardy guide, as much to conceal his uneasiness as to bring the man, for the gateman was even then chattering voluble instructions to a lithe, breech-clouted native who had just come in.

  2. If you can't find them yourself, ask the gateman for them.

  3. When I told you that I was always in reach of a message delivered to the gateman I meant just that.

  4. You must not forget to let us know, dear," she said aloud, placing herself between him and the gateman and shutting the disguised man from view.

  5. What was more, the day gateman and the priest were particularly fond of each other and often exchanged jokes.

  6. Every officer in the prison building had his nickname, and this vigilant gateman who was a very fat man was known as Double Chin.

  7. But Clara was too slow in returning, and the fat gateman was an impressionable, suspicious man, so he presently made inquiry.

  8. Ascertaining from the gateman that the erring train was certain not to pull in during the next ten minutes, I sought a telephone booth.

  9. The gateman came creeping to Yasmini's side, and, with yellow fangs showing in a grin meant to be affectionate, displayed an Afghan tulwar.

  10. The look-out at the northern corner of the wall (Yasmini kept watch on her captors as rigorously as they spied on her) had run with the word to the gateman that Gungadhura himself was coming with three eunuchs, all four on foot.

  11. The gateman had come to the door again to announce that Gungadhura had issued a final warning.

  12. The gateman laughed and told him to make himself easy; and Patterson, from his place at the very stern of the ferryboat, stood up in his seat and beckoned to Mike ironically.

  13. The gateman at the ferry heard him running down the street and held the boat for him.

  14. Whoever in any manner does violence to this donation, may the gateman of heaven diminish his share of heaven; whoever may add to the donation, may the gateman of heaven add something unto him.

  15. And as the gateman had received orders to admit Samuel and his slaves, you passed along with his merchandise!

  16. Then the gateman closed the gate and made a pencil mark on it; the tally man tallied one ewe on his sheet, and the chute was open for the balance of the flock of rams, ewes, and lambs.

  17. The gateman mumbled, repeating to himself the names of the famous, the great, the notorious, in his effort to fit one to the man who had just passed.

  18. The man whom the gateman saw did not follow you; he merely watched you get on the train and notified two others, who took the train at Spokane.

  19. The gateman straightened importantly and scrutinized each person presenting a ticket.

  20. He found there was a man following me who disappeared after I had taken the train, and Lawrence, after questioning the gateman at Seattle decided the man had taken the same train I did.

  21. Mr. Eaton, when you came to this train, the gateman at Seattle called my attention to you," Connery began.

  22. The gateman eyed us with undisguised uneasiness as we drove through the archway into the yard.

  23. The gateman informed us that Werner was working the large studio.

  24. I imagine the situation of gateman was given him and his debts paid off as a bribe to silence; but I can't say.

  25. That day we went by steam-packet to Lulstead Cove, when it hindered me from coming back to you, and compelled me to sleep with the gateman we have been talking about.

  26. Convinced by the sincerity of the old man, whose presence of mind seemed to grow with the difficulties that arose in his way, the gateman marched ahead of him.

  27. Greatly surprised at this, the gateman asked him: "What are you whistling for?

  28. Thus, preceded by the gateman and followed at a distance in the dark by the rest of the fugitives, Bonaik arrived at the outer court of the monastery.

  29. The gateman hurried on, arrived in a minute at the outside enclosure, and opened the gate.

  30. Having attended to that, Bonaik addressed the gateman who had gone far ahead: "Helloa, Bernard!

  31. Hadn't you better tell the park gateman about the outrage?

  32. He breathed easier when they were past the gateman and on the car.

  33. I had orders given to the Gateman who he would and would not keep out.

  34. Taig: It was the Gateman said it to a hawker bringing lobsters from the strand, and that got no leave to cross the threshold by reason of the oath given out by the King.

  35. Noise of cheering heard without as the Gateman silences music.

  36. The frightened gateman rushed into the vestibule of the castle where a large number of other lackeys were playing cards.

  37. Tankeru and his five companions advanced to the iron gate, which closed the entrance to the court of honor and stood between two pavilions, where the gateman or porter was housed.

  38. Standing high against the sky, Seymour, with the gateman up at the lock, was moderating the strong head of water.

  39. By the time the Boy got to the little patch of shade, offered by the staging, Austin had turned his back on the gang, and was going to speak to the gateman at the locks.

  40. They spoke to the stationmaster too, but he said they had not come down to the Battery and repeated what the gateman said.

  41. Sweeper Joe and Clayton the gateman were just entering the front door of the living room, armed with tools to use in taking down the washroom door.

  42. One was Sweeper Joe and the other, Clark Clayton, gateman at the Gandiss factory.

  43. Drive right in," the gateman invited, swinging open the barrier.

  44. As to yourself, the gateman leads you round the screen, and across the compound to the master's house.

  45. The returnee, in high dudgeon strode down to find the gateman and in the process put his foot in the trench.

  46. To cater to those brave souls who had gone out and wished to return to the fold a bell-push was fitted outside the gates and a moveable bell installed in whichever hut the duty gateman resided and he was supposed to answer the call.

  47. Then you got better ears than I have," the gateman muttered.

  48. The gateman did not respond to the greeting.

  49. The gateman turned on his flashlight, focusing it upon a freshly painted placard tacked to a nearby tree.

  50. Your gateman tried to tell me it was only the wind.

  51. They all had to have season tickets and when these had been made out then one after another the family pushed the stile and the gateman punched number one from the numerals on their tickets as they passed.

  52. It will be perfectly clear to the gateman that you came in in some improper way.

  53. Roger was still acting as courier and he asked his mother to wait until the other passengers from the car had gone through the turnstile so that the gateman might give them his undivided attention.

  54. The gateman paused until the train came to a dead standstill, waited until the last arriving passenger had passed through an exit lower down along the fence, slid back the gate, and I walked through--alone!

  55. The gateman had had free tickets, of course, or would have, for himself and family whenever the troupe should be in Cologne.

  56. That particular gateman appeared to prevent anybody passing him who did not show a bit of printed cardboard, as he called, "Tickets!

  57. At which the gateman whirled round, leaving a space behind him, and Glory darted through.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gateman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.