Batangas bounds Cavite on the south, and is itself bounded on the south by the sea, where a fairly good port offered a fine gateway for smuggling arms into the interior from abroad.
Hong Kong being the cross-roads of the Far East and the gateway to Asia, and being only sixty hours across the choppy China Sea from Manila, was the best place in that part of the world to brew another insurrection against Spain.
From each gateway a broad causeway of stone runs to the centre of the enclosure, where rises the great building which contains the tomb of the Great Mogul.
The well is enclosed by a fine stone screen, and over the gateway is carved the words: "These are they which came out of great tribulation.
The walls still bear the marks of shot and shell, the shattered gates show where assault after assault was delivered, the brick gateway of the Baillie Guard is pointed out as the famous spot where rescued and rescuers met.
Thanks to her wonderful mediumship, he no longer felt himself an orphan--the gateway of death was also the gateway of life.
We halted at last before the great gateway above which figures, though only for a few days, the cross, that noble symbol of the Latin civilization.
Beneath the gateway stand the statues of war-gods, each eighteen feet high, with faces terribly distorted, and in the most threatening attitudes; these are supposed to prevent the approach of evil genii.
This gateway is masked by a work of the 13th century, which serves as a sort of barbican.
Richmond, where Earl Conan seems to have used a former entrance gateway to make the basement entrance of his keep.
This was certainly enclosed during the Norman period, as it has a Norman gateway in its wall.
John, that the gateway of the castle, which is of wood, is to be made of stone, we get a hint of the gradual transformation of the castle from a wooden to a stone fortress.
We have already seen that Arundel had a gateway which cannot be later than Henry I.
The main gateway of this bailey, which still remains, is probably of Edward I.
The gateway itself is always defended by a pair of massive towers.
Probably this bailey occupied the south-eastern third of the circle, which included the maingateway and the road to the citadel.
Written in big letters and hung all along the streets were huge signs which read "Megory, the gateway to a million acres of the richest land in the world.
I fared forth from the Khan and walked down "Between the Palaces" street till I came to the Zuwaylah Porte, where I found the people crowding and the gateway blocked for the much folk.
Thus Sancho and the engineer were left by themselves, though inquisitive ranch folk sauntered to the gateway and peered after them into the corral.
At nine o'clock the famous roan was cautiously led forth from the gateway and close under the black shadow of the wall, and not until well beyond earshot of the willows was he mounted and headed eastward.
Staff and gatewaywere invisible now, but beyond the latter gleamed two lights, each in a separate window of that office.
Within the gateway is the proper and original town, though indeed the portion outside of the gate is as densely populated, as ugly, and as ancient, as that within.
There were no soldiers on guard, as at city gates of more importance; nor do I think that there is really any gate to shut, but the massive stone gateway still stands entire over the empty arch.
We still ascended, and came soon to the gateway of the town of Acquapendente, which stands on a height that seems to descend by natural terraces to the valley below.
Leicester Hospital and its adjoining chapel still look venerably antique; and so does a gateway that half bestrides the street.
We went through the gateway and entered the church, which we found in much disarray, and masons at work upon the pavement.
I passed over the causeway, and found myself in a kind of gateway which admitted me into a square space of many acres, surrounded on all sides by mounds or ramparts of earth.
The gateway passage shews remnants of antique gothic lettering, now illegible from decay.
Two semicircular towers, jutting boldly forth, protect the gateway upon its outer side, and command the approach from Ludford Bridge.
Lest there should be any want of belief on the part of the colonists, he caused his credentials to be tacked up on the gateway of Fort Gibraltar.
Near the gateway the officers saw two of the partners whom they were instructed to apprehend, and immediately served them with warrants.
Merrily rode the party forth through the great gateway and across the fine park in the direction of the forest.
The most dangerous spot we had to pass was the gate of the town; for as soon as we had reached the gateway the portcullis might be dropped in front of us, and they would attack us from the two guard-houses.
Bernadou, the sergeant and the proprietor disappeared beneath the large gateway and were lost to sight in the dim distance of the stableyard and the darkness of the stables themselves.
XXVI), 8 feet high and 13 feet long, and the gatewaywhich was about 8 feet wide was paved with one inscribed slab.
Parts however of Gudea's early building were actually incorporated in the Parthian palace, the best preserved of which are a gateway (cf.
She is the Gateway of the West, not sultry and southern, but salt and windy and dazzling white.
I built a cottage for Susan and myself, and made a gateway in the form of a Gothic arch by setting up a whale's jaw-bones.
The coach rolled down the street, till, coming to the gateway of the deserted mansion, it drew up, and the footman sprang to the ground.
Were I to turn my back upon it, I should fall down dead on the hither side of the notch which is the gateway of this mountain-region.
This gateway certainly belongs to the Ptolemaic part of the building, but we have no reason to suppose that the architects of the Macedonian period deserted the ancient forms.
One of these is the gatewayto the outer court of the Temple of Thothmes at Medinet-Abou (Fig.
Gateway to the court-yard of the small Temple at Medinet-Abou.
In mutual silence, then, they reached thegateway leading into the Halliday grounds.
And then, have you forgotten that when Mr. Crane met the old man at Mrs. Webb's gateway he saw in his hand something that glistened?
Well, that waltz was played by us at a quarter after midnight, which fixes the time of the encounter at Mrs. Webb's gateway pretty accurately.
By the gateway grows a thick bunch of meadow geranium, soon to flower; over the gate is the dusty highway road, quiet but dusty, dotted with the innumerable footmarks of a flock of sheep that has passed.
The dew of September lies long on the grass, and by the gateway I often noticed wasps that had spent the night in the bunches, numbed and chilled, crawling up the blades bent into an arch by the weight of the drops.
By a pillared gateway there is a group in scarlet, and from time to time other groups in scarlet pass and repass within the barrack-court.
Stepping through the gateway with the morning sun behind me, I saw at each step a fresh circle of dewdrops gleam, some ruby, some emerald, some brightly white, at the same distance in front.
Beyond it is an oak, just apart from the bushes; then the ground gently rises, and an ancient pollard ash, hollow and black inside, guards an open gateway like a low tower.
Kari and I watched it rise between the two snow-clad peaks far away that he had called a gateway to his land, which was so near to us and yet it would seem more distant than Heaven itself.
Above them, clear of the trees, and towering up into the blue, were the multitudinous domes and spires of the king's palace, to which the gateway above the steps was the principal entrance.
Passing through the massive gateway the travellers found themselves in an open square, out of which streets branched off the right and left, while the jungle thrust in its inquisitive nose on every possible occasion.
First of all I regain the walls and the dim gateway whence my steps had issued; I scan and follow back my footprints with searching gaze in the night.
Myself I saw in the gateway Neoptolemus mad in slaughter, and the two sons of Atreus, saw Hecuba and the hundred daughters of her house, and Priam polluting with his blood the altar fires of his own consecration.
Straightway Quercens and Aquicolus beautiful in arms, and desperate Tmarus, and Haemon, seed of Mars, either gave back in rout with all their columns, or in the very gateway laid down their life.
Life is the gatewayto the realm of spirit, and beyond that gateway lie the questions we seek to solve.
