swing-gate

As she opened the white swing-gate and looked towards the trees which rose westward, shutting out the pale light of the evening sky, she discerned, without much surprise, the figure of a man standing in the hedge, though she roguishly exclaimed as a matter of form,

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The swing-gate had just been repainted, and on one fine afternoon, before the paint was dry, and while gnats were still dying thereon, the surgeon was standing in his sitting-room abstractedly looking out at the different pedestrians who passed and repassed along that route.

The Woodlanders 2006

Against the plaster wall diagonally crossed by black joists, a meagre pear-tree sometimes leans and the ground-floors have at their door a small swing-gate to keep out the chicks that come pilfering crumbs of bread steeped in cider on the threshold.

Madame Bovary 2003

In another second, ere the sound of his merry chuckle had ceased to re-echo in the distance, he had passed through the swing-gate that gave admittance to the grounds.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

He descended the bank where the old Roman gateway had been, ran out from the enclosure through the modern iron swing-gate, and then took the road to his right, away from the railway.

The Dancing Druids Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1948

We had not pursued the circular route by the high road which would have brought us to the lodge, but had turned aside where the swing-gate opened upon a footpath into the meadows.

Bat Wing Sax Rohmer 1921

The Burns direct-flame gas roaster, with patented swing-gate head for feeding and discharging, was introduced to the trade in 1900.

All About Coffee 1909

In 1900, the Burns swing-gate sample-roasting outfit was patented in the

All About Coffee 1909

At the moment he was passing through a swing-gate which led to a short cut back to the town, but before he could take hold of himself he had slammed it back in his fury, hitting

Miss Mapp 1903

Suzanne Jorancé pushed the swing-gate and entered the grounds of the Old

The Frontier Maurice Leblanc 1902