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Here's hoping that House-gate or Houses-gate or Gate-house lights the fuse.
Obama Himself Unleashes Broad Populist Attack On McCain 2009
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The keeper of the "Wishing Gate-house" had several, and an old man who lived in a low hut near the mill (the remains of which still stand in the Waterloo-road) had two or three, and made money by them.
Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian
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The Gate-house of the old Castle is a picturesque ruin, Norman in style with inserted Perpendicular windows.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Of this historic site there remain but a few walls and the Gate-house.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster.
Quotations 1919
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Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster.
Quotations 1919
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Found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster.
Quotations 1919
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Gate-house was part of the work imposed on the monks; it is of early
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Cullerne Abbey was dissolved with the larger religious houses in 1539, when Nicholas Vinnicomb, the last abbot, being recalcitrant, and refusing to surrender his house, was hanged as a traitor in front of the great West Gate-house.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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We Enter under a Gate-house built wth 4 large towers into a Court which is large, in ye middle is a Bowling green palisado'd round, and ye Coaches runns round it to the Entrance wch is by 10 stepps up to a Tarress, and thence a pav'd walke to ye house.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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