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When it came to the gate-keeper's lodge, it switched its headlights on and off once and waited.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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The gate-keeper's post was a responsible one, as it lay on him to see that no one with evil intentions or carrying secret arms was admitted to the palace.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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Have run a telephone line under ground from the Superintendent's residence to the gate-keeper's cottage.
Biennial Report of the State Hospital at Raleigh, Raleigh, N.C., from July 1, 1924, to June 30, 1926. N.C. Raleigh 1926
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He started down the track, and when he was past the gate-keeper's shanty he sprang forward and swung himself on to one of the cars.
The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923
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"That was the gate-keeper's lodge," was Oliver's reply.
The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923
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This was, briefly, that he should go to the royal shooting-box at Wedeling, and should go, not to the house itself, but to the gate-keeper's lodge.
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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As you swing in you pass an odd-shaped vine-covered affair that I suppose was meant for a gate-keeper's lodge, though it looks like a stucco tower that had been dropped off some storage warehouse.
Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907
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He started down the track, and when he was past the gate-keeper's shanty he sprang forward and swung himself on to one of the cars.
The Jungle 1906
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Amid the turmoil of the gate-keeper's voice who was recounting the affair to the latest arrivals Hermia watched the train as it passed between the fragments of what a few minutes before had been a new
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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"Southward," he said, but paused, looking down the hill toward the gate-keeper's cottage around which a small crowd still hovered.
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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