gate-post

I got up one morning and found that Spot chained to the gate-post and holding up the milkman.

That Spot 2010

I got up one morning and found that Spot chained to the gate-post and holding up the milkman.

That Spot 2010

One morning after a year has passed and the narrator is prospering in San Francisco, he finds Spot chained to the gate-post of his home.

“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

There was a certain lingual character in the supplicatory expressions he produced, which would well nigh have drawn an ache from the heart of a gate-post.

The Fiddler of the Reels 2006

Then Parson Bowden read some verses from the parish Bible, telling us to lift up our eyes, and look upon the fields already white to harvest; and then he laid the Bible down on the square head of the gate-post, and despite his gown and cassock, three good swipes he cut off corn, and laid them right end onwards.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

And when, on occasion, one with more than common effrontery sits on the gate-post as you pass through, is it not polite to make obeisance, since it represents the community which had charter of the Isle ages before the intruder made free of it?

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

For a few minutes he stood there on the road his hand on the gate-post, his lips half parted in a smile.

Flappers and Philosophers 2003

Towards evening she reached the spot where the old woman was leaning against the gate-post, but she passed her by without

The Orange Fairy Book 2003

May I ride on a horse that was foaled of an acorn, if this be not as honest a cod as ever the ground went upon, and as grave as an old gate-post into the bargain.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

May I ride on a horse that was foaled of an acorn, if this be not as honest a cod as ever the ground went upon, and as grave as an old gate-post into the bargain.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002