hell-gate

If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.

Macbeth 2004

He was tellin ''bout thet great hell-gate of New York, an' he said, 'You've got to swim with the rest or you'd go under, Uncle Jo,' -- 'go under,' them's his very words.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

This cave was called the "hell-gate of Ireland," and was unlocked on November Eve to let out spirits and copper-colored birds which killed the farm animals.

The Book of Hallowe'en Ruth Edna Kelley

If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have old turning the key.

Act II. Scene III. Macbeth 1914

If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And it is with those captured keys that He now unlocks the true hell-gate in every guilty sinner's conscience.

Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

Porter's speech, in which he imagines himself the keeper of hell-gate, shows the same irony.

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

We cannot forget how the knocking that makes him grumble sounded to Macbeth, or that within a few minutes of his opening the gate Duncan will be discovered in his blood; nor can we help feeling that in pretending to be porter of hell-gate he is terribly near the truth.

Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

For when this was crucified, then were the dead raised up, then was that prison burst, and the gates of brass were broken, and the dead were loosed, [125] and the keepers of hell-gate all cowered in fear.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

You, man, with that heart, you know that you cannot pass up the street without your eye becoming a perfect hell-gate of lust, of hate, of ill-will, of resentment and of revenge.

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) Alexander Whyte 1878