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  • Leaving the servants outside, single-file we trailed through the dark passage guarded by the wicketgate.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Leaving the servants outside, single-file we trailed through the dark passage guarded by the wicketgate.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Leaving the servants outside, single-file we trailed through the dark passage guarded by the wicketgate.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 06 Winston Churchill 1909

  • They had come through a wicketgate leading from the fields.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • They had come through a wicketgate leading from the fields.

    The Island Pharisees John Galsworthy 1900

  • Leaving the servants outside, single-file we trailed through the dark passage guarded by the wicketgate.

    Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899

  • I had retreated but a few yards, when I saw before me, at the entrance gates, Mr. Vigors, walking beside a lady apparently of middle age; while, just at hand, a path cut through the shrubs gave view of a small wicketgate at the end of the grounds.

    A Strange Story — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I had retreated but a few yards, when I saw before me, at the entrance gates, Mr. Vigors, walking beside a lady apparently of middle age; while, just at hand, a path cut through the shrubs gave view of a small wicketgate at the end of the grounds.

    A Strange Story — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • It looked into a garden, whence a wicketgate opened into a small paddock; all beyond, was fine meadow-land and wood.

    Oliver Twist 1838

  • A little winding through some muddy alleys that might have been deposited by the last ill-savoured tide, brought them to the wicketgate and bright lamp of a Police Station; where they found the Night-Inspector, with a pen and ink, and ruler, posting up his books in a whitewashed office, as studiously as if he were in a monastery on top of a mountain, and no howling fury of a drunken woman were banging herself against a cell-door in the back-yard at his elbow.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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