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Updated: June 27, 2025
In this neighbourhood I noticed many single embedded bones, and I heard of others having been found in so perfect a state that they were long used as gate-posts: the Jesuit Falkner found here the dermal armour of some gigantic Edental quadruped.
It is hard to estimate how many valuable antiquities have been similarly destroyed by carelessness and ignorance; but such ruin has been more often suffered by stone monuments, longstones, kistvaens, snatched for use as gate-posts and walls by heedless farmers and builders. About two miles inland from Pentewan is Heligan, a very fine estate, whose gardens display rare subtropical vegetation.
A name was yet wanting to it; but the day after the negotiation was concluded, the landlord paid the delicate compliment to his first tenant by painting "Gowanbrae" upon the gate-posts in letters of green. "Go and bray," read Bessie Keith as she passed by; "for the sake of the chief of my name, I hope that it is not an omen of his occupations here."
Perhaps you have seen the house the one with the white stone gate-posts." "Oh, yes indeed," replied Jennie. "I know it well. Mr. Kane and I were admiring it the first day we came out here." "I know of your husband, of course, by reputation. My husband is connected with the Wilkes Frog and Switch Company." Jennie bowed her head.
Through the plaster gate-posts, badly in want of repair and bearing, sunk in one of them, a marble slab announcing "Residence with Board," she perceived the squalid attempt the place made at respectability, the servants in dirty livery salaaming curiously, the over-fed squirrel in a cage in the door, the pair of damaged wicker chairs in the porch suggesting the easiest intercourse after dinner, the general discoloration.
When to use them I leave to thy well-known discretion. Dost understand? "`Your speech is not difficult for the understanding to take in, says I. "`Ha! especially the understanding of an Irishman, says he, with a smile. `Well, help me to get into this box, and see that thou dost not run it carelessly against gate-posts; for it is not made to be roughly handled!
The Alcotts the year before had lived next door to my aunt, Louisa, a child of twelve, and her sisters the "Little Women" whom the world now knows so well. Close to the Battle Ground stood the two tall gate-posts behind which lay the "Old Manse" whose "Mosses" Hawthorne was just then preserving for immortality.
Looking about him on all sides, the lawyer at last discovered at the end of the street nearest to the boulevard, between two walls built of bones and mud, two shabby stone gate-posts, much knocked about by carts, in spite of two wooden stumps that served as blocks.
That which M. Vassili was pleased to call his little dog-hole in the Champs Élysées was, in fact, a gorgeous house in the tawdry style of modern Paris resplendent in gray iron railings, and high gate-posts surmounted by green cactus plants cunningly devised in cast iron. The heavy front door was thrown open by a lackey, and others bowed in the halls as if by machinery.
They ran past plum and apple orchards and past humble little detached villas, each with a bit of garden in front and an acacia or two at the gate-posts.
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