What is "gateman"

Usage examples of "gateman".

Then suddenly when it seemed to him he had gone through a hundred courts, the gateman fell silent and pushed him into a small waiting room.

Wang Lung, bowing hastily, turned and went out, the woman after him, and after her the gateman, carrying on his shoulder the box.

It seemed a long time before the gateman returned, bringing back again the woman and child.

To the great house he now went and there was in these days no gateman standing at the gate, twisting the long hairs of his mole, scornful of those who could not enter past him into the House of Hwang.

Never had Wang Lung forgotten that once he had gone crawling into that great house and stood ashamed in the presence of those who lived there so that he was frightened of even the gateman, and this had remained a memory of shame to him all his life and he hated it.

The gateman was standing in the doorway of the guard hut to be out of the sun.

He let out a breath as the gateman passed out of sight with the armload of melons.

I hurry past third-rate Theseus and his plaster legions, through the lofty lobby where chandeliers hang from ceilings infested with gilt cupids, around the praying gateman outside up the sidewalk to the belly-high cement wall that runs along the steep bank of the Nile.

Here the gateman treats him with scorn, demands a tip, and finally ushers him into the presence of the Old Mistress.

He is intimidated even by the tea house boy, let alone the arrogant gateman, and all but falls on his face before the Old Mistress.

This time the gateman treats Wang with respect and offers him tea while he escorts O-lan and the baby to the Old Mistress.

He called to the gateman and was admitted, then was taken by a guard directly to the audience chamber.

Just then a gateman came running up, saluted Hagin, and blurted out a message.

The gateman dipped his head and ran off to fetch the visitors as instructed.

In a moment the gateman had brought the visitorsa thin gangly boy and a slump-shouldered manand their mount to stand before the knights and the warder.