Drysdale sent out his scout to order his punishment as he might have ordered a waistcoat, presented old Copas with a half-sovereign, and then dismissed punishment and gating from his mind.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
I expressed my opinion of Adamson and went back to college, for I ought not to have been out after nine o'clock, because my gating would not finish.
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley
I was also feeling rather dull, for I had already got through a fortnight of my gating, and to be kept in college after nine o'clock night after night is not very exciting.
"Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate"
Charles Turley