postern door
Example Sentences
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The guardsmen left their mounts out-side the walls and escorted her through a narrow postern door, then up endless steps to a tower.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
The portcullis was down and the gates barred, so she turned aside to a postern door.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
It was he who unlocked the postern door and admitted our party to the cathedral.
From Long Live the King by Boothby, Guy
And that no commodious means for committing that mischief might be wanting, there is a postern door in the Town Wall, hard by the house, whereby they might easily pass away into the fields.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
Long before any search could be made for them, the authors of this tragic interruption had clattered down a turn-pike stair and decamped by a postern door.
From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Stevenson, Robert Louis
