postern door
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
His dreams came in by that gate, and all other things by the postern door, which, he said, was the way he and she must go.
From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair
It ended in another embrace; the girl ran back over the plank, waved her hand at her lover, and disappeared, the postern door closing after her.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens
“I must draw up the ladder, close the postern door, and then inform my lady that you are here.”
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
