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
A postern door admitted them to the courtyard and they made their way, side by side, along the flagged path to the house.
From The Childerbridge Mystery by Boothby, Guy Newell
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 Sinclair, May
Her last words these, "By curfew sure On Christmas eve at the postern door."
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius
