postern

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I'll play my part to the life, and find an entrance to this cursed town, spite of locked gates and barred posterns!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Besides which, there are two posterns, one in the east curtain, and the other in the west, neither of which are ever opened except for the purposes of the garrison.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

At any rate, we might do that at the two posterns.

From Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Good-night, my love, good-night; The wan moon holds her lantern high, And softly threads with nodding light The violet posterns of the sky, Below, the tides run swift and bright Into the sea.

From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin

Erect and eternal, it will go on with the ages, go down the dim posterns of time unharmed, and on every battle-field rise higher in the estimation of thinkers and in the hearts of Christians.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Eddy, Mary Baker