postern

Example Sentences

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He saw three gates during his wanderings—the main entrance with its gatehouse, a postern by the kennels, and a garden gate hidden behind a tangle of pale ivy.

From Literature

They left through a postern gate in the north wall.

From Literature

Instead of taking the short cut along the Sound we went down the road and entered by the big postern.

From Literature

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 Literature

To-morrow they were filing back through that postern that had given them this, their fortnight's respite, from tasks too often ignoble, from cramped circumstances, from savourless lives.

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