postern door
Example Sentences
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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
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
At length I reached the postern door, which had looked so formidable on the previous day, and was again met by the same men I had seen before.
From Roger Trewinion by Gunning King
It was he who unlocked the postern door and admitted our party to the cathedral.
From Long Live the King by Guy Boothby
It fronted the west, having its southern gavel so close upon the town-wall, that a little postern door entered immediately through the wall into the kitchen.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
