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
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 Bell, Henry Glassford
That was what she couldn't bear to think of, the necessity she laid on him of going, as it were, for ever through the postern door.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
It was by a wicket gate which led through a shrubbery and up to a postern door, a door which was seldom opened in the old days when I lived at home.
From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James
