postern

Example Sentences

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By then they were more than halfway to the hospice, but it was nearly dark when they reached St. Mark’s and were admitted by the porter at the postern gate.

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The postern was closed again, the iron door was barred and piled inside with stones.

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It was a battered wooden postern under a slab of stone.

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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.

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Koss went out the postern gate and brought the goose back, and two chickens as well, and Yoren allowed a cookfire.

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