How To Use postern In A Sentence
- This very night I leave the castle by the postern door, and in the moonlight I make my way to the commot of Llanymddyvri, where dwells that bold patriot Maelgon ap The Lord of Dynevor
- One evening, as myself and my brother, who was then a flaxen headed little fellow, dressed in kilt and tartans, were playing on the grass-plot just described, I saw a strange gentleman enter the postern; and, while we continued at our amusement, we sometimes looked up to remark on him to each other, as he walked to and fro in the pathway beyond the grass: for he appeared very different from the usual order of gentlemen we had seen. The Scottish Chiefs
- This ‘bar’ was in fact only a small postern gate beside one of the defensive towers in the wall, which might explain why it receives no mention in any early city documents.’
- It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of oak, lined on the inside with a sheet of iron and iron stays, a genuine prison postern.
- If the Germans and their allies crossed the river above and below the city, enveloping it from three sides, their bridgeheads across the river would not only be vulnerable to flank attacks, but the city itself would become a staging area for attacks, what a German general in a previous war had called a postern gate, an opening in a fortification that enabled the defenders to sally forth and surprise the besiegers. Deathride
- For an adventuring mood this window was a kind of postern to the house for innocent deception, beyond the eye of both the sitting-room and cook. Chimney-Pot Papers
- Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern.
- So when that day came she showed Alisander a postern wherethrough he should flee into a garden, and there he should find his armour and his horse. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
- Running down the path, vaulting the little gate leading into the shrubberies, and dashing down a back way almost dark with the thick laurel-bushes overhead, he soon reached what was known as the postern door. Chatterbox, 1906
- He then aided him to fasten on the saddle the small portmantle which contained his necessaries, opened a postern door, and with a hearty shake of the hand, and a reiteration of his promise to attend to what went on at Cumnor Kenilworth
