How To Use Postern In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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.’
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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.
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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
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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
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Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern.
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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
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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
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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
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The main entrance was from the east, where the gate was protected by a massive stone tower; a smaller gate and two posterns gave access through the northern rampart.
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Wherefore, one of ye go to Locksley, and bid him commence a discharge of arrows on the opposite side of the castle, and move forward as if about to assault it; and you, true English hearts, stand by me, and be ready to thrust the raft endlong over the moat whenever the postern on our side is thrown open.
Ivanhoe
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Something in hand the whilst," continued the Norman; and, as they parted at the postern door, he thrust into Cedric's reluctant hand a gold byzant, adding, "Remember, I will fly off both cowl and skin, if thou failest in thy purpose.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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Norman; and, as they parted at the postern door, he thrust into Cedric's reluctant hand a gold byzant, adding, ` ` Remember, I will fly off both cowl and skin, if thou failest in thy purpose. ''
Ivanhoe
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The entry postern, which ran the width of the counterscarp, opened up into the dry ditch.
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I found another door into the Palace: a small postern gate around by the stables.
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In the outwork was a sallyport [Footnote: A sallyport is an underground passage from the outer to the inner fortifications.] corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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As he spoke, he bowed to the countess; and Edwin joyfully receiving his arm, they walked together towards the eastern postern.
The Scottish Chiefs
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One tight crawlway wormed through the citadel walls to debouch near the Postern of Fate.
The Tower of Fear
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a narrow postern, which is generally accepted as that through which
Beautiful Britain: Canterbury
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Zamora, and see the trenches which you have ordered to be made; and I will show unto you the postern which is called the Queen's, by which we may enter the town, for it is never closed.
Chronicle of the Cid
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In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade.
Ivanhoe
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The hotel is described as ‘pretty appalling’ and its attempt to mimic the postern on the walls opposite has been called ‘deplorable’.
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After this Vellido took the king apart and said to him, If it please you, sir, let us ride out together alone; we will go round Zamora, and see the trenches which you have ordered to be made; and I will show unto you the postern which is called the queen's, by which we may enter the town, for it is never closed.
The Junior Classics — Volume 4
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“Do, do,” said Mowbray, recklessly; “I thank you, I thank you;” and hastily traversing the garden, as if desirous to get rid at once of his visitor and his own thoughts, he took the shortest road to a little postern-gate, which led into the extensive copsewood, through some part of which Clara had caused a walk to be cut to a little summer-house built of rough shingles, covered with creeping shrubs.
Saint Ronan's Well
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IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I see clerks, posterns, runners, drummers, administrative assistants and plenipotentiaries.
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And out of the posterne of England was shot a gunne that brake downe one of the sayde mantellets, and hit upon one of the pieces, and slew foure or fiue men, and bare away both the legs of the master of the ordinance, which died soone after: whereof the great Turke was very ill content, and sayd that he had rather haue lost one of his basshas or captaines then the sayd master.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Two doors lay open before him and he passed through, great, bristly shoulders scraping gilt veneer from the posterns.
The Pig’s End « A Fly in Amber
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Romaine himself let us out of a window in a part of the house known to Rowley: it appears it served as a kind of postern to the servants 'hall, by which (when they were in the mind for a clandestine evening) they would come regularly in and out; and I remember very well the vinegar aspect of the lawyer on the receipt of this piece of information -- how he pursed his lips, jutted his eyebrows, and kept repeating,' This must be seen to, indeed! this shall be barred to-morrow in the morning! '
St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade.
Ivanhoe
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Emily presently heard his steps descending the stairs within, and then the heavy chain fall, and the bolts undraw of a small postern door, which he opened to admit the party.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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The tiny postern gate did open into the river; by way of the storm drains.
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In the outwork was a sally-port corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade.
The Literary World Seventh Reader
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She approached the postern gate where a pompous-looking black-clad guard halted her.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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Turcoplier of England, chiefe captaine of the succours of the sayd posterne of England, a valiant man and hardy: and in holding of it he was slaine with the stroke of a hand-gunne, which was great damage.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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IV. ii.91 (101,4) [that spirit's possess'd with haste, That wounds the unresisting postern with these strokes] The line is irregular, and the _unresisting postern_ so strange an expression, that want of measure, and want of sense, might justly raise suspicion of an errour, yet none of the later editors seem to have supposed the place faulty, except sir Tho.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
