A narrow postern, which is generally accepted as that through which. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Britain: Canterbury] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
The first I caught was sidling through the postern. From Wordnik.com. [Lysistrata] Reference
An old-fashioned rope-pull hung beside the postern. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
"We might fall into the moat if we tried the postern.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
The Gaul knocked at a postern and spoke into a grille. From Wordnik.com. [The Mask of Apollo]
The postern was now surrounded, and gave no hope of escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Guides] Reference
The militia sent a mounted party out through a postern gate. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
I stole out by the postern, and joined them up on the hill road. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
We left the priory by the western postern and went up the Rue des Trois. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
But the Colonel had now reached a little postern-door in the garden wall. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
A little farther on I dismounted and stumbled to the postern-gate of a farm. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Dolge appeared, with his toothless grin, at the round opening in the postern. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
I went with her; and she led me through the postern, up the road to the hills. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
At that postern some one is waiting eagerly for her; waiting with swift horses. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
I said to Alexander, "I will come back after," and went out by the postern door. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
But have them brought round below the postern, and go down yourself by the stair. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
Someone opened the private postern, for the men to leave by when they had passed the bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
I delivered my despatch, took the receipted envelope and stumbled back to the postern-gate. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Dolge opened the postern and the two girls stepped through, followed by the French officer. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
When they had gained the postern and drawn back the bolts, the palmer said to his companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
She could not die; she could not live; and yet the tiger was at the gate, the wolf at the postern. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
Worse, they had seen enemy cavalry galloping past the postern gate and attacking the fleeing townspeople. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
The garrison soldiers had been at spear drill, but had stopped to watch Sabin ride through the postern gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
And, taking up the basket he had put down on the pavement, he set off toward the postern-gate of the Louvre. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The queen passed through a postern gate and made her way to the lake, where George Douglas met her with a boat. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
These signs were posted here and there about the park, in the courtyard, on the postern gate, on trees, everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
De Bracy hastily drew his men together, and rushed down to the postern gate, which he caused instantly to be thrown open. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Having set out on their luckless road by the right-hand postern of the Carmental gate, they arrive at the river Cremera: this appeared. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
It was dismaying to find the scaling ladders too short to be of any use, but a small postern gate was speedily and quietly undermined. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
There was a postern opened towards the sea, and was open without any keeping, save two lions kept the entry; and the moon shone clear. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
Monte-Leone, whom he waited for at the postern of the castle, return, his joy was so great that he was ready to clasp the Count's neck. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
On the west side a postern gate for horses and carts was protected by a gatehouse with two portcullises and doors reinforced with iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
By means of cannon shots the troops of Versailles have demolished the houses in the village of Vanves, as they concealed and covered the postern of the Fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
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