postern

• “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

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deathride

• “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

• “a narrow postern, which is generally accepted as that through which”

  Beautiful Britain: Canterbury

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “She approached the postern gate where a pompous-looking black-clad guard halted her.”

  The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six

• “I walked as far as the postern gate that led to the road but I did not pass through.”

  Simon & Schuster: Secrets of the Tudor Court

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