postern

• At the same time he must not let things go too far 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
• To have the right to go right or left, as man would; to pluck the flowerets by the roadside at will; to throw man upon the grass, and breathe the free air; to speak with whom man would; to feel the heaving of the salt sea under man's boat, and to hear the clash of arms and see the chargers and the swords and the nodding plumes file out of the postern--O Perrote, Perrote Mine own dear mistress, would I might compass it for you I know thou dost. —  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
• He was leaning against the postern, his form in the darkness just distinguishable against the grey-white of the wall Quien-viva_?" —  The Lone Ranche
• Without looking at us, or deigning any apology for the great gate,--which, it seems, is a mere barricade, not made to be opened,--she unlocked a side-postern, a rude door, consisting of two or three rough boards, and made a motion for us to enter. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
• It was a fortification of no great height or strength, intended to protect the postern-gate through which Cedric had been recently dismissed by Front-de-Boeuf. —  The Literary World Seventh Reader

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