postern-door

Then adopting an unfrequented footpath, he conducted Jeanie through several complicated mazes to a postern-door in a high brick wall.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

The castle, indeed, was divided from that barbican by the moat, and it was impossible that the besiegers could assail the postern-door, with which the outwork corresponded, without surmounting that obstacle; but it was the opinion both of the Templar and

Ivanhoe 2004

The honest cook lingered, but a nearer burst of the horns apprized him that there was no time to lose; and, acquainting Nigel that he would leave the postern-door on the latch to secure his retreat in that direction, he bade God bless him, and farewell.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

Almost delighted enough with her capture to forget, if not forgive, her fugitive fellow-servant Bridget, the florid and fat Aunt Peggy Muldoony hurried along as if the bag were a feather, her words flowing like a spring flood, and introduced her charge at a postern-door into her own house, as she called it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

With a musket in his hand, and in the face of the enemy, he reconnoitered the place, and observed every accessible approach to the house, and with a few colliers, under cover of a cart-load of hay, which they pushed on before them, came up to the postern-door of the kitchen.

Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

But the Colonel had now reached a little postern-door in the garden wall.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Various

Then Claire led the way toward the western façade, where her apartments were, and they came to a postern-door, very narrow and with a grating.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

O'Toole was still standing sentry at the postern-door, and the three men escorted the

Clementina 1906

O'Toole distinguished three horses, he saw the three riders dismount; and while one of the three held the horses, the other two walked on foot towards the postern-door.

Clementina 1906