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How to use postern in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word postern? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The entry postern, which ran the width of the counterscarp, opened up into the dry ditch.
My plan is to sell information to the Turks and unlock the postern so that the Sultan's Janissaries can come inside the palace.
The Sultan's Janissaries are coming through the Kerkoporta postern like a flood!
He left the Kerkoporta postern unlocked to help the Janissaries, led by the Turkish Sultan, enter the palace.
To the south, the belvedere and the medieval postern overlook the small village of Vallery and the Château's former gardens.
You should wear a red Bandanna and surrender as soon as the Sultan's Janissaries come in through the postern.
He also said that if he used the postern that we unlocked, he could capture it in one stroke by committing his mobile Janissaries.
Weak spot rounded of a bastion, destined to the protection of the exits of troop by a nearby postern.
There are four gates, one on each side, and each with a smaller postern gate nearby.
Built in the 16th century in line with the 13th century postern that still exists, the building spans a ground floor used for domestic purposes and a first floor which constituted the Seigneurial dwelling.
A postern, dismantled from its original position and rebuilt into a wall by the station, and a part of the keep mound are all that remains.
The castles were each equipped with a rear or postern gate that would allow them to resupplied directly by sea even if the town had fallen.
By 500 AD, the circuit possessed 383 towers, 7,020 crenellations, 18 main gates, 5 postern gates, 116 latrines, and 2,066 large external windows.
A soldier named Pool has a key to the postern.
Near Wakefield Tower was a postern gate which allowed private access to the king's apartments.
Examples from Classical Literature
I considered your coachman to be a faithful man, and I told him to wait for you at the postern.
After they had passed the postern, honey-bee again asked where they were going.
Cowper assumes a second postern, but there is no evidence for this, and l. 139 ff.
Clive inspected the padlock on the postern and declared it to be unpickable.
Astonishment robbed me of breath as he threw open the postern.
If I do but send them a message they will surely come to the postern gate.
I was peering through the slit in the postern, not twenty feet away.
He knocked, and presently the postern gaped, and a lantern was advanced.
As each man did so he had to retire by a postern leading to the sea.
She had opened the postern gate in the wall, and through the narrow opening was framed a wonderful picture of the Cornish sea, rolling into the rock-studded bay.
What you must do is carry me in your arms, and lay me across or set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it either with this lance or with my body.
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