Sally Port

He waited in his sally-port on the other side, while we all waited at our assigned table for that precious few minutes with my son. ❋ Gretchen Burns Bergman (2011)

On the second day a band might have been seen (had the smoke permitted it) assembling at the sally-port of Fort Potato, and have been heard (if the tremendous clang of the cannonading had allowed it) giving mysterious signs and countersigns. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Toby, no bridge, or bastion, or sally-port, that ever was constructed in this world, can hold out against such artillery. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At this moment I saw the passenger in the buff pea-jacket approach the sally-port, grasp with his left hand a stanchion, and step on to the grating under which one of the paddle-wheels was churning the water to foam. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All of a sudden he stepped firmly to the sally-port, swiftly unlashed from the iron top-rail a mop, and threw it overboard. ❋ Unknown (2003)

By one of these passages, Hussein Baba had undertaken to conduct the princesses to a sally-port beyond the walls of the city, where the cavaliers were to be ready with fleet steeds, to bear the whole party over the borders. ❋ Unknown (2002)

So, as I said, the hour being come, Captain Credence, with the rest of the men of war, drew out their forces before it was day by the sally-port of the town. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Now he carried it out at Mouth-gate (for that, as I said, was the sally-port of the town), and he went and came to Emmanuel with it. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Now Mouth-gate the inhabitants of Mansoul kept for a sally-port; wherefore that they kept strong; for that was it by and out at which the townsfolk did send their petitions to Emmanuel their Prince. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Wordlessly Tallanvor unbarred a sally-port, a small door set within one gate. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1990)

Today the gates stood closed, except for a small sally-port flanked by two municipal guards. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)

Part of disputed South West Africa, this finger where five countries meet is the perfect sally-port from which to 'hit Zambia so hard she will never forget it', as the South African Prime Minister, Mr Vorster, has threatened if guerrilla raids from Zambia continue. ❋ Unknown (1969)

'Me camp on the salt flats, however, proved to be little more than a sally-port for Jorn and the other recruits. ❋ Blish, James (1960)

I spent almost [an hour] in the [sally port] waiting to be escorted to [release]. ❋ Tragicbeautiful77 (2011)

Nothing is [going in] my sally port tonight! Please keep [the doors] to your sally port [closed]. ❋ Tabatha Parker (2008)