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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: The Missing Chair at the Holiday Table Gretchen Burns Bergman 2011
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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: The Missing Chair at the Holiday Table Gretchen Burns Bergman 2011
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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: The Missing Chair at the Holiday Table Gretchen Burns Bergman 2011
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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.
Burlesques 2006
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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.
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Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain.
Washington Irving 2004
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Toby, no bridge, or bastion, or sally-port, that ever was constructed in this world, can hold out against such artillery.
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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.
Through Russia 2003
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All of a sudden he stepped firmly to the sally-port, swiftly unlashed from the iron top-rail a mop, and threw it overboard.
Through Russia 2003
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Toby, no bridge, or bastion, or sally-port, that ever was constructed in this world, can hold out against such artillery.
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