castleyard

Unterwalden and the elder Philipson walked on in company, conversing chiefly on the political relations of France, England, and Burgundy, until the conversation was changed as they entered the gate of the old castleyard of Geierstein, where arose the lonely and dismantled keep, surrounded by the ruins of other buildings.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

"Then," said she, "take them into the castleyard to-morrow, and show them the bones and skulls of those that thou hast already despatched, and make them believe, ere a week comes to an end, thou also wilt tear them in pieces, as thou hast their fellows before them."

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

On the appointed day a huge concourse including "farmers, butchers, hucksters, badgers, cadgers, horse-jobbers, drovers, loafers and scamps and raggels of all kinds" assembled in the castleyard.

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

A day was fixed for the contests which were to take place in the castleyard, and soon the news was so handed from mouth to mouth that the demand for seats in the rough wooden stand, erected for those who chose to pay, was so great that another stand was built and the first one was enlarged.

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

CHAPTER I. Jurand, finding himself in the castleyard, did not know at first where to go, because the servant, who had led him through the gate, had left him and gone toward the stables.

The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881

The legend says that every night, at twelve o'clock, he drove into his castleyard and out again.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840