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  • Brynn started off toward that gate, with Pagonel right behind, and they arrived at the battlement atop the eastern gatetower just as the group of riders pulled up outside.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • They were on the ramparts of the keep, on the turret of a great gatetower that faced into the pass, and behind the castellations of the wall around the courtyard.

    Sharpe's Enemy Cornwell, Bernard 1984

  • I watched him alone from the gatetower (for Dame Math had been summoned to Toross, who had taken a turn for the worse), just as I had stood in the courtyard minutes earlier pouring the spiced journey drink from the war ewer into the horns of the men to wish them fair fortune.

    The Crystal Gryphon Norton, Andre 1972

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