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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • Some entered with them, pell-mell, through the sally-port; others stormed the bastion, and others scrambled over the curtain.

    Washington Irving 2004

  • Toby, no bridge, or bastion, or sally-port, that ever was constructed in this world, can hold out against such artillery.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 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.

    Through Russia 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.

    Through Russia 2003

  • Toby, no bridge, or bastion, or sally-port, that ever was constructed in this world, can hold out against such artillery.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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