With some little labor a breach was made for single men to enter, and they who first went in, broke open the postern for the rest.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
"And, upon intelligence that the castle of Carlisle, wherein the prisoner was kept, was surprisable, he employed some trusty persons to take a view of the postern gate, and measure the height of the wall, which he meant to scale by ladders, and, if those failed, to break through the wall with some iron instruments, and force the gates.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
At that same moment, Mr. Benjamin Levy, tired and angry with his long waiting, stole into the garden by the postern-gate.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim