The time it takes to operate the drawbridge is a significant fraction of the headways of the BRT service proposed to run on the bridge. From Wordnik.com. [Neighborhood Activists Still Oppose State’s 520 Option « PubliCola] Reference
One cannot have this both ways and the proposed second drawbridge is arguably the worst of all possible outcomes here. From Wordnik.com. [Neighborhood Activists Still Oppose State’s 520 Option « PubliCola] Reference
The drawbridge is the only access to the interior of the castle. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
A man's home is his castle, of which he is king, and the positioning of the drawbridge is the king's prerogative. From Wordnik.com. [Woot! - One Day, One Deal] Reference
But the Romans hurriedly built ships and placed upon each a kind of drawbridge, fitted with great hooks called grappling-irons. From Wordnik.com. [Introductory American History] Reference
The most colorful Power Mac introduced an innovative 'drawbridge' enclosure. From Wordnik.com. [Low End Mac] Reference
"There is a physical sea wall completely surrounding it," he said, and even the Roosevelt Island Bridge is a drawbridge, meaning it can potentially be closed. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewish Week (BETA)] Reference
Traces of the portcullis and drawbridge are visible. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The wounded knight thundered across the drawbridge, with. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The entrance to the town was over a drawbridge, near which was. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
At the end I found another nearly as long, connected with it by a drawbridge. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The knight's house was surrounded by a moat over which there was a drawbridge. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
Even the risk seemed less serious than before, and we drove over the drawbridge. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
The imagination's drawbridge is yanked up; the mind's wild wandering mechanism shrinks. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Benke: What's Your Word?] Reference
"People gather around the mail-coach as it makes its daily halt before the drawbridge.". From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Beaumains and the lady set out again, and Sir Persaunt went with them to the drawbridge. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
They found the drawbridge up, and the gate locked, as Edgar's father said he had left them. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
While crossing the drawbridge they had sung the Marseillaise like men ready to be shot down. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I tried to jump on to a truck tire from a fake wooden drawbridge in an elementary playground. From Wordnik.com. [The Kid Who Knew Something] Reference
But after eight years in exile, they've assembled outside, waiting for the drawbridge to drop. From Wordnik.com. [Plotting Bush Ii] Reference
Pop could use a drawbridge in one scene, and, in the next, convert it into a perfectly good cow-barn. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
On each side of the entrance, gained by a drawbridge, was a tower -- the Watch Tower and the Signal Tower. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
We crossed a drawbridge into a court flanked by four round towers, and having a square keep in its centre. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
It had an outer enclosure, and was entered by a drawbridge, and furnished with every imaginable fortification. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Simon heard rocks thudding against the drawbridge at the rear of the palace, the entrance for horses and wagons. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The drawbridge has been replaced by a modern "perron" or flight of stone steps, which leads to the entrance hall. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
But as he came thither he saw many armed men, who pulled up the drawbridge before him, so that he should not enter. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Shannon refused to jump from the castle drawbridge to the gigantic truck tire sunk halfway down in the playground quicksand. From Wordnik.com. [The Kid Who Knew Something] Reference
After a short ride they were in the courtyard of the grim frowning castle of Ponthieu, with the drawbridge raised behind them. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
We turned to the old city, Manila proper, passed over the drawbridge, and under the arch of its inclosing wall, centuries old. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
He rode over the drawbridge into the great courtyard, and the echo of his horse's hoofbeats was the only sound that greeted him. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
A drawbridge to the house, which was raised every evening, and lowered in the morning, for the laborers and the family to pass out. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
When the project is finished, in an estimated 20 years, the fortress will have towers that are 24 feet high, a drawbridge and even a moat. From Wordnik.com. [Building A Medieval Castle In Arkansas] Reference
Close by the drawbridge was, until just before Queen Victoria's reign, a place where lions and tigers and all sorts of wild animals lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Children's Book of London] Reference
I would love to collect, but I also would like my bank, and those similar, to lower the drawbridge so we consumers can-pardon the expression-get into the system. From Wordnik.com. [Corporate Battlements] Reference
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