The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. From Wordnik.com. [Stonehenge ‘Was Hidden from Lower Classes’ | Disinformation] Reference
Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood. From Wordnik.com. [After London Or, Wild England] Reference
In the palisade was a mighty breach, not an entrance-way, wide enough to admit six Daniel Lamberts abreast. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
Around all these houses they put a triple palisade, that is three rows of stout, sharpened stakes, driven deep into the ground and rising full six feet above it. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky] Reference
Assembly, a palisade six miles in length was completed, running from. From Wordnik.com. [Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699] Reference
A wooden palisade round the dwelling supplied the place of cloister walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
He followed, to find Mungongo leaning over the palisade as if speaking to some one. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
One day when the children were outside the palisade, Chewannick attempted to climb it. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
This is the isthmus fortified with a palisade, by Sir John Lancaster, during his stay at. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Noiselessly skirting the palisade, Hugh came to a gap big enough to let him squeeze through. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
Just beyond this, a higher and stronger palisade protected the riverbank from the winter ice jam. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Silence of the young day hung in the palisade, a silence that cut the soul with its tragic portent. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Then they came upon a plain where was a village surrounded by a bank of earth, on which was a palisade. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
The rest of the command coming up, a line was formed from the base of the upper palisade to the mouth of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
As the sun began to grow less, the barren hills on the far side of the river turned into a dark palisade. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Here he laid out a village surrounded by a palisade and let out his land to settlers for a trifling rent. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Upon the hill of MKoffo was a palisade enclosing the barracks of two companies of the askaris and two guns. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
And peering through that palisade, like a terrible black leopard from his lair, are the monster coughing devils. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
In the front and rear they were defended by a palisade; on each side by a barricade of the trunks of trees felled. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola] Reference
She was surprised to find the gate of the palisade open and still more astonished to see a tall figure in the kitchen. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
On one of these occasions Teresa determined to imitate them, so she hid behind the palisade, and spent the day in prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
After the Sagamore had gone and the palisade gate was bolted, Rebecca explained her secret garden to her surprised mother. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
The stockade was strengthened and, soon after, a palisade was built about the houses with gates that were locked at night. From Wordnik.com. [The Women Who Came in the Mayflower] Reference
One, bolder than the rest, ran forward with firebrands to burn the palisade, and others followed with wood to feed the flame. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Six thousand infantry, four hundred horse, and four guns, protected by a wooden palisade, disputed the passage of the British. From Wordnik.com. [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference
As soon as she found it was hers, she called Chewannick within the palisade to see the little black thing with legs like sticks. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
Some struggling grape vines and a few vegetables had been planted within the palisade, but small attention had been given to them. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
He pushed the boat into the stream and darted back to the house, bolting the gates of the palisade and then the door as he entered. From Wordnik.com. [Some Three Hundred Years Ago] Reference
When it was completed, this counterwork consisted of a solid stone wall, crowned with wooden towers, and defended in front by a palisade. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
Therefore he drew the bolts and opened the gate the width of a man's body, and Maren Le Moyne slipped outside the palisade into the night. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
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