In one corner of the square formed by the palisades were the kitchen and offices. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
In this quarter the palisades were the weakest, and the ground the least elevated; but it was guarded by men on whose skill with axe and shield. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
Rowe was within thirty paces of the palisades about. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The lights trickle grayly down from the hoary palisades. From Wordnik.com. [Precipitations] Reference
In one case, at least, the town was surrounded by palisades. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
All the weaker places were strengthened by means of palisades. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
As additional precaution they built palisades around the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
It consisted of a circle of gold, with palisades attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Many were wounded, of course, and some killed; but they soon reached the palisades. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They were accustomed to fortify their village's with ditches, embankments, and palisades. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
He found his "enemy" entrenched by "four successive palisades of fallen trees," says Smith. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
There was a small door in the palisades, which Nathan opened and passed through, we following. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
His body was treated with contumely, and his head affixed to a post of the palisades of the village. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Around us, a number of small country-houses, garden-walls, and high bamboo palisades shut off the view. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Schamyl seems to be well aware that his best ramparts are the rocks, and his palisades the primitive forests. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
The attempts to fire the palisades were fruitless on account of the want of method shown by the attacking parties. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
These villages were protected by stockades or palisades, and by some natural features of their situation -- a river. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Mason, who was sent to subject them, found their principal villages, covering six acres, strongly defended by palisades. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Here Champlain saw the triple palisades, long houses, containing several households, and other distinctive features of those. From Wordnik.com. [Canada] Reference
Altogether it was an ugly situation at the best; as the line had become entangled in those weather-worn palisades it was hopeless. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
We then planted the palisades, securing them strongly in the ground, and to each other, so that it might not be easy to tear them up. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The Volscians hasten up in even line under their advancing roof of shields, and set to fill up the trenches and tear down the palisades. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
There were many shot-holes through the palisades, which were covered with white streaks where the splinters had been torn off by the lead. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Santa Monica's GLOW festival reimagines the beach, pier and palisades as a playground for thoughtful and participatory contemporary art works. From Wordnik.com. [Bettina Korek: PLAN ForYourArt September 23-29] Reference
Successive rows of palisades protected a position of considerable extent, accessible during the greater part of the year by a single narrow path. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
The warriors, however, detected the stealthy approach, and seizing their weapons, fired from the security of their palisades upon the advancing enemy. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
On the gently sloping ground, between the upper and lower palisades, there is a single farmhouse, which is reached by a wagon-road from the valley east. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
That part of the garden which contains the botanical collection is separated from the other part, which is open to the public at large, by iron palisades. From Wordnik.com. [A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792] Reference
It was surrounded by a double row of strong palisades with a filling of small stones and earth, and was approached through a single gateway guarded by sentinels. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
I worried she would ask about the rows, about why Kay's backyard and the backyards of her peers were now lined with barbed wire and why the palisades had been raised five feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Palisades] Reference
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