The law requires a parapet on roofs used for recreation. From LearnThat.org.
It needs nothing but the parapet, which is being built. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The front one was called the parapet, the rear the parado. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Up above, the step in at each side of the parapet is a deft touch. From Wordnik.com. [Ecology of Absence] Reference
The road swung over a bridge, and leaning on the parapet was a young man. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
The tri-colour flying from the parapet was the signal for the British to advance. From Wordnik.com. [Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign] Reference
Not until the leaders of the storming party stood upon the parapet was their presence perceived. From Wordnik.com. [With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire] Reference
One of the latest to put its head above the parapet has been the Maroc Telecom link to Mauritania. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
A boche cap above the parapet was a rare sight, but we had our hundred, all right; and then some; for, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
A moulded string-course, with gargoyles, runs below the parapet, which is a continuation of the plain coping on the western bays. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
"The top of our parapet is a couple of feet higher than that machine-gun emplacement. From Wordnik.com. [With Haig on the Somme] Reference
The earth is thrown up on the side towards the place besieged, so as to form a kind of parapet to cover the men in the trench. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference
On their banks he made his men fell trees and build them into breastworks -- "a kind of parapet extending into the woods some distance.". From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the Battle of Chateauguay Being a Lecture Delivered at Ormstown, March 8th, 1889] Reference
Stuart's division had been halted outside the parapet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Our sap ran close up to the outside of the enemy's parapet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But the fort was not yet captured though the parapet was gained. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Only a policeman, who came and leaned against the parapet near him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
My troops reached the top of the parapet, but could not cross over. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"I have no idea whether I would have stuck my head above the parapet or not.". From Wordnik.com. [Stop-Rocks] Reference
Just outside the rebel parapet was a house which had been used for a hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The old Abbe and Grandchamp leaned over the parapet, watching the bank of the river. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I rode into the fort, and found the parapet badly torn up by the fire from the fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
It was necessary, therefore, to cover our men by something more than the ordinary parapet. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
But his men struggled on until some of them got up to the very parapet covering the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Before separating we stopped a moment on the parapet along which runs a thin boxwood hedge. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Burnside, on the left, had advanced up east of the salient to the very parapet of the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
My father's nightly walk, though, was more like a king walking the parapet around his castle. From Wordnik.com. [The Boundary Line] Reference
The fresh-made parapet had been knocked down in many places, and dead men lay around very thick. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
An officer and some men seized the flag, rigged up a jury-mast on the parapet, and soon it was flying again. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
We were up now at three different points, one in front of each corps, to where only the parapet of the enemy divided us. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"These a-- holes really want to play today," said Pfc. Mark Pettit, popping up from behind a roof parapet to fire his M-16. From Wordnik.com. ['Tipping Point'] Reference
Some of his men had snatched a flag from the parapet of the fort, and others had taken a horse from the inside of the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Many seated themselves, with their arms folded, upon the loose stones of the newly begun parapet; they preserved perfect silence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They were following the stone parapet surmounted by a hedge of boxwood, which entirely hides the ugliness of the buildings on the quay. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It pleased me to leave them alone before the fire, and to go out on the quay to dream, leaning on the parapet and looking at the water. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And slowly approaching, he accosted a young light-horseman, of about eighteen, who was sitting apart from his comrades upon the parapet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As he reaches the parapet he stops and looks around like a man who doesn't know what is happening to him, "Why is he there?", etc. Alice!. From Wordnik.com. [Life is Life (or Ode to a great big idiot like Zizek)] Reference
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