bartizans generally are furnished with arrow slits. From LearnThat.org. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartizan]
The bartizan is the only anxious place, but as I mean to take Davie with me, you may think I do not count it very dangerous! ". From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
What words had the lochage addressed to me in the bartizan?. From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
“Rin up to the bartizan at the tower-head, callant,” said. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
National Guard, which halted in front of an enormous old building, furnished with battlement and bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
“There is a lodging, certainly,” said Otto to the sentinel, who pointed towards the castle with his bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference
I-- did descend from the bartizan, and betook ourselves to the great withdrawing room, to wait for the result of the approach. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
The lane ended in a terrace with a bartizan wall, which gave an outlook between high houses, as out of an embrasure, into the valley lying dark and formless several hundred feet below. From Wordnik.com. [The Short-story] Reference
It was apparent that Mungo was for once willing to delegate his duty as keeper of the bartizan to the first substitute who offered, but here was no move to help him out of his quandary. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Hmmm, when I saw the headline "BRATTICING/bartizan" I read "bratticing" as "bratticizing," the act of turning into a brat, and having "bartizan" remind me of Bart Simpson, a well known brat, didn't help. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BRATTICING/BARTIZAN.] Reference
"Rin up to the bartizan at the tower-head, callant," said Dame. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
The crow's-nest was built like a bartizan on the precipitous front of the position. From Wordnik.com. [A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa] Reference
He took it in his hand, and stepping out on the bartizan, crept with careful steps round to the watch-tower. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
When they reached the top, he took them past his door, and higher up the stair to the next, opening on the bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
Ivanhoe knocked down, the western bartizan was taken by the storming-party which invested it, and every soul slain, except. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance] Reference
At every sweep of his blade a severed head flew over the parapet, a spouting trunk tumbled, bleeding, on the flags of the bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
High aloft hung the wooden bartizan or watch-tower, clinging to the face of the outer wall and looming black against the pale sky above. From Wordnik.com. [Otto of the Silver Hand] Reference
But when he reached the door of it, yielding to a sudden impulse, he turned away, and went farther up the stair, and out upon the bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
English; and Gaston, springing towards the bartizan, beheld the senseless form of his beloved Knight lying stretched in a pool of his own blood!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lances of Lynwood] Reference
But the noise attending the first operation caught the wakeful attention of Edward, who, starting to the bartizan, called to know what the matter was. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
It opened into wide space: from it Donal stepped on a ledge or bartizan, without any parapet, that ran round the tower, passing above the window of his room. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
"There is a lodging, certainly," said Otto to the sentinel, who pointed towards the castle with his bartizan; "but tell me, good fellow, what are we to do for a supper?". From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
Closing the door behind him to keep in what warmth he might, and ascending the stairs a few feet higher, he stepped out on the bartizan, and so round the tower to the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
A protecting bartizan or two, with the addition of small turrets at the angles, much resembling pepper-boxes, had procured for Darnlinvarach the dignified appellation of a castle. From Wordnik.com. [A Legend of Montrose] Reference
The castle was before him; the western tower was in flames; the besiegers were pressing at the southern gate; Athelstane's banner, the bull rampant, was still on the northern bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and ay; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
As for the whistle, it was gane anes and aye; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets where the howlets have their nests. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
As for the whistle, it was gaen anes and aye; but mony a time was it heard at the top of the house on the bartizan, and amang the auld chimneys and turrets, where the howlets have their nests. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering Willies Tale] Reference
A shrill voice cried from the top of the northern bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Burlesques] Reference
I hae seen them that busy, that I wad hae fired the auld culverin or the demi-saker that’s on the south bartizan at them, only I was feared they might burst in the ganging aff.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the northern bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca and Rowena; a romance upon romance] Reference
I hae seen them that busy, that I wad hae fired the auld culverin or the demi-saker that's on the south bartizan at them, only I was feared they might burst in the ganging aff. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
Every turret and bartizan bold. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference
He crept back along the bartizan. From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
Go steadily over the bartizan, mind. ". From Wordnik.com. [Donal Grant, by George MacDonald] Reference
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