The height of the rampart is 20 ft., and the width 32 ft. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrations of the War in America] Reference
The rampart is the common road for carriages of all kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Against the rampart was the spectral shape of a man, propped up on his back, limbs spread out. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
The first, however, to approach the rampart were the consul and the troops he was bringing from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. VI] Reference
At the end of the rampart was a small colonnade, and at the end of that, winding stairs that led down to the Prophet's quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
Beneath the rampart is a tidal river, and on the other side, for a long distance, the mossy walls of the immense garden of a seminary. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
Within the rampart was a shrubbery with about three hundred varieties of trees; and at the centre of each semicircular part of the rampart was a bower or summer-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler] Reference
"The road there along the rampart is the highway leading to. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Two Countries] Reference
A novel kind of rampart, savoring of rural device, was suggested by the rustic general. From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
All ways were open to him, and finally, avoiding the high road, he climbed up a steep and stony lane to the great eastern rampart which is Harcombe Hill. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Fire] Reference
He could already distinguish a kind of rampart, which was surrounded by trees, and through a breach in the foliage he saw a long, low building, which from. From Wordnik.com. [Dame Care] Reference
It will appear clearly that the plates are a considerable matter lower than the surface of the water, which rises up and makes a kind of rampart round them on every side. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference
A positive virtue is our best rampart against vice. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
They fired from the rampart at the helpless men below. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
They bind with bars the tameless sea; behind a rampart proud. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse] Reference
On this rampart several pieces of ordnance were also mounted. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
The citadel rose on a peak on the southwest angle of the rampart. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
A number of them saved themselves by jumping off the rampart and flying through the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
The crater rampart was finally reached, however, and a number of excellent photographs were made. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
A great hole was dug in the ice, the enemy being unable to observe the operation because of the rampart. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska] Reference
What is still better is the winding road through ferns and flowers that leads to the crater rampart, Diamond. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Mounted upon his great gray steed, "Monmouth," he spurred through a rampart, felling the Mexicans as he went. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
The duke hurried to the rampart, and saw upon the further side of the moat three horsemen and two led horses. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"And how long," said the lady of the house from behind her rampart of breakfast things, "shall you want to be away?". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
And I will make a circle round about thee, and I will cast up a rampart against thee, and raise up bulwarks to besiege thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The town was surrounded with a rampart, in the form of a pentagon, with flankers of the same thickness with that at the fort, and. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2] Reference
General Nogi threw thousands after thousands of his warriors against this rampart while the Russians defended it no less resolutely. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
His name may be still a rampart, and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark, against all open or secret enemies of his country's peace. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Into the chapel the condemned prisoners used to be taken to hear their last mass before being marched up to the north rampart and shot. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Cinq-Mars and Fontrailles, with the young Locmaria, forced their horses upon the rampart itself; but a brisk fusillade killed the three animals, which rolled over their masters. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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