Out of the four main battlements, all but the southernmost were under the firm, unyielding hand of the Clan Engineers. From Wordnik.com. [365 tomorrows » 2007 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference
The cold, ethereal beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after all. From Wordnik.com. [My Demon's Kiss] Reference
And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Simon, leaning over the battlements, bade me begone. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
There are also battlements with finials capping the top. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
The party regulars are manning the battlements, but to no avail. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Storming The Castle] Reference
Let us approach the battlements and cast our eyes immediately below. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The great stone courts, balconies, and battlements were quite deserted. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore] Reference
Wherever the eye turns battlements frown, ordnance protrudes, bayonets bristle. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
The outlines of the original wall and of some of the battlements can be easily traced. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
The girls were coming too near the battlements then, and Bert did well to warn them off. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Country] Reference
Could it be possible that she had gone up the watch tower, and fallen from the battlements. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
So saying he led the way up to the parapet of the battlements, and there we surveyed the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
To-day Fortress Monroe did not frown down upon the little home-comer from its stern battlements. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
Steadily they smashed the mensurate battlements, in blackness beyond night and darkness without stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Marooner] Reference
Egyptian battlements, the usual cornice, a row of spikes in imitation of spear-heads, or with some fancy ornament. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
When they had disarmed them all they have made them mount the battlements in order to show them to their folk below. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
I studied my reflection, it didn't look any different, cooled my tail in the rock pools, built battlements with the pebbles. From Wordnik.com. [Sunk] Reference
From the battlements of the castle of the Sforza twelve trumpeters sounded the glad tidings, and the heralds saluted Cæsar as. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
Threatening the captive Montezuma with a dagger at his breast, they forced him to show himself on the battlements, and to command the. From Wordnik.com. [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference
All that Naomi could hope to do, beside gazing at the three famous castles of white marble, with their battlements and turrets, built by. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
"We can shoot right through our battlements," he declared, as he sank down in the sand and looked out through the holes in the sand fort. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
The banks are lined by everything from high rent apartments, to palaces, to medieval battlements of opposing Christians and Muslim forces. From Wordnik.com. [Terry Kelhawk: Turkish Delights in Istanbul: 2010 European Capital of Culture] Reference
We stayed a full day at Carcassonne, and reached the frowning battlements of the Eglise St. Nazaire, at Béziers, at just two by the clock. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
The ladies looked over the battlements and, to their horror, saw three wolves creeping stealthily along under the shadow of the great pines below. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Parasail in tandem with your squeeze in front of the battlements of Dubrovnik, beneath the mountain where Serb artillerymen not long ago had their day. From Wordnik.com. [Escape To The Balkans] Reference
Through the gloomy archway they passed, and then the castle, with its towers and battlements, was before them, and presently they had entered the court. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
A loud and prolonged shout, from fort and fleet, greeted the old flag as, all tattered with shot and shell, it rose above the battlements into its native air. From Wordnik.com. [The Flag Replaced on Sumter A Personal Narrative] Reference
I seem to see the Spirit of Prophecy standing on its broken battlements, wrapped in the shadows of the night, looking hopefully toward the place of sun-rising. From Wordnik.com. [My Three Days in Gilead] Reference
The ghosts of dead warriors lurk in the gray battlements and rise from river mists below the Plain where the cadets march like toy soldiers on Saturday mornings. From Wordnik.com. [Warriors and Poets] Reference
And the men of Troy, on the other hand, being in the last extremity, tore down the battlements and the gilded beams wherewith the men of old had adorned the palace. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
They could go up the watch tower and look off from the battlements, over the islands and forests, to those majestic purple mountains, whenever they desired to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Soldiers in bright uniforms paced to and fro on the ramparts, while the flag of old Spain, with its mingled hues of blood and gold, floated proudly above the battlements. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
They climbed the stairs to the top, and passed through a low door on to the battlements of a great tower, whence they looked down at the pine trees, two hundred feet below. From Wordnik.com. [Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days] Reference
Within view of the battlements of the old manor-house, nearly a hundred workmen were soon employed in digging the foundations of a modern mansion of the noblest proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
Yet, up this narrow, obscure and winding staircase the proud monarchs of Granada and their queens have often ascended to the battlements of the tower to watch the approach of. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
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