My grandfather spent two years in a stockade during the war. From LearnThat.org.
A big but insecure stockade is built of branches and bamboo poles. From Wordnik.com. [What Is To Become of the British Protectorates?] Reference
A gigantic tree grows within the stockade, which is a very poor one. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
The forts are surrounded by a strong stockade, which is surmounted by a cheveaux-de-frise of split bamboos. From Wordnik.com. [Borneo and the Indian Archipelago with drawings of costume and scenery] Reference
Immediately within the principal gate of the stockade is a large open space, and in this the dancers are performing. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
The stockade was a solid palisade of saplings driven deep into the ground and covering an area of twenty feet by eighteen. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
The Iroquois were very quiet now, and an occasional dropping shot from the trees or the stockade was the only sign of their presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Refugees] Reference
Keddah -- that is, the stockade -- looked like a picture of the end of the world, and men had to make signs to one another, because they could not hear themselves speak. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Book] Reference
Almost the first object that met their eyes as they neared the stockade was a jagged break in the structure caused by a large object that had come crashing down upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Border Boys Across the Frontier] Reference
Dere wus a jail, a kind of stockade built of logs, on de farm to put slaves in when dey wouldn't mind. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
The city was then encircled by a kind of stockade made of bamboo and river mud, and it resembled a camp in most of its details. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
When he reached the place, he saw that they had reared a kind of stockade and were trying to build a vessel out of the timbers of their wrecked ship. From Wordnik.com. [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference
Stock, allegedly "stockade," but give no references. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
Old Lim was at the door of his "stockade," oiling the lock. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
It is not a wall or a stockade which is in your way; arms are met by arms. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Vol. I] Reference
I remembered that I had not delivered Mrs. Jucklin's message, and I hastened out to the "stockade," and knocked at the gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
A stockade was built up on the hill near the new home of. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Immigrant] Reference
Five days had passed since the episode beside the stockade, and Bois. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Courtenay had snatched from the stockade wall one day in another spring. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
From the sound of the river, he must be between it and the stockade gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
When a larger expedition came against him, he put up a stockade near the site of. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Pittsburgh] Reference
They built crude huts with scraps of pine left over from construction of the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia Southern Student Finds Rare Confederate POW Camp Artifacts] Reference
Ma'amselle, - yet am I that stone to your foot which we pledged yonder by the stockade wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
A fort was a stockade enclosure embracing cabins, etc., for the accommodation of several families. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Their garden must be inside the immense stockade, for there is nothing of the kind to be seen outside. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
And with that word she turned deliberately away, walked down toward the gate, and entered the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Mr. KEVIN CHAPMAN (Georgia Southern University): We are most likely standing just inside the stockade wall. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologists Discover Civil War Artifacts In Georgia] Reference
Faintly, after a while, he picked out the straight line of the stockade top, the rising tower at the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
There was a second of silence through which they could both hear the faint sounds of life from the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Colonel Pyron, with two hundred men, was detached to mask or carry this stockade, and Major passed on to the Boeuf. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
When I woke up I was in the stockade, and there was Col. Goodman arguing with the provost captain in charge of the MPs. From Wordnik.com. [What Really Happened To The Soldiers Of The 364Th?] Reference
Some rural health workers in cattle-raising Botswana now liken HIV to ticks, and condoms to a protective cattle stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Witchcraft, Vengeful Spirits And The Plague] Reference
Beneath them and in good command were some thirty able men whose families lived in the neat log cabins within the stockade. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] 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
And just across the river from us is a stockade, very high and very large, with heavy board gate that was closed as we came past. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
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