Bragi demanded when Haroun tied the rope to a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
Three throws missed before the fourth snared a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
A merlon stone slid off the battlements and plunged downward. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
Then, making one end fast to a merlon, he slid down after her. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil In Iron]
He peered out from behind a merlon over the confused fighting below. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
She sped them a hand gesture of defiance, lowered herself behind a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
Something whizzed past Simon's head and struck the brick merlon beside him. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Fig. 332: Vertical section of the external wall from the ring-beam to the merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
I think the interviewer is writing for people who don't know what a merlon or a vambrace are. From Wordnik.com. [Malazan at 10: An old interview with Steven Erikson] Reference
Beside Tavarre, a woman screamed and sprawled across a merlon as an arrow sliced open her neck. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
Simon pulled on one end of the rope, and it snaked around the merlon and came rippling down to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Beringar stood leaning against the merlon of the wall as though bracing his back for a dour defence. From Wordnik.com. [One Corpse Too Many]
The huge Irishman used his sword bayonet to cut the wet ropes which bound the flagpole to the merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
'Jesu,' he groaned and, feeling utterly wretched, pressed his forehead against the cold stone of the merlon. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
Looping his rope around a merlon, he scrambled easily down onto the tiles and pulled the rope down after him. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
Standing behind the center merlon, Kharl began to search for the rebel wizard, with both order-senses and eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Ordermaster]
He leaned on the merlon and listened to the faint thrum of music from below, glad of the space between it and him. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
He saw the destruction in the courtyard, heard a roundshot shiver a merlon not six paces away, but walked on calmly. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Gasping from his climb, Strongfist lurched to the wall, leaned against a merlon and peered through the narrow crenel. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
One that I took to be an officer stood in a crenel with one foot up on a merlon, leaning on his knee, watching casually. From Wordnik.com. [Shadow Games]
He tugged experimentally at the rope; the merlon seemed as solid as a post; drying his hands on his robe, he started up. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
He had reached the roof of the wing and was removing his noose from the merlon when Mucor's spectral voice spoke, seemingly in his ear. From Wordnik.com. [Nightside The Long Sun]
Before his head was fully behind the merlon, the entire west wall of the compound shook, and fragments flew above and against the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Alector's Choice]
The three of them dropped together, as men were dropping under every merlon along the wall, pressed into the angle of wall and flagged walk. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
Only he would know that it lay in a pocket in the mortar under a certain merlon stone twenty-seven east of the new east-side tower overlooking the North Gate. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spike]
He scrambled up to the square Guelfo merlon around which his rope was tied, pulled himself over the parapet, and dropped with relief to the flagstones of the flat roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
"Higher, men!" shouted the Genoese, from a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
With it in his hand he mounted the merlon; and, though the ships were directing their incessant broadsides at the spot, he deliberately fixed it. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader] Reference
He could swing you from a merlon with a light heart and nothing to lose. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
A gargoyle perched atop each merlon in the battlements; each corner was decorated with fiends standing upon each other’s shoulders for the full height of the structure. From Wordnik.com. [With a Single Spell]
Radetic laid the chart out on a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
He paused between them, leaned on a merlon. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire In His Hands]
"And snuggle up tight against the merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Doomstalker]
"Crenel, battlement, parapet, merlon, turret -". From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
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