Noun : a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.    From Dictionary.com. 

She could no more move than the bastioned wall behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Just without one of the massive bastioned gates of the city of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

To the North there were low pale-coloured hills, in places bastioned with rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Chair]

It has the usual bastioned defences, besides some detached works of more importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

Ahead of me was a miniature fairy castle, etched in coral with moats and ports and bastioned towers.    From Wordnik.com.  [F&S Classic: Five Fathoms Down] Reference

The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference

The high land, Wantage, and Faringdon way, was glamoured by level sunlight; and Wittenham Clumps bastioned-up the rise ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maid in Waiting] Reference

There, with her sister and her father, Dinny sat down, bastioned from Jerry Corven by ‘very young’ Roger and his rival in the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over the River] Reference

Parma, although founded by the Boii, and conquered by the Romans 183 B.C., is a neat clean town of modern appearance, surrounded by bastioned walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Before them lay the waters of a canal, and beyond it, rising from its bank, the great bastioned wall of sun-dried brick which encircled the inner city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Freebooter]

It is a fortified city, being encircled by bastioned and battlemented walls, which were built in the time of Governor Gomez Perez Dasmariñas, about the year 1590.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Plan of a regular bastioned front of a fortification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

The great rock was scarped and bastioned, every line of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference

Southern Mail at the loopholed and bastioned railway-station.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference

Never was tyranny so invincibly bastioned to the cowed and conquered eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Roads and Other Essays] Reference

And scale the bastioned nights that bar the secret's inner dwelling-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams and Dust] Reference

Washington, the Federal capital, is very strongly defended by bastioned works and.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Lee's Campaign in Pennsylvania] Reference

FOR a sentience thrills through the bastioned hills that has neither voice nor form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wireless Telegraph] Reference

Major Croghan and I watched the parley from one of the blockhouses that bastioned the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lazarre] Reference

They passed Castle Crags, mighty-bastioned and glowing red against the palpitating blue sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 15] Reference

Its form is triangular, and the entire city is enclosed by a bastioned line of ramparts and several outworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric or, Under the Sea] Reference

It is surrounded by a bastioned wall and dominated by a castle; has also an important trade in wine, oil and fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Fig. 39 represents the ground plan of a modern bastioned front, of a regular and simple form, on a horizontal site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

Kinburn, a square bastioned work, extending to the sea on the south, and to the waters of the estuary on the north.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

On the left, in an angle formed by the junction of a rivulet with the St. Lawrence, was a square bastioned fort of stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3] Reference

A few hundred yards away stands Fort Vredenburg, a moated, bastioned, four-square fortification, garrisoned by half a thousand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China] Reference

Fort Santo Antonio, a tall white house upon a bastioned terrace, crowns proudly enough a knob of black rock and low green growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative] Reference

But for the purpose of discussion, we will here suppose the place besieged to be a regular bastioned work on a horizontal site, (Fig. 54.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars.] Reference

The huge dome of the mosque hung in air over the vacant palaces of the great Moguls, and the far windmill ridge, and the bastioned walls of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference

Dresden, in 1813, had for a keep a bastioned enceinte, one front of which, however, was dismantled and had no other parapet than such as was suited to a field-work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of War] Reference

The Disdar Aga now accompanied me to the gate, and bidding me farewell, with graceful urbanity, re-entered the bastioned miniature citadel in which he lived almost alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference

Whose outwall, bastioned impregnably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

Is bastioned by the circumfluous sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

He, bastioned in his citadel, looks forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference

The ghastly fig hath cleft thy bastioned wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

A sea; nor stays that sea the bastioned beach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference