Half-way up it is encircled by a battlemented corona. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The battlemented walls are nearly 20 feet thick at the base. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
But on stepping from one of the windows of the parlor upon this battlemented bartisan. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
In course of time the banquet-house was built and towered aloft, high and battlemented. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Each compartment consists of a large canopy decorated with quatrefoils, and battlemented. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Its upper part has been built upon a battlemented wall, and doors have been let into the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Madras] Reference
Salome mounted a wide marble stair that led to the flat, canopied, marble - battlemented roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloody Crown of Conan]
This quarter was ancient, with buildings of gray stone fantastically turreted and battlemented. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
A tunneled, revetted, embrasured and battlemented citadel filled with rusty armor and broken lances. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
Dnieper and flanked with battlemented walls to withstand the attacks of the infidels in olden times. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
In the early hour of the morning, Kenkenes emerged from a high-walled valley with battlemented summits. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Rambouillet retains to-day only a great battlemented tower, and some low-lying buildings attached to it. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference
The wall is battlemented, flanked with towers, and is provided at certain intervals with fortified gates. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890] Reference
The courtyard was a semicircle bounded by the curve of old battlemented walls and cut off by the new house. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
From behind the battlemented wall at the back a great flare suddenly burst upwards with a roar and a crackle. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
Of the variously panelled and battlemented parapets, of nave, chancel and aisles a view of 1864 gives no visible hint. From Wordnik.com. [The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains] Reference
The nave and towers are battlemented, and at intervals in the outer walls are niches, now bereft of the figures they held. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
About the lowest tier, two hundred feet below where Sam now stood, there was a battlemented wall enclosing a narrow court. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Behind them, the gray walls of Dahia lifted sheer, ten meters to the parapets, overtopped by bulbous-battlemented watchtowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
There was an abutting window, which opened on a small projecting balcony of stone, battlemented as is usual in Gothic castles. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Behind them, the gray walls of Dahia lifted sheer, ten meters to the parapets, overtopped by bulbous-battlemented watch-towers. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
Two battlemented walls, one of which faced the avenue, and the other divided the court from the garden, completed the inclosure. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Beyond the tower ran the battlemented wall of the enclosed garden, its foundations draped in the thrifty vegetation of the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story] Reference
The long lines of battlemented walls spread down the mountain to the Loire, and were defended by thousands of steel-clad serving-men. From Wordnik.com. [Novels by Eminent Hands] Reference
Its whitened towers and battlemented roof are known to all the swan-hopping and steam navigators of our day, and none who have floated. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829] Reference
Shouts run all along the battlemented walls; ringing bows are drawn and javelin thongs twisted: all the ground is strewn with missiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
After driving a good way, we came to a battlemented tower and adjoining house, which used to be the residence of the Ranger of Woodstock. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
The battlemented walls shone like copper, and Xander could believe the entire city was made of metal, shining like freshly burnished armor. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
As for the house, it was not less remarkable; it had a receding centre, and two wings with battlemented turrets, and was covered with glittering white stucco. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
The latter was even more beautiful than they had thought in their first glimpse of it, with its rugged, ivy-grown walls and its three-battlemented towers rising above the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion] Reference
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