As we wind about the hills we catch sight of tiny hamlets perched on airy crests, recalling the castellated villages of the African Kabylia. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
The result was exceedingly quaint and castellated. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Even unto Heliotropolis, the castellated, the enchanting. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Its high castellated battlements look as if they had a history. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Here on the left is a large white castellated house of Algiers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Everywhere above the wooded slopes towered castellated heights and spires. From Wordnik.com. [The Rim of the Desert] Reference
Piled and castellated against the sky they assumed all kinds of odd shapes. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
Moharek, or Manamah; they are fortified with castellated walls of mud brick. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
The castellated towers that punctuate Mani's harsh landscape are now charred and smoldering. From Wordnik.com. [Eugenia Chandris: A Fire in the Verdant Core of Greece] Reference
There was once a castellated residence here, the home of the Coningsby family; and one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
First he purged his castellated villa of the international abuses it had undergone for a century. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
Callander opened a slanting tunnel, adorned with a castellated entrance, turrets and battlements. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground City] Reference
The rotunda-walls are themselves castellated, the towers being interplaced with windows of Saracenic arched form. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
Yes, there she comes with beaked prow, projecting ram, castellated cabin, and great oars sweeping the silver sea. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Dundurn Castle, a handsome, castellated, baronial-looking building, the residence of the present Premier, Sir Allan. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
The cañon is not so picturesque as the Colorado, for it has no rocks with variegated coloring or castellated walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
All this hideous inartistic modernity contrasted sadly with the massive beauty and vast strength of our castellated home. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
A little beyond this spot, rises suddenly from the plain a mass of castellated rock, the subject of many a wild superstition. From Wordnik.com. [First footsteps in East Africa] Reference
Here is a castellated palace, or princely castle, associated with many great and daring events in the roll of Scottish history. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829] Reference
The reader may more than once have noticed our predilection for illustrating the castellated antiquities of Britain in our pages. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832] Reference
A castellated gateway, veneered with copper ores, gypsum, and slate was flanked by a balustrade of slate surmounted by onyx balls. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
In the blue distance rose the castellated peaks of Jabal Rahah and the wide sand-tracts over which lies the land-route to Al-Hijaz. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
I have alluded to the castellated Rock of Goascoran, which, however, is only a type of the general features of the surrounding country. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
We had a drive of fourteen miles through hills and villages, and castellated villas with gardens shut in by formidably high walls -- always. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference
The place is surrounded by castellated walls nine or ten miles in circumference, outside of which are suburbs as extensive as the city itself. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
CLARE, another delightful residence: the house built in the castellated style: and the pleasure-grounds and very extensive gardens, truly exquisite. From Wordnik.com. [Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island.] Reference
The rocks of Hirta are predominantly a complex of dolerite and microgranites with gabbro along the castellated west coast, intruded by basalt dykes. From Wordnik.com. [St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
The Soobah's house, a castellated heterogeneous mansion, spread over much ground, the defences on one side reaching nearly to the level of the valley. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
Spain has a Moorish building rich in gold and color -- a central portion with Italian roof, and two colonnade side-sections flanked by castellated towers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
The grey walls, green with moss, looked impregnable, and as we went under the arch towards the castellated walls, a terrible feeling of dread came over me. From Wordnik.com. [The Reluctant Queen]
As I went away I looked up at the medi鎣al castellated gateway of the place, and thought how perfectly the architecture suited the spirit of the institution. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Separation into isolated summits began approximately 180 million years ago, resulting in the present karst landscape of castellated cliffs and table mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Canaima National Park, Venezuela] Reference
It was a fine castellated mansion, with beautiful though narrow grounds, standing in the valley of the Archay River, with a mountain behind and the river in front. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
At the end of the lake is a small promontory with a castellated building, commanding a fine view of the distant Alps. The route after Culoz is considerably elevated. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
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