It held meetings in our big vault, which they called the donjon keep, and, naturally, when one of them was going on, boys were scarcer around the office than hen's teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Gorgon Graham]

The central tower, commonly called the donjon, was the castle's last line of defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

After passing the donjon, which is situated at the extreme end of the left wing, we went to the back of the chateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystère de la chambre jaune. English] Reference

It had a "donjon," or keep, which was generally occupied by the baron as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic History of England] Reference

"donjon" of great antiquity, crenelated, with towers at each corner and the whole construction forming an admirable specimen of Hispano-Flemish architecture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders] Reference

Who is it comes now, -- sweeps round the donjon flank?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

The square donjon and inner gate were built by Chandos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

I stood upon the donjon keep and viewed the country o'er.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference

"You must come and see the donjon keep, girls," said George.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference

Even the donjon alone would take a day to search room by room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

We slept that night beneath the frowning donjon walls of Beaugency's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

As he approached the huge cube of the donjon he chose his entry point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

The façade, straight, and massive, has the frowning severity of an old donjon wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

But when once again within this donjon, you will remember the true nature of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

Our siren gave a hoot which startled the rooks circling about the donjon walls of Château.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference

She strode through the ornate halls of the black donjon, still clutching her sword in her anger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

"Watch," was all the master said to his dogs as he crept in through an old window into the donjon keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Domfront is a very old walled town, with round towers and a great square donjon, perched on the top of a mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

I stood upon the donjon keep — it is a sacred place, — Where floated for eight hundred years the banner of my race.    From Wordnik.com.  [The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters] Reference

At the top of the stone stairs, as they entered the donjon itself, a S'tarra rounded the corner not two paces from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

The donjon has two granite staircases; one leads to the top, whence may be seen Vannes and the Morbihan, with its islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference

Protection meant a good suit of mail; and a castle with its duly prescribed moats, bastions, portcullises, and donjon keep.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850] Reference

He accordingly issued orders to have the prisoner removed, at daybreak, to the donjon keep within the walls of the Alhambra.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alhambra] Reference

On the left, lay the palace and donjon-keep; but the right, more attractive, seemed to invite to the apartment of the women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Robert of Paris] Reference

"S'tarra are not allowed in the donjon when Amanar isn't here, and humans are locked in their quarters unless he desires them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

In the donjon itself, Amanar led them through floor after floor of many-columned rooms hung with cloth-of-gold and costly tapestries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Invincible]

As in a great castle which has long contended with time, the mighty central mass of the donjon towered up intact and seemingly everlasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

On one side rose a round and lofty keep, or donjon, with a conical roof, part of which had fallen down, strewing the square with its ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro] Reference

Leaving these apartments, we visited the historic donjon, a gloomy building of stone on the exterior, but furnished with wooden staircases within.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

Antoine, was the ink-black, frowning donjon of the Bastille, its severity in strong contrast with the more luxurious palaces of the princes which surrounded it not far away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Palaces and Parks of France] Reference

There was a partially defaced sign upon the front wall of the box; the donjon-keep had known mercantile impulses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

The blood-red flag on this donjon was, at the era engaging us, the disenchanter of the Greeks; insomuch that in passing the Sweet Waters of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference