Kites spun their slow circles above its pale stone crenellation. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
Fitch looked out over the right side, between the gaps in the crenellation big enough for a man to stand in. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
Only a single guard is present, and she sits behind an overhead crenellation, surveying the three horses and their riders. From Wordnik.com. [The Magic Engineer]
They were quickly enlarged, vertically at first, and traces of the old crenellation are still visible in the second-story masonry. From Wordnik.com. [Ponte Vecchio, a Bridge That Spans Centuries] Reference
His gaze went to the battlements of the High Clerist's Tower, where he could see small figures milling about, peering over the crenellation. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of Summer Flame]
Without a word, she seized him by the throat with her other hand, and, calmly, indifferently, shoved him backward through the notch of a crenellation, out into thin air. From Wordnik.com. [Soul of the Fire]
All this adds a note of poignancy to the glorious shots of these homes, which range from former castles to Georgian manors to others gussied up by the Gothicizing craze of the 19th-century think crenellation and turrets. From Wordnik.com. [Gift books] Reference
And next to it, with an arrow indicating the direction, the universally understood image for a site worthy of historical note: the keep of a castle, rendered brown on white metal, with clear crenellation so that no-one could mistake it for anything else. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
The structure has a looming heft and indulges in much spurious crenellation. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Send mutton and mead to archer station on crenellation 4SW-can't hold back the hordes on an empty stomach!. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
I decide to go back to the ziyada (an enclosed space separating the mosque from the street) to admire once more the wonderful crenellation made of open brickwork so characteristic of the Ibn Tulun Mosque. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Taking the place of the stone bridge that was built in Roman times -- and so well built that it was kept in service almost down to our own day -- a suspension bridge here spans the stream: and the poets and the poet-lovers of Vienne were all a-swarm upon it, their heads and shoulders rising in an animated crenellation above its rail, in waiting for our galley to go by. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals] Reference
Like most DeWitt watches, the bezel features the iconic crenellation design, while the sides of the watch have engraved 'imperial columns. ". From Wordnik.com. [Luxist] Reference
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