The first raised itself a hundred feet on high, turreted and parapeted and pierced with gates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

The building above the three terraces consists of four parapeted galleries, erected upon the internal walls of the lower gallery, and of four upper terraces, the three highest of which are circular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

The parapeted walls of the galleries were once decorated with four hundred and thirty-two niches, each with three turrets, and contained four hundred and thirty-two life-sized Buddhas, seated on lotus cushions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

I stood, methought, on a terrace; I leaned over a parapeted wall; there was space below me, depth I could not fathom, but hearing an endless dash of waves, I believed it to be the sea; sea spread to the horizon; sea of changeful green and intense blue: all was soft in the distance; all vapour-veiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Alongside of the modern brick, or occasionally stone mansion of four stories, that style of architecture, dear yet to the heart of a genuine Knickerbocker of which Holland boasts, if not the invention, at least the perfectioning, reared its pointed gable, and rose like Jacob's ladder with parapeted roof into the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

The bad news was that most of these pools had been leached from the base of an almost unbroken series of icebergs — some of them a hundred feet tall and more — that had been swept up against the shallows and shore and now stretched like a parapeted white castle wall as far as the eye could see around the curve of land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

Hilda looked from her bedroom window across the varying expanse of parapeted flat roofs and mosque bubbles that lay between her and College Street, and curbed the impulse in her feet that would have resulted in the curious spectacle of Llewellyn Stanhope's leading lady calling in person at a monastic gate to express a kind of solicitude against which precisely it was barred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of a Star] Reference

That ladder leads to the roof, which is parapeted, so that those sitting or even standing there, cannot be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearl-Maiden] Reference

That takes you to a terraced, parapeted garden very well tended, as one should be which has four men at its disposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference

The mosque stands in an area enclosed with a high, parapeted wall, overlooking the vally of Jehoshaphat, and confronting the Mount of Olives.    From Wordnik.com.  [tabsir.net] Reference

They jumped out of the carriage, and while their bags were being carried in they ran to the parapeted edge of the cliff in front of the hotel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marriage à la mode] Reference

After perhaps a mile, I saw, some sixty feet above the road, a little plateau large enough to hold my sack, and securely parapeted by the trunk of an aged and enormous chestnut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)] Reference

The city, whether Ghent or Bagdad, would consist of the same sort of houses peaked and parapeted, the same towers and pinnacles that the illuminator saw before him in his daily walks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference

Light and shade fell picturesquely about the steps descending to the gardens, and the parapeted buildings fell in black shadows upon the sward, and stood sharp upon the moon illuminated blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Fletcher A Novel] Reference

There was no human being in sight on this side; the roofs, many of them parapeted like his own, stretched out into the distance, their ranks here and there broken by lines which appeared to indicate roadways running beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawn of All] Reference

I had just returned to Eton as a master, and was living with Edward Lyttelton in a quaint, white-gabled house called Baldwin's Shore, which commanded a view of Windsor Castle, and overlooked the little, brick-parapeted, shallow pond known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh Memoirs of a Brother] Reference

The wall here sweeps along the brow of the crag on which the city is built, and a steep street drops down, by stone-parapeted curves and angles, from the Upper to the Lower Town, when, in 1775, nothing but a narrow lane bordered the St. Lawrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference

The wall here sweeps along the brow of the crag on which the city is built, and a steep street drops down, by stone-parapeted curves and angles, from the Upper to the Lower Town, where, in 1775, nothing but a narrow lane bordered the St. Lawrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Chance Acquaintance] Reference

Gilbert and Francis, never was absent from her for a moment when she went beyond the door of the lesser lodge, which the Earl had erected for her, with a flat, leaded, and parapeted roof, where she could take the air, and with only one entrance, where was stationed a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland] Reference

The loftier houses of the wealthier merchants, their parapeted fronts and costly wainscoting, their cumbrous but elaborate beds, their carved staircases, their quaintly-figured gables, not only contrasted with the squalor which had till then characterized English towns, but marked the rise of a new middle class which was to play its part in later history.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference

Now it was under tall rock, parapeted with trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foes] Reference

Less common is the parapeted gables.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference