| 单词 | crenelate |
| 例句 | The facade of a grand building rises gracefully, pilastered and crenelated. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Generations of the family owned it, for 400 years, gradually transforming the sprawling fortress with round crenelated towers into an elegant home. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z With crenelated ramparts and tall towers, it is the Great Wall of my imagination. Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Donkeys carrying bundles of firewood wait patiently for their owners near the crenelated entrances of the city’s historic gates. Where Rimbaud Found Peace in Ethiopia 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z In addition felt could be cut and sandwiched together for flowerlike decorations and crenelated edges. Wartime Quilts Honor Battles and Leaders, but Mostly Art 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z I imagined watching the sun burst over peaks crowned by ancient crenelated watchtowers in the morning. The Great Wall, Our Way 2013-07-26T18:00:50Z In the areas around downtown, the lots get bigger and the homes more graceful — including one particularly beguiling early 20th century number just off Alondra Boulevard that sports a courtly crenelated tower at its entrance. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The battle raged through the day outside the gate’s crenelated twin towers and beneath the Pyramid of Cestius, which looms over the Protestant Cemetery, where Keats and Shelley lie. Echoes From the Roman Ghetto 2013-07-12T17:36:12Z Snipers studied crowds from the crenelated roofs of the castle, watchful for those who might want to kill the royal family. I Also Went to the Royal Wedding 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z And then I saw the hotel’s crenelated roof. Modern Love: Competing With Another Woman, or at Least a Voice 2012-09-28T18:17:37Z But then you notice the crenelated and turreted brick walls typical of Persian gardens. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z It’s a goof, as is so much of “Chappie” despite the violence, crenelated brows and choreographed grimaces. Review: ‘Chappie’: a Smart Robot in a Violent Future 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers. Simon Sebag Montefiore: By the Book 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Celmins made the envelope’s five stamps separately; each is a tiny drawing with crenelated edges, three offer aerial views of the Pearl Harbor attack. Deep Looking, With Vija Celmins 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z It meanders into crenelated forts, Moorish castles overlooking the Mediterranean and grand mosques reconfigured by Christians into cathedrals. The Enduring Echoes of Moorish Spain 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z A Greek flag flutters atop the crenelated battlements of the circular White Tower, but the structure was actually built by the Ottomans, who captured Thessaloniki from the Byzantine Empire in 1430. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Dickey describes Eastern State as “a broken-down castle with stone crenelated towers” where “it’s easy to imagine” a history of “atrocities and violence.” Travel to haunted houses to learn about ourselves and our past 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Its watchtowers are crenelated and the wall itself is as thick as 12 feet in some places. My father left Bulgaria when he was 14. Nearly 7 decades later, we visit as a family. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Others find charm — not easy to do in this rundown port — in the crenelated ramparts surrounding its medina. Tunisia After the Revolution 2012-04-06T18:10:20Z While serious development is now under way outside the medina, most of the population is still jammed inside the city’s crenelated walls. T Magazine: Lost in Time 2013-05-09T14:30:49Z Its crenelated edge can simultaneously suggest a staff, a tool and a musical instrument. Art Review: ‘David Smith: The Forgings’ at Gagosian Gallery 2014-01-02T21:55:28Z Charles Philip Arthur George, then a gawky 20-year-old, was crowned Prince of Wales nearly 55 years ago in the crenelated fortress that dominates this pretty Welsh town. Disunited kingdom: Rifts in the realm as King Charles III's coronation nears 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z “Yarn bombers” around the country have been hard at work for months creating everything from golden coaches to crenelated castles and jewel-encrusted crowns that will add fuzzy bits of color to the coronation festivities. ‘Woolly delinquents’ celebrate Charles’ coronation in yarn 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z The sleek new building, with a crenelated exterior and dark-wood-paneled, modern, minimalist lobby, opened in April and sits on a parcel that had long been an empty lot. In Somerville, Mass., new Union Square stop is a go 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Bogazici University is one of the best universities in Turkey, endowed with a startlingly beautiful campus, perched above a crenelated fortress on the shores of the Bosporus. Prestigious Istanbul University Fights Erdogan’s Reach 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Atop the 10-foot-thick walls, crenelated parapets, screened by animal skins, will protect our archers from arrows and stones. Opinion | Trump’s wall isn’t evil. It’s medieval. 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Later, driving her own children through the neighborhood, she hesitated when pointing out the crenelated landmark. Perspective | To the battlements! Answer Man storms the Castle at Forest Glen. 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Its top is crenelated like a castle wall. New Orleans, fortified but still in peril 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z That castle is a two-story commercial building fronted with a crenelated facade. Perspective | Answer Man visits the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md. 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z On one of my first meetings with Philip Pullman, he led me to the crenelated tower of Exeter College, in Oxford, and pointed out the room he lived in as a student. Philip Pullman Returns to His Fantasy World 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It’s adjacent to the Amazon spheres, so close that those crenelated orbs look conjoined with 2120’s lovely, shrubbery-hemmed patio — which is heated but only partially covered, so enjoy it while you can. 2120: Exciting Latin-influenced dining in Amazonia 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z We were passing by some of the most expensive real estate in Britain, architecture inspired by feverish dreams of lost golden ages: vast mock-Tudor mansions, fake castles with crenelated concrete battlements. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Now, the citadel has been returned to its original purpose as a military stronghold, with government troops perched behind its crenelated walls. ‘I Saw My Father Dying’: A View From Aleppo’s Government-Held Side 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z “Its distinguished feature is a square crenelated tower.” Churches undergo extensive rehabilitation work 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Its heart is a yellowish beige academic building resembling a crenelated stucco fortress, and it is surrounded by barracks and lawns dotted with old cannons. New York Military Academy’s Sudden Closing, After 126 Years 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z An open limousine brought Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to present the armed forces to Putin and thousands of guests assembled along the crenelated eastern wall of the Kremlin. Russia flexes its military muscle in Red Square to mark Victory Day 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z In vibrant colors, he painted abstract images of mangled, emaciated prisoners, crenelated walls, locks and haunted faces. Back to a Burmese Prison by Choice 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Its 326-foot-long cantilevered concrete roof — the longest span at the time — is crenelated, folding horizontally and vertically, and calls to mind the ripples of the waves and the sails of Miami’s ever-present boats. Rescue Plan for a Marooned Miami Stadium 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Overlooking an empty space that looks like a disused car park or the aftermath of a nuclear bomb, is a family-run hostel called El Muniria, a white block with blue windowsills and a crenelated roof. How Morocco was once a haven for gay Westerners 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z The novelist and poet, who died in 1832, designed it himself, with crow-stepped gables and Scots baronial turrets and crenelated balconies. Shaking off the 'kilted straitjacket' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Jack Whittaker’s downfall began at the Pink Pony strip club in Cross Lanes, W. Va., a crenelated building with pink-frosted stucco walls and black glass doors. Lottery Winner Jack Whittaker's Losing Ticket 2012-12-13T21:29:36Z One hoisted a cage for workers to the top of the 117-foot crenelated bell tower; the other raised a metal box in which were placed loose stones from one of the four steeples. Storm Severely Damages Christ Church in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn 2012-08-01T04:20:02Z Above the main building and the four crenelated towers soared the castle keep; from the ramparts started two lines of walls which, going east and west, gathered the town as it were within a nest. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z The nave of the church is to the east; it is of two stories, both crenelated at the top. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Houses, streets, squares, market place, covered ways, curtain, keep, tower, turret, crenelated battlement, all were there. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Dawn soon appeared; its early glimmer lighted the horizon and set off the outlines of the crenelated Bourgogne Gate. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Spire of shell prominent, aperture narrow, canal very short, columella crenelated; foot large. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z It is not a grand structure, but it is perfect of its kind, with its crenelated fa�ade and its sturdy arcaded towers curiously placed midway on the north wall. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Opposite, about ten feet distant, ran an immensely high stone wall, crenelated on the top, and over that he could catch a glimpse of the blue May sky. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The cathedral itself still remains unachieved as to completeness, but its tourelles, its vaulting, its buttresses, and its crenelated walls are most impressive. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Beyond the desert waste, lay the enemy's entrenchments—earthworks strengthened with gabions and trunks of trees, and here and there crenelated with the embrasures for their batteries. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Avignon has veritable gates—and towering crenelated walls with ramparts, all about as perfect as when they were built, nearly six hundred years ago. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z It had four great towers, crenelated and machicolated, after the best Gothic fortresses of the time. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z But you noticed the crenelated wall: that is the secret. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z That could be part of the reason that the top of the Lake Borgne wall is crenelated like the fortifications of a castle. In New Orleans, Ring of Protection Is Close to Completion 2010-08-23T18:09:00Z A multitude of domes and crenelated walls grew into immense proportions beneath the boundless light. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar We find, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, that the members of this class are beginning to build large, solid houses of stone, with ogival windows, and sometimes with lofty towers and crenelated battlements. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) All this time, I ought to say, not a man of the enemy was to be seen, although I, from where I stood, could see the crenelated walls, and the guns, as they were pointed. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Under its sills are rich panels, and it is capped by a slight crenelated cornice with a boldly-carved drip, from which springs a conical roof surmounted by a fleur-de-lys. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Two massive square towers, crenelated at the top and pierced by a few round-headed windows, flank the western front. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Surmounting it is a needle-like spire which rises above the crenelated battlement of its tower in a most fantastic manner. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine If our age were a century or two younger I would have carried her off to a crenelated castle, let down the draw-bridge, and defied the law. Eden An Episode Every house which looked on the bridge was crenelated for small-arms, and garrisoned by sharpshooters,—the fierce Jager of Germany, whose rifles are the boast of the Vaterland. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II This colossal defensive work consists of double crenelated ramparts, locked together, at intervals of about 100 yards, by towers and other fortifications. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The handsome narthex, the summit of which is crenelated like the tower, is the simplest and noblest to be found in Galicia, and is really beautiful in its original severity. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Within the reconstructed walls, topped with a series of crenelated battlements, after the true medi�val manner, one finds an ample courtyard, from which lead the entrances to the various parts of the vast fortress. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine It has a flat roof with a crenelated parapet. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium The church in the quadrangle differs completely from that given in Agas; and Newton fails to recognize the character of the gate and its crenelated tower on the east side. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles It is surrounded by a crenelated wall, which resembles very much that of Constantinople. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia There is a border or guimp, Persian in character, in which are small crosses surmounting repetitions of the crenelated pattern found in Assyrian ornament. Needlework As Art There is a counterpart of this feature in the cathedral at Dol in Brittany, but there it has the added detail of a crenelated parapet, which gives it a still more military air. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine Almost directly opposite, on the north, is the curiously contrasting feature of a crenelated battlement, a reminder of the time when the church was doubtless a temporal as well as a spiritual stronghold. The Cathedrals of Northern France A heavy cornice with prominent double denticulated string course or crenelated molding runs entirely around the room, tying the fireplace end of the room into the general scheme. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia He looked out over the crenelated wall, but the cold moonlight revealed a vacant street. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China Between the circles the ducks are repeated, facing a shield enriched with rows of the crenelated pattern surmounted by a vine. Needlework As Art The walls on the left seemed perhaps a trifle higher, ranging in height from one hundred to a hundred and eighty feet, the crest in places broken into crenelated turrets. Young Alaskans in the Far North He came to the back of the building, where, two stories below him, a crenelated lower wall protecting the courtyard joined the main building. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel This latter is a sort of square "donjon" of great antiquity, crenelated, with towers at each corner and the whole construction forming an admirable specimen of Hispano-Flemish architecture. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders From these rooms there is a lovely view of the Indre and of the old town with its steep gables, crenelated roofs, and picturesque chimneys. In Château Land They are everywhere—on the crenelated city wall, in the hurly-burly of the streets and bazaars, even on the steps leading to temples and mosques. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan At the foot of the crenelated, battlemented walls of the church are the white, pink, and blue walled houses of the huddling population, and the dory-like boats of the fishers. The Automobilist Abroad In the center of the mass of buildings rose the square solid mass of the keep, with its crenelated roof and small windows commanding every portion of the space enclosed within the gray walls. The Secret Witness His castle proudly lifted its crenelated walls and pepper-pot roofs from the summit of a hill overlooking the town. The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 These shops were built up against the crenelated wall that surrounded the Parvis until the quarrel between canons and bourgeois pulled them down in 1192. The Story of Rouen Of the two battalions, some fifty men posted at the loop-holes of the crenelated wall by the gate remained; the rest had melted away. A Girl of the Commune The fortifications of Tangkoo consisted of a long semicircular crenelated wall, three miles in length, terminating at both ends on the banks of the river. Our Soldiers Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign It was from that wall ... from its crenelated parapets and battlements that Mr. Chambers felt the eyes peering at him. The Street That Wasn't There He leaned upon the crenelated parapet and hummed a strain of song as Gilian came up to him with a swinging step, now on the footway. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure The streets and houses shrink into a narrower limit, bounded by a line of bastions, with crenelated towers at intervals, and eight gates each with its watch-tower and drawbridge and portcullis. The Story of Rouen Often mists from the Elbe rose mystically to engarland the crenelated castles here and there on the heights. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The crenelated Tower springs from the nave and transept. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway The desert was widening, the hills receding, shrinking away to a crenelated edge that fretted a horizon drawn as straight as a ruled line. The Emigrant Trail She saw the jagged peaks nearby and the crenelated ring-mountain wall, miles off to one side, and the smooth frozen lava of the "sea." Operation: Outer Space The church is in ruins, but the great gateway, with its crenelated towers, and the main part of the monastic building are practically as they were when completed, shortly after the death of the Conqueror. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland At a height more than double that of this crenelated wall is a summer resort of foreigners from Hankow and other parts of the interior. The Awakening of China Spongy, dry as pumice stone, silvered with lichen and gilded with moss, the towers rose entire, though from their crenelated collarettes whole blocks were blown away on windy nights. Là-bas As the party advanced in the valley, in the far distance the crenelated outlines of two other similar and parallel walls appeared, situated also upon the crests. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 She had crenelated black hair, large black eyes, a Roman nose, and long white teeth. The Morgesons He was conducted to a house in the city, near the Jacobins', which was immediately barred, crenelated, surrounded by soldiers, and converted into a veritable bastile. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 And on the banks of the stream which bears its silvery murmuring waters along the principal street, I had only seen a few houses in little gardens, like small crenelated fortresses. The Adventures of a Special Correspondent The Forbidden City, surrounded by its great crenelated wall, may have seemed more like a prison than like a palace. Court Life in China Sleep that night was filled with a strange phantasmagoria of crenelated châteaux and armored knights, until the bright Provençal sunlight and the call for a hurried departure dispelled such illusions. The Ways of Men This tower was one of a pair—square, incongruous, crenelated structures—that were distinguished, for some reason, though I could see little difference, as the new and the old. The Turn of the Screw It is a plain and massive structure with crenelated walls, and has the aspect of a fortress rather than of a church. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The top of the wall is everywhere roughly crenelated for musketry fire, and on two of its faces there are countless tokens that it has been the target for round shot and bullets. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places The house was a tiny imitation of a castle, with crenelated parapet and tower. The Web of Life It is surrounded by a lofty crenelated wall, strengthened with detached martello towers, and with eleven bastions, each mounting nine guns, the work of our own engineers, but in admirable architectural keeping with the towers. In Times of Peril Its walls torn asunder; cannon put in its crenelated sides, dilapidated and destroyed; the garden filled with rubbish of all description. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters The latter is crenelated, loopholed for musketry, and mounts six cannon of a very primitive kind. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán He saw it at the end of every street—gable-ornamented and crenelated. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils As we neared a pagoda, surrounded by a crenelated wall, we were fired upon two or three times. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin North, south, east and west, the trade-routes intersected, entering the city through the ornate gates in crenelated limestone walls. Caesar Dies At their feet the walls of the ramparts, bastion below bastion, broken and crenelated, a triumph of mediaeval fortification, faded into the shadow where the river ran. The Velvet Glove Glenister gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships, then up at the crenelated mountains, black against the sky. The Spoilers High and singularly crenelated ranges were seen to the south-west; detached peaks and hills to the westward; short ranges and peaks to the north; and considerable ranges between north and north-east. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 And with the immensely high and crenelated walls of this mosque long ago they set a fountain of pure white marble, covered it with a shelter of limestone, and planted trees and flowers about it. The Spell of Egypt From this central block rose the twin towers, ancient, crenelated, and pierced with many loopholes. The Hound of the Baskervilles In the distance there was a hill with crenelated battlements round it; it was crowned with the domes and minarets of several churches, taller and greater than all the other churches in sight. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches The enemy front was covered by some high ground on which were redouts and redans and in particular, a crenelated fort armed with 80 guns. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot |
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