| 单词 | crenellate |
| 例句 | She could see the town below her, nestled on top of a low hill, surrounded by a crenellated wall from the Middle Ages. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The estate was ringed by a ten-foot crenellated stone wall, complete with the original guard towers and walkways. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Ducking aerodynamically over my handlebars, I pedaled furiously into the thick, oily exhaust of the moving column . . . . . . while, back on Pingree Street, Milton is crouching behind the crenellated olive oil tins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had already crossed the crenellated ramparts and was dismounting; Harry landed next to him seconds later and looked around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z After all, the crenellated guard towers of the city were as tall and warlike as ever. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Holmes sat in his cell at Moyamensing Prison, a large turreted and crenellated building at Tenth and Reed streets, in south Philadelphia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is crenellated like a castle, and painted in a garish but strangely comforting and childlike shade of purple, the way a child might want to decorate it in a colouring book. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 2 The Florida Project 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z From a hilltop in the center, a crenellated fortress known as the Château-Musée lorded over the landscape, backed by snow-covered summits. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z We gossip about mutual friends while the evening sun slips below the crenellated city wall beside us. My travels: Chris Alexander in Uzbekistan 2011-01-01T00:04:06Z They have the same exquisite slab of chicken breast, hefty and juicy and snow-white, in its crenellated armor of that uncommonly crisp fried batter. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Sometimes he built the small boxes he was portraying, giving them crenellated profiles that made them look useless and artificial, as if they existed for the sake of painting alone, which they did. Victor Pesce, Painter of Minimalist Still Lifes, Dies at 71 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z Until now, that is, when the cataclysmic effects of the First World War begin to invade the crenellated walls of this slumbering fairy-tale castle so far from the front. ‘We That Are Left’ review: Can the British manor house survive? 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z There are two funicular railways, travelling up the cliffs to crenellated stations, engineering and medievalism meeting as they do at Tower Bridge. The tragic battle for Hastings 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z With the June rains, the craggy, crenellated mountains sprouted green tufts. Three Cities on the Mexican Independence Trail 2010-08-20T17:51:00Z The crenellated roofline may feel antiquated but the pattern of the slender windows, some in the shape of a diamond, evoke an 8-bit digital design. Gio Ponti's only U.S. building is delightfully weird — and freshly revamped 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Maine’s coastline, crenellated with deep estuaries and bays fed by rivers mixing with cold ocean water that pumps nutrients up from below, may seem like a bivalve paradise. Innovative Fish Farms Aim to Feed the Planet, Save Jobs and Clean Up an Industry’s Dirty Reputation 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z After the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks moved the capital back to Moscow and power retreated behind the high, crenellated walls of the Kremlin. Ukraine war: Putin has redrawn the world - but not the way he wanted 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z From the crenellated rooftop of the Round Tower, which dominates the distinctive Windsor sky line, I watched, as silence descended on the Quadrangle beneath the private royal apartments. Queen and Royal Family alone but for the gaze of the world 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Like the wall was supposed to be, but also crenellated! Opinion | Hey Trump Fans! The President is BACK and You’re Invited to Attend an Exclusive Masque! 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Among the producers at Channel One, the Kremlin meetings are known as “going behind the ramparts”—a reference to the crenellated fortress walls. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It is surrounded by snow-capped mountains and is highly crenellated with many bays and inlets. Satellite Eye on Earth January 2017 – in pictures 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z On the surface, Riyadh’s diplomatic quarter looks perfectly calm, armed guards at checkpoints, Asian workers squatting between palm trees masking elegant modern offices and the crenellated towers of Saudi government buildings. Saudi Arabia v Iran: Riyadh defiant and angry after turbulent week 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z It had been taken from above, from the sky, looking down on a fairy-tale stone castle, crenellated towers and parapets and all, surrounded by thick green woods. Lois Lowry Shares Her Favorite Bible Passage 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z After the military parade, Putin and the world leaders who joined him laid red carnations at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier outside the Kremlin’s crenellated walls. One thing is missing from Russia’s WWII remembrance — the Allies 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z If the tops of the towers were crenellated, the building would look like an immense, windowless White Castle. Nuns and Nuclear Security 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The crenellated flowers of this native open and wither in a single day. Planting a Clock That Tracks Hours by Flowers 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Licences for crenellating monasteries are rather unusual; but cathedral closes were very generally crenellated at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth centuries, e.g. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z There were some curious ruins which looked like old crenellated walls, but these walls were only places on which barley dough used to be exposed to feed the crows as a sign of prosperity. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z Just there the stream swirled, smeared with froth and spume, through a tremendous hollow above which the mountains lifted high their crenellated ramparts of ice and never-melting snow. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z The famous crenellated walls; the lofty towers and proud pagodas, first described by Marco Polo; the heavy bastions, and the marble bridges, were but indistinctly visible, and therefore all the more suggestive and beautiful. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Above a similar but single arcade at the opposite end of the court rises the square massive upper storey of the Tower of Comares, with its crenellated summit. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z This is near the south coast of Wales, where, as along the Welsh border, towers either crenellated or with certain defensive features are common. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z In order to avoid crossing the centre of the town, they followed the crenellated wall by an almost deserted road. Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures 2011-10-17T02:00:17.420Z From within its tall, crenellated walls, Al-Azhar's sheikhs spent more than 1,000 years studying Islam's holy texts and interpreting their meaning for the faithful, building an authority unrivalled in the Muslim world. Egypt Islamic body blossoms in Arab Spring 2011-09-07T14:47:49Z The great walls of the belfry are three feet thick, and the roof was probably battlemented or crenellated. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The massive walls are crenellated and supported by stout square buttresses. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z A fine example of such a gateway, originally built for defence, is at Battle Abbey; this was built by Abbot Retlynge in 1338, when Edward III. granted a licence to fortify and crenellate the abbey. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Across the meads a grove of elm and oak, and the dull red of old houses dimly seen between, and the low dark crenellated tower of a village church. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The face of the outer wall would be carried up a few feet above the platform, and crenellated to give protection against arrows and other projectiles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Its waters, and those of some of its shorter tributaries, reflect the towers and crenellated walls of some of the most remarkable and interesting of all the ch�teaux of France. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z Here's how the technology works: GlassPoint builds a fairly conventional greenhouse with a crenellated roof to maximize the amount of sunshine inside year-round. Pumping Oil with Sunshine [Slide Show] 2011-03-01T12:45:05.400Z Notre-Dame du Fort, the chief church, dates from the 11th and 12th centuries; irregular in plan, it is remarkable for a fine Romanesque tower and spire, and for the crenellated wall which partly surrounds it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Gradually it emerged from the deceptive heat-waves and stood out, defined, a massive building, dominating the crenellated heap of masonry at its feet. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z From the first storey access was had to the upper crenellated or battlemented portion of the tower by a ladder of wood placed interiorly against the side of the flat wall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Twenty feet out on the crenellated alleys of the reef, the underwater forest begins. Téa Obreht: “Blue Water Djinn.” 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z A similar decoration would seem to have been applied to the crenellated battlements, which crowned all the exterior walls, as also those of the courts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" From the tallest tower an imposing standard flaps gaily in the air: two yellow stripes and a white stripe between, with the dark patch of the crenellated fortress which forms the arms of Gothland. Majesty A Novel It is not crenellated, but has similar stone gabling and somewhat smaller windows. Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield With the kind assistance of Mr. Duffus Hardy, I have obtained a complete list of the licences to crenellate contained in the Patent Rolls, and some other records preserved in the Tower. Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc In medieval times no one could “crenellate” a building without special licence from his supreme lord. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Atop of the plateau, glimmered the complex towers and turrets, the crenellated walls of a castle which, in its grey antiquity, seemed as old as the race of men. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 In form it resembles a large farm yard, entirely walled in and crenellated. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia The town of Lesina lies on the south-west coast, and still retains a great part of its crenellated walls. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The low, crenellated ramparts of Arles appear, just as you see them on old engravings, which show warriors with lances larger than the talus they are standing on. Letters from my Windmill The King's barge was already illuminating the crenellated arch at the top of the river steps. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court At the Sulaymaniyah we turned off the main road into a by-way, and ascended by narrow lanes the rough heights of Jebel Hindi, upon which stands a small whitewashed and crenellated building called a "fort." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 They had hanged him from Tilia's crenellated balcony. The Saracen: The Holy War The scenery was charming as ever, but I was wearying of inactivity and it was a relief to see the crenellated walls of Chung-king come in sight. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia A white town climbs in irregular tiers up the shelving terraces of a fairy island, the central hill crowned by the crenellated battlements of a grey citadel. Through the Malay Archipelago The counterscarp at the north-west and south-west angles of these two fronts is for the distance of twenty yards composed of a crenellated wall four feet six inches thick. The Life of Gordon, Volume I The crenellated gable parapet rises from a string course with five sculptured masks, and has plain shields on its battlements. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Beyond the walls, out of a haze of dust and wood smoke, above masses of peaked roofs, crenellated palace towers rose lordly, vying for ascendancy with the bell towers of churches. The Saracen: The Holy War The palace grounds are surrounded by four crenellated walls, each a mile long; each wall has three seven-roofed gates in it, and each gate has a bridge across the wide moat. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah As if to protect these weaker and decorative attempts, the builder flanked them with two square towers, whose crenellated tops and solid, heavy walls could serve as strongholds. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 It is proposed to connect it by a crenellated wall with the main work. The Life of Gordon, Volume I Their heads were ornamental, with just such crenellated edges as might have prompted the circular figures at each end of the cipher. The Paternoster Ruby I. To leave the Colonel in the crenellated tower, where he would have died the same day of congelation. The Man With The Broken Ear Positively it is difficult to take it, for here comes a fort we must look at—miles of sloping coppery-coloured crenellated stone wall of moresque design. From Edinburgh to India & Burmah Then over against the crenellated wall, under the tablet bearing the quaint inscription picked out in choice Latin, Ferval saw a tall girl. Visionaries The city Walls, of which the present remains date from the reign of Edward III., were broad, crenellated walls of limestone, on a high mound which was protected without by a parallel deep moat. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century At each end of the two rows of numerals and arrows was a peculiar crenellated design; it had struck me with a sudden sense of familiarity. The Paternoster Ruby Beyond a white crenellated wall is a castle which has been identified with that of Pau. The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) And the crenellated mountains of Libya, beyond Thebes and the tombs of the Kings, stood like spectral sentinels at their posts till the pageant should be over. Bella Donna A Novel A crenellated squat gateway faced me with a carved shield of stone above the open gloom. Romance They could walk along the high crenellated walls of the Barbican and shoot thence, and stop the way by lowering the portcullis. Life in a Mediæval City Illustrated by York in the XVth Century There remained the possibility that the numerals belonged to some other safe, though I did not think so: those two odd crenellated figures could have nothing in common with any permutation-lock. The Paternoster Ruby The only traces of defensive works which exist are portions of a crenellated wall ofPg 90 insignificant construction. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels A trumpet answered hoarsely from within and a mailed form arose from behind the crenellated parapet near the gate. Beatrix of Clare Grim brown towers, haughtily crenellated, scowled defiance on the unappearing foe. The River and I Standing on the crenellated wall which separated Ludlow Castle from the road, I saw Nicholson at the head of his column, and wondered what was passing through his mind. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief It was toward evening when the party drove over a narrow bridge across a half-filled moat, and under the arch of a massive crenellated tower whose unguarded gates stood wide open. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 The atmosphere seems phenomenally transparent, and the trees and ruins and crenellated walls, rising above the level plain, are outlined clear and distinct against the sky. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Each forms a new picture of rock, river, wood and temple, crenellated wall, and uplifted roof, crowded with bewildering detail. Across China on Foot But I stayed not to look at these, nor at the long sweep of the enclosure, crenellated and pavilioned. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 This inclosure is protected by crenellated walls and surrounded by a moat. Somerset The white fort is perched on the hillside, where it clings and rises, terrace above terrace, with bastion and parapet and crenellated wall. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Pomegranate, almond, and apricot trees abound, and produce a charming contrast to the prevailing crenellated mud walls. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama In addition to its embattled parapet, it is protected by three high slender towers, machicolated, crenellated, and loopholed. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine With increasing daylight the sentinel takes a sheltered position, and surveys his new environment through little gaps where the mounds have been crenellated and covered with branches. Poems Curiously, too, there were remains of an outhouse with a crenellated parapet, suggestive enough of a castle. Tracks of a Rolling Stone He selected the finest sites for the new mansions, when they were erected in lieu of the old towers and crenellated castles. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Walls of red sandstone, seventy feet high, and a mile and a half in circuit, picturesquely crenellated, and with imposing gateways and a deep, broad moat, Complete a work of stupendous dimensions. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama What is the pale yellow flame that I see burning by the river where a slanted beam strikes down from a crenellated bastion of ruddy rock? Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine A frieze in relief, bands the arch beneath the inscription, while Cleopatra's needle, four times repeated, gives height and classic emphasis to the crenellated parapet out-lining the summit. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success. The Lovels of Arden Between Tarascon and Cabannes are some that were defended by crenellated walls, and are supposed to date from the Wars of Religion, but probably go back beyond the time of the English occupation. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe The walls are crenellated, and strengthened by numerous buttresses. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Leaving this temple, we approached a low circular fort near the palace, —a miniature model of a great citadel, with bastions, battlements, and towers, showing confusedly over a crenellated wall. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok The crenellated towers are good for nothing but to sketch. Castilian Days The sixth, or Ispahán Gate, is the only one with any attempt at architecture, and is crenellated and ornamented with blue and yellow tile-work. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán Lesser barons lived in semi-fortified manors, many of which had been licensed to be embattled or crenellated. Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III At the Sulaymaniyah we turned off the main road into a byway, and ascended by narrow lanes the rough heights of Jabal Hindi, upon which stands a small whitewashed and crenellated building called a fort. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Above this they came out on the lead-covered roof, surrounded with a high crenellated stone parapet, where two or three warders were stationed. The Lances of Lynwood An almost square hole, cut in the stone, opened like a dormer window on the land side, exactly opposite Fort Frefosse, the crenellated top of which appeared at thirty or forty yards' distance. The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin Here and there large dunes of golden-coloured sand rose, some straight as city walls, some curved like seats in an amphitheatre, others indented, crenellated like battlements, undulating in beastlike shapes. The Garden of Allah Lower it came, revealing grotesque gargoyles, flooding the crenellated battlements and turning green the ivy and lichen that but a moment back had blackened the stout, projecting buttresses. Love-at-Arms The wind howled dismally about the crenellated turrets; and a row of poplars, standing like black, phantasmal guardians of the evil place, bent groaning before its fury. The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series With a loud explosion, the powder magazine rose into the air, and flames presently spread above the crenellated parapets. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan It is a remarkable contrast to the rest of the fortress, which is surrounded by crenellated walls of high finish. Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan |
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