| 单词 | crenellation |
| 例句 | The battlements and crenellations were crowned with snow and hung with icicles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wmterfell’s inner wall was the older and taller of the two, its ancient grey crenellations rising one hundred feet high, with square towers at every comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We stood on the ramparts of the keep, looking out between the stone crenellations at the bare trees and scarred hills of Bertulf’s domain. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gray limestone climbs and twists on the exterior, all jutting turrets and forbidding crenellation. Travel Through Centuries of Design at Ireland's Birr Castle 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z After the successful crusade of alternative comedy, time was when cries of "Oxbridge smuggery" would reverberate around its crenellations. Sweat the Small Stuff: have comedy panel shows had their day? 2013-04-19T17:28:33Z Brooding over it is one of England’s finest castles, an impressive ring of towers and crenellations around a Norman keep. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The Architectural Digest documented his evolution from Tudorbethan crenellations to modernist swoops. 6 Design Books That Celebrate a World of Artifacts 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z From ten, details of its surface emerge—ridges, crenellations, ribbons of paint—and it resembles an aerial photograph of farmland, cities, rivers. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The spires and crenellations of the midtown buildings had taken on a Gothic cast in the gloom. “The Luck of Kokura” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The international border was delineated by a 10ft gap between the spruce trees, a single crenellation in several hundred miles of unbroken forest. Kings of the wild frontier 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z Gleaming white crenellations, classical pillars, and three crosses on a hill: it seems to be a replica of Jerusalem in the time of Jesus. The town where dinosaurs and Jesus mingle - BBC News 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Turning another 45, there’s the Bastille, its broken crenellations like the jags of a giant shattered tooth. Assassin's Creed Unity Review: Paris Is Drop-Dead Gorgeous 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Very pretty towers can be made of white jam-pots with windows and doors and crenellation of gold paper. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z In the evening I listen to the winds' lisping, While the conflagrations of the sunset flicker and clash behind me, Flamboyant crenellations of glory amid the charred ebony boles. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z He passed beneath their ruined crenellations, under the great gateways into the tortuous and dark streets where men noiseless and sombre went their shrouded way. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z It was seen, resplendent as quicksilver, through the crenellations of the black rocks. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z It was only possible to work the guns very slowly, and archers or crossbowmen were needed in support of them, to drive the defenders from the crenellations or loopholes of the battlements. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z If you are disposed to take a little more trouble with your towers, you can cover them with cement, and mould the crenellations and windows with your fingers. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z With its cone-shaped crenellations and palm wood drainage spouts, the grand facade seems outside time and helps illustrate why this ancient city in eastern Mali is an official World Heritage site. Ancient City in Mali Rankled by Rules for Life in Cultural Spotlight 2011-01-08T23:25:02Z Dazzle-painters have slapped their spite at her in lurid swathes and, not content, have draped her sheer in harlequin crenellations. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war These were finished at the top with open crenellations in brick, along the base of which ran apparently a frieze of painted rosettes. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Apollodorus proposed to place a couple of rams in the upper part of the tower to destroy the crenellations of the wall. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The repaired crenellations, the inserted patches of the walls of the outer circle, sufficiently express this commixture. A Little Tour of France Over the chapels which surround the apse rise a series of double-arched supports, the outer ones ending in little turrets with surmounting crenellations. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Approaching it, the soaring mass became a medieval castle sitting haughtily with frowning crenellations upon an impregnable rock; and the Missouri became for the moment a larger Rhine. The River and I The crenellations are omitted here, but they may be seen in place on the left. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The fort consisted merely of a circular wall, breast high, with embrasures or crenellations. After London Or, Wild England The repaired crenellations, the inserted patches, of the walls of the outer circle sufficiently express this commixture. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 Its crenellations and turrets are military and forceful, not ornate. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 In each vase reposed sleeping babies, brooding hens, dogs, rabbits, or any other live stock, mixed with such rubbish as the family possessed: and the most ambitious mushrooms were decorated with barbaric crenellations. It Happened in Egypt The crenellations of the observatory were destined for a much more lofty situation than those of the palace. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Here and there above the broken crenellation of the city's battlements rose dark and slender towers, square and round, marking the places where strong robbers had fortified themselves within the city. Via Crucis When the Hermit was a lad, and lived in the town, the crenellations of the walls had been square-topped, and a Guelf lord had flown his standard from the keep. The Hermit and the Wild Woman Perhaps to reconcile the irreconcilable, crenellations joining the towers were placed over the rose-window, and at either end of the portal, a few inches of Gothic carving were cut in the tower-wall. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 A cold radiance bathed the familiar pastures, the houses of the village along the stream, and the turrets and crenellations of the castle at the head of the gorge. The Valley of Decision He made a careful study of these crenellations. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 The crenellations of the palace walls consist of two rectangular masses, of unequal size, placed one upon the other. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Far from being modified by the crenellations, this bond regulates their form, dimensions, and distribution. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Its towers are solid masses of heavy stone; instead of spires, there are crenellations; instead of graceful flying-buttresses at the sides, there are solid, upright supports on the firm, plain side-walls. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 |
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