| 单词 | machicolate |
| 例句 | The Ville Close, surrounded by ramparts and entered by a massive gateway flanked by machicolated towers, consists of narrow quiet streets bordered by houses of the 16th and 17th centuries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Our camp was pitched on a grassy flat just below the village of Chushar Nango with its fine old ruined tower of stone with machicolated galleries all round it. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z They had been content to live and quietly to propagate their species in a huge machicolated Norman castle, surrounded by a triple moat, only sallying forth to cultivate their property and to collect their rents. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a medi�val tower, square, massive, lofty, and battlemented and machicolated at the summit. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Of the stronghold little remains save the machicolated gate-way, flanked with ponderous round towers bearing quaint inscriptions. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The Torres de Cuarte are drum towers, similarly flanking a gateway; in this case the parapet is itself borne on corbels and machicolated. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z It is three hundred and thirty-four feet high, and is built of brick with a machicolated stone cap and bell-turret above. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z 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 The part of the castle which is kept up is a single range of building; and an elegant machicolated tower, overlooking the whole, still p. 181frowns defiance on the petty innovations beneath. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Rounding an angle of the wall, he came to a causeway spanned by a small bridge, which was guarded by the machicolated towers of a strong gate. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z At a small distance, on the right, appears a third tower, lower in height, almost wholly ivyless, and with its machicolated p. 124summit, presenting a highly picturesque appearance. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z She had passed beneath a machicolated gateway, and climbing a stairway that began in a watch-tower, found herself unexpectedly on a great platform. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Its base is a broad square machicolated foundation with no openings, and suggests, as truly as does the tower at Albi, a churchly stronghold unlikely to give way before any ordinary attack. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z It had thick machicolated towers at every corner, gates with drawbridges and barbicans. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z A new picture followed, less bright but equally clear, the picture of a long, battlemented rampart, marked with a series of round, machicolated towers. The Three Eyes 2010-12-20T17:11:46.430Z Its frowning walls of dark red sandstone, sixty feet in height and defended by many a tower and machicolated battlement, surrounded a low hill. The Great Mogul The angles are protected from attacking parties by machicolated galleries, and three enormous bastions project from each flank. The Unveiling of Lhasa Of the old fortifications the only survival is the Porte d’Orange, a gateway surmounted by a fine machicolated tower. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It had once been the ancient palace of the podest�, and had the machicolated walls, the turreted towers, and the vast stairways and frescoed chambers of a larger and statelier time than ours. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June From machicolated tower, keep, peel and curtain, the nimble Highlanders, torchless, scrambled down, cheering as they came. A Prince of Good Fellows Laforgue's Salomé tries to sport with the head of John the Baptist, stumbles, loses her footing, and falls from the machicolated wall on jagged rocks below, as the head floats out to sea, miraculously alight. Ivory Apes and Peacocks From its machicolated parapets and mounted battlements Barons, Counts, and even Kings had been defied, yet never had its spacious halls resounded to the footstep of the invader. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 There were eight gates with machicolated defences above them, and the arms of fifteen rectors in different places showed that the walls had been long in building. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The base of the mount is surrounded with high thick walls, flanked with semi-circular towers all machicolated, and bastions. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy A high wall, machicolated at the top, connected this keep with a small octagonal tower, whose twin was placed some distance to the left, leaving an opening between for a wide entrance. A Prince of Good Fellows It is crowned by a machicolated cornice similar to that on the east end of S. Theodosia. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture Inspired by his animated pages, we descanted with the profoundest erudition, to our astonished companion on the box, about its machicolated towers, and the finely proportioned mullions of the hall. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 The convent was fortified by the Spalatines in 1540, of which fortification the machicolated tower to the left of the church remains. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The walls, which are of great strength, are surmounted by machicolated battlements, flanked at intervals by thirty-nine massive towers and pierced by several gateways, three of which date from the 14th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Massive gates and crumbling machicolated walls command a green plain, where immense waringen-trees, clipped into the semblance of evergreen umbrellas, display the Eastern symbol of sovereignty. Through the Malay Archipelago The elderly victim of my furious entry was lounging, in spite of the mistral, by the grim machicolated gateway. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Its machicolated crests glistened in the brilliant Southern sunlight like an exotic of the Saharan country. The Automobilist Abroad On one occasion, a few days before the opening ceremony, the engineer was watching a mason laying the machicolated coping on the tower when the trowel slipped and dropped forty feet to the ground. The Rapids It is of vast extent, has five round towers with ramparts of cut stone, and is surrounded by walls with machicolated parapets. Brittany & Its Byways It is a fine machicolated building, which was in the Middle Ages the prison of the Republic. Memoirs On each side spread the brown machicolated battlements that vainly defended the death-stricken place. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol You must all know well the look of the machicolated parapets in mediæval castles. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds Here are three pentagonal towers, with machicolated battlements, and showing all the marks of war. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland It is a structure of the early 14th century, restored in the 19th century, and is defended at either end by high machicolated towers, another tower, less elaborate, surmounting the centre pier. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" She preferred the drive along the lake shore, and the Bowman's new palace with its machicolated cornice. One Woman's Life The most famous of the gates which lead from the White Town through the white, machicolated walls into China Town* is the Iversky, or gate of the Iberian Virgin. Russian Rambles His grey machicolated tower Torn down within one outraged hour By worse than Vandals' ruthless power?— My Life as an Author Jawleyford Court was a fine old mansion, partaking more of the character of a castle than a Court, with its keep and towers, battlements, heavily grated mullioned windows, and machicolated gallery. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour From this it appears to have had two octagonal turrets on each side of an obtusely-pointed or circular archway with battlements, machicolated and pierced for cannon. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The machicolated towers of Castel Fusano among its grand stone-pines stand up from the marshes, and farther seaward another castle with a single pine; but they only enhance the surrounding loneliness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 It was neither flanked nor machicolated, and it might have been mined or assaulted at any point. The Thirsty Sword On the machicolated summit is a square platform, where in the course of many peaceful ages a bay-tree has come to grow of a goodly size. The Italians And for a moment, the stamping of the high-nerved horses' hoofs echoed up along the tall citadel with its latticed windows and its machicolated parapet a hundred and fifty feet in air. The Flying Legion The entrance is by an august and machicolated gateway, strengthened on each side by a tower of hexagonal form. A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington In addition to its embattled parapet, it is protected by three high slender towers, machicolated, crenellated, and loopholed. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine But what is one of the grandest portions of the abbey is the machicolated tower that commands the plain for miles to the sea, a noble specimen of a donjon, and in excellent preservation. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc From the top of one of the machicolated towers I saw a vast expanse of country, singularly grand, but very solemn. Two Summers in Guyenne The embattlemented and machicolated summit, but not the chastelet, of this mighty tower has recently been restored; its walls are nearly twelve feet thick.... Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 This gallery was machicolated, or built with a series of openings in the floor, through which the defenders could shoot arrows upon the besiegers, or pour boiling pitch down upon them. Masters of the Guild Of the outer fortifications there remains a brick gateway, with Gothic arch carrying a high machicolated tower, connected to which is a fragment of the wall. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine It seems a shapeless pile of towers and machicolated and battlemented curtains, falling into almost complete ruin. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc Once more I sought the ramparts, only to be reminded by those crumbling, machicolated ruins that I was in a war-ridden land. A Traveller in War-Time Here and there amid this enormous game of knucklebones there could be traced the imaginary ruins of medieval cities with forts and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and machicolated towers. Robur the Conqueror Some distance from it towered a great dark castle, as massive as the rocks on which it stood, with one strong keep at the corner, and four long lines of machicolated walls. Sir Nigel Besides these larger openings, there were several loopholes and little square apertures, which might be supposed to light the staircase, that doubtless climbed the interior towards the battlemented and machicolated summit. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni A quaint and picturesque tower stands by itself in the Rue Carréterie; it is machicolated and has a delicate little spire. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a mediaeval tower, square, massive, lofty, and battlemented and machicolated at the summit. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni |
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