| 单词 | machicolation |
| 例句 | Arthur, who had been playing with a loose stone which he had dislodged from one of the machicolations, got tired of thinking and leaned over with the stone in his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The transport sphere plowed along the trench, past all the fortified city’s defenses: walls, moats, machicolations, crossbow cannons, drawbridges, bristling spear pits, bladed gates, and giant mechanical grinders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In those times the besiegers of a fortress were often assailed with boiling pitch, poured by the besieged through the machicolations of the wall constructed for such purposes. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z Old habitations, commodious modern houses, frowning machicolations, church spires, grand hotels, innumerable caf�s, and much military, all combine in a blend of fascinating interest that one usually finds only in a great metropolis. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z A few feet farther on was a portcullis, and then a second, the space between protected by loopholes and machicolations. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z So also is the masonry protection of the machicolation at the top of the donjon, a protection which at that time was usually given by wooden hoardings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Hence, I think the propped machicolations of the Palazzo Vecchio and Duomo of Florence far grander headings than any form of Greek cornice. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Upon the door the date of 1785 is cut, but the greater part of the walls with their machicolations belongs to a reconstruction of the ancient castle in the fifteenth century. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia There is no glacis or moat, but the machicolations, sixty feet or more up from the ground, must have afforded a well-nigh perfect means of repelling a near attack. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The evil in an arch�ological point of view of misapplied invention in architectural subject.imagination, monstre machicolations and colossal cusps and crockets. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) What sort of legend would a technical disquisition by the archbishop on his theory of the angle of machicolations have generated in men's minds? Rosinante to the Road Again It would be similarly unreasonable to call battlements or machicolations architectural features, so long as they consist only of an advanced gallery supported on projecting masses, with open intervals beneath for offence. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Its height," he goes on "is divided between two storeys, terminating under the roof in a projecting entablature which imitates a row of machicolations. A Little Tour of France The variety of outline in the well-set windows, the shadow-casting angle turrets, and the massive machicolations, all serve to relieve the structure of monotony. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter During the Early English period the north-east angle, which stands quite clear of the church, was strengthened by massive buttresses, and a story, apparently of wood, was added on projecting arches resembling machicolations. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Many a church in Provence still shows by the machicolations and loopholes on its walls and towers that it could have played the fortress with a good grace whenever necessary. The Story of Rouen The latter were built as in fig. 10, projecting vigorously at the top over a series of brackets or machicolations, with very small windows, and no decoration below. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 All along the wall there was a protected pathway for the defenders to stand, and machicolations through which boiling oil or lead, or heated sand could be poured on the heads of the attacking force. Vanishing England We wandered through the halls, through the towers, and over the narrow curtain with its gaping machicolations, which attract the eye irresistibly to the abyss below. Over Strand and Field His duties over for the forenoon, he went up the three hundred stairs of his bell-tower, to the wooden platform, between the machicolations. The Waters of Edera The form of this lofty keep is rectangular, and the machicolations and embattlements which were added in the fifteenth century are in a perfect state of preservation. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine The exterior is diversified by arched recesses forming machicolations, and the same architectural feature is reproduced in the square tower which rises like a donjon above the building. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The gateway is a large structure composed of two flanking towers defended by numerous oiletts for arrows, embattled parapets, and deep machicolations. Vanishing England Saint-Malo, which is built right on the ocean and is enclosed by ramparts, looks like a crown of stones, the gems of which are the machicolations. Over Strand and Field The crenellated roof, with its machicolations, is considered a great success. The Lovels of Arden At each of the angles is a round tower, pierced with loopholes, and upon the intervening walls are far-descending machicolations. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine You could swear you caught the glint of a long gun over the machicolations; but it is only a casement fired by the westering sun. Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Consequently they were abandoned, and their places were taken by projecting galleries of stone, supported, not on wooden beams, but on stone corbels, and it is this second stage in fortification which is called machicolation. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc We could not see the ocean, but we could hear and smell it, and the breakers that lashed the walls flung drops of foam over us through the big apertures of the machicolations. Over Strand and Field The sovereign is not afraid of rebellion, and the machicolations are only for ornament. The Lovels of Arden Towers rise from towers, mullioned windows have their lines cut in the shadow of beetling machicolations, and higher still are dormer windows with graceful Gothic gables. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine There is still a fairly noticeable round tower—the Tour Marguerite—which has a pointed roof above its corbels, or perhaps they should be called machicolations. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 It has no apse, and the terminating wall, which is carried far above the roof, has a row of machicolations, and the massive buttresses by which it is flanked are really towers pierced with loopholes. Two Summers in Guyenne Birds flew from the tops of the towers and the edge of the machicolations to some other spot, described circles in the air, chirped, and soon passed out of sight. Over Strand and Field Tall towers, exactly square and equally bare of carving or machicolation, stood at intervals along this forbidding defence and flanked its curtain. The Path to Rome Notch -- N. notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation; dimple. embrasure, battlement, machicolation†; saw, tooth, crenelle†, scallop, scollop†, vandyke; depression; jag. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Beneath the machicolations is a window, probably belonging to the upper chamber; and there seems to be a level space on the top of the tower. Hawthorne and His Circle It was a castellated mansion as regular as a chessboard on its ground-plan, ornamented with make-believe bastions and machicolations, behind which were stacks of battlemented chimneys. A Group of Noble Dames "By the Pope's whiskers!" went on a sham soldier, who had once been in service, "here are church gutters spitting melted lead at you better than the machicolations of Lectoure." Notre-Dame De Paris An unusual and very effective ornamentation crowns both stages of the tower, consisting of a series of gradines at top with square machicolations below. History of Phoenicia Its height," he goes on, "is divided between two stories, terminat- ing under the roof in a projecting entablature which imitates a row of machicolations. A Little Tour in France |
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