| 单词 | martello tower |
| 例句 | On a rocky eminence overlooking the fortress is a martello tower, built during the war of 1812, to guarantee the main work against a landing on the beach at the south side. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z A feature of the otherwise featureless landscape is the frequent occurrence of towers like martello towers, on hill-tops, placed there for the shelter of the guards who formerly kept a look-out for robbers. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z The town was soon in flames, the shipping in the harbour sank, and the martello tower was blown to pieces. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z For a time the land was but a line of rock, with martello towers perched upon the points. An American Girl Abroad Fiumicino, a canal or arm of the Tiber, a yellowish marsh, a big, uprooted looking martello tower by the beach, and a little pier with a green boat like a beetle in the rain. The Spirit of Rome On the beach, below where the martello tower had stood, I discovered many fragments of bricks among the rock d�bris. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Soon after we were on our oars the martello tower began blazing away at us. A Sailor of King George The same remarks apply to the martello towers. William Pitt and the Great War They sent rockets from their martello towers, and they maintained a perfect storm of musketry from their advanced trench and from the city walls. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief The bay, like that of St. Aubin, is defended by a regular line of martello towers, several of which are built far within flood-mark, on reefs that form part of the Violet Bank. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 The only protection to the town was such as was afforded by a number of martello towers along the shore. The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago The vessel she had chased ran on a sand beach under the protection of a martello tower. A Sailor of King George It has in its park a martello tower, autographed all over by tourists, a dismantled old French fort on the hills beyond the town, and several antiquated cannon in its public squares. Anne of the Island At the edge of the evening she smelt the sea to southward and sheered thither like the strong-winged albatross, to circle enormously amid green flats fringed by martello towers. Traffics and Discoveries "B. fences with sceptres,—his martello towers are thrones,—he alone is, France." Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 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 After dinner they go for a sail by moonlight to an island, where there are the remains of a martello tower. A Terrible Secret In the foreground stretched an expanse of jagged red reefs and shining pools with a single martello tower rising in dignified grandeur. The Spanish Chest The lonely martello tower on the opposite sands was pointed out to me, sitting mistress of desolations in the shadow of the rocks of MacGilligan. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland "Commissioning kings,—erecting thrones,—martello towers,—Cambaceres count noses,—Austrians, fine dressed, like Pompey's troops." Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 The shivering coastguards in the line of garrisoned martello towers, vowed that no such night had ever been seen since the "Great Storm." A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story At its opposite extremity the street leads to a deserted martello tower, and to the forlorn outlying suburb of Slaughden, between the river Alde and the sea. No Name Win cast a glance at the deserted castle of St. Aubin's, a miniature Castle Elizabeth on its isolated rock off shore, another at the martello tower on the point. The Spanish Chest I will make straight for the Hirondelle when I am done, and send a man to report to you at the old martello tower, where your gang are to meet you. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story In an hour, a motley cortege slowly left the door of the martello tower. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story There was a singular improvised bivouac going on in the ruined martello tower where Professor Alaric Hobbs had set up his instruments to take some interesting observations upon an occultation of Venus. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Magdalen drew her hand from the captain's arm, and led the way to the mound of the martello tower. No Name "One of those martello towers would make a fine wireless station," commented Roger. The Spanish Chest The men relieved can rally on your party at the old martello tower, and so we will be ready to sail when your part of the job is done. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story |
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