| 单词 | moated |
| 例句 | A biologically sound zoo enclosure—whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We went round and down the path, and he unlocked the door to the cat house, which was at the centre of a moated island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I'd just imagine myself living in a moated sugar-cube castle, floating from room to room on a king-size magic carpet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But this one was treated more gently, so the moated ruins are extensive and atmospheric. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z It’s dominated by a moated castle that’s a great medieval experience. Sweden’s Glass Country sparkles 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Much of his writing was inspired by the landscape around his home, Walnut Tree Farm near Diss on the Norfolk-Suffolk border, originally a Tudor moated manor which he bought as a semi ruin. Archives of environmentalist Roger Deakin given to university 2010-05-08T12:55:00Z Preparations for Christmas at Sandringham House — a moated mansion near the Norfolk coast — have the character of a military operation. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z To deter ants, each leg was moated in a cereal bowl filled with soapy water. She helped save one of the world's rarest creatures from extinction — and herself along the way 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Typically these state and federal properties are moated by private ranches and corporate holdings. More Than 500,000 Acres of Public Land in California Are Inaccessible to the Public 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Most can be found scattered across the West, moated by ranches and corporate holdings. It’s Public Land. But the Public Can’t Reach It. 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Historic England said the moats were intended as a status symbol rather than defence and also stated that most moated sites were built between 1250 and 1350. Historic England: One hundred years of aerial images go online 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “What a moated people we are, suspicious of Europe, and not at all sure about the Channel Tunnel,” he wrote. The Subversive Joy of Cold-Water Swimming 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Some political systems suffer because they are moated from popular sentiment. Is More Democracy Always Better Democracy? 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Fort Monroe is a flat Gibraltar of a sand spit containing a moated stone citadel. Opinion | The Va. fort that launched self-emancipating black heroes deserves better 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z When the weather improves he and his colleagues will continue their work on the site, focusing particularly on what he says is the skeleton of a moated manor house. Archaeologist defies sceptics in pursuit of lost city of Trellech 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Previously seen on screen in Lark Rise to Candleford, The Other Boleyn Girl and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the moated manor was used as Austin Friars, Thomas Cromwell's home, in Wolf Hall. The stately homes of Wolf Hall 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z If Manhattan is indeed becoming a moated retreat for gazillionaires, the most affluent neighborhoods would seem to be a no-go zone. What $750,000 Buys You in New York City 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Charlotte Hogg grew up in a grade-II-listed moated country house where evenings were spent debating Thatcherite privatisations, economic policy and even European agriculture with whichever leading member of the cabinet had popped round for supper. Charlotte Hogg: Threadneedle Street's new face can bank on her connections 2013-06-20T22:59:23Z It's a gorgeous moated manor house, which is not only beautiful and beguiling, but also staffed by amazingly friendly people. All our banksters do, they do for you 2012-07-06T20:00:02Z It is moated, and is a fine specimen of 15th-century brickwork, the buildings covering an almost square quadrangle measuring about 70 yds. in the side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is a moated castle, of which the north-west front remains, standing in a magnificent position high above the Wye. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Pondering over this problem in confused pain between the alleys of the moated garden, the marquise endeavoured to reassure herself. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z "The Place of the Thirty Peacocks" was H. J.'s name for the old moated house of Groombridge Place, near Tunbridge Wells, which he had visited some years before with Mr. de Navarro. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The south wall was inaccessible crag, the north was moated by the broad river. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The place was moated round about; The bridge he up did draw;50 The gates he bolted very fast; Of none he stood in awe. English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) 2011-11-18T03:00:30.847Z The town was moated and the single drawbridge suspended, so as to cut off the approach of the insurgents. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican Vol. 1 of 2 A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of That Country From the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time; With a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization; A Historical Sketch of the Late War; And Notices of New Mexico and California 2011-11-02T02:00:11.380Z It is a moated building, and to this day known under the appellation of the “Queen’s Cheese-cake House.” The Cries of London Exhibiting Several of the Itinerant Traders of Antient and Modern Times 2011-10-23T02:00:21.883Z Rugged wastes and hills; vast woodland districts near London; even small houses moated to keep the cattle from wolves—fear of the rough hills and woods! Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z The castle was very strong, and moated; impregnable on the sea side, and on the land side ascended by a narrow mountain path, while the guns on its summit commanded the112 port. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The keep was a circular tower, occupying the summit of a high and steep artificial mount, moated round. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The moon was lighting up the old moated house, and the stars were twinkling over its heavy, white-capped roof. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z This last, perhaps, is not needful; still, a moated ch�teau, or even a moated grange has a fascination for the sentimentally inclined. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z We were scarcely halfway from the edge of the city to the moated summer palace when a small hell of gunfire broke out around Kazu's feet. The Image and the Likeness 2011-08-23T02:00:33.617Z I would rather spend the evening with Mariana in the moated grange, for that mopish damsel would let me sit still and sulk if I wanted to. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z At the distance of three miles, is the moated site of Lekingfield House, which was demolished, probably, about the end of the sixteenth century. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z It represented a fine old moated house covered with snow. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z He had some remembrance of the moated ditch that surrounded the shrubbery. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Because it so flat in that area, what they did was they basically built up an area, like a mound, but only about 5 or 10 feet high and then moated around it. Kickin' it with Kasey Keller 2011-03-15T00:49:25Z Two miles from the town is Hever Castle, a beautiful moated mansion dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, but occupying the site of an earlier structure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z All about were the instruments of force, the cannon, the moated castle, the marching armies of the king. The Short Constitution 2011-01-05T03:01:00.017Z Then the master of the old moated house wiped his spectacles, which somehow had become quite misty. The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy 2011-09-18T02:00:22.467Z As he said this, he stepped eagerly up to the moated wall—with the intention of scaling it, and returning to the gateway. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Immediately on his right, was the massive buttressed wall, inclosing the grounds of a half castellated and moated residence, a country seat of the Earl of Southampton. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z What was the origin of the moated grange? Nooks and Corners of Cornwall 2010-12-30T03:00:24.033Z They lived in dangerous territory, these good monks, and it is small wonder if after their departure the moated island kept its repute. Deep Moat Grange Wells: the moated palace of the bishops; the vicar's close; the chapter-house staircase. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women Rapidly recrossing through the shrubbery, he sprang down into the moated ditch, and glided on towards the rear of the dwelling. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z It was moated and very strong; but has been so far altered that only the keep is of special interest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The moated Grange, near Louth, was no exception to the rule. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days Girls like Cassandra, shut up in moated granges a dozen miles from the nearest anywhere. Lady Cassandra Even we grow, as we sit in the gallery a few hours, weary as Mariana in the moated grange. Here and There in London On clearing the moated enclosure, he saw before him the form of a woman, closely wrapped in cloak and hood. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z We saunter quietly along under the fine trees that overhang our path, loiter awhile to survey an old moated house, and then pass on by a winding path through mead and lane to Salisbury. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West We could simply see the marvellous moated grange, and Terry thought that life would be bearable after all if he could live there. The Brightener Before each door is a narrow bridge—a neatly-painted plank with hand-rails—thrown over the canal, to be swung around or raised like a drawbridge at night, making every man's house a moated castle. An American Girl Abroad The quarter extends to the strong moated citadel, which guards the harbour on the north-east. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Neither moated fortresses nor mail-clad warriors, nor archers with bows and arrows, could prevail against powder and shot. The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West It was moated on the south by the river, which it controlled; by fens on the north; and on the east by the marshy low ground of Wapping. Old and New London Volume I He got our advertisement, and read it out to me, pausing at each detail of perfection which we had light-heartedly bestowed upon our moated grange. The Brightener Not for them any imitation of the feudal castle, turreted and moated, cut up into dark irregular rooms and yards, filled with noisy retainers and stinking hounds. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Of Moreton Hall, which is moated, only three sides similarly remain; its date is of the 16th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" O, MY princely flower, shall I never win To your moated citadel within, To your guarded thought? Happy Days for Boys and Girls Come right in, Marianna–here’s the moated Grange, all right, all right.” In the Heart of a Fool Alas for all these people who burned to possess our moated grange "practically free," at its absurdly low rent! The Brightener Against a castle moated gloomily by a bitter drain of blood, From whose fetid wave contumely Of all truth was reeking fumily And infectiously, I stood; Waiting for her sign— A shriek repeated nine. Nirvana Days Mariana in the moated grange, was not more to be pitied than I. Death relieved her, but I am left to struggle on.” Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love Whenever I was at this place, I told him the avenue and bishop’s walk by the river side, the public precincts of the moated episcopal domain, had become my favourite morning and evening lounge. A Walk from London to Fulham I had all the sensations of Mariana in the moated grange, but whilst you are in the world, I certainly shall not wish myself dead. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real As the moated grange was "rich in old oak," so did we now become rich in new stamps! The Brightener I never beheld it but I thought of Tennyson's "Mariana in the moated Grange"— "Unlifted was the clicking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated Grange." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 At the last we entered into a great city, walled and moated. Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution The site of the Abbey, three miles south-east from Folkingham, Lincolnshire, may still be traced by its moated area. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers The fort and citadel to the north-east are built well above the town on a barren mound and are walled and moated. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Compliments to T. B., and hopes that he will be able to let his moated grange to her till the end of September. The Brightener A few hundred yards away stands Fort Vredenburg, a moated, bastioned, four-square fortification, garrisoned by half a thousand Dutch artillerymen, whose guns frown menacingly upon the native town and the palace of the Sultan. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China There are traces of three moated enclosures, from 70 yards to 100 yards in length east and west, and from 40 yards to 60 yards in width, covering an area of some three acres. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The moated bower is wild and drear, And sad the dark yew’s shade; The flowers which bloom in silence here, In silence also fade. Spare Hours The clash of arms and the death cries from millions of rebellious throats which echoed athwart the length and breadth of young England were unable to pierce the stillness of Ffraddle's moated security. Terribly Intimate Portraits The Princess hopes that the moated grange is still free, and feels that, if she obtains early possession, her health will soon be restored in such beautiful surroundings. The Brightener The moated ch�teau of the Louvre, another of Philip's great buildings stood outside the wall, on the site of the old Frankish camp or Lower, and commanded the valley route to Paris. The Story of Paris I now proceed to mention a few more of the ancient moated mansions in our neighbourhood. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter It is in the grounds at Chatsworth, and is moated, walled round, and raised about fifteen feet above the park. Spare Hours Beyond them lay a parkland, from the edge of which rose a wooded knoll, crowned by a moated castle. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Because if there were a moated grange, I could meet her. The Brightener Before that time indeed there were few stone castles anywhere; the usual type, even of the early Norman castles, was a moated mound surrounded by wooden palisades. Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures We now pass on to another neighbouring moated mansion. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Our thoughts have come down so low from the lofty donjon with the vision of which we set out that we begin to think of the smaller kind of moated houses in our own land. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine It was a good spot that was chosen, lying a p. 7little above the meadows, and not far from the moated Manor House. Old Times at Otterbourne For me, if I am to live in a moated grange, let it be in the country. Miss Mackenzie I will presently to Saint Luke’s: there, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] It was stated in the preceding chapter, that, besides the two ancient moated mansions in the parish of Woodhall, there described, there are other remains of a like character in our immediate neighbourhood. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter It is a wainscot mouse, and a blood-relation, we believe, to the very mouse that shrieked behind the mouldering wainscot in the lonely moated grange. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Hard by a boy and girl were building a moated fortress, but, alas! the swiftly incoming tide eroded its foundations until the frowning battlements tottered to destruction. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Mariana's solitude in the moated grange was as nothing to hers. Miss Mackenzie You go on towards a couple of moated hedges, whimsically barbed in odd spots, and emerge into a park or open space leading into an unhealthy-looking road. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 We have one more moated mansion in our neighbourhood which should here be mentioned, viz., Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter You should have seen me standing at the gate peering up and down for you and bemoaning my fate, like that silly Mariana in the moated grange. Molly Bawn A passion of affection was on him; he would take her unresisting hand and lead her as though she were his, really, and before them was their moated castle. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure A moated grange in the country is bad enough for the life of any Mariana, but a moated grange in town is much worse. Miss Mackenzie It is moated and walled round, and has every appendage of the Gothic castle, innumerable towers and turrets, drawbridges and portals. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 We are like the princesses in the fairy tales, shut up in the moated tower; only then there were always fairy godmothers to come to the rescue, and beautiful princes in golden chariots. Sisters Three “High farming” has wrought great changes, not always to the profit of our farmers, whose moated homesteads hereabouts bear old-world names—Woodcroft Hall, Blood Hall, Flemings Hall, Crows Hall, Windwhistle Hall, and suchlike. Two Suffolk Friends On the evening of August 20, 1918, the Battalion was ordered forward from Spresiano Camp to occupy the old trenches near Chapelle Boom, a quaint moated farmhouse on the eastern outskirts of the forest. The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Her life in London had been altogether of the moated grange kind, and long before her brother's death it had been very wearisome to her. Miss Mackenzie We went down the road and then turned to the right up to the moated farmhouse where the Brigade was. The Great War As I Saw It Her grandmother, who thoroughly disapproves of me and all actresses, has kept the child shut up in a moated grange all her life. The Heather-Moon Man is a great moated, walled castle, with doors by the dozens, doors by the score, leading into him--but most of us keep our doors closed. Modern American Prose Selections Soon she would have to creep back to her dull modern substitute for a moated grange, and after that—not "the deluge"; nothing so exciting: extinction. The Second Latchkey There the streets are cleanly and they meet oblique, Forced upon each other by the village creek Winding round the ancient lawns, till the site appears Like a moated fortress crumbling down with years. Tales of the Chesapeake Exactly half way across to the enemy lines were the remains of what had been a moated farm, which was a favourite objective of patrols. The Story of the "9th King's" in France That has been his old fortress, walled and moated against trespass. Foes Do you conjecture sometimes that I live all alone here like Mariana in the moated Grange? The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 It will be seen that the moated house was furnished with a ponderous drawbridge and other fortifying resources; from the licentious character of its founders it was consequently haunted many years before its removal. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 279, October 20, 1827 They live in moated castles instead of in halls of wood, and they are more often engaged in tournaments than in struggles with the heathen. Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion The house at Aldport was moated round, and a drawbridge stood before the main entrance. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 They tell me you were at Poghley last summer, so perchance you saw then the old moated house which lies a few miles from the village? For the Faith It is a multitude of words about nothing at all, ... this—but I am like Mariana in the moated grange and sit listening too often to the mouse in the wainscot. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 The Renaissance and the Revolution swept away in most parts of the country moated castle, abbaye, grange, and chateau, to replace them with luxurious but conventional piles and ruins humbly restored and humbly inhabited. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 All the old farms here are moated—because of the wolves. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Safe she was as any Rhenish baron in his moated stronghold. In Old Kentucky It was a soft and radiant evening when Freda and her father and Dalaber rode slowly through the gates which led to the moated manor where Arthur Cole and his bride awaited them. For the Faith In this beautiful old fortified and moated mansion the secret stairs may yet be seen that led up to the little isolated chamber, with massive casemated walls for the exclusion of sound. Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. And so through the long day we rode, stopping for an hour or two at the strong oaken hall, moated and stockaded, of some great border thane for the midday meal. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford In former Chronicles we have described the old hall of Aescendune, as it stood in Anglo-Saxon days; it was then rather a home, a kind of "moated grange," than a fortress. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune The town has many spacious houses built in the European manner, and is walled and moated all round, the ramparts being well provided with cannon. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. The story is told in Monson that the boys, under the leadership of Field, built a "moated castle" of tree-trunks and brushwood in a well-nigh inaccessible part of these woods. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Say, pilot, what this fort may be, Whose sentinels look down From moated walls that show the sea Their deep embrasures’ frown? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 The road running directly south leads to the coast at Atherington, where are the remains of a chapel attached to the "Bailiff's Court House," a moated mediaeval building with portions of a cloister. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End At the other extremity of the town, down by Girdlestone Grange, an old moated residence where the squire's family have resided these four centuries past, we are full fifty years behind our modern neighbors. In the Days of My Youth At Slough Farm is an old moated manor house. Somerset "Mariana in the moated grange was not more to be pitied than I." Wife in Name Only The broken sheds look'd sad and strange— Uplifted was the clinking latch, Weeded and worn the ancient thatch, Upon the lonely moated grange. The Illustrated London Reading Book The "Place" is an old moated house, the property of Lord Chichester. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End But the English countryside is not all greenness and softness, blossomy lanes, moated granges, and idyllic villages. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Hard by are the British earthwork known as Cenwealh's Castle, and the Norm, moated mound called Orchard Castle. Somerset In a lovely green hollow, surrounded by splendid old trees and velvet turf, stands Ightham Mote, a gem among old English moated manor-houses. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association Without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. The Illustrated London Reading Book There was a moated manor-house near by, and beyond it a little stream with some men fishing. Master Skylark I followed along behind the Colonel down the road, down the corduroy boards, and out at the old moated farm not far from Wulverghem. Bullets & Billets We need not seek in dismal church-yards nor sleep in moated granges to see the shadowy faces and hear the rustling of their garments in the night. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow There is practically no other moated castle in England which compares with Bodiam in its completeness. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association With love devoted On you he's doated, To castle moated Away they go. The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan The moated fortress, and the thicket; the ambush and the battle; and the conflict of headlong passions, were pourtrayed in wild numbers, and with terrific energy. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale You can hide in her moated grange till the bobbies get tired.' Mr. Standfast They lost, they say, and excellent pretence for confining her more closely on my threatening to rescue her, if they offered to carry her against her will to old Antony's moated house.* Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 To be carried away on Thursday—To the moated house—To the chapel—To Solmes! Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 He made his escape for about a year in 1647; was retaken, and again escaped in 1648. and heading an insurrection of cavaliers, seized on a strong moated house in Lincolnshire, called Woodford House. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier No citadel was seen nor moated wall; The shepherd chief led home his motley flock, And slumbered free from care. The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse He shoo-ed them from the clinking latch, And from the weeded, ancient thatch, Upon the lonely moated grange. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870 Some five or six slender poplar-trees stood at the back of it, and a ditch of water at one end, where there had been evidently an ancient moat—"a moated grange." Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 It is deeply moated all round, and can only be entered by a bridge, almost always raised. English Villages Senegal weighed for Grand Canary, which stood in unusually distinct relief to the east, and which, this time, was not moated by a tumbling sea. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Here at nightfall the small peasant proprietor is as securely entrenched within walls as a feudal baron in his moated château. East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne It must not be supposed that she was at all like "Mariana in the moated grange." The Living Link The palace was moated, and used as a prison as late as the Civil War. The Naturalist on the Thames Then one can go on to Flamanville by the cape which takes its name from the village, and there see the seventeenth century moated manor house. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 Already manorial houses, crenated and often moated, but, like this one at Montaigne, defensive rather for show than the reality, were scattered over France. Two Summers in Guyenne He will cover with flints its frowning face To keep the tide in its proper place, And the waves shall employ their utmost damp art In vain to abolish your moated rampart. The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch The French Revolution": "'Seest thou yonder dark castle, that moated around, keeps this city of Paris in awe? A Study of Poetry In Finland there is a Castle which is called the New Rock, moated about with a river of unfounded depth, the water black and the fish therein very distateful to the palate. Poems They neither of them looked either backward or forward, but lived in the moated present, that turreted heaven whose defences so soon fall. Gone to Earth Nowhere, indeed, on our soil are to be found ivied ruins, dating back to doomsday book, moated castle, or mediaeval tower. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present He would ask as to their appearance, the height of their walls, whether they were moated or not, and whether other houses abutted closely upon them. Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden How strange the state of society when a Christian bishop lived in such jealously armed seclusion, behind moated walls and embattled towers! Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 I have read, drawn, and sewed till I am as weary as Marianna in the moated grange. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 They wished that Madeleine lived in a moated grange instead of the Occidental Hotel. Sleeping Fires: a Novel They have the same conditions to support life, but being moated by the water are usually without the larger predatory quadrupeds. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake He rode unto her father's house, Which every side was moated: The lady heard his furious vows, And all his vengeance noted. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe They lived in moated granges and ivy-wreathed castles, and paced snowy terraces or dark, desolate corridors. Without Prejudice It is moated still, and looks dreary, Secluded, and in the bad old style. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 He had no moated castle, no "Quinquengrogne;" but his habitation was grander far,—that glorious hill-side, with all its prospects of mountain and river, field and forest, valley and village. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Ask not behind my moated Soul austere One Moment on my Secret Self to peer - Already you have seen Sufficient there To keep me in a wholesome State of Fear. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Coming in by the moated palace I stood once more on the Green before that west front, beautiful beyond all others, in spite of the strange defeatures Time has written on it. Afoot in England I walked to-day with a friend to a place not far away, a great, moated house in a big, ancient park. The Upton Letters The house was so still, in its silence it might have been the 'moated grange;' the booming buzz of the blue flies, in the great staircase window, seemed the loudest noise in-doors. Wives and Daughters No more He passed dark, moated strongholds of grim knights, But terraces with marble-paven steps, With fountains leaping in the sunny air, And hanging gardens full of sumptuous bloom. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 The broken sheds looked sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Another acquaintance of his, a draper at Holloway, had built himself a moated grange. They and I The moated fortress and the thicket, the ambush and the battle, and the conflict of headlong passions, were portrayed in wild numbers and with terrific energy. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: American She did not know it was moated like a castle, with a washout ten feet deep and twice that in width, and that what looked to her quite easy was utterly impossible. Her Prairie Knight Two miles inland from Sandyseal, there is a lonely old moated house. The Evil Genius That plaintive, forsaken, persistent note, never ceasing, even in the noonday silence, comes from the wood-pewee, drooping upon the bough of some high tree, and complaining, like Mariana in the moated grange, "weary, weary, weary!" Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness But in her moated flat the bride confidently awaited her Persian fruit. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million They were to meet again at the moated grange, Mariana's house. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare My scenes were laid in windmills, among mountains, or in moated granges. Paul Kelver, a Novel Our old moated house at Sandyseal, in which we have spent so many happy holidays when we were schoolfellows, is sold. The Evil Genius The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse |
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