| 单词 | battlement |
| 例句 | Sam had seen no arrows, but he guessed that the orcs had been shot down by others on the battlements or hidden in the shadow of the gate. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Suddenly, as Shagrat was stooped over the battlement, his back to the rooftop, Sam to his amazement saw that one of the sprawling bodies was moving. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Before they could turn round, the copper sky of summer had assumed a cold and lowering bronze, while the biggest white flakes that ever were seen were floating about them and settling on the battlements. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The closest match was this guy in the Civil War who jumped off a battlement, whatever that is. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Snow was building up along the battlements too, filling the gaps between the merlons and putting pale, soft caps on every tower top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Until he looked down from his highest battlement and saw the ranks of Rand Allastair’s army of fell men and Accursed approaching to lay siege to his walls, he meant to enjoy life.... The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z From the high battlements of the gatehouse, the whole world spread out below them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As they flitted across they glanced back and saw the great black shape upon the battlement; then they plunged down between high rock-walls in a cutting that fell steeply to join the Morgul-road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Bears clustered at the battlements, white faces filled every window, and their heavy forms stood like a dense wall of misty white ahead, marked with the black dots of eyes and noses. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But with the gate out of operation, the courtyard battlements were as deserted as the rest of the building. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As Chloe and I walked them around the hologram battlements, Mr. Reilly stepped over to the dolly and carted off the kid’s new toy or appliance or whatever to apartment 723. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a worthy song, and it could stir the embrasures and battlements of a strong man’s soul. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If there were any battlements in my neighborhood, I’d probably jump off them all. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z “If there must be a battle, I would sooner fight it from behind the walls of Meereen. Let the Yunkai’i try and storm my battlements.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We will walk a little and then go find us some refreshment, and eat and drink on the battlement, and survey the fair morning.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The crash of wood on wood brought two men to the battlements; Black Balaq’s archers took down both of them before they could rub the sleep out of their eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z From there the lord of the castle could look down on his walls and battlements, and be-yond, to where the waters met. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Icicles long as lances hung from the battlements and fringed the towers like an old man’s stiff white whiskers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On the battlements of their castle at Camelot, during an interval of peace between the two Gaelic Wars, the young king of England was standing with his tutor, looking across the purple wastes of evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Its slated turrets, conical in the French fashion, crowded from complicated battlements in a hundred unexpected aspirations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the stark battlements of Elsinore rose against the blue sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He took command of the battlements, sweeping his pilum back and forth and knocking down defenders. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A long low moan, it seemed to hang above the battlements, lingering in the black air, soaking deep into the bones of every man who heard it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Jon could hear it skirling against the Wall and over the icy battlements as he went to the common hall for the evening meal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For a split second, he seemed to hang suspended beneath the shining skull, and then he fell slowly backward, like a great rag doll, over the battlements and out of sight. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Theon trudged through the storm until his arms and legs were caked with snow and his hands and feet had gone numb from cold, then climbed to the battlements of the inner wall again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The battlements and crenellations were crowned with snow and hung with icicles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z What if it was some cruel jape of Joffrey's, like the day he had taken her up to the battlements to show her Father's head? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She gazed across the courtyard—past the panicked tourists and fighting demigods—to the edge of the battlements, where a large mortar pointed out to sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When she rode close, she saw dead men hanging from the battlements, slumped at the ends of long ropes with hempen nooses tight around their necks, their faces swollen and black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Defenders screamed as a watery shockwave flattened them against the battlements. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He climbed carefully and found himself alone on the battlements of the inner wall, well away from the squires and their snowmen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "You had better explain to her. Stand on the battlements and explain the mistake." The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z More kids came across the battlements to laugh at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They came within cry of the Morannon, and unfurled the banner, and blew upon their trumpets; and the heralds stood out and sent their voices up over the battlement of Mordor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She found him on the battlements, in a blaze of gold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur ran about like a madman, telling everybody to go in, to leave the .battlements, to give the man a chance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One after another, the water cannons on the battlements exploded. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A brisk autumn wind was swirling through the battlements. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A few guards paced along on the gatehouse battlements, but otherwise the castle seemed empty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It hung heavily on the battlements, like thick icing on a very good cake, and in a few convenient places it modestly turned itself into the clearest icicles at the greatest possible length. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z A lone sentry stood high on the battlements of the inner wall, his cloak pulled tight around him against the cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Werfel assumed Spurge would be interested in seeing what the goblins thought about the recent wars against the elves, so the two went to a memorial up on the battlements of Tenebrion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z "If you were strong enough to climb your own battlements, Lord Frey, you would see that my son has twenty thousand men outside your walls." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And there are those below the battlements of this your confectionary keep who starve. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking, perforated with paneless windows: no roof, no battlements, no chimneys—all had crashed in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z After the lecture, I returned to my room, where I stared out my window at the stone gate with its medieval battlements. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Below, beneath the stone-and-timber battlements of a small castle, a melee was in progress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Pippin cowered down with his hands pressed to his ears; but Beregond, who had been looking out from the battlement as he spoke of Faramir, remained there, stiffened, staring out with starting eyes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But Holly pulled him back onto his feet, and between the two of them they finally got Jeyne up to the battlements. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Yet now the banners that flew from its battlements were golden, not black, and where the three-headed dragon had once breathed fire, now pranced the crowned stag of House Baratheon. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The walls were rough unmortared stone ten feet high, with a wooden catwalk inside the battlements. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then at last his gaze was held: wall upon wall, battlement upon battlement, black, immeasurably strong, mountain of iron, gate of steel, tower of adamant, he saw it: Barad-dûr, Fortress of Sauron. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Up on the battlements, or in the hall. Sleeping, drinking. I’ll take you if you like.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Against the descending sun the battlements were dark and clean- lined, while to the east, where the uninhibited light poured slantwise, the strange landscape shouted with color. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur shifted his elbow on the battlement and looked at his ancient friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Hammers rang in the morning air as carpenters swarmed over the Mud Gate, extending wooden hoardings from the battlements. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But Samuel had put up a laughing wall against natural laws, and Una’s death breached his battlements. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Winterfell had been awake for hours, its battlements and towers crammed with men in wool and mail and leather awaiting an attack that never came. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Drifts climbed the walls and filled the crenels along the battlements, white blankets covered every roof, tents sagged beneath the weight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Stannis kept her closely penned in rooms above his own, but he did allow her to walk the battlements for exercise. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The castle with its towers and battlements looms below them like some misty vision of foregone glory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Various walls and battlements, in pieces and all but gone, spoke of past fortresses. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They were still inside the castle, with every gate closed and barred and the battlements thick with sentries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Its iron-crowned battlements, massive towers, and thick red walls gave it the aspect of a ferocious beast hunched above river and streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Fjerdan words Jesper didn’t understand crested over the courtyard in a shimmering, perfect tenor that seemed to catch upon the black stone battlements. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I see myself and Hamlet on the mist-shrouded battlements, where an unseen ghost witnessed our embracing, then turned Hamlet’s mind from love to vengeance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z ‘I saw a dark sky, and tall battlements,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And she would, standing patiently on the battlements of Riverrun as the waters of the Red Fork and the Tumblestone flowed by. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The aux slides me along the wall to a niche in the battlements and shoves me through, holding me by my neck above the dunes like a child with a rag doll. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Its colossal curtain walls rose beside the lake, sheer and sudden as mountain cliffs, while atop their battlements the rows of wood-and-iron scorpions looked as small as the bugs for which they were named. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We saw the schooners at rest in the Bay, and Castle William upon its island, the militia just visible as they made rounds upon the battlements. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Arrows thick as the rain came whistling over the battlements, and fell clinking and glancing on the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Fires burned along the battlements, a vain attempt to drive the gloom away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside, three great trebuchets stood side by side in the market square, peering over the battlements like three huge birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The drifts had climbed so high that they swallowed the man bodily ... but bowmen on the battlements claimed they glimpsed him sometime later, dragging a broken leg through the snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Carlion was a walled town, so that this surrounded by a battlement which seemed to go on for ever and ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I longed yet feared to see Hamlet, remembering our loving words and our embracing on the battlement, Had that night changed everything between us? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o’clock. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Everything sloped away before him, flat roofs below flat roofs, down to the towers and battlements of the city's northern wall. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z She was about to say as much when she saw the battlements ahead, long parapets built into the very stone of the mountains on either side of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After the porter left I stood, bookended by my suitcases, and stared out my little window at the mythic stone gate and its otherworldly battlements. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lifting his eye to its battlements, he cast over them a glare such as I never saw before or since. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z There were carrion crows wheeling in the air above the gray battlements, and Will felt a jolt of sickness as he realized what had drawn them there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Maester Luwin trailed after him; By the time they reached the battlements, dead men and dying horses were strewn about the market square outside the gates. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “They look like they might be breaching the north battlements, they’ve brought giants of their own!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In it there was a single gate of iron, and upon its battlement sentinels paced unceasingly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Atop the Red Keep's battlements streamed the boy king's banners: the crowned stag of Baratheon on its gold field, the lion of Lannister on crimson. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Above, he could see some squires building snowmen along the battlements. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Swords were soon ringing in half a dozen places along the battlements. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Hairdressers with ideas above their stations; dreary waifs wilting in garrets; talking statues; battlement suicides; to say nothing of the one with the Viking hats. Anna Nicole: Kiss goodbye to those Viking hats 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z Staged so brilliantly by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris and the Handspring Puppet Company, the show storms the battlements while also touching the heart. This season, Broadway flouts its grit (and some glitz) 2011-06-03T18:24:03Z The drive along the Gallatin Canyon south from Bozeman included gorgeous setting-sun golden light on high rocky battlements above the highway. On the road to Yellowstone: Loving my camper van 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The unusual quatrefoil motifs of some individual quilt blocks are based on the four-pronged footprint of battlements known as star forts. Wartime Quilts Honor Battles and Leaders, but Mostly Art 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z Today, from the battlements, or rather the roof terrace, three other towers can be seen, dotted along the shingle coast. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z The trouble with a light show on Hadrian's Wall is that it actively gets in the way of picturing the Romans walking on their battlements. Why do we need a light show to see Hadrian's Wall? 2012-08-23T14:59:31Z As an antidote to the sugar, what we need now is a grumpy film called Letters to Lady Macbeth, in which malcontents leave rage-filled missives in the battlements of Glamis Castle. Film review: Letters to Juliet 2010-06-10T21:46:00Z “Earlier he plunged into the mazes of church history to re-create the beginnings of Sterne’s career, especially the feline ecclesiastical scrimmages fought around and beneath the enormous gray battlements of York Minster,” Mr. Byrd wrote. Arthur H. Cash, Definitive Laurence Sterne Biographer, Dies at 94 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Dantès's plunge from the battlements is dramatically suggested with a white sheet, though you are also given to believe that he delivers compromising documents to the exiled Napoleon on the orders of a sock monkey. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z The long stairway to the uppermost battlements wove through a solemn forest of cypress trees, which clung improbably to the sheer north face of the mountain. Ruins, casinos and abandoned construction mark Cyprus 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A short walk around the corner, the castle’s silvery battlements dominated the horizon. In the Royal Borough of Windsor, attractions ancient and modern 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z A Greek flag flutters atop the crenelated battlements of the circular White Tower, but the structure was actually built by the Ottomans, who captured Thessaloniki from the Byzantine Empire in 1430. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Low battlements, about waist height, protect us from the drop on either side. Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “Hamlet. A Version” is a riff on Shakespeare with no tiresome sentinels on the battlements, spying the ghost of the recently dead king. Review: To Be or Not to Be? Oh, Who Cares? A Different ‘Hamlet’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The architecture is Gothic Revival, with 30-foot walls of Wissahickon schist, faux battlements and two gargoyles over the entrance holding lengths of chain. Tourists make time for a Philadelphia museum where felons did theirs 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z But all Scofield does is sit there – an apparently three-dimensional person, leaning exhausted against the battlements as he tells the story of his murder. Ian McKellen’s favourite Shakespeare roles on film 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z That boundary, like the famous Ming-dynasty battlements outside Beijing that we call the Great Wall of China, was a military installation—erected to slow invaders from adjoining lands, yes, but also to project power outward. What Are Borders For? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Photograph: Edmund Sumner It was the undulating new plywood roof, swooping over three-quarters of the battlements, that did most to turn Tower Y into a modern home. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z The concrete battlements are covered in lichen and crawling with bramble but still generally intact. Maine’s Cushing Island delivers a whole lot of wonderful nothing 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z To get a handle on the party’s sheer enormousness, it was best to ascend the breezy battlements of the four-story, castlelike structure. Brooklyn Mirage, a Mammoth Techno Club, Finally Opens in East Williamsburg 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z The castle had been enhanced over the years with a solid portcullis gate protecting the entrance, with heavily-defended battlements, a twenty-one-foot drop below the drawbridge and walls seven feet thick, as well as a moat. "Game of Thrones" in real life: Actual history, just as epic as George R.R. Martin's tales 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Sometimes they see the towers of the fortresses of God, the battlements outlined in flickering light. 'You have to experience it to know what fat is like' 2013-02-02T08:01:04Z The castle is "huge, grey and majestic, adorned with turrets and battlements in great profusion". Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z After 20 minutes a hilltop fortress came into view, its red-stone battlements hovering over a village that spilled down the hillside toward a river. The Other Algarve 2013-07-19T16:35:02Z Wander the extensive battlements and find an empty rampart or dome-covered lookout for incredible views over the constant tumult of Jaipur. 10 of the world’s best city views: readers’ travel tips 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Famous for its pinnacles, battlements, and round tower, the London home soon became a tourist attraction and a popular spot for parties. Explore London’s Strawberry Hill Through 3-D-Printed Models 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z A medieval castle built to protect Oslo, with battlements and prison grounds. Norway in the offseason: Overcast and underappreciated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I try to keep my eyes on Frankie the hawk as she floats over the castle’s gray stone battlements, then flies back toward the trees. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways It was a steep natural fortress augmented by man-made battlements, bristling with rusty cannons that commanded the far reaches of the surrounding ocean. Footsteps: St. Helena, ?Cursed Rock? of Napoleon?s Exile 2012-03-30T18:21:46Z As I wound my way around and up and down stairways and across battlements, I could see up close contemporary residential life. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z A gun sits atop a buried battlement under the flags, part of a vast underground network of German defenses. A trip to Utah: Visiting the other American D-Day beach 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Here amid sham battlements and decorative pinnacles, he entertained the high and mighty, arranged his beloved objects with a theatrical eye, and enthusiastically explored the architectural expediencies of papier-mâché. Tour one of England’s most extraordinary Gothic Revival mansions 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z With its towers and battlements, crockets and pointy arches, it looks like a demented castle — a castle with an 83,000-seat football stadium inside. In Tallahassee, getting the party started for game day The Y, from 1930, by Dwight James Baum, who designed the building to look like an Italian hill town, with battlements and balconies and polychromed sculptures of evangelists. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z A samurai-style medieval keep with balconies running round the sides and fire shooting out the battlements above, The Fortress hosted a phalanx of rave heroes that whipped the cramped crowd into a frenzy. Beat-Herder Festival diary: Nile Rodgers rocks the Ribble valley 2013-07-17T12:24:23Z In 1949, students protesting against the rise in price of beer stormed the battlements, hurling rotten fruit at police. The adoration of Ghent: art, history and flavours in Flanders 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z From its battlements you get an awesome close-up of the genuine castle, almost toppling from its rocky perch. Britain's best views: Cheshire 2010-12-25T00:01:00Z His teeth are the battlements on the castle walls of his face. The Weird Agelessness of Don Draper 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z We walked through the sun-bleached battlements and spooky stairwells of the castle, then drift snorkeled the trench for a few hours, before continuing south toward the Bock Cay Archipelago. On a Bahamas Sail, 8 Friends Get a Taste of Robinson Crusoe 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z There are a scatter of spooky touches: the silhouette of ruined battlements; an animated piece of chalk that cleverly writes by itself on a blackboard. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z It looks like a fairytale castle, with dinky battlements and turrets. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z At the very end, Tosca is supposed to leap to her death off the prison battlements where her lover has just been executed. New cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca' 2010-04-15T07:00:00Z Presley was 33 — still young, but at a time when “don’t trust anybody over 30” was a counterculture mantra; he was revolutionary in his age, but those battlements had long been dismantled. 'Reinventing Elvis: The '68 Comeback' review: A closer look at the King's evolution 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z They are forever standing on the battlements of Christendom or Western Civilization, resisting nobly but perhaps futilely the onslaught of barbarians, heretics and secular humanists. There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z She was the anarchic idealist who stormed the battlements of the status quo and transformed Britain. Dame Vivienne Westwood - the godmother of punk 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Civil War battlements later carved up its fields. The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z And drifted thereafter to sleep under the moonlit gaze of the Dolomites, encircling the rifugio with their jagged battlements and ridges, like a fortress against the world that I’d soon reenter. A midsummer ramble in the Dolomites 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z You would transition from someone whispering in the darkness, on the battlements of a castle in Denmark, to a prince seeing ghosts and stabbing at tapestries. Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z In 1995, they let him leave a trebuchet in, too: my childhood Royal Knight’s Castle, designed by Petersen, has a tiny rock flinger on the battlements you can flick with one finger. Lego’s new $400 Lion Knights’ Castle is a love letter to classic sets 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z Old-school fire, set by the Yeoman Warders, illuminated the battlements of the Tower of London. ‘Beacon masters’ light the U.K. on fire for queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Dozens of brightly painted coffins marked with the initials of dead Kurdish civilians were laid out on the upper battlements of an ancient fortress. An Exhibit Meant to Showcase Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor Instead 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Upon reviving, your crow discovers that the newly materialized door leads to the Lost Cemetery, a place of dusty, sage-colored battlements overlooking emerald green waters. Review | ‘Death’s Door’: A clever and fun Zelda homage 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Best seen from a perilously crowded footbridge across a vertiginous gorge, it floats in misty rains, a cloudy dream of white spires and battlements. Raw, brave, wild and honest: why Germany is Europe's greatest artistic nation 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Those 15 names face east, looking toward two buttes jutting from the earth like rocky, medieval battlements. Civil War vets honored in Montana after more than 150 years 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Army purchasing two off-the-shelf batteries, along with 12 launchers, two sensors, two battlement management centers and 240 interceptors, the Jerusalem Post noted. US receives first of two 'Iron Dome' batteries from Israel, plans to buy more halted 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Young Kurds demonstrated their displeasure by hurling one of the metal coffins from the battlements, apparently to protest that the exhibition did not go far enough to recognize all of those who lost their lives. An Exhibit Meant to Showcase Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor Instead 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The Republican convention will be very different, a call to defend the battlements and walls of white privilege, male entitlement and Christian nationalism, as well as an effort to rally Trump's rage-powered foot soldiers. Why they hate her: Kamala Harris, Black bodies and the white right 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z “The addition of these knights and guards,” she observed, “with their helmets, horses, and weaponry, transported the castle model from historical relic to a living, breathing battlement.” Jens Nygaard Knudsen, designer of Lego minifigure, dies at 78 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z At its narrowest and roughest, the water churns around boulders eroded into the shapes of battlements and breaching whales. The Amazon: on the frontline of a global battle to tackle the climate crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z Its main nemesis is determined, so the tale goes, to storm the battlements of the “civilized world” and, in what’s called a “great replacement,” oust its innocent inhabitants. How to displace the great replacement 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z On the battlements, a Kurdish woman, Yildiz Dag, looked out over the multicolored coffins and uttered a single word: “oppression.” An Exhibit Meant to Showcase Kurdish Suffering Provoked a Furor Instead 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Duties include abseiling down the castle's battlements to care for its exotic garden. 'Fairytale' island needs a new gardener 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “We need to study arrow holes, battlements, floor designs and even lime content.” China’s Great Wall is ‘crumbling.’ Now architects are using drones to save it. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z They flap up to the rooftops and battlements. The secrets of the Tower of London’s royal ravenmaster 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The defenders of today’s Maginot Line will wake up some morning to discover that the enemy never had to storm the battlements. Trump’s new (non-Democratic) normal 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Milton had rogue angels falling through space from crystal battlements. Clive James on his epic new poem: ‘The story of a mind heading into oblivion’ 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z "Gardening on a rock in the middle of the sea isn't for the faint-hearted, nor is abseiling from the battlements of a castle," the job listing reads. 'Fairytale' island needs a new gardener 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It made me happy with its battlements, towers, drawbridge. Sara Gallardo's work has finally been published in English. It's about time. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Wander the massive fort’s bastions, battlements, ramparts, moats and lighthouse. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Dressed in jeans and trainers, Mr Kinnear heaved a battlement across the studio. The making of a Shakespearean actor 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z It was apparently after the blaze that the building was rebuilt with stone battlements and impressive turrets. Perspective | To the battlements! Answer Man storms the Castle at Forest Glen. 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z And there were the whimsical battlements of Forest Glen, Md., just a few miles away from Rossdhu. Perspective | Answer Man visits the National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Md. 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z Carroll at his best is English football’s own one-man medieval siege tower, wheeled into place, drenched in oil and blood and sent off clanking towards the battlements in a whirl of flaming arrows. Chelsea’s hunt for a medieval big man adds intrigue to football’s space race | Barney Ronay 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But in the six decades that the Henderson Castle loomed over 16th Street NW, it was probably the city’s most impressive faux battlement. Perspective | Answer Man remembers 16th Street’s impressive Boundary Castle 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Visiting the Distributing Reservoir in 1849, Walt Whitman imagined what it would be like to walk its battlements a century later. How a Massive Public Works Project Saved a Parched New York 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z He squinted across the street at a stone cliff that rises, like a castle battlement, some 20 feet above the shanties. ‘The Social Contract Is Broken’: Inequality Becomes Deadly in Mexico 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The modest castle with perfect towers, battlements and moat is ok, but it is the huge castles which break the beach horizon that inspire awe and wonderment in people that pass by. How to Build the Perfect Sandcastle--According to Science 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The more bonkers episodes tend to be the most memorable, like the one that followed an eccentric Irishman’s doomed quest to renovate a 16th century castle, complete with hot tubs in the battlements. The best home design show in the world — no, really — is finally available on Netflix 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z “Maybe razor wire and battlements and mantraps besides. Even that isn’t enough to revoke the state’s right to enter.” Gorsuch has ruled for police, and suspects, in crime cases 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The raised neckline is stiff as battlements, her own shape revealed only by abbreviated sleeves, which suggest, by those tiny wrists, the fragile body underneath. Jackie Kennedy’s pink wool suit and the dark side of First Lady fashion 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z We were passing by some of the most expensive real estate in Britain, architecture inspired by feverish dreams of lost golden ages: vast mock-Tudor mansions, fake castles with crenelated concrete battlements. In Search of Post-Brexit England, and Swans 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Bonus views: The stone battlements afford vistas of the iconic Corcovado Mountain and Christ the Redeemer statue. Rio Side Trips: An Insider’s Guide to Quick and Easy Excursions 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Rigid, they seemed less bosom than battlement, and I wondered at my own inflexibility. Susan Faludi: getting to know my father, the woman 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z This Gothic-style mansion includes defense towers, battlements and a central tower with a conical, copper roof. One of London’s Few Castles—Yours for $4.2 Million 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Instead of raising the battlements, the United States should adopt a policy that follows the old adage “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” The Chinese want to buy more American companies — and we should let them 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z On the outskirts of The Hague, behind battlements, huge walls and the bars of a small, neat cell in Scheveningen prison is a notorious former militiaman from northern Uganda called Dominic Ongwen. War crimes trial of Ugandan former child soldier is big test for ICC 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z The outer wall was 80ft high, crowned with battlements and flanked by bastions. Story of cities #3: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z I vividly recall seeing in the “Oxford School Atlas” the Great Wall with its battlement symbol. Q. and A.: William Lindesay on ‘The Great Wall in 50 Objects’ 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Their favorite part of the home is its roof terrace, located in one of the battlement towers. One of London’s Few Castles—Yours for $4.2 Million 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Outside his palace, a low maroon building with battlements, is a large burn mark. In Nigeria, Chinese Investment Comes With a Downside 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z But the setting was spectacular: the Disney domes of St Basil’s Cathedral loomed over Nemtsov’s left shoulder, the Kremlin’s russet battlements over his right. Putin’s closest ally – and his biggest liability | Oliver Bullough 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z After retiring to a chair near the battlements, the client estimated that her Dolce & Gabbana collection took up twenty-six feet of wardrobe space, with about the same amount devoted to other vintage clothes. The World’s Most Luxurious Fashion Show 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z All four corners are defended by round towers, not all the same height but each more than two stories tall, topped with battlements - as if longbow archers might appear at any moment. Historic castle goes up for sale in Oklahoma 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z As its battlements appear through the icy bus window, I think: as long as powerful men have walked the Earth, they have devised ways to control their daughters' desire. Heartworm : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Behind the stage, hanging from the battlements of a castle-like hotel, hung a white banner with the words “Mother Emanuel, We Love You.” Coordinated ringing of bells sends message of unity, healing 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Behind the stage, hanging from the battlements of a castle-like hotel, hung a white banner with the words "Mother Emanuel, We Love You." Coordinated ringing of bells sends message of unity, healing 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Chambers is seeking city approval to build a replica of a barn from the Perry-Davis/Gandahl mansion in Boyle Heights, complete with an octagonal tower and battlements. L.A. artist bends time and space in restored 1905 home 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z That’s the chatter of small-arms fire, compared to the heavy cannonading already chipping away at Hillary Clinton’s battlements. WES PRUDEN: Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes are receding 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z In many ways, the best defense against the criminals is to become a conundrum with diverse and powerful battlements in place. To Protect Themselves, The Super-Rich Shift Attention 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Whether you protect files with a voiceprint or store your most valuable data offline on vellum scrolls, at some moment in time someone somewhere is going to get around your battlements. A Free Retina Scan with Your Purchase? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Amid the telephone poles that endured and the mounds of timber and brick, discarded tires were stacked like battlements. The Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z What a shame that Spain’s castle crumbled without its chief architect striding the battlements. World Cup talking points: So long tiki-taka, so long Tim Cahill 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z I stared at the fortress he was building as my laptop purred, loading details: the towers and battlements and a giant front door. Minecraft: here's one I made earlier 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z Unless the Democrats can wrest control of the House from the GOP — no mean feat, considering the gerrymandering and voter-suppression battlements that Republicans have thrown up around their districts — gridlock will intensify. The immigration gulf He could be part of the solution, rather than hiding behind traditional Democratic battlements. The Return of Mediscare 2014-04-17T10:09:51Z Later, tourists and re-enactors stand shoulder to shoulder at the fort's battlements to watch an aerial display by a Spitfire, the poster plane of World War II's Battle of Britain. Living history: People re-creating Scotland's past 2013-09-23T00:10:11Z Instead of storming the battlements, the tech revolutionaries seem eager to work with them to secure a profitable future. TV and tech, learning to live together 2013-05-24T11:04:08Z We know that he was killed during a siege at Chalus: hit by a crossbow bolt fired from the battlements of a castle by a bloke using a frying pan as a shield. Exhuming Richard the Lionheart 2013-03-03T10:45:00Z Tour the battlements with our English-speaking guides in an eco-friendly electric buggy. Simon Hoggart's week: taken for suckers – it's enough to make you cry 2012-07-13T17:25:08Z It’s bristling with lego flying buttresses, lego gargoyles, lego battlements and lego towers, and it’s surrounded by defensive lego walls. Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com 2012-07-04T11:45:05.397Z "In an election year, trying to put Larry Page's head on the battlements isn't going to pay off for a US regulator unless Google makes a mistake that leaves it with a villain's role." Google warned to change search results or face court over antitrust issues 2012-06-01T10:37:23Z Spain, lying to the right, all green and amethyst, and flippant and gay with white houses and red roofs, and Gibraltar's grim show of battlements and war, become somehow of little moment. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z And there fell on Starr King a grander inspiration after he had seen the white banners of the snow-storm floating from the battlements of Yosemite. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z They seem like colossal walls that mighty heroes built in ancient days to turn it into a city of which they should form the battlements. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z I felt that months had passed, that I had aged a multitude of years, like the stone, like the battlement: age, that alchemy, filtered through the fog and sun... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z A few moments after we passed through the low gate of the town, which was surrounded by an old stone wall that still preserved some battlements. Annouchka A Tale 2012-04-13T02:00:19.120Z Moonshine suffused Dorothy's castle in Spain, and moonstruck she paced the battlements. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The hills of the Rappahannock, once crowned so threateningly with battlements of artillery, echoed the volume of sound, until it rung across the valley. Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z Though foes from the ends of the earth should rage, The towering battlements ever shall stand. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z These various influences have constituted the broad foundation on which were reared the towers and battlements of American nationality. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z During the performance, a tiny little sharp whir of music fills the atmosphere, which would almost set you to sleep as you sit on the battlement of the bridge watching and wondering. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The sky was clear above them, and a fat, yellow moon was rolling along behind a battlement of chimney-tops. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z There is also an elaborate burlesque of a battle piece, in which a fortress is attacked by rats, and defended by cats, which are visible on the battlements. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Below are seen the towers and battlements of sleeping Jerusalem. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z De Gusman was drowned, and his body, picked up by the Moors, hung out for twenty-six years from the battlements, as a warning to ambitious nobles. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z There were old castles with broken ruined towers, battlements, and loopholes; castellated fortresses; cathedrals with fantastic Gothic carving, and delicate tracery, and triumphal arches. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It was several days later, and the flag of the Smoutchy boys still flew defiantly over the battlements of the castle. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The gateway has forked battlements, but is much spoilt by recent plasterings. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Though foes from the ends of the earth should rage, The towering battlements ever shall stand. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Abandoning the solitary habit he had maintained all night, he came forward to the battlements overlooking the town, and talked and even jested, rallying the faint-hearted, and taking success for granted. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z And yet another galloped around the battlement; The lady Kunigunde, The lady saw him tumble, yet did she not relent. In the Saddle A Collection of Poems on Horseback-Riding 2012-03-26T02:00:41.847Z Black dots swarmed on the perilous battlements of the castle. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z One day this creature seized upon a baby, and rushing to the summit, was seen from below, by the agonized parents, perched upon the battlements, and balancing their child to and fro over the abyss. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The pillars fell and the battlements were laid low. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Still, the others respected his wishes, and following their example I seated myself in an embrasure of the battlements, whence the fire, now growing pale, could be seen. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z It is indeed a unique little city, walled around without a break by Roman battlements forty feet high, on the top of which is the fashionable promenade of the town. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z From his elevated perch he could see the enemy's flag flaunting defiance from the topmost battlements of the castle. The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith 2012-04-03T02:00:29.527Z The battlements were added when the tomb was turned into a fortress by the Ca�tani in the thirteenth century. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z "I have at least as much right as those," he answered, pointing to the roof of the Cathedral, over the battlements of which a number of heads could be seen peering down at us. The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z Round the less precipitous sides were the remains of battlements and watch-towers. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The herd of vulgar gold-hunters, who thronged the battlements, respected her, for her long-continued sorrows, her abiding faith, her matchless perseverance. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z Thus a lamp always burns upon the battlements before an image of the Madonna. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The three fugitives made their way in the teeth of the wind along the battlements to a point overlooking the terrace that lies at the back of the banquet-hall. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Alexander, not satisfied with this testimony of grief, ordered the very battlements of a city to be knocked down, that the town might look bald and shorn of its beauty. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z From the flat roofs of the watch-towers that surmounted the battlements the watchers must have been able to see to a surprising distance. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z No crumbling castle walls are ours, No ruined battlements and towers. Songs Ysame 2012-03-04T03:00:13.113Z At dawn all the northern walls and battlements were covered with white-faced women, come together to see the army leave the camp, in which it had lain so many weeks. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z There was a young man leaning over an embrasure at one corner of the battlements, who had been gazing, like her, at the sunset till she had come forth. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z They look well when cut shorter as the battlements of buildings, rather like halma men, but of handsomer and more rotund proportions. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z It is only on looking down from the battlements and seeing the immense depths of the surrounding moats that one realizes the strength of the inflexible grip in which captives would be held. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The men held their breath hard, and the women began to tremble and cry; and then, all of a sudden, he made a jump off the battlement, and sailed away ‘most illigant.’ Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The head of Wittuwamet, one of the chiefs killed by Standish's party at Weymouth in 1623, was set up on the battlements of the fort, as was afterward that of the renowned King Philip. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z At the top, however, a battlement slightly overhung it. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z The first verses which naturally come into my mind are— "A thousand feet in depth below The massy waters meet and flow; So far the fathom line was sent From Chillon's snow-white battlement." Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Round the battlements many names, both of the bond and of the free, were carven. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The tower had projecting battlements; its apartments, placed above each other, were reached by a narrow, easily defended stair. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z The puny reverberations of Argall's broadsides were as nothing compared with the artillery that has played upon these heights out of cloud battlements. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z A great shout from the battlements and from the crowd below acclaimed the famous shot. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z He walked his battlements under fire, as some stout skipper paces his deck in a suit of Flushing, calmly oblivious of the April drops that fall on his woolen armour. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z When the men essayed to climb the high tower I waited below on the roof, and was idly leaning over the battlements when a stonecrop fast-rooted in the interstices of the wall attracted me. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z The fortress is an irregular pile of masonry, and, with its massive walls, loop-holed towers, and white battlements, is a picturesque object seen across wide reaches of the lake. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z They have sometimes a battlement moulding on their upper edge, which is in other cases often square. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z To Dennis, gazing up, this battlement seemed terribly far off, and his heart sank as he felt that the ladder would certainly not be long enough. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z Cromwell tried to take it, but its battlements of rock proved inaccessible even to his Ironsides. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Out of the water rose a platform of great stones, with a fringe of gnarled and rusty pines, through which were visible battlements of earth crowned by a low parapet. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Plumes of palms and faintly-seen ridges of snowy hills appear over the battlements of the roof. 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 God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the man who has a happy home upon this earth. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z They even imagined that they were seen from the battlements, although, being themselves unable to see the warders, this was highly improbable. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z It was like a vision of the heavenly battlements, with all their pinnacles and towers shining resplendent in the light of setting day. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z He looked keenly along the ranges of hills in front of him, but he could not see the towering battlements of Rodwell's Peak. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z It had a parapet and battlements, with steps leading up to them. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z Flower of the World!" replied the gardener, "in whose splendour all the colours of this blossomy creation wax pale, thou reignest here as in thy firmament, like the Star-queen on the battlements of Heaven. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Draw near to the edge of that battlement, and look down over the frowning rock. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z The walls on the western side, and the terrace and battlement towards the river, are of a considerable height, and present a commanding aspect from the water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z The man came towards dusk with word that a house had been secured in the town, and Warrisden passed through the gate and down between the high battlements of the Bugilud into the old town. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z It hath survived the many-centuried shock Of elements, the assault of myriad hands, And to the attack will you now lead your bands, Whose rage crag-crowning battlements seem to mock? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z They were composed of stone and gravel, supported by cross logs, covered with earth and planted with grass, having battlements in front and the two ends, elevated about twenty or twenty-five feet above the water. History of Halifax City 2012-01-26T03:00:13.263Z In ancient times, however, those old battlements frequently stood the shock of invading war. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z Without a single opposing shot she passed under the very battlements of the besieging English, and entered Orleans with soldiers for empty forts and food for starving people. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z The use of lead for the battlements of churches seems obvious enough: but what can halls mean, unless it be a misprint for bells, for which brass would be required? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-16T03:00:07.530Z True from those battlements they've hung, in scorn, Your herald, whose torn trappings wildly wave In the rough wind. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, September 30th 1893 2012-01-27T03:00:22.100Z They had not proceeded far when they heard the noise of an alarm from the battlements of the Alhambra, while a lurid watch-fire burst into flame on its topmost turret. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z Gothic the pile, and high the solid walls, With warlike ramparts, and the strong defence Of jutting battlements: an age's toil! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z It seems as if a billow of celestial glory had dashed clear over heaven's battlements upon this metropolis of Persia. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z It stands upon a craggy eminence, All fenced around with towers and battlements, The works of mighty nature. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z Many of these pinnacles and steep rocky declivities presented all the appearance of a series of colossal ruins of 197cities and palaces, protected by towers, battlements, and embrasures. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z It was of a dark rose color, cut by the Archway of the Loggias, and was flanked by towers of white stone surmounted by battlements. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z The ride to his left disclosed rough ground, rocky heights cut by streamlets, and covered by heavy forest tangle, as formidable to military manœuvres of raw troops as armed battlements. From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America 2011-12-28T03:00:39.977Z I looked up at the watch-tower, and there was Massena still, his arms folded on a battlement; he seemed to be deep in thought. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z The greater part is of two storeys, and surmounted by battlements. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Now that he had scaled the height and reached his destination he found nothing but frowning battlements and blank walls. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Other some be flat and broad on the crown, like the battlements of a house. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He leaned over the battlements and racked his mind as to his course of action. The Heart of Denise and Other Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:15.733Z The moon was still young enough for all the stars to be visible, and leaning over the ruined battlements we looked out into the night. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z Tradition tells us that Herodias ordered the headless trunk to be flung out over the battlements for dogs and vultures to devour. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z There was a water-colour drawing upon the parlour wall of a ruined castle with a tower that had been rent from battlement to base, and appeared in the act of falling. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z Close to this door was the counter, grimy and sticky: behind it the three rows of little casks, crowned with battlements of bottles, all the diversified and innumerable liquors of the establishment. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z The afternoon's journey whirled us past some strange antique towns, with walls and battlements, and at night we were in Bolsena, Germanic� Bottsen. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z The castle of the Prince was builded upon a high place, and was strongly held with battlement and tower; moreover bridge and portcullis kept his door. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z From Fort Pulaski came word of Lieutenant Horace Porter who, though only recently graduated, was in command of the battlements there. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z With a joyful cry, Psyche hastened along the terraces, the battlements, ramparts, entered the castle, and went down the steps. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Every window and archer's loophole, from battlement to basement, the long lines of mullioned lattice of the picture-gallery and the garret gallery above, throbbed with light. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z Hundreds of churches were in sight, with their almost innumerable domes, and spires, and crosses glittering with gold, Tartaric battlements, terraces, balconies, and ramparts. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z It is a fine old pile, square and grey, with battlements running all around it—more imposing than attractive. Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 2011-11-10T03:00:11.267Z The night wind sighed round the grey battlements, and from its hidden recesses came moans and whispers, at least so it seemed to their heated imaginations. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Then she wandered along the battlements, down the steps, over the court-yards and the ramparts, but at the gates stood the guards, rough and bearded and clad in mail, with loud-sounding horns round their shoulders. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z The onslaught had been so rapid and resistless, that the Mexicans stood appalled as the human tide foamed and burst over their battlements. 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 Approaching the Kremlin, a few miserable, ferocious, and intoxicated wretches, left behind as a savage token of the national hatred, poured a volley of musketry from the battlements. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z And there was that other dawn which I saw, from the icy ridge of the Petersgrat, turning the snow-clad summits of the Matterhorn, the Weisshorn, and Mont Blanc to a magic realm of rose-tinted battlements. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Hereupon the country fellows upon the battlements of the walls sat night and day with quaking hearts, not daring to stir from their seats, and readier for flight than making the least resistance. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z And when Emeralda was gone, then Psyche fled upstairs, high up on to the battlements, fetched a deep breath, pressed her hands to her bosom, and long afterwards her little wings trembled from fear. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Within the enclosure, built of stone and crowned with battlements, a village of five hundred houses might have been built. 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 Go ye upon her walls and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements, for they are not the Lord's!' The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z Thus ever may that flag unrent At peak and staff be borne, Nor e'er from mast or battlement By traitor hands be torn. Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z No marble sculpture may adorn its niches and cornices; but angel forms shall walk its battlements in robes of living glory. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z And next morning she gazed from the battlements to see if the horse would come again. Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z Free from all impediments, it was unguarded at its edges by battlements, parapets, or, any defences which could protect the assailants from falling if they approached the sides too closely. 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 What appears to be a battlement is really the chessmen on the board. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z Arrived at the battlements, Catesby leaned over them, and endeavoured to ascertain what was beneath. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The apricot-tinted diaper on the fa�ade of the Ducal Palace is already distinguishable, and behind its battlements the pearl-grey domes of St. Mark's shimmer in the warm air. The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z THE traveller in Italy must often have noticed the difference in the shape of the battlements that nowadays add so much to the picturesqueness of old towers and half-ruined fortress walls. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z At the opening of the last act, Rafael is discovered on the battlements of Heaven. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Still, the most common structure around the country in the Hoxha heyday was the round-topped pillbox bunker: 100,000 of them, with gun ports gaping like medieval battlements — symbols of repression in a police state. Ramiz Alia, Former Ruler of Albania, Dies at 85 2011-10-08T00:35:10Z Hastily divesting himself of his cloak, Catesby clambered over the battlements, and, impelled by fear, Garnet threw off his robe, and followed his example. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z He returned telling of immense gulches, of rocky battlements, and of mountains surrounding a great body of water. Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel 2011-10-06T02:00:32.743Z The great families that pinned their faith to the ascendency of the latter adopted the swallow-tailed battlement on the towers of their castle walls, to distinguish them from the square-shaped that were already in existence. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The ships were full of men armed with bows and slings and javelins with which to dislodge the men who fought on the battlements. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z Trumpets sound, detachments of wooden soldiers march in and out of gateways, and parade the battlements, clicking for a considerable time. Voces Populi 2011-10-04T02:00:20.280Z The moon was shining brightly, and silvered the massive square tower of the fane, the battlements, pinnacles, buttresses, and noble eastern window, with its gorgeous tracery. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The mole crept ever nearer to the wall, and Macedonian captains, cruising around the city, gazed hungrily at the battlements. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Huge iron braziers stick out under its battlements at the four corners. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z Sons of the brave!—a barrier staunch Breasting the alien avalanche— Manning the battlements of Right; Up, for your Country, “God and right!” Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental 2011-09-27T02:00:19.517Z The battlements bristled with bayonets; outside, cavalry, infantry, artillery were massed to destroy the gentleman in the bowler hat. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z The top of this cliff was a “castellated ridge,” the term mountaineers give to a summit which is long and level, but broken into little depressions and towers, like the battlements of an ancient castle. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z They succeeded in halting the Macedonians long enough to enable their comrades to swarm through to safety; but soon they were swept off their feet and hurled back toward the battlements. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z The battlements that surmount this storey are square-shaped Guelph, while those of the great tower which dominates this part of the city are the swallow-tailed Ghibelline. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z And it is right there, just the way it always was, with battlements and a real drawbridge and everything, just as it was in feudal times. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z Houses, streets, squares, market place, covered ways, curtain, keep, tower, turret, crenelated battlement, all were there. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Then they explored along the ragged ridge a bit, finding in the centre of the spine, winding in and out amid the rough battlements, a distinct game trail, like a foot-path. Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies 2011-09-22T02:00:22.487Z He saw the Tyrian soldiers upon the battlements, fighting against hope, with the valor of desperation. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z In the alterations he carried out, the battlements and the corbel tables under them were spared. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z As on the previous day, the sinking rays of the sun cast the gleam of their ruddy aureola upon the folds of Joan Darc's standard, planted by herself upon the battlements of the fortress. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z The Lady Alene turned her head where it lay lazily pillowed on her left arm, and glanced indifferently at the multi-coloured battlement of books. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Over an unreal world of battlement and turret, of mountain summit and gloomy valley, we move in a splendid loneliness beneath the scattered stars. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z But these words were as peas against a battlement. On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski 2011-09-13T02:00:27.560Z The Moor found it impossible to leave out his native arcades and his battlements; and the diaper pattern on the west fa�ade recalls in design the decoration of the east. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z The dragoons were lying flat at the battlements, panting with rage. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The keel grounded as he spoke, and Olivia, as he handed her out, saw the undulating battlements and toppling turrets of the olden pile upside-down in the tremulous mirror of the lake. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z I would have hurled myself down from the battlements, but I could not because I was a captive. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z This looked quite possible when at last they sat perched upon the antique battlements; they seemed so to overhang the little town. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z On the walls and battlements it had created new walls and battlements. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z "To the wall! to the wall!" cried the little knight, dragging them as quickly as possible to the cover of the battlements. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Turret and spire and battlement were stamped sharp and grey against the darkling sky. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z The houses lie low, but the church stands on rising ground, and opposite the village you notice a sort of small fortress with broad towers, black bastions, and projecting battlements. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z He leant over the battlements, gazing down into the toy town below. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z In Lyubovlya the cannon were thundering in greeting till the towers and battlements were covered with smoke, the bells were tolling as at a fire. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z Many thought that the remnant of the defenders had withdrawn to the town, and that the battlements were empty. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z A grievous breach had been made in their battlements. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z How owls usurp the place of the pigeons in the ivied battlements? In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z The rim was scalloped like its namesake’s coat, or cut in battlements, thus forming indentations, in which a punch ladle and lemon strainer and tall wine-glasses were hung on their sides, the foot out. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Balls twenty-six pounds in weight tore out battlements, struck the walls of buildings; some settled in them, others made great holes, tearing off plaster and bricks. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z At one moment she had bent over the battlement so far that Zagloba seized her by the waist, lest she might fall to the fosse. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z While the storm pelted the sentinel from his post and howled around tower and battlement, the Moors had planted their scaling-ladders, and mounted securely into both town and castle. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Crenelated battlements are as old as Pompeii, so it is doubtful if the feudality of France did much to increase their use or effectiveness. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The little throats which sang so sweetly had got caught, had writhed, twisted in the tiny wire nooses between the hornbeam battlements. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z He held out his arm, awkwardly enough, and not at all with the grace of a mediaeval courtier, as if to lead her from the battlements. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z From the battlement, voices of terror were heard. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The mountaineers assembled from every direction: they swarmed at every pass, getting in the advance of the Christians, and garrisoning the cliffs, like so many towers and battlements. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Know'st thou the land of these citadels tall, With their ramparts and battlements, wall upon wall? Canada, My Land and Other Compositions in Verse 2011-08-23T02:00:28.813Z So if a man built a house without battlements, he should bring blood upon his house, if any man fell from thence, Deut. xxii. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z After a little consideration she decided to stay where she was, to give the intruder time to go away before she ventured from the battlements. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z But when the first ranks stood on the stuff with which the fosse had been filled, in one of the battlement openings a pistol-shot was heard; then a shrill voice shouted,— "Fire!" Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Wooden towers were brought to bear upon the battlements; a testudo of shields was used as cover for the men who undermined the walls; but Ez-Zegry was still unsubdued. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Here, also, men have climbed up to walls and battlements—but to what far dizzier heights!—to towers and windows, and to chimney-tops, to see great Pompey pass the streets. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z Two huge stones, hurled by Alan, the armorer, from the battlements above, came down on the heads of the luckless churls in the moat and helped to scatter the scanty footing. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Only a portion of the Keep was still standing, but the ancient guard-room remained intact, and a winding staircase led to the battlements. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z I began to feel human and part of society, yet as I licked my wounds, I could envision the battlements to which I would willingly march to surrender my waxing health. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z That cry was forced from the mouth of Pan Yan when opening his eyes he saw on the battlements the crimson standard with the archangel, instead of the golden banner of the crown. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Before us, the fifty dogs climbed like cats through narrow apertures of the ice, or took long leaps over the serried battlements that barred our way. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z On the battlements above stood my lady mother, old Dame Franklin and I, holding aloft our flaming torches. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z He went up the battlements on purpose to cajole you down to safety. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z From the broken battlements of the Berg we looked down three thousand feet, and eastward to the sea a hundred and fifty miles away, across the vast panorama. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z I had rather cast myself over the battlements than look forward to thirty years of stitchery!” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The creature itself stands upon a retractile foot-stalk, and thrusts out above its battlements a large head, with four leaf-like expansions surrounded by cilia. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z At sunset on that day, I could see from the Tarn Rock the blue and white banner of Carleton flying at half mast over the battlements of Teramore. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z "I'm particularly fond of the battlements, they seem such a great height up," she added aloud, leaning over the wooden railing which guarded the parapet. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z It was at this period also that the tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Appian Way was disguised with turrets and battlements to serve the Gaetani as an outlying stronghold against their enemies. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z When the Queen turned and saw her she was standing with her slim hands resting on the battlement. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Mr. Browning is in error when he makes the spider shoot her threads from depth to height, from barbican to battlement. l. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Then I took me to the battlements and watched my loyal squire and comrade till his figure grew dim and disappeared on the road that lay to the south and east, toward London town. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z A dreadful place for children, I call it, with all these towers and battlements and dungeons and hiding-holes—one never knows where they'll get to next. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z And now down came a tearing rain, driven by a blast from the Atlantic, howling among the gravestones, and screaming in the battlements of the tower and its bell-chamber windows. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Langibby Castle rears its mouldering battlements on the brow of a bold hill, completely overspread with wood. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z There were now added two lofty towers, with loopholes and strong battlements, and the castle was provided with deep double trenches. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z This time the sentry heard the stroke—or so it seemed—for he came hurrying back to the tower battlements, and peered downward past the open window for minutes together. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z At the castle also the inmates seemed to be reposing in the greatest calmness and security; even the warders on the battlements were asleep. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z At this moment a trumpet sounded from the outer rampart, and a tall warrior in armour, with closed visor, stepped forth on the battlement. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z Beyond the chapel we ascended a flight of steps to the battlements, shadowed by wide branching trees of various descriptions, issuing from the moat beneath. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z Preparations were already begun for storming and firing Axelhuus, The fight was now maintained on both sides, and arrows and stones from balista were shot from the towers and battlements of the castle. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z This seemed not to reach the ears of the sentry on the other side of the battlements, for though we listened with bated breath, there was no sound of his returning footsteps. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The circular wall, which, with its high battlements and towers, surrounded the whole castle, was also environed by ramparts and deep moats. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z The towers of the wall were also perceived to be strongly garrisoned, and a numerous array of lances and battle-axes glittered over the battlements in the grey dawn of morning. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z Castle Garden is a castellated structure, without turrets and battlements, built of hewn stone, and pierced with a row of port-holes. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z At last he thought he heard a noise, as if some one was scraping the wall, or creeping to the window over the projecting battlements near the staircase of the upper story. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:24.890Z Setting up a lusty shout of alarm, he turned at once to a pile of the stones that were kept on the battlements for the repelling of besiegers, and began hurling these into the moat. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Guards were immediately stationed at all the entrances, as well as on the towers and the battlements on the wall surrounding the fortress. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z Within was heard a powerful voice of command, and from the loopholes and battlements rained a thick shower of stones and javelins. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z Over the battlements they hung out their banner, on which was emblazoned the words, "No Surrender." The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Clapboard shells, with their gables to the street, embellished with square battlements to the ridge, are emblazoned with "City Drug Store," "City Saloon," "City Hard Ware Store," &c. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z The wind had brushed the clouds from the sky; and by the starlight I saw that Wilfrid’s head had been crushed by one of the stones from the battlements. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The castle rose proudly, with its round towers and high battlements, behind the shining copper roof of the Franciscan monastery. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z The descendant of those who had made the hall ring with social mirth now mourned in its ruins, and hung his harp on the mouldering battlements. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z Infants were transfixed on pikes, and women precipitated themselves from high windows and battlements, that they might die without outrage. Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character 2011-06-25T02:00:21.120Z Its towers, battlements, and threatening walls seem a parody on the past. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Then our watchers on the battlements saw the other parties posted at points of vantage around the castle and a young squire riding at full gallop along the road to Teramore. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z "Who is there?" at last said a drowsy voice from the battlement over the gate. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z Thus, though the war-demon dies hard, he is doomed, and we shall yet see the battlements of his grim cathedrals places for lovers to woo and for babes to play in. Modern Society 2011-06-23T02:00:27.897Z Underneath the broad terrace, from which troops could defend the battlements, stood a row of storerooms and go-downs. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z As he spake, they came upon a tower as white as snow, with mighty battlements, and double moats round it, and over the tower-gate hung fifty shields of divers colors. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z Thrusting it deeply into the fireplace embers, I quickly kindled it; then sped up the stairs toward the battlements. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The Moor’s knowledge of the place enabled him to lead Tom to a spot where it would clearly be an easy matter to climb the battlements. King of the Air Or, To Morocco on an Aeroplane 2011-06-17T02:00:22.043Z The perpendicular crags crowning the bluffs seemed like ruined castles, some of them with rounded turrets and battlements, some even with arched portals. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z Beyond the high, red-brick walls he saw the graceful dome and minarets of the Jumma Musjid, while to the left towered the frowning battlements of the King’s palace. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Castles and towers, amphitheatres and fortifications, battlements and obelisks mock the wanderer, who fancies himself transported into the ruins of a city of some extinct race. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z The three of us ran with all our might up the crooked stair and the ladders, and came out on the battlements, under the black sky. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Margaret's eyes traveled once over the towers and battlements of gloomy Castle Brand, as they left it behind. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z We pass into lovely Lake Pepin, Maiden's Rock or Lover's Leap rising into a battlement on the right, and the famous Point-no-Point on the left. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z With its Tudor battlements, casements, diamond-paned and low oriel windows, half obliterated escutcheons; its drapery of green ivy, and heavy iron-clamped doors, it looked venerable, picturesque and peaceful. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Fifteen cannon were there tonight, ranging in gauge from nine to eighteen-pound shot, shielded on the sea side by a head-high masonry wall cut with battlements for the guns. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z Alan heaved great stones from his supply on the battlements on to the heads of the men-at-arms in the ditch who but now had been raising a shout of victory. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The battlements were of marble, cut and sculptured by the hands of genii. The Thousand and One Days A Companion to the 'Arabian Nights' 2011-06-04T02:00:14.880Z It has a splendid appearance; the stone battlements and walls, which are well grown with ivy, look especially striking. The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Rapidly it rises in a great swelling crescendo as it dashes into the open, and then its journey stops on some giant battlement—stops in a peal of deafening thunder just overhead. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z Behind the battlements ran a sentry-way, while at the ends of the fa�ade turrets decorated with arcades and surmounted by octagonal spires, served as watch-towers. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Bide here by the fire, for soon we go to the battlements again.” Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z "Talabor!" cried Dora, as she caught sight of him standing on the wall just opposite her, between the low but massive battlements. 'Neath the Hoof of the Tartar The Scourge of God 2011-05-26T02:00:15.987Z It played, too, on fa�ades, towers and battlements on either side, and, at the spectacle—the disk directly before him—the Black Seigneur, about to leave the dark and sheltering byway, involuntarily paused. The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z Monsieur Roger in a second had examined the battlements which composed the roof. In Search of a Son 2011-05-24T02:00:13.087Z The upper portion of the walls was decorated with an ornamental frieze and a battlement bordered with fine moulding. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z Armored knights, in numbers they could not tell, came into sight and passed from view on the battlements and at the casements. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z "Clytemnestra from the battlements of Argos watches for the beacon fires which are to announce the return of Agamemnon" is, in every sense, a contrast to the "Antique Juggling Girl." The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z One day we strolled across one of the islands and found a battlement of rocks on the seaside that it would have taken a solid month to explore. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z There are the bastions of ice, the frosty battlements; there his old bugler, the wind, is daily sounding the advance and the retreat of the storm. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z It had two rows of battlements, four corner-turrets, and a timber-work roof surmounted by a campanile, above which rose a small spire. Ypres and the Battles of Ypres 2011-05-27T02:00:14.743Z The Gray Wolf stared long and viciously at our battlements, and called on those with younger eyes to make sure of what he saw. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z I have imagined one of the three holy kings, when he sees the Star in the East from the battlements of his palace. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z A hoarse voice challenged them, and torches flickered on the battlements as the garrison stood to their arms. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z They ascended to the battlements, and faced the inclemency of the weather. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z The loving party climbed the battlement, and carried up with them in their rural breasts a tranquillity which softly copied therein the still outer heaven that encircled these good hearts with its veiled suns. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z But with a stout rope now, and with friends on the farther side with horses not far off—” “But the sentries on the battlements would surely spy him as he descended.” Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z No; that is no sentinel, for the figure waves something to and fro for a moment or two, then slowly sinks behind the battlements. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z That morning he and another squire had mounted the four-storeyed Norman keep, and from the battlements looked down upon the scene below. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z "Well, be it on your head," cried the warder, with a grim smile; "though a two-inch cudgel or a fall from the battlements is the best thing to be hoped for you." Corse de Leon, Volume I (of 2) or, The Brigand; a Romance 2011-05-07T02:00:29.347Z With its solitary square tower, and warlike battlements jagged and stern in their desolation, it still wears an air of imposing grandeur, that conveys some idea of its ancient baronial state. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The castle wall on the other side of the moat was a gray blur in the murk, but we could clearly see the sentinel as he slowly paced his rounds of the battlements. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z I have dogged his steps, and watched them in the starlight nights, pacing the battlements of the castle in loving converse, and in loving embrace. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z If we can but make good the battlements for one hour all will be well. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z The moon was sinking behind the hills and the lines of trembling monkeys huddled together on the walls and battlements looked like ragged, shaky fringes of things. The jungle book 2011-05-02T02:00:19.467Z Night came on, and the moon rose above the battlements of the castle, and flung its scarf of silver far out upon the scarcely dimpled bay. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z As the boys would have to be taken to the roof to set up the aerial, he first dismissed those in the anteroom, then called servants to carry the outfit to the battlements. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Soon he sees a dark figure move towards the battlements, and peer over on the side on which he stands. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Harassed by the hail of missiles, and impeded by the curtains of bulls' hides, the defenders could not repel the assault, and, to their consternation, the leaders of the attack appeared above the battlements. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z It was surrounded by all the strength of terror and craft, more formidable than battlements and bastions. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 2011-04-29T02:00:09.217Z Beyond, visible by the full flood of moonlight, was a lonely square tower, flanked by a single wing, topped with a battlement. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z “Will you come with us to the battlement, Senor?” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z The journey along the underground passage is quickly traversed, and he emerges on the battlements, and the muffled figure is folded in his arms, and a loving kiss is implanted on her cheek. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Then, calling a couple of strong archers to his aid, the ponderous stone was deftly toppled over the battlements. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Whereupon Colonel Hawkins, who by that time had to crane his neck to see the table over his pile of chips—a pile of chips like the battlements of some feudal lord—anted suavely. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z Miss Octavia would probably order me at once to the battlements; but worse was to come. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Then we’ll get the Inca to put on the headphone and give him an earful from the battlement.” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Well, he struts himself upon his trumpery battlements like a valiant scarecrow. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Even as they watched, the figure of a man made its appearance on the battlements; the banner was slowly lowered, and the man disappeared. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Early in the 15th century we find cannon throwing metal balls, not only against hoarding and battlements, but also to breach the bases of the walls. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z He seized me by the arm and forced me back against the battlements, then stood off and eyed me fiercely. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z “But who will speak from the battlement, Jack?” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Looking over the battlements, they beheld Vigneau, Pierre, and a number of men making preparation for what they considered a morning's sport. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Silent and alone, she saw the signal-light of the steamer moving like an ignis fatuus along the empurpled bosom of the water—at length suddenly disappearing behind the battlements of the Fort. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z 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 It was heard upon bastion and battlement, from behind battery and barricade, amidst scenes of heroic strife that recalled the days of Horatius. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Then he returned to the battlements to await developments. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z 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 But Raleigh himself was now a prisoner in the Tower of London, pacing back and forth on the narrow battlement which was assigned to him for exercise. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z Ekkehard sat perfectly motionless on the battlement, still holding the Greek maiden's hand clasped in his. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Betrayed, however, by some of his personal attendants, he was seized, taken to Adrianople, and put to death, having been hanged, according to some accounts, from the battlements of the city walls. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z He acquiesced in Mr. Hampton’s suggestion, and at once led the way to the battlement. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z The grass was climbing the mountains until it met the snow, and the mountains rose like battlements, with piny slopes furrowed by one or two steep paths. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z His son was not crucified, but stabbed to death by the Infante Don John, with the knife that had been flung over the battlements of the city by the poor lad’s father, a.d. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z The gallant New York Regiment claims for their standard the honour of being the first waved from the battlements of Chapultepec.” Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z The word “fort” calls up before the mind a massive structure, with angles and embrasures, bastions and battlements, curtains, casemates, and glacis—a place of great strength, for this is its essential signification. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z But not for long, as the boys recalled at once that they had not yet succeeded in calling the monastery, and all adjourned to the battlements. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z The visitor, wandering along the substantial quays, will not fail to notice a curious, isolated tower, whose loop-holes and battlements resemble those of some feudal castle. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z He sprang to his feet and darted off again not knowing where he was going until the massy battlements of King Pellam's castle appeared. Tales from Tennyson 2011-03-19T02:00:10.793Z Several undergraduates—more indeed than not—are taking off their college caps, and flinging them down over the battlements. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z In these are no grand battlements of cut rock, no costly casemates, no idle ornaments of engineering. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z Then we can put up our set there, and from the battlements here, Michac can see just who is listening on the ’phones, and when to speak.” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Fronting the venerable Moorish battlements rises the façade of the palace of Charles V., with the arms and trophies of the most arrogant and crafty of emperors. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The whole enclosure had been heavily walled about as a protection against any raiding bands of brigands; and there were even ancient cannon upon its battlement. The Great White Army 2011-03-12T03:00:25.450Z I can see him yet, standing there, one hand against his heart, his eyes straining up to the battlements from which no welcoming light gleamed. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z He had an instant of giddiness and weakness, at the discovery that the rope swung far out in the air, the wall being overhung by the battlements. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z In reality, this was a signal to Michac’s spy at the parapet of the Acropolis battlement to pass word to Michac to speak. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z They were strengthened by buttresses and crowned by battlements painted in brilliant colors. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Sons of the brave!—a barrier stanch Breasting the alien avalanche— Manning the battlements of Right; Up, for your Country, “God, and right!” Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z I looked for the lamp which, she told me, Should shine when her Pilgrim returned; But, though darkness began to enfold me, No lamp from the battlements burned! The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Ah, how truly he had spoken on the battlements of the ruined tower! and how bitterly the meaning of his words came home to her to-day! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z From the battlement I could see a dense and growing column of smoke.” The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z We mounted to the very top of the old battlement,—a glorious spot from which to watch a storm when the great waves roll up in close column and break over the rocks. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The Herald is sent to take the child from his mother, Andromache, and throw him over the battlements. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z There is a promenade on top about fifteen feet wide, and along the outer edge the old cannon given by the London companies still frown down through the embrasures of the battlement. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z And through the vast silence the silvery notes of a bird floated down to us from the far battlements of the crater. Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League 2011-03-03T03:00:48.280Z They had brought along a second umbrella aerial similar to that set up on the battlement of the Acropolis, which had been included in the outfit, and this they proceeded to set up. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z Following its course, one comes upon a small turret rising from the battlements, on which is the inscription, “From this tower, on September 27, 1645, King Charles saw his army defeated at Rowton Moor.” With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z Where the detester and active enemy of the Cavaliers in the lines that follow, dwelling proudly on the Towers and battlements ... The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z |
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