How To Use Battlement In A Sentence

Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
And yet what does the ghost on the battlement want but a repayment of what he believes he is owed? INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
If I kind of squinted and looked sideways, I could make out the white crow perphed on the battlements, looking down. Water Sleeps
With its mellow stonework and battlemented towers, mirrored on the surface of a broad moat skimmed on a summer day by turquoise dragonflies, Bodiam is everybody's idea of what a castle should look like. The House Impregnable
Voices came from the battlements, and a twinkle of steel.

The sixty-foot-high building was a giant block of granite capped with castlelike battlements and four octagonal guard towers at its corners. The Thieves of Darkness
Those blessed battlements (which had been of so much help to him ever since he had dashed from the wall across the grounds) were, now that he came to think of it, one of the recognized symbols in art of Sphigx, the lion-goddess of war; and Lion had been the name of Mucor's horned cat-of the animal she called her lynx, which had not harmed him. Nightside The Long Sun
In fact, standing on the top of Jodhpur's Meherangarh Fort watching hanuman langurs playing over the battlements and vultures spiralling on thermals above the blue-washed houses below pretty well sums up the charms of Rajasthan.
The square battlemented tower with its octagonal lantern above is poorly executed, but otherwise the uncommon conception arrests attention and is worthy of praise: The parvise chamber over the porch, like many others, was for a long period the town school. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
Others awaited Richard II on the battlements of Chester Castle, or in a glade of Sandiway Forest.
Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
She glanced up to the heights of the castle battlements and saw a tall, tawny haired figure upon the uppermost heights.
The Tower can only be entered from the battlements.
Thomas Johnson of London carved the "Kynge's beasts" on the battlements and on the femerell or lantern of the great Hall.
Wherever architectural details, such as porticoes or columns, were introduced, these dropped the old designs of "pointed" style or battlements, and took on the classic or the high Renaissance that ornaments the façade of Pavia's Certosa. The Tapestry Book
The final lap of my walk took me up to a viewpoint called the Battlements and on a clear day I could see Darwen Moors.
The form of the minarets, indeed, brings to mind the battlements of Rajput fort rather than the graceful tapering classical Islamic minaret.
And yet what does the ghost on the battlement want but a repayment of what he believes he is owed? INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
The law can no longer touch these princes of the realm personally, because adjacent to their palaces are their battlemented corporations, which can cover management malefactions by paying occasional fines as a routine cost of doing business. Reality bites
From the battlements, she can look over a bend in the River Thames, across the treetops to Eton College and out over farms, villages and shires of Berks and Bucks.
Latticed brickwork, brickwork meant to suggest battlements, and brick towers meant to look palatial.
Along one side of the square there ran the high brick wall, topped with a kind of battlement, that guarded the Maharajah's palace grounds from the eyes of men. Rung Ho
Two of the torches that illumined the battlements had been doused there, swathing the crenellations under a cloak of darkness. THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD
The castle's impressive battlements and tree-shaded gardens offer excellent views over the city and the estuary of the Tagus river.
Perpendicular window, the heads of the lights below the transom being cinquefoiled, while above each window is a cornice supported by small arches resting on corbels; over all is a pierced battlement, which is also crenelated at the actual east end. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
The walls are 5 feet thick, with a buttressed wooden walkway just behind the battlements.
Dougal looked to his left and saw a pair of Vanguard moving along the battlement toward them. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
Argent, with a fawn trippant on the battlements, proper, collared and lined. Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of crenellations (battlements).
The towers on each corner were squat and ugly, the crenellated battlements threatening. THE LAST TEMPTATION
After a poke around its battlements, I'll carry on to Colmar, a gorgeous little town in the heart of Alsace. Classic France: the insiders' guide
Some time ago, in a country that does not really exist anymore, a man once stood upon the battlements of a castle and surveyed his handiwork.
We can scarcely think the scene real, so completely do those machicolated towers, the long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the high-windowed walls, shape out our indistinct ideas of the antique time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
Standing on top of the battlements of the besieged city of Cardwell, Raven carefully took stock of the enemy armies encamped outside the stout Roman walls that had kept the besiegers at bay for almost a year.
Others awaited Richard II on the battlements of Chester Castle, or in a glade of Sandiway Forest.
A Gothic castle almost takes on the role of a central character: 'The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
Large barrels of the black, odorous fluid that oozed from pits in the swamp were carried within the walls and lifted to the battlements. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
She looked beyond the countless houses to the giant walls topped with battlements and many attaching towers to the dark and wasted dessert plains beyond, her true home.
They stand on battlements in places of great importance to us: on Israel's border, and Iraq's, in the Mediterranean between two NATO allies, in Europe on the border of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to deter a wider Balkan conflict, and in the Caribbean. Letter To Congress On Funds For Un Peacekeeping
It was strongly fortified and deemed so impregnable that the blind and lame were sent to man the battlements, in derisive mockery of the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A multitude of beautiful shapes appeared to be comprehended within its single outline; it was a kind of kaleidoscopic mystery, so rich a variety of aspects did it assume from each altered point of view, through the presentation of a different face, and the rearrangement of its peaks and pinnacles and the three battlemented towers, with the spires that shot heavenward from all three, but one loftier than its fellows. Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches
The bridge is easily spotted since the towers that hold up the cables on each side of the river loom up like the crenellated battlements of an English castle.
This old tower is a complete breeding-place for vagrant birds; the swallow and martlet abound in every chink and cranny, and circle about it the whole day long; while at night, when all other birds have gone to rest, the moping owl comes out of its lurking-place, and utters its boding cry from the battlements. The Alhambra
Beyond, past a storeroom on the fourth floor, the steps led through a series of wickets to a locked door leading to the battlements of the roof. THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
Steadily they smashed the mensurate battlements, in blackness beyond night and darkness without stars. The Marooner
It was only inches from Llewelyn's throat when he managed to wrench the man's wrist down against the stone battlement. HERE BE DRAGONS
The final lap of my walk took me up to a viewpoint called the Battlements and on a clear day I could see Darwen Moors.
The heavy yet hasty step of the men-at-arms traversed the battlements, or resounded on the narrow and winding passages and stairs which led to the various bartizans [Footnote: A bartizan is a sort of small overhanging balcony, built for defense or for lookout.] and points of defense. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
The swallow and martlet abound in every chink and cranny, and circle about it the whole day long; while at night, when all other birds have gone to rest, the moping owl comes out of its lurking place and utters its boding cry from the battlements. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Soldiers and staff watched from windows, doors, and battlements as we passed from bailey to bailey until we reached the courtyard around the huge central keep.
When he had played till he was tired and went to sleep, he would lie in a bed, in the arms of his nurse, on a soft couch, knowing neither want nor care, whereas now that he has lost his father his lot will be full of hardship -- he, whom the Trojans name Astyanax, because you, O Hector, were the only defence of their gates and battlements. The Iliad
The only clue as to where the dwarf could have got to was a love-starved weedeater gazing longingly downstream from the battlements. Archive 2010-06-01
The bailey and battlements were dotted with small fires, and men stood around them, more for something to do than for warmth.
There were no towers or battlements: only the faceted tholus, climbing until it lost itself against the sky and its momentary brilliancies were confounded with the faint star's. The Shadow of the Torturer
The battlements on which they had fought to defend their city are still intact.
Here, you can see stone cannon balls built into the castle walls, defensive battlements and interior living quarters.
Set within five acres of orchard and boasting battlements, parapet walkway, Great Hall and thick stone walls, the tower is perched above Crossford in the beautiful Clyde Valley.
But Prospero's insensibility to the nonhuman processes not merely behind and beyond the battlements, is ‘immune’ - as Prynne once wrote of the rain - ‘to all denial’.
The buildings sit like a sheltering battlement, a running bastion enclosing green space created from the earth mounds of excavated material.
There lies Minas Tirith, the City of Kings, a vast and elegant city built in seven levels of white stone carved into the hill, each level ringed by a wall with battlements and a gate.
There is a barrel-shaped tower dedicated to the Brownings, a pyramid to Moses, a battlement-like tower dedicated to General John C. Frémont. Joaquin Miller
Here, you can see stone cannon balls built into the castle walls, defensive battlements and interior living quarters.
The crenellated battlements are inauthentic 19th-century additions.
Mona leaned against the battlement and studied her parent's face, struck suddenly by its radiance. SURE OF YOU
It has been thought that some of the buildings represented on the bas-reliefs have triangular denticulation in place of the battlements figured on the last page; [317] and there are, in fact, instances in the reliefs of walls denticulated like a palisade (see Fig. 38), but these must not, we think, be taken literally. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
We ascended by the ancient stone newel stair that circled up from the old iron 'yett' of the entry to the battlements above, and laid a towel below the sash of every window. Border Ghost Stories
“Sharárif” plur. of Shurráfah = crenelles or battlements; mostly trefoil-shaped; remparts coquets which a six-pounder would crumble. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On the other side, up a steep incline, the rays of the setting sun shone against a rather imposing castle battlement. Healing the Highlander
Scottish corruption of "bratticing" or "brattishing," from O.Fr. _bretesche_, and meaning a battlemented parapet; apparently first used by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
Then she mounted the battlement and stood atop the roof, raving.
The approach would have been hard to breach, with the long, narrow entrance passage defended, in addition to gates, portcullises, two drawbridges, and ‘murder holes’, by fire from triple battlements.
Her husband altered what was then known as Snape House, turning it into a castle with battlements and a Gothic exterior.
Through a gap in the laurels they could see the ocean, stabbingly blue in contrast to the white dunes which reared battlements along the top of the gravel cliff. The Innocents A Story for Lovers
The apparition of Catherine Seyton, which the page had let loose in the first moment of astonishment, vanished in darkness; but the plash of oars was heard, and, in a second or two, five or six harquebuses and a falconet were fired from the battlements of the castle successively, as if levelled at some object on the water. The Abbot
Almost immediately this was surrounded by a lower battery providing fourteen further gun positions, while about 1550 a battlemented entrance block was built containing the governor's lodgings.
Is it in the whitewashing of the battlements, the mending of the roads, the fountains, and all such trumperies? The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1
Remembering how she had stood on the tower battlements the next morning, watching her knight ride away.
And with this disconsolate reflection, he wended his way to the bartizan or battlements of the tower, to watch what objects might appear on the distant moor, or to pelt, with pebbles and pieces of lime, the sea-mews and cormorants which established themselves incautiously within the reach of an idle young man. The Bride of Lammermoor
Proper battlements and an interesting museum. Times, Sunday Times
From the battlement of the tower float a flag in the soft wind.
The whole was illuminated by the beams of the low and setting sun, who showed his ruddy front, like a warrior prepared for defence, over a huge battlemented and turreted wall of crimson and black clouds, which appeared like an immense Gothic fortress, into which the lord of day was descending. Redgauntlet
The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey. The Romance of the Forest
A huge fireplace, painted in Italian style, dominates one wall and a glazed door leads on to a modern battlemented terrace looking on to the lake.
In the corner between them, a great coiling growth, blackened now in its winter hibernation, stripped of leaves, clambered as high as the battlements where the brattice began. A River So Long
There were three external walls, battlemented and turreted from space to space and at each angle, the second enclosure rising higher than the first, and being built so as to command the exterior defence in case it was won by the enemy; and being again, in the same manner, itself commanded by the third and innermost barrier. Quentin Durward
Its walls, towers and battlements are silhouetted against the sky.
Litlle castles, as is evident from the kernelling and the battlements mentioned. The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
Mona leaned against the battlement and studied her parent's face, struck suddenly by its radiance. SURE OF YOU
This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
Gilberte to discrown it of its chocolate battlements and to hew down the steep brown slopes of its ramparts, baked in the oven like the bastions of the palace of Darius. Within a Budding Grove
The architecture is Tudor style, complete with turreted parapets, fortified towers, arches and battlements.
As I kept up a brisk pace along the battlements of the castle, I sunk into my thoughts and was so absorbed that I didn't hear the footsteps coming up behind me.
Azure, two wolf's heads erased addorsed and conjoined at the neck issuant from the battlements of a demi-tower argent.
The roofs even had battlements, were Diago stood now.
These are strictly known as crenellations and gave defenders something solid to hide behind when they were not firing out from the gaps in between the stone battlements.
The W, S and E ranges had a third storey and battlements added in 1674, while the sashed windows existed from about 1718.
I would open an eye, waiting for it to absorb the scant light in the room, and I would see her on the far edge of the bed, the topography of her hips now a battlement to keep me at bay. Lovely
For this purpose, with slow and idle step, he paraded the terrace, which, flanked with a heavy stone battlement, stretched in front of the castle upon a level with the first story; while visitors found access to the court by a projecting gateway, the bartizan or flat-leaded roof of which was accessible from the terrace by an easy flight of low and broad steps. The Bride of Lammermoor
Small boys attracted to crumbling walls and shaking battlements care nothing for ‘danger’ signs or security fences.
I sat in the guard barracks in the outer wall of the castle battlements.
Li Li Chun still gave an account that ten remaining rises in the battlement ward of HengYang City to steer the sin truth of crary expilare.
Nervously, I moved forward, fumbling round the battlements until I came to a protruding wooden pole.
I sat in the guard barracks in the outer wall of the castle battlements.
The geometry of the rooflights gives the building a crenellated profile so it looms over its surroundings like a brooding castle battlement.
This was a massive bulk, a battlemented curtain wall, twin gate-towers, squat and strong, fronting this eastward approach, and the serrated crests of other flanking towers circling a tall keep within. A River So Long
Those bastions were garrisoned, as was the battlemented traverse work cut to overhang the full width of the gate.
Below the battlement was a room, and - as Maedhlyn had said - it was filled with interlocking wheels and levers. Last Sword Of Power
Then, as if ashamed of his weakness, he leaned from the carriage window, and forced himself to gaze on the towers and massive battlements. — “How little of happiness,” exclaimed he, “does the title annexed to this bold edifice bestow on its possessor! Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
He was all in hand when he led his men up over a rough stone causeway to a door in the bottom of a high battlemented wall and waited for somebody to open it. In The Time Of Light
The night of the fire Rochester saw the mad woman on the battlements of the hall and attempted to rescue her.
Its red, white and blue uprights support a span depicting Derry's gates with a battlemented head topped by a crown.
The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
On Sule Pagoda Road, there is a bizarre three-story building that would have made Wren wake up screaming: mullioned windows, crazily framed and blacked out, lozenge-shaped openings in crenellated towers, red battlements. Burma
The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. A Sicilian Romance
On a misty morning, it's a bewitching sight -- an abandoned Scottish castle with a soaring tower and crenelated battlements rising from a forested, six-acre island. Fortress on the Hudson
There is a barrel-shaped tower dedicated to the Brownings, a pyramid to Moses, a battlement-like tower dedicated to General John C. Frémont. Joaquin Miller
Dozens of sentries and crossbowmen kept watch on the battlements, and mounted cavalry patrolled the keep walls and the surrounding area.
She shushed him and signalled for him to move back to the other side of the battlements.
She saw the rifted clouds of glory and the hidden battlements of heaven. Archive 2006-01-01
He had his castles rebuilt, the walls repaired and strengthened, brattices and battlements constructed and trenches made in front of castles.
There is the fierce sound of voices yelling and hooting as we race up toward the moat's edge, firing at will, firing over the long black cannons that nose out along the battlement, silently commanding the northern horizon. Along the Battlement
Although the inner courtyard was destroyed in 1809 by Napoleonic troops, the walls and battlements remain intact and are worth the 15-minute climb it takes to reach them.
On the brow of this precipice stood a great building of the same granite that formed the cliff, built on three sides of a square, the fourth side being open, save for a kind of battlement pierced at its base by a little door. Allan Quatermain
Laconian territory, he came so close to the gates that their officers actually shut out their own Boeotian cavalry on the point of entering, in terror lest the Lacedaemonians might pour into the town in company, and these Boeotian troopers were forced to cling, like bats to a wall, under each coign of vantage beneath the battlements. Hellenica
It had been years since he had carried a fascine to war, a great wicker cylinder that was filled with soil and provided an instant battlement to protect men and guns from enemy artillery. Sharpe's Gold
It was only inches from Llewelyn's throat when he managed to wrench the man's wrist down against the stone battlement. HERE BE DRAGONS
Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet; but the gray lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights, together with incised letterings and shoe-patterns cut by idlers thereon. The Woodlanders
Until the early fifth century, this was a matter of putting up scaling ladders or constructing a siege mound against the city-wall while bombarding the battlements with javelins, arrows, and stones.
Among them, basic endowment insurance system and basic hospitalization insurance system definitely want to overwhelm battlement township population.
In the 1820s it was updated with some gothic features including a pointed entrance doorway with pinnacles and quatrefoil window, battlements on the end pavilions and a gothic conservatory with stone piers.
The lower battlements were smothered with flowstone. Deeper
Seagulls yelped in the distance above the sound of the crashing waves and flew among the turrets and battlements of the dark castle.
There lay before us, that same afternoon, the broken bridge of Avignon, and all the city baking in the sun; yet with an under-done-pie-crust, battlemented wall, that never will be brown, though it bake for centuries. Pictures from Italy
The world-famous stone, situated high in the battlements of the castle, dates back to 1314.
This singular ambition was realized in the remarkable building that now loomed before me, whose design was characterized by a discordant—if not utterly bizarre—juxtaposition of architectural embellishments, from medieval battlements, to Corinthian columns, to Oriental minarets, to the sort of elaborately scrolled buttresses characteristic of the Italian baroque—the entire, unparalleled combination giving to the whole an air of Arabian Nights fantasticalness, as though the building had sprung full-blown from the teeming reveries of an inordinately imaginative child. Nevermore
“So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates. Bloodlust
The architecture is Tudor style, complete with turreted parapets, fortified towers, arches and battlements.
Full many a lad fell on the battlements that were thrown up in haste, only to rise again and fight until a "soaker," wrung out in the gutter and laid away to harden in the frost, caught him in the eye and sent him to the rear, a reeling, bawling invalid, but prouder of his hurt than any veteran of his scars, just as his gang carried the band stand by storm and drove the Seventh-streeters from the Garden in ignominious flight. Children of the Tenements
We had ascended the steep staircase and out through a narrow trapdoor on to the roof of the tower, high above the battlements of his creaking ancestral pile.
It was not a castle, did not need moats or peel towers, and had no fortifications, unless the owner in the late 18th cent. had a taste for mock Gothic and battlements.
The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the _balista_, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the _onagri_, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
A glimpse at the vice-regal residence reveals a certain Byronic romanticism. It is battlemented , with sham turrets, massive chimney-stacks, and a good deal of carved stone.
The broken battlements, enwreathed with ivy, proclaimed the fallen grandeur of the place, while the shattered vacant window-frames exhibited its desolation, and the high grass that overgrew the threshold seemed to say how long it was since mortal foot had entered. A Sicilian Romance
On the battlements above, Jonat - helmet gone, sword dulled - watched helplessly as the Vagrians swept over the ramparts. Waylander
I saw before me a gloomy stronghold of brick, four-square, and built in the old Italian manner, with battlements at the top, and a small machicolation, little more than A Gentleman of France
But on stepping from one of the windows of the parlor upon this battlemented bartisan, Anne of Geierstein
As a building, Maison Krug disappoints - just a yard, cellar and offices - and I cast envious glances at other champagne houses in Reims, especially Pommery which is a fantastic Disneyland castle with battlemented walls.
There were massive walls, battlements, towers and huge building units.
At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements.
Beyond the arch, huge towers of gray stone rose straight up into the sky, topped by steeply pitched roofs and crenellated battlements. Earl of Durkness
It also required raising the limestone crenellated parapet that runs along the roof battlement.
But the high walls of the valley and the castle battlements no doubt served as their cliff. Times, Sunday Times
The "caitiff" in these chronicles of when knighthood was in flower is invariably hanged from "the highest battlement" -- the second highest would not do at all; or else he is thrown into "the deepest dungeon of the castle" -- the second deepest dungeon was never known to be used on these occasions. Ponkapog Papers.
Then he addressed himself to seeking a place wherein he might safely bestow himself and his horse and where none should descry him, and presently behold, he espied a-middlemost of the city a palace rising high in upper air surrounded by a great wall with lofty crenelles and battlements, guarded by forty black slaves, clad in complete mail and armed with spears and swords, bows and arrows. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There were battlements along the walls, and seven guards at the gate.
Into the side of one slope was lodged a fortress, complete with high walls and battlements.

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