battlemented

How To Use battlemented In A Sentence

• 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
• 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.
• But on stepping from one of the windows of the parlor upon this battlemented bartisan, Anne of Geierstein
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Its red, white and blue uprights support a span depicting Derry's gates with a battlemented head topped by a crown.
• 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
• Those bastions were garrisoned, as was the battlemented traverse work cut to overhang the full width of the gate.
• 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