How To Use machicolate In A Sentence
- The carefully wrought and fully detailed weather vane, set high above the machicolated parapets of the building, at once attracts attention.
- There was a rapid dashing beneath the great walls; a sudden night of darkness as we plunged through an open archway into a narrow village street; a confused impression of houses built into side-walls; of machicolated gateways; of rocks and roof-tops tumbling about our ears; and within the street was sounding the babel of a shrieking troop of men and women. In and out of Three Normady Inns
- The first step is to recognise what is going on, and to take steps to shore up the machicolated and moth-eaten institution in which I now sit.
- Just below the machicolated parapet there are traces of the older crenellations.
- Here and there amid this enormous game of knucklebones there could be traced the imaginary ruins of medieval cities with forts and dungeons, pepper-box turrets, and machicolated towers. Robur the Conqueror
- It is of vast extent, has five round towers with ramparts of cut stone, and is surrounded by walls with machicolated parapets. Brittany & Its Byways
- Massive gates and crumbling machicolated walls command a green plain, where immense waringen-trees, clipped into the semblance of evergreen umbrellas, display the Eastern symbol of sovereignty. Through the Malay Archipelago
- Besides an inner moat, completely surrounding the castle, there was also an outer one, protecting it on the north and west. {231c} Both these moats were supplied with water from the river Bain, and they had an inter-connection by a cut on the north side of the castle, close by which there was a small machicolated tower, probably connected with a drawbridge. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
- This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
- This imposing monument is strongly guarded with its round machicolated towers bearing terraces for the artillery.
