How To Use Machicolate In A Sentence
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The carefully wrought and fully detailed weather vane, set high above the machicolated parapets of the building, at once attracts attention.
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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
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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.
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Just below the machicolated parapet there are traces of the older crenellations.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
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This imposing monument is strongly guarded with its round machicolated towers bearing terraces for the artillery.
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It is a small machicolated, projecting loggia used for defense.
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One cannot pass under machicolated gateways; rustle between the walls of fourteenth century fortifications; climb a stone stairway that begins in a watch-tower and ends in a rampart, with
In and out of Three Normady Inns
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Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice.
Quogue-mire!
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The cornices are machicolated, though nobody expects to pour hot lead from the machicoulis.
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With its great round bastions and tall machicolated towers, Lahore station may look as if it is the product of some short lived collaboration between the Raj and the Diney Corporation.
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machicolate the castle walls
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One enters the court of arms through a door with a pointed arch defended by a machicolated gallery above.
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The balcony can be reached by two bridges projecting from squat, machicolated towers - the houses have now been demolished, but the gallery remains.
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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
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Of the City gates, Gosford Gate had machicolated ones but not Spon Gate adjacent to the church.
The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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Each corner of these square towers is again surmounted by a projecting octagon turret, machicolated.
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An enceinte marked by the towers and machicolated balconies stretches along the Seine in front of the château.
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Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on.
The Turn of the Screw
