How To Use merlon In A Sentence
- Before his head was fully behind the merlon, the entire west wall of the compound shook, and fragments flew above and against the wall. Alector's Choice
- As soon as he felt they should be sufficiently distant, he crept hastily up the steps and flung himself through the embrasure, to flatten himself on the floor of the brattice under a merlon. A River So Long
- Her fingertips brush absently at a potted plant that sits before her, in one of the gaps between the toothlike blocks of green stone (merlons) that, in a castle, would have protected against enemy arrows.
- I can't help but it sounds like the author of that article has a few sour grapes to eat and never read a Fantasy book before, or he would not stumble over words like merlon and vambrace. Malazan at 10: An old interview with Steven Erikson
- But even as he made his way along the guardwalk, sensibly from merlon to merlon like an experienced soldier with a proper regard for his own skin, he found himself approving Philip's deployment of his bowmen and his espringales, and the practical way his garrison went about their defence. A River So Long
- I leaned on the embrasure between the teeth of the merlons and watched the activity on the streets below slowly die as the shadows drew longer.
- He leaned on the merlon and listened to the faint thrum of music from below, glad of the space between it and him. The Falcons of Montabard
- It was very low, with merlons of great thickness; and was constructed of earth, and a species of soft wood common in that country, called the palmetto, which, on being struck with a ball, does not splinter, but closes upon it. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
- Gasping from his climb, Strongfist lurched to the wall, leaned against a merlon and peered through the narrow crenel. The Falcons of Montabard
- Standing behind the center merlon, Kharl began to search for the rebel wizard, with both order-senses and eyes. Ordermaster
