How To Use Moat In A Sentence

Their models are forts and castles, moats and drawbridges.
This would connect the castle to a roadway usually across a moat or ditch.
I'm now living on an island surrounded by a moat.
They are set in the middle of a moated mound which encloses a large area - once kitchen gardens.
The never completed keep is a great round tower divided by a moat from the inner curtain that curves inward to avoid it.

Also includes the site of the moated palace of King Edwin and Queen Ethelburga.
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
This limestone wave was shown to be one of a great series, running parallel with the Alps, and constituting an undulatory district, chiefly composed of chalk beds, separated from the higher limestone district of the Jura and Lias by a long trench or moat, filled with members of the tertiary series -- chiefly nummulite limestones and flysch. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
Christine and I came and piled a huge mound of sand for a castle, adding turrets and walls and digging a moat that filled anew with every wave that reached it.
Leukocyte chemoattractant chemerin as a novel immunotherapeutic agent. Newswise: Latest News
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
It is of great significance to identify the location of the moat precisely to protect, exhume and utilize the site further.
There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
At the back of the castle, there is a dry moat. Times, Sunday Times
Improvements over existing methods include cell migration in a defined, stable gradient of chemoattractant, a completely automated assay format, and a 10-fold reduction in cell usage. All - WTN News
One neighbour saw Moat returning to the house on Thursday afternoon dressed in khaki trousers and a khaki vest. Times, Sunday Times
The thirteenth-century Rocca Scaligera, with its elegant crenellations and swan-filled moat, is so photogenic that it might have been built by the local tourist board.
Their models are forts and castles, moats and drawbridges.
The moat had always been one of the glories of Castlemere, a smooth ring of water on which swans were accustomed to float. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
Think of a castle with a deep moat and a dozen cannon on the turrets.
Ahead of me was a miniature fairy castle, etched in coral with moats and ports and bastioned towers. F&S Classic: Five Fathoms Down
Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
For media owners around the globe, China must seem like a golden castle, surrounded by a deep moat full of crocodiles.
An earlier shot showed the man cowering in a corner of the dry moat surrounding the enclosure while the tiger loomed over him. Times, Sunday Times
This limestone wave was shown to be one of a great series, running parallel with the Alps, and constituting an undulatory district, chiefly composed of chalk beds, separated from the higher limestone district of the Jura and Lias by a long trench or moat, filled with members of the tertiary series -- chiefly nummulite limestones and flysch. On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
The wooded gardens lie beneath the Verdala Palace, a moated medieval castle.
Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
Angkor Thom, the capital city built after the Cham sack of 1177, is surrounded by a 300-foot wide moat.
A deep trench which creates a moat around each transistor to isolate it from its neighbours lowers distortion.
'Moat-cock' would be prettier, and characteristic; for in the old English days they used to live much in the moats of manor-houses; mine is the name nearest to the familiar one; only note there is no proper feminine of 'pullus,' and I use the adjective 'pulla' to express the dark color. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
The formation of pseudopods and lamellae after ligation of chemoattractant sensitive G-protein coupled receptors is essential for chemotaxis.
About 40 m in from the moat is a laterite wall, 4.5 m high, with large single entrances from the east, north, and south, and five entrances on the west.
Moat patients of supinator syndrome often get satisfactory effects after conservation treatment, and the ones who are failed can get the improvement from surgical treatment timely.
Conrade Horst forced his way over moat and wall, must thou be malapert? — Quentin Durward
Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers. Anatomy of Melancholy
The last stronghold of the Druids, it was also rich in history and lore, from its moated, thirteenth-century Beaumaris Castle to its Tudor pubs and Georgian mansions. William and Kate
[The word _birm_ seems to have the same meaning as berme (Fr. _berme_), which, in Fortification, denotes a piece of ground of three, four, or five feet in width, left between the rampart and the moat or foss, designed to receive the ruins of the rampart, and prevent the earth from filling the foss. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Features a huge banqueting hall, moat and a fire pit. The Sun
The sandbags have been filled, the drawbridge raised and the moat replenished with hungry crocodiles.
Both C3a and C5a are also known chemoattractants for inflammatory cells.
Bodiam Castle is one of the UK's most perfectly preserved moated castles. B&B review | Black Rock House, Hastings
Moat patients of supinator syndrome often get satisfactory effects after conservation treatment, and the ones who are failed can get the improvement from surgical treatment timely.
It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth.
Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers. Anatomy of Melancholy
There was a single moat surrounding the castle at the base of the mountain, and a drawbridge was continually being let down to let the samurai and retainers ride across to Shintaku.
Although the donjon was a fundamental element of castle design from Norman times, Greenwich had no fortifications, no moat, and no visible sense of being a castle. The Dragon’s Trail
While she lay dying she asked her husband to use her own body to help fill up the moat, which was done. Christianity Today
Yet Sarah Palin's leaked demands (including three deluxe hotel rooms, a private aircraft that "must be a Lear 60 or larger", and a "bendable" straw) have made her not only the envy of our former expense-claiming MPs, for whom a simple moat is now an unattainable dream, but also the peer of many rock stars. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
It refers to the competitive advantage that a company has over other firms in its industry; the wider the moat, the more attractive the company.
Originally it had, perhaps, been moated, though now the remains of Edwardian gardening prevailed.
Liberty — their liberty; an earth-born creature, nursed in the black mud of the Bastile moats and dungeons, and necessarily betraying many evidences of its unwholesome bringing-up — but the Inquisition used it in the name of Heaven. Pictures from Italy
The duckling had crossed a moat that surrounds an island where gorillas live at Bristol Zoo. The Sun
While she lay dying she asked her husband to use her own body to help fill up the moat, which was done. Christianity Today
A moat of icy water separates them from civilisation.
You enter a plush lounge bar on street level packed with hip scenesters, and take a steel stairwell to a basement grotto ringed by a moat.
Niccolò, therefore, caused this castle to be built, which he strengthened with massive walls and towers commanding the whole city, and rendered inaccessible by surrounding it with a deep and wide canal from the river Reno.], and modern civilization has not crossed the castle moat, to undignify its exterior with any visible touch of the present. Italian Journeys
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
It took many years to restore this fine, moated 17th century château and its cellars.
Police were called to the one-bedroomed property, which backs on to the city walls at Moatside Court, by neighbours complaining about a bad smell.
On contact with the chemoattractant they form oxygen free radical species and there is release of lysosomal enzymes after phagocytosis.
Close at the heels of his messenger came Cecil Barker, our friend of the moated Manor House. Chennai
Although they have yet to be labelled smug, morally diseased puritans by senior French philosophers, Moat's critics are rapidly discovering that theirs is the thicko side of the argument. Polanski's 'genius' is only a defence to the morally vacuous
Gates were always specially protected and designed, built as guarded approaches, deafened by earth and water, scarps, counterscarps, moats.
I had always looked on the Moat as my refuge at the last; now it seemed the only desirable thing -- a lonely nook, in which to lie down and end the dream there begun -- either, as it now seemed, in an eternal sleep, or the inburst of a dreary light. Wilfrid Cumbermede
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
My legions were set in a convenient crenel overlooking the drawbridge and the low, swampy woods about a mile off to the west of the moat house. Virginity
Moat crept up on him and blasted him in the face and chest from point-blank range. The Sun
The idea came to him during a storm, as he swam in the moat of his Suffolk farmhouse and watched the raindrops dancing on the surface like tiny water sprites.
The inquest is trying to establish whether Moat intended to commit suicide or if he pulled the trigger involuntarily. The Sun
The walled citadels in some early cities developed into elaborate palisades, walls, and moats to protect the multitude of Iron Age and medieval cities throughout much of the country.
Thornham Hall was a perfect Tudor red brick moated hall with a classic straight and gated drive through the Park.
This week I would ask readers to take a look around Kilmead and maybe have a wander up around the Moat of Ardscull.
He also branded Moat a coward for leaving him to take the rap. The Sun
It took three months to fill the moat. Times, Sunday Times
In August 1552 the young Tsar led a Russian army, perhaps 150,000 strong, to besiege Kazan, a walled and moated town set on a hill.
I thought of water, like a moat, but that was not possible.
The castle moat divided this species of barbican [Footnote: A barbican is a tower or outwork built to defend the entry to a castle or fortification.] from the rest of the fortress, so that, in case of its being taken, it was easy to cut off the communication with the main building, by withdrawing the temporary bridge. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Water simply passes out from the wall, falls against a flat surface and trickles into a surrounding moat.
The release of the chemoattractant IL - 8 by isolated cells may help explain the neutrophil infiltration that occurs later during VILI.
An earlier shot showed the man cowering in a corner of the dry moat surrounding the enclosure while the tiger loomed over him. Times, Sunday Times
One of the moat brilliant of modern French writers [1] has recently remarked that, in spite of the number of years which have elapsed since the grave closed over the sorrows of Marie Antoinette, and of the almost unbroken series of exciting events which have marked the annals of France in the interval, the interest excited by her story is as fresh and engrossing as ever; that such as Hecuba and Andromache were to the ancients, objects never named to inattentive ears, never contemplated without lively sympathy, such still is their hapless queen to all honest and intelligent Frenchmen. The Life of Marie Antoinette
Crab and avocado salad, served as a fat tian in a little moat of gazpacho, for 6.95? Times, Sunday Times
The moat is a metaphor for the barrier between the voters and their elected representatives. Times, Sunday Times
The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.
Its dark red color; its gloominess, which is partly due to its architectural severity; its four mighty towers -- all combine to cause a feeling of fear, especially on moonlight nights, when the shadows of the towers fall on the water in the moat, which still surrounds the castle as in days of old. Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
Firefighters dig a moat to isolate the burning coal and then fill the trench with noncombustible material, such as rock.
Besides a moat filled with rain water by way of the castle aqueducts, there were two walls, the lower outer and the higher inner.
The real Castle of Otranto, built by the Aragonese who eventually repelled the Turks, is a photogenic, perfectly preserved, white fortress, with turrets and gunwales and surrounded by a waterless moat and accessible only by drawbridge. Nina Burleigh: Remembering Too Well
As we approached it, there was the wooden drawbridge and the beauti - ful broad moat as still and luminous as quicksilver in the cold, winter sunshine. Chennai
We found that the HCHF diet induced a high inflammatory status my italics, as indicated by increased concentrations of interleukin 6, tumor necrosis factor TNF-alpha, and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1. Baboon business | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
He also branded Moat a coward for leaving him to take the rap. The Sun
In one corner was the picturesque Fosse Labarre, a wide horseshoe moat enclosing a little garden, now a machine-gun emplacement, where grew the cumfrey, teazle and yellow flag. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.)
An earlier shot showed the man cowering in a corner of the dry moat surrounding the enclosure while the tiger loomed over him. Times, Sunday Times
The magnificent Junagarh Fort, the main attraction of the place has a 986-meter long wall with 37 bastions, a moat and two entrances.
Downtown today is a strange and atmospheric four mile area cut off like a citadel from the rest of the region by a moat-like ring of freeways.
One of the best means of determining whether a company possesses such a moat is to examine its earnings. AHEAD OF THE MARKET
I can see the great royal palace of Mandalay, shimmering across the moat.
The moat was clogged with debris and weeds, silted and foul-smelling. HERE BE DRAGONS
Its present appearance, a picturesque ruin surrounded by a wide moat full of water lilies, masks its serious military purpose.
A bridge spanned the moat in front of the entrance.
The walls and the moats, the gates and the sentinels, the long High Street with the great government buildings, and the constant rattle of drums and blare of trumpets; they made my little heart beat quicker beneath my sagathy stuff jacket. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
One of their mutts ill-advisedly chased the deviant, and by the time the owner caught up, the man had engaged the pet in some hot heritage dry moating. The Register
If you’re going to express confidence in batshit schemes, why not a moat filled with sharks with frickin’ laser beams? Matthew Yglesias » Enforcement
84 Pikes: A powerful, toothed fish, of gaunt build ( "lank"), found in streams, lakes and moats, noted for its cannibalism. The Beggar's Opera
Today was the first time I walked around its tranquil little garden and surveyed its moat.
A romantic 15-acre garden with a Saxon mound planted with yuccas, agapanthus, lilies, hosta and geraniums, dry moat, poplar avenue, yew hedges and terraces leading to riverside walks.
A bridge spans the moat from the gently sloping walk to the house entrance.
In addition, players will use moated forts to garrison vast armies or seize control of key strategic points and explore new technology trees, governed by religion and prestige.
The large pond not only provided fresh fish for the city markets but also helped keep the moat around the walls filled with water.
This looks like one arm of a moat around a medieval house on the site. Times, Sunday Times
It is surrounded by a deep and impressive moat, through parts of which a river now flows. Times, Sunday Times
Work has already begun on dynamiting the rocky landscape to create space for the construction of the moat.
For a short time, after the death of Mr James Smith senior in the 1950's, the garage was leased by Mr Elliot and known as Moat House Motors.
He wondered if that moat would have the same effect on him as spring water or rain water would.
In the most widely used approach, multiwell plate inserts with porous membranes are used to partition cells and chemoattractant into separate compartments. All - WTN News
The verge, both of the outer and inner circuit of this triple moat was strongly fenced with palisades of iron, serving the purpose of what are called chevaux de frise in modern fortification, the top of each pale being divided into a cluster of sharp spikes, which seemed to render any attempt to climb over an act of self destruction. Quentin Durward
The 35 students donned dungarees and bought the paint from student funds to brighten up Medlock Primay in Ardwick, Withington's Moativate Community Centre and Burnage Community Centre.
The adjacent moat was found to contain the well preserved skulls of two lions and a leopard, and dog skulls - possibly mastiffs used for baiting - which were dated to between the 14th and 17th centuries.
Chemotaxis is measured by counting the cells that pass through the membrane toward the chemoattractant in the outer compartment. All - WTN News
How beest thou on this summer day, with thy eyes sparkling like brackish moat water? Over the Moon
It is hewn from local stone, has giant timber beams and large fireplaces, but has no turrets or moats.
From this point the police were seemingly always one step behind Moat. Times, Sunday Times
Olivia mourns like Mariana in the moated grange - richly, and with repeated Victorian rituals.
Archers were posted on the walls of the castle, easily able to pick off any enemies that wanted to try their luck at crossing the wide moat.
Troughlike flower beds, fed by the runoff from the roof gutters, surrounded the squat buildings like a moat. Excerpt: Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese
We saw a number of men in turbans outside the castle by the moat. JEM SULTAN: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe
There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
When the firing stopped, they dropped into the dry moat and surrendered. Times, Sunday Times
The moat is large enough to provide living accommodation for the moorhens as well as a number of resident and visiting ducks and, except in a very hot summer, well supplied with water to cater for plenty of aquatic activities.
Both have heavy drapes, fourposters and views over the moat from a private veranda. Times, Sunday Times
Corticosteroid treatment suppressed other proangiogenic factors in hemangioma-derived stem cells, including urokinase plasminogen activator receptor, interleukin-6, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, and matrix metalloproteinase 1. Medlogs - Recent stories
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 fungus has just two mating types and pheromones are secreted to act as chemoattractants for identifying compatible mating partners.
When the moat is deep a ladder can be used.
An earlier shot showed the man cowering in a corner of the dry moat surrounding the enclosure while the tiger loomed over him. Times, Sunday Times
Surrounded by a broad moat, the palace buildings are arranged around a great inner court.
The sun was shining, the sakura were blooming, and about 20,000 people lay down in the grass around the castle moat and drank themselves silly.
A deep moat that surrounds the citadel has kept it from being damaged.
But if you know the trail through the paddies, you can walk among the weeds, cross the shallow dip which was a moat, pass by lumps of rain-pressed earth once called breastworks and stand on a flat place so hard packed the grass does not grow. The Village
After doing Industrial Security in some of the roughest English Industrial Towns, we found that "moating" vulnerable doors and walls against heavy equipment traffic was a great help in preventing the equipment from prizing open doors, or more simply being run backwards through the doors and walls. SurvivalBlog.com
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
Moat spent most of the confrontation with the police holding his sawn-off shotgun to his head and neck before pulling the trigger at 1. 15am. Raoul Moat family seeks second postmortem
Not yet were cities begirt with steep moats; there were no trumpets of straight, no horns of curving brass, no swords or helmets. "The real problem with literary types is..."
There is a little moat, a shallow trough of water, all along the front lip of the stage.
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Again there was no moat, just a glacis, so that they had to mount a kind of stone hill leading up to the wall. Labor Policy
The oldest surviving parts of Smithills Hall were built in the 14th century on a moated site, owned by the Radclyffe family.
A thick murky dust covered its surface and contrasted with the radiance of the moat below.
A bridge spans the moat from the gently sloping walk to the house entrance.
To serve, Lawrence suggests a sprinkling of wheatgerm on top, and a moat of milk.
I asked the students to consider the courtyard space, and stimulated thought about guard houses, archways, entrance ways, lower courtyards, moats and drawbridges.
It had a drawbridge that was not over a moat filled with water, but a chasm that seemed to go to the center of the Earth.
He also branded Moat a coward for leaving him to take the rap. The Sun
Could there not be a more restrained approach, so as not to overexcite other budding Moats out there or, indeed, our own slathering selves? Now Raoul Moat is dead, perhaps we should all feel a little sick
Our thoughts have come down so low from the lofty donjon with the vision of which we set out that we begin to think of the smaller kind of moated houses in our own land. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine
At the back of the castle, there is a dry moat. Times, Sunday Times
Netrins are chemoattractants for commissural axons in the vertebral spinal cord.
They were more ambivalent about Montesquieu - a magistrate in the parlement of Bordeaux, a feudal lord living in a moated castle, and an apologist for noble power.
A moated palace was built at Eltham which became a favourite home of Plantagenet monarchs during the 14th and 15th centuries.
It is surrounded by trenches, electric wire and moats; there are watchtowers at regular intervals.
And as for the squire in the moated country house, or the headmaster … It seems to me that Upward took a conscious decision to rid himself of this hedonism and to become a fiction writer with a mission. The Captive Mind
She crept up to the base and was not surprised to find the place surrounded by a wide and probably deep moat.
There the flowers are surrounded by thick tissue and, in some cases, even a protective moat filled with rainwater or the plants' own secretions.
The whole spreading fortress was surrounded not just by a moat, but by a deep artificial lake.
On three sides, the Moat is jammed against the walls of back gardens. Times, Sunday Times
On the north-east corner is the cellar, complete with winter bee boles and a drainage channel out to the moat.
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
More than 300 meters in diameter, Qala-i Jangi was of the style known as Vaubanian - built with moats, ramparts, scarps and counterscarps and parapets.
A young woman sat in an embrasure on one of the highest parapets overlooking the moat of the castle.
This is what we are after, Mr. Barker -- this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat. Chennai
We saw a number of men in turbans outside the castle by the moat. JEM SULTAN: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe
A deep nullah surrounds the town like a moat. Times, Sunday Times
Even the tiniest of curious children, were there any present to play here, would not be able to squeeze itself through the doorway on the other side of the little dried-up moat, knees resting on drawbridge, as I could imagine myself as an eight-year-old very much wanting to do. Sullen Months, Möbius Strips
It was walled at one end with cob, and it too was moated with little drainage channels. Wildwood
Arnold parked in the main street and walked back up the road towards the castle, crossed the moated bridge and entered the castle grounds. A TROUT IN THE MILK
They crushed each other as they swarmed across the moats and ditches between them and the packages.
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In those days, the merest suggestion that a nationalized army was under consideration by some illegitimate, foreign-born blackamoor prince or other was enough to send our gallant, free-enterprising forebears scuttling back to their moat-girded castles for the billhooks, maces, broadswords, and war hammers guaranteed them under the Second Amendment to Erik Bloodaxe's Rules of Civilized Mayhem. Stop the Government Takeover of America's Armed Forces!
A British-made moat is far preferable to an intruder alarm, almost certainly assembled with foreign parts. Times, Sunday Times
Heavy velvet drapes in blood red, cut a vertical moat from the outside world, and bathed the room in candle glow orange.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.
East and West of the yard is seen the semi-circular moat or ditch; and on an eminence near the western extremity of the ballium, stands the keep or round tower, the walls of which are said to have been twenty-one feet thick. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
The four-meter-thick walls are as solid as ever, and swans still glide over the moat's limpid waters.
Continue westwards and you'll come to graceful willows drooping over a moat. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme includes restoration of hedges around a moated field south of the village which is thought to be the site of the home of the Skipwith family in the late 14th century.
Even though no roads are in the way in the rear of the building, it's just as effectively sealed off from its surroundings as if it were surrounded by a moat.
Ch teau d'Issan, best known for its picturesque moated castle, allegedly served at the wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry Plantagenet, has finally begun to live up to its third-growth ranking. A Tale of Two Ch
It is surrounded by a deep and impressive moat, through parts of which a river now flows. Times, Sunday Times
A woman in a long golden coat stands, immobile, on the stone bridge over the moat. Times, Sunday Times
A woman in a long golden coat stands, immobile, on the stone bridge over the moat. Times, Sunday Times
As the truck crossed the two-lane and turned onto the wood bridge that spanned the moat around the Abelard house, Clete memorized the tag and dialed a number on his cell phone. The Glass Rainbow
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 island was surrounded by a moat with steep and slippery red clay sides.
The castle had a deep moat which emptied into the lake.
The duckling had crossed a moat that surrounds an island where gorillas live at Bristol Zoo. The Sun
It induces the production of nitric oxide and inhibits the activation of monocyte chemoattractant protein.
Wherefore, one of ye go to Locksley, and bid him commence a discharge of arrows on the opposite side of the castle, and move forward as if about to assault it; and you, true English hearts, stand by me, and be ready to thrust the raft endlong over the moat whenever the postern on our side is thrown open. Ivanhoe
He's probably spent his life languishing in this moated monstrosity.
How can one be sure that the dry moat surrounding the enclosures would actually prevent the lions or the bears from jumping across?
Those ominous vines grew in profusion, twisting in dense layers over the lean-to, as if defensively, and the entire platform was surrounded by beasties—iguanas, frogs, snakes, deer mice, and coatimundi made up a creeping moat. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve

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