How To Use Palisade In A Sentence

Huts, fences and palisades are often fashioned from saplings and shoots, and basketry is thus commingled with comforting notions of home, security and comfort.
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
He considered the warriors guarding the palisade gate, his broad face thoughtful. Fire The Sky
In this quarter the palisades were the weakest, and the ground the least elevated; but it was guarded by men on whose skill with axe and shield Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged.

Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood. After London Or, Wild England
So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park. Attack Of the Aliens
In July, 2006, our company newly established artistic palisade processing factory undertaking processing and installation project.
The odd white flag with the red cross of St George snaps in the breeze on a makeshift flagpole of old aerials, high above the iron palisades, as if this was the last redoubt of a race on the verge of extinction.
In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade. Ivanhoe
He then sailed north to Paracoa Bay where he built a palisade to protect his caravels before he careened them in order to repair their poorly maintained hulls.
There were signs of an assault in the damaged wooden palisade, but the abbey itself appeared unharmed.
Early French St. Louis was a compact settlement, and lots were enclosed with palisades.
The house was surrounded by yards and defended by a wooden palisade around the edge of the hill.
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls, so that Roman missile engines could more effectively engage them.
The school has already had to put up a palisade fence inside the school grounds to protect the quadrangle and has been employing a security guard to patrol when the school buildings are hired out.
It is rightly surrounded by legal and ethical palisades. Times, Sunday Times
They surrounded the yard with a palisade.
There are good reasons for suggesting that the pit was a grave, and that the wood was all that remained of a palisaded barrow, not unlike examples excavated in the Netherlands.
They have just bough a house in Pacific Palisades, a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles.
The side was covered with a wooden palisade fence, with barbed wire on the top.
There was a timber palisade around the top, which would have contained great stone buildings to hold the garrison.
These include a palisaded enclosure, a possible pagan temple, and what appears to be part of a Roman amphitheatre.
Otherwise, on whose authority do those censorious correspondents write who continually fret and complain because a dynamic world language cannot be constrained within the dilapidated palisade of their rusty rules?
Already in this phase the village was surrounded by two wooden palisades defending the upper and lower slopes.
When it was completed, this counterwork consisted of a solid stone wall, crowned with wooden towers, and defended in front by a palisade. Stories from Thucydides
The province of Friesland, which is eighty-eight kilometers long, is protected by three rows of enormous palisades sustained by blocks of Holland, v. 1 (of 2)
To one side along the palisade stood crofts which held penned goats, cattle, and a few sheep.
In the palisade was a mighty breach, not an entrance-way, wide enough to admit six Daniel Lamberts abreast. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
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.
Nevertheless, there is a consensus that the palisade layer, which develops from the outer epidermis of the outer ovular integument, is critical in determining the permeability property of a seed coat.
In 1712, Fort Michilimackinac - a palisade of pointed logs and blockhouses surrounding log buildings - was built by the French on the southern side of the straits as a fortified trading post.
The material found in front of the palisade fence, in the ditches, and within the interior suggested to the excavator that the site was used for ritual, ceremonial, and funerary purposes by a fairly large group of people.
Around all these houses they put a triple palisade, that is three rows of stout, sharpened stakes, driven deep into the ground and rising full six feet above it. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky
[Footnote: The term "blockhouse" was loosely used, and was even sometimes applied to an entire fort when constructed of hewn logs, and not of palisades. A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II
This experience is even more pronounced in the Double Torqued Ellipses, which consist of two curving palisades nested one inside the other.
It has been thought that some of the buildings represented on the bas-reliefs have triangular denticulation in place of the battlements figured on the last page; [317] and there are, in fact, instances in the reliefs of walls denticulated like a palisade (see Fig. 38), but these must not, we think, be taken literally. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Altogether, though, with the palisades which were 23 feet in length and supported by marble columns at each end, the weight was 40 tons.
In one corner of the square formed by the palisades were the kitchen and offices. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
At length, branching off from Solomon's Great Road, we came to the wide fosse surrounding the kraal, which is at least a mile round, and fenced with a strong palisade of piles formed of the trunks of trees. King Solomon's Mines
This fort was a square piece of ground, inclosed with substantial puncheons, or strong palisades, about ten feet high, and leaning a little outwards, to make a scalade more difficult. The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published
In the outwork was a sallyport corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade. Ivanhoe
Some were working outside a thick palisade of wooden palings which ran circling outside the buildings.
Leaf mesophyll is differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma, epidermis is already formed.
Lee ferry, and trolleying from the Palisades through Hackensack to Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
After passing over a hilly road we crossed a marsh which extends from Carentan to the sea, and reached a town called La Haye-du-Puits — a singular name derived from the custom in the middle ages of surrounding the "motte" or enclosure upon which the donjon was built, with a wooden palisade, or sometimes with a thick hedge formed of thorns and branches of trees interlaced: hence La Haye-du-Puits, La Haye-Pesnel, and others. Brittany & Its Byways
Without the palisade was a space of waste land, marsh and thicket, tapering to the narrow strip of sand and scrub joining the peninsula to the forest, and here and there upon this waste ground rose a mean house, dwelt in by the poorer sort. To Have and to Hold
The town was ablaze, the wooden palisade was a now raging ring of inferno.
This distinctive industry may have been tied to new timbering practices, such as posts and palisades at the town and mound centers.
He looked around the village, which consisted of half a dozen mud huts and a wooden palisade with a ditch surrounding it.
The next, he took heart again, for there beside him was the hole in the palisade through which he had crept into the _kainga_ an hour before. Adventures in Many Lands
Houses may be round, square, or beehive-shaped; in some areas, clusters of huts are enclosed in wooden palisades.
A banked or palisaded riverside enclosure with temporary dwellings and safe moorings for ships is probable.
Some had awoken already - mainly shopkeepers - and mustered gaily on the streets, some in the outer courtyard where the wooden palisades separated her father's estate from the serf lands.
The daimyo and their warriors also built numerous stockades, palisades, and barricades of wood.
It is rightly surrounded by legal and ethical palisades. Times, Sunday Times
So watchful and skilful were the besieged, that the greatest havoc had been made amongst the men employed in working the engines, and not yet had even the palisades and barbacan been successfully stormed. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
A new program that would start this summer calls for squirrels in Palisades Park to be injected with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt sexual development.
Building banks or palisades of bamboo is one defence, but each year the work has to be repeated.
One section of palisade was burned, and within the burned remains were numerous flint arrowheads, possibly used as ‘fire arrows’.
The African village required construction of yellow and black native huts, palisades, sacrificial altars, and jungle backdrop.
The war wagons were mobile walls of metal, each crowned with a spearlike palisade. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
He put on the head-dress and war-cloak of the savage; and, taking the barrico on his shoulder, and the spear in his hand, the poles which barred the door were softly removed by William, and after ascertaining that no one was concealed beneath the palisades, Ready pressed William's hand, and set off across the cleared space outside of the stockade, and gained the cocoa-nut trees. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
On top of this Palisade cliff where Palm trees sway with the ocean breeze, you will find a charming park, a mile long, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
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 king ordered the Agrianians and the archers from Crete inside the palisade, but kept his infantry in reserve. Alexander the Great
In the outwork was a sally-port corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade. The Literary World Seventh Reader
One such place, deep in the north Vermont woods above the village of Dalton Pond, is the palisade on Crooked Mountain, the Abenaki Ledges. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
I happened one day to pass along the lane I have described as skirting the garden of the manor-house, on my way homewards to my farm; and on plunging my eyes, as usual, into the verdant depths of the clipped yew-walks, visible through the iron-palisades, was struck by the contrast afforded to the scene I had just witnessed, not only by its aristocratic tranquillity, but by the grave and subdued deportment of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
Some were working outside a thick palisade of wooden palings which ran circling outside the buildings.
Immediately, the chief appeared at the palisades, rubbing sleep from his eyes, but still awake enough to raise the alarm.
The artist, one of Israel's two representatives at the 1999 Venice Biennale, assembled old toys and other attic memorabilia within a wooden palisade inscribed with Yiddish phrases.
Stupid kids get killed falling off the Palisades trying to sneak into the park through a hole in the Cyclone fence.
The gate opened and closed, the leaders vanished from sight, and the common men of both parties resumed their silent surveillance of each other: the men on the palisade, and the men squatting beside their boat, with a broad stretch of sand between; and beyond a strip of blue water, the carack, with steel caps glinting all along her rail. The Conquering Sword Of Conan
The ditch and palisaded dyke would have made it difficult for Welsh raiders to enter England, but almost impossible for them to return laden with any booty such as cattle.
At the platform atop the palisade, we found Darting Snake. Fire The Sky
A new program that would start this summer calls for squirrels in Palisades Park to be injected with an immuno-contraceptive vaccine to stunt sexual development.
On reaching the lane I have so often described as skirting the gardens of the old Hall, I noticed, through the palisades, a person, probably one of the gardeners, sauntering along Lady Robert's favourite yew-walk. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
By renovating the palisade fence around the centre, we want to keep our facilities visible to the public so that locals can assist us by keeping an eye out for any unlawful activities in our yard.
All auxiliary arrangements, such as palisades, abattis, &c., should be defended with the utmost obstinacy; the longer the enemy is held in check by these obstacles, the longer will he be exposed to the grape and musketry of the main work. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition
In this glade the camp had been built, surrounded by a "boma" or palisade of rough wood, within which stood two tents and some native shelters made of tall grass and boughs. A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa
palisades," as they are called, by which we sailed; the enemy, strange to say, being for once unaware of the movement we contemplated. The Virginians
De Soto was so angry he ordered all the survivors—men, women, and children—tied to the palisade posts. Fire The Sky
This characteristic results from the absence of one or two layers in palisade, since the crystalliferous layer is always present.
Water infatuation is implicit in the location of many henges, while the massive palisaded enclosures at West Kennet, partly visible from Silbury, straddled the Kennet.
This is notably different from the one at La Joyanca, which was only about half a metre high and served as a base for a wooden palisade.
Pay attention as it cuts its way among the hills that cluster close to the palisades of the Kentucky River, where the countryside begins to undulate, forming a thousand tiny hillocks and dells, all covered with grass picked shaggy by grazing cattle. Driving directions
Reconnoitring the _kainga_ in the light of the risen moon Hugh stealthily approached the palisade surrounding it. Adventures in Many Lands
The palisade fencing which was promised to seal off the play area in the Curragh Downs estate is now in place.
They even constructed palisades beyond the southern walls of the town to prevent escape. Alexander the Great
Strong, hard, and lignified (as in bamboo), they act like a wooden palisade across the hill slope. 4 Questions and Answers
One night they crept unobserved through the arsenal and over the inner palisade, but on reaching the rampart they came face to face with two of the officers, and again a leap into the fosse was the only way of escape. The True Story Book
If there were guards posted in the watchtower, he could not see them from the covered porch because although the palisade was a simple pole structure, the gate itself had a doubled entry-way: You had to enter through the outer gate into a small, confined area, where you waited for the inner gate to be opened to admit you to the town. Spirit Gate
Although the British had an advantage in arms, Maori had an advantage in tactics, and their pa of earth and wooden palisades absorbed artillery shells.
The palisade is an open structure which would not have been defensive and was too high to be practical for controlling livestock. Stonehenge ‘Was Hidden from Lower Classes’ | Disinformation
Earlier excavations revealed stone ramparts, a palisade and waterlogged remains in the ditches, including what looks like a wheel and a ladder.
Most books mark the route's end where Santa Monica Boulevard intersects Ocean Avenue, on the palisades above Santa Monica State Beach.
Alison Roberts, 20, from Exeter University, works on the palisade of the Iron Age settlement at Sutton Common, near Doncaster.
To the delight of many, Gary correctly spelled "palisade" as the rest of the competitors, in a tense tie-breaker, fell by the wayside stumbling over words such as "usurper", "purloin" and Nst online
The odd white flag with the red cross of St George snaps in the breeze on a makeshift flagpole of old aerials, high above the iron palisades, as if this was the last redoubt of a race on the verge of extinction.
One such place, deep in the north Vermont woods above the village of Dalton Pond, is the palisade on Crooked Mountain, the Abenaki Ledges. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN
The hill where they were feigning to build their wooden palisade commanded a great view of the surrounding countryside.
During such movement, oil molecules diffused into the cytoplasm of both palisade and spongy cells.
He referred to the little swivel guns, which Adam Stephen commanded, his gunners tearing down some of the palisades to give them a field of fire. George Washington’s First War
Steel palisade fences have now been put up to stem the tide of vandalism.
Enclosed by an unbroken palisade of building, this space seemed the perfect Eden.
These differences demonstrate that the Snake River finespotted cutthroat trout population found above Palisades Reservoir is not a single homogeneous entity but consists of several subpopulations associated with different tributary streams and different life histories migratory and nonmigratory that maintain a high degree of reproductive isolation. Trout and Salmon of North America
Nobunaga's men took shelter themselves behind palisades and fusilladed the enemy so hotly that the old-fashioned hand-to-hand fighting became almost impossible. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
In this quarter the palisades were the weakest, and the ground the least elevated; but it was guarded by men on whose skill with axe and shield Harold placed the firmest reliance -- the Anglo - Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
Significantly, Fred Edwards and Hartley Fort have produced evidence for Late Woodland-Mississippian interaction and, like Aztalan in eastern Wisconsin, these sites were palisaded.
Guthman, who suffered from a rare blood disease called amyloidosis, died Sunday at his Pacific Palisades home, said Bryce Nelson, a family spokesman. WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
It was a fort-looking place, nestled in a valley and surrounded by tall wooden palisades.
Throughout history, and during centuries of slavery, countless men, slaves who abandoned the plantations, lived in this region and also resisted the oppressors in the so-called palisades, places in the jungles and mountains where they sought refuge. CASTRO SPEECH AT MONCADA ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY
We camped within five miles of the British border at the Chinese fortlet of Settee, a palisaded camp whose gateway also was hung with heads of dacoits. AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA
He said that he had no specific verbal or written instruction from his employers concerning the climbing of walls or palisade fences.
The time classed as late Permian and Triassic on the other hand was one of uplift, disturbance, volcanic action and extreme climates, which gave us the traps of Mt. Tom, the Palisades of the Hudson, the bold scenery of the Bay of Fundy and the gypsum and red beds which are generally supposed to be quite largely formed beneath the air and beds of tillite formed beneath glaciers. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
Perdiccas was camped close to the enemy palisades on the southeast of the city. Alexander the Great
These include a palisaded enclosure, a possible pagan temple, and what appears to be part of a Roman amphitheatre.
The most complex center discovered so far, beneath the city of Dresden in Saxony, eastern Germany, comprises a temple surrounded by four ditches, three earthen banks and two palisades.
It is a rousing thing to find yourself crossing the George Washington Bridge, the skyline of Manhattan falling away as the green palisades of New Jersey surge forward.
In ferns and most flowering plants the mesophyll is divided into two layers: palisade layer of tightly packed, vertically elongated cells, one to two cells thick, directly beneath the adaxial epidermis. Wikibooks - Recent changes [en]
The metope inside the sitting room, ceiling is itself of building palisade component namely commonly, be like brick wall, ferroconcrete board.
Johannesburg City Parks has made the reserve a flash point of development, undertaking upgrades that include a new guardhouse, a borehole and a concrete palisade fence.
Pity thou art already a knight, Nigel!" bluffly exclaimed Seaton, springing into his saddle by torchlight the following morning, as with a gallant band he was about dashing over the drawbridge, to second the defenders of the barbacan and palisades. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
The ditch and palisaded dyke would have made it difficult for Welsh raiders to enter England, but almost impossible for them to return laden with any booty such as cattle.
In the outwork was a sallyport [Footnote: A sallyport is an underground passage from the outer to the inner fortifications.] corresponding to the postern of the castle, and the whole was surrounded by a strong palisade. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Lest we forget the wonderful gaming available for prostitutes and the fine quality of the bars lining those palisades. Aurora Housing Authority's Chronic Problem of Jericho Circle Complex to Be Demolished Summer 2010
Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress.
The Palisade was once home to a forest fire lookout station, as it afforded a clear view of much of the Athabasca River Valley.

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