How To Use Rampart In A Sentence
-
The Getty Center is a multi-use complex made up of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Conservation Institute, the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Education Institute for the Arts, the Information Institute, and the Getty Grant Program, as well as offices for the Getty Trust, an auditorium, a restaurant pavilion, and a stone-ramparted helicopter landing pad.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
-
A. P. D. Detective in Oren Moverman's Rampart is known as Dave "Date Rape" Brown, because years ago he killed a man suspected of being a sexual predator.
-
A short walk up a stairway to the top of the north rampart affords a view of the construction.
-
This narrow headland was defended as a cliff castle with three stone ramparts across its neck.
-
Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
-
Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
-
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
-
So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed.
Fortune's Favorites
-
When he was finished, Rampart Dam lay pretty much in ruins.
-
The massive ramparts of the Citadel overlook the whole city.
-
Details Hotel Bastion is built into the city ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
-
Hassan and his twelve companions had reached the summit: the giant was precipitated from the rampart: he rose on one knee, and was again oppressed by a shower of darts and stones.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
-
It's, to their eyes, the last rampart against the discrimination from which they suffer in their country.
-
Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
-
The Princes had as much brandy as they liked, and passed their time on the ramparts playing at dice, or pitch-and-toss (with the halfpenny that one of them somehow had) for vast sums of money, for which they gave their notes-of-hand.
Burlesques
-
The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.
Highways & Byways in Sussex
-
Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones.
-
Little is known about the Iron Age occupation, but the site was certainly reoccupied in the late C3 and C4 AD, and in Saxon times a cemetery was established within the ramparts.
-
The Countess for a second time beheld from the ramparts the departure of her people upon the same hazardous enterprize; the present scene revived in her mind a sad membrance of the past: the same tender fears, and the same prayers for success she now gave to their departure; and when they faded in distance from her sight, she returned into the castle dissolved in tears.
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
-
A. P. D. Detective in Oren Moverman's Rampart is known as Dave "Date Rape" Brown, because years ago he killed a man suspected of being a sexual predator.
-
The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
-
At exactly midday, the cannon is fired and a frisson of excitement runs through the small crowd of tourists gathered on the ramparts.
-
The northwest front has now five arches with ramparts fallen in; northeast barbette battery unserviceable; east front scarp much scaled by slant fire, with large craters under traverses; principal injury at level of arches and terreplein; two-thirds of southern wall east of magazine damaged; stone abutment unhurt and protected by rubbish; gorge not damaged since yesterday.
Memoirs of the War of Secession
-
The first, however, to approach the rampart were the consul and the troops he was bringing from the sea.
The History of Rome, Vol. VI
-
Chevènement thinks that the borders of the nation-state can serve as a rampart against globalization.
-
[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
-
From behind the grass covered ramparts above, mortars and heavy guns on the surrounding terreplein would provide heavy bombardment against the enemy.
-
Pink flamingos parade outside the medieval ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age.
-
In medieval Veliko Turnovo, royalty and high nobility lived in relative safety behind the massive ramparts of Tsarevets Hill.
-
The Grammy winner, 30, botched the lyrics, mistakenly singing "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
Christina Aguilera Fumbles the Lyrics, Black Eyed Peas Light Up Super Bowl XLV
-
On the ramparts of the fort we sat and stared.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Standing on the ramparts of the fort, there is a palpable sense of history: this is where civilisation once ended and the barbarians began.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He turned back to his elaborately ramparted castle.
Origins
-
Avebury had at one time within a great rampart and a fosse, which is still forty feet deep, a large circle of rough unhewn stones, and within this two circles each containing a smaller concentric circle.
Vanishing England
-
In the centre, the old town, or medina, is walled in by ramparts and gives it an historical and cultural dimension.
-
Before the main rampart of the castle (from the Romanesque period) he placed a new bailey wall.
-
Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
-
The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach.
-
Ibn-Haukal, an Arabian traveller of the 10th century, describes Balkh as built of clay, with ramparts and six gates, and extending half a parasang.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
-
I examine a photo of US Marines sheltering behind a rampart of sandbags.
-
Upon them, ne'ertheless had reached the rampart, [452]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
-
In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers.
-
The string of them reminded Mike of a rampart, or some other manner of fortification.
-
We walked a circuit of the double ramparts of stone, looking out at hills folding to the south in steamy grey waves.
Times, Sunday Times
-
India formed the principal rampart of the British imperial system.
-
Our faith has to be "stedfast," a rampart of assurance, close, compact, and invulnerable.
The Epistles of St. Peter
-
Towards the western end of the ramparts there is an obvious break where a path leads through rocky portals to gain a grassy bealach.
-
Three ramparts surround the fort, which covers a large space of ground, and it is 'divided into two parts by a double agger ....
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
-
As you head uphill the scent of pines fills the air from the gardens interspersed between ramparts and towers.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught -- for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?
Yet Again
-
One half inch closer and he would have been dead, killed by fragments of skull driven into his brain, but instead he staggered, stunned, and his vision was suddenly sheeted with scarlet as he twisted, fell, and heard the sword clang as it bounced on the rampart's stones.
Sharpe's Siege
-
And framing the curving arches and flowing ramparts and parapets was the incredibly rich wood of the giant trees.
-
If she had gone to ICS with her suspicions after Rampart External Security failed to investigate the testudinal Haluk corpse found on Cravat, the Secretariat would certainly have declined jurisdiction and passed the buck to SXA.
Perseus Spur
-
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
-
Inside the ramparts are the sativas, the cultivated plants, soft and vulnerable, too highbred and civilized for fighting.
The Dirty Life
-
Vestiges of the city's forum, basilica, temple, ramparts, bastions and oil mills are also well preserved.
-
For A $160, the five crew would take them for three dives on the ribbon reefs, a stack of broad shoals that run along the seaward ramparts of the Barrier Reef, 40 miles offshore.
-
Graham was hit by a ball from a jingal fired from the ramparts.
Archive 2008-08-01
-
Their floors are often basined and hold lakelets whose deep and quiet waters reflect the sheltering ramparts of rugged rock which tower far above them.
The Elements of Geology
-
Sandy, Sam and Westlake ramparted Mormon from enthusiastic admirers and pushed down to the creek where he washed his hurts with the stinging icy water and stiffly put on his clothes.
Rimrock Trail
-
We walked a circuit of the double ramparts of stone, looking out at hills folding to the south in steamy grey waves.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Towards the western end of the ramparts there is an obvious break where a path leads through rocky portals to gain a grassy bealach.
-
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay.
The Tribes Triumphant
-
Its ramparts, in a state of partial preservation, are still to be seen; also a magnificent triumphal arch, with three openings about 82 feet wide by 29 high; a "naumachia", or circus for naval combats; two theatres; the forum with fifty-five columns still standing; the great colonnade which crosses the city from north to south, and which still retains from 100 to 150 of its columns; several aqueducts; some propylaea; a temple of the Sun, the columns of which are about 40 feet high, and several other temples, baths, etc. Greek and Latin inscriptions are very numerous among the ruins.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
-
The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases, terraces, and ramparts were being carved by degrees upon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdled in the freshness of the morning.
Salammbo
-
At a time when the press failed to check a reactionary Administration, when the opposition party all too often chose timidity, it was the lowly and anonymous bureaucrats, clad in rumpled suits, ID badges dangling from their necks, who, in their own quiet, behind-the-scenes way, took to the ramparts to defend the integrity of the American system of government.
Matthew Yglesias » Bureaucracy: Teh Awesome
-
The way led at first up the narrow spine of a "hogback," but soon widened into one of the ample and spacious parks peculiar to the elevations near the summits of the First Rampart.
The Rules of the Game
-
The most common rewards were crowns of different forms; the mural crown was presented to him who in the assault first scaled the rampart of a town; the castral, to those who were foremost in storming the enemy's entrenchments; the civic chaplet of oak leaves, to the soldier who saved his comrade's life in battle, and the triumphal laurel wreath to the general who commanded in a successful engagement.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
-
Last year, Christina Aguilera flubbed the lyrics and sang "what so proudly we watched, at the twilight's last reaming" instead of "o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
Kelly Clarkson Drafted to Perform National Anthem at Super Bowl
-
Towards noon the effect of the fire was to carry away at one fall four rampart arches on the northeast front with terreplein platform and guns, thus leaving on this front only one arch and a half which are adjacent to the east spiral stair.
Memoirs of the War of Secession
-
Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
-
The rampart wall was found to be encircled by at least two deep ditches, and possibly three, with counterscarps between tern.
-
14th century Byzantine ramparts radiate from here, mostly overlooked by 20th century apartments, tavernas and cafes, yet it feels more like an overgrown village.
-
It lay behind ramparts of coal, of grillage timbers and piling, of shedded cement barrels, and tons of steel.
The Iron Trail
-
Walk From the north end of the High Street, go left to the bay below the ramparts of the ruined castle, the site of which has been a stronghold since Roman times.
-
A pueblo city that scouts had described as ringed with gilded ramparts proved to be built of mere mud and clay, which happened to glimmer deceptively in the setting sun.
Colossus
-
A Marine, posted with his rifle on the rampart overlooking the trench, said he reckoned 30 or 40.
-
Still, I have to wonder about the raucous calls we hear for storming ramparts in far-off places.
-
About 3.9 billion years ago, one of these formed the great Imbrium Basin, or Mare Imbrium, and its mountain ramparts.
-
they stormed the ramparts of the city
-
Begin beside the clock tower in the ramparts that enclose the medina.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Details Hotel Bastion is built into the city ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The road running westwards through the ramparts led to Chelmsford.
-
To see the West is to lust after it; and from the rimrock to the ramparts, where the shouting always begins, it is only a short leap.
The Custer Syndrome
-
It nestles just off the town square of Durrow, surrounded by the old rampart of the castle walls.
-
Ashe came up to the ramparts of the castle often to reflect on events and occurrences, and generally to get away from everyone else.
-
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay.
The Tribes Triumphant
-
The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was the dungeon.
Les Miserables
-
As you head uphill the scent of pines fills the air from the gardens interspersed between ramparts and towers.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The wall is part of the castle fortifications and if the weather is warm enough to use the terrace you can hear the piper on the ramparts.
-
Among the other organizations and institutions with which Heritage Malta interfaces is the Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna or Maltese Heritage Trust, an ngo that administers several historic buildings and sites, ranging from the Neolithic temple at Kordin, to the baroque gate of the Cottonera defensive system of bastioned ramparts, to Fort Rinella, a British period Victorian fort.
A Monumental Mandate
-
It was a tall, grand old building of stone and steel, with ornate windows and gargoyles leering down at her from the ramparts.
-
You might find yourself sitting in drizzle or 80 per cent humidity while actors race around the ramparts with blazing torches.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The height of the rampart is 20 ft., and the width 32 ft.
Illustrations of the War in America
-
Standing on the ramparts of the fort, there is a palpable sense of history: this is where civilisation once ended and the barbarians began.
Times, Sunday Times
-
But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts — Heaven!
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
-
Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph [140] and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
-
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
-
This rampart is now colonized by coconut palms, pandanus, and breadfruit trees, and I like to sit here in the late after-noons and watch the sea rolling ashore.
-
The sentinels could be seen upon the ramparts, standing like statues of stone, and showing no signs of life; while above the barbacan gate the watchman was at his post, motionless and asleep.
The Story of Siegfried
-
On the ramparts of the fort we sat and stared.
Times, Sunday Times
-
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay.
The Tribes Triumphant
-
The fort serves as a playground for the children, who hide in its ramparts and race along the walls.
-
Pink flamingos parade outside the medieval ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
From the rampart below my window a bird was singing its respects to the morning sun.
-
Then, like a magic trick, you see its massive ramparts and golden sandstone towers, exotic and beautiful.
-
It is worth walking around the ramparts for the fine views.
Times, Sunday Times
-
From its ramparts and towers, they could see and control all movements from the coast to inland cities.
-
Hill-slope enclosures may have been occupied by livestock herders who used the gaps between the ramparts to corral animals.
-
No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.
Rimrock Trail
-
It is worth walking around the ramparts for the fine views.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This rampart is now colonized by coconut palms, pandanus, and breadfruit trees, and I like to sit here in the late after-noons and watch the sea rolling ashore.
-
All day long, upon the grass-grown ramparts of the town, practising soldiers trumpeted and bugled; all day long, down in angles of dry trenches, practising soldiers drummed and drummed.
Somebody's Luggage
-
Each man carried a stake and this was driven into the top of the rampart.
-
With the tributes of war and taxes, he erected tall and strong turrets at every corner of his city and strengthened the ramparts of Abeluma.
-
Two towers still exist, which might have been minarets, with inscriptions on them in Cufic, as I am told; also some portions of the ancient rampart, which is of prodigious size, and various fragments of the city wall.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
-
Edward II's lover, Piers Gaveston, is said to haunt the ramparts of Scarborough Castle, luring unwitting victims to their death over the walls.
-
The citadel's rough, sheer pale-brown outer walls and ramparts resemble a giant sandcastle built on the edge of the sea.
-
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay.
The Tribes Triumphant
-
Pink flamingos parade outside the medieval ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven, -- heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
-
The Emperor Hadrian built (A.D. 120) the rampart from the Solway to the German Ocean as a barrier against the Caledonians, giving up the more northern conquests; but Lollius Urbicus, the prætor, drove the enemy back, and built a lesser wall from the Forth to the Clyde, A.D.
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
-
Gilberte to discrown it of its chocolate battlements and to hew down the steep brown slopes of its ramparts, baked in the oven like the bastions of the palace of Darius.
Within a Budding Grove
-
Directly on the shore westernlay the extensive earthen ramparts and low buildings of William Henry.
-
The Egyptian's approach to the high sand rampart demonstrated simple ingenuity on their part.
-
In defiance Of the exility of the effect which these notions produce oil the greater number, even of those who say they are, or who believe themselves persuaded, they are held forth as the most powerful rampart that can be opposed to the irregularities of man.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
-
Rampart Dam, however, was an ecological disaster probably with-out precedent in the world.
-
Excavations between 1963 and 1965 demonstrated that the ramparts were composed of chalk rubble with timber revetments.
-
The entrance through the outer ramparts was joined to the inner gateway by an ingeniously defended approach.
-
He said that the rampart may be re-erected despite it being in many pieces.
-
Its great stone ramparts had a probable total circuit of a third of a mile and were surrounded by a 14-acre estate which included six orchards.
-
From a distance its 23 km long rampart of hotels, apartments and resorts shimmers on the shore of Nichupte Lagoon like a massive bar code.
-
This was found on a hearth contemporary with Rampart 4, which constitutes the final heightening of the rampart of the Iron Age hill-fort and its defence by timber structures, perhaps as an adulterine castle in the civil wars of Stephen's reign.
-
Inside the layout was rectilinear, with small single-room square houses lining the ramparts and a series of straight streets.
-
Apart from adequate compensation for land which is acquired from them, we should also ensure that our 'Adivasi' (tribal) brothers and sisters have a stake in the developmental project being undertaken," Singh said while addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red
Daily News & Analysis
-
I can bare it no longer and self consciously shed my clothing and inch my way painfully across the rocks that form a natural rampart at the shoreline.
-
Thirty-one years ago, when Cyclone Bebe inundated Funafuti, its waves tossed coral rubble onto the windward side of the atoll, creating a rampart that still stands as the highest point on the motu.
-
Take the track to the left of the castle ramparts, rounding small sewage works on its left.
-
Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
-
The main entrance was from the east, where the gate was protected by a massive stone tower; a smaller gate and two posterns gave access through the northern rampart.
-
The 40-acre monument at Sutton Bank, near Thirsk, is thought to have been surrounded by a 1.3 mile-long rampart, topped with a walkway, and to date back to about 400BC.
-
I walk among palm-fringed paths, through old ramparts and walls.
-
There we were in the desert of Rajasthan, sitting on a castle rampart, just us and a myriad stars twinkling furiously.
-
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors.
-
If this can be done, the rampart which the constitution has built up to secure the hearthstone from rude intrusion, is an effectual defense no longer.
-
It is not only Johnson's brute devilry which is missing, though when the Boks are scaling the ramparts a lashing of "cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wouldn't go amiss.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
-
He erected a fortress of clay roofs, arched and open to the breezes, with ramparts of stone mixed with clay.
The Tribes Triumphant
-
But Gloag is understood to be furious that the pylons and their crackling, high-voltage cables will be unmissable from the ancient ramparts of the castle.
-
It's a hillfort at a height of almost 400ft that draws me; manmade ridges and ramparts are readily apparent.
Times, Sunday Times
-
From Angouleme, a hilltop town crowned with medieval ramparts and dominated by a magnificent 12 th-century cathedral, the river is your guide.
-
Marion, it was said, beside herself with grief, threw herself from the ramparts of Comlongon Castle in 1570.
-
At these words, Murray and Edwin precipitated themselves upon the ramparts, and mowed down all before them, in a direction towards their uncle.
The Scottish Chiefs
-
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
-
The battlements or bastions were shaped in sharp angles a ditch, broad and deep, protected the foot of the rampart; and the archers on the rampart were assisted by military engines; the balistri, a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an enormous size.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
-
We saw the United States flag flying from the ramparts, and thought that Yank would probably be asleep or catching lice, or maybe engaged in a game of seven-up.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
-
Then a cheap supper, a long walk along the quais or ramparts or outside -- a game of dominoes, and a glass or two of "Malines" or "Louvain" -- then bed, without invading hordes; the Flemish are as clean as the Dutch; and there he would soon smoke and read himself to sleep in spite of chimes -- which lull you, when once you get "achimatized," as he called it, meaning of course to be funny: a villainous kind of fun -- caught, I fear, in Barge Yard,
The Martian
-
COLLIER: Ramparts really began in 1964 as a liberal Catholic quarterly, a magazine of the Catholic laity, and by 1966, 1967 had shed that identity and became a kind of interoffice memorandum of the new left.
The Roosevelts: An American Saga
-
A switchback ramp scales a battered wall of rough granite blocks and you wonder if defenders will appear on the ramparts above and drive you off with rocks.
-
Surrounded by a concrete rampart and a barbed wire fence, the settlers' caravans are parked between the wreckage of quarters used by Egyptian officers before the territory's capture in 1967.
-
Earlier excavations revealed stone ramparts, a palisade and waterlogged remains in the ditches, including what looks like a wheel and a ladder.
-
A rampart of intricate and infinitely various shapes, it gives form to the formless open sea.
-
Neon lights decorated official buildings and literally hundreds of oil-lit earthen lamps covered balconies and ramparts, stairs and yards of homes.
-
A walk around the ramparts is recommended and the views are terrific.
Collins Traveller, Brittany
-
Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
-
Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
-
A white flag waved on the rampart, and the drums of the garrison beat the _chamade_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
-
Pink flamingos parade outside the medieval ramparts.
Times, Sunday Times
-
This preposterous number effectively amounts to criminalizing most of the teenage male population of the Rampart area.
-
No, there was only one other Frost family member with the ability to lead the Starcorp and outwit the Concern carnosaur hoping to make a meal of it: Rampart's dynamic First Vice President and Chief Transport and Distribution Officer.
Perseus Spur
-
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.
-
The majority of the hillforts of Southern France are defended by walls or ramparts and ditches encircling hilltops which overlook important commercial or military routes.
-
In front of the rampart was a wet ditch (A), 100 ft. wide, fed with fresh water from a neighbouring brook by an inlet at the south-western corner (C) and emptied by an outfall on the east
Ancient Town-Planning
-
The famous walls and ramparts of the city, now surround lush lawns and leafy trees.
-
If you run the test with an earlier version of Axis2/Rampart, you probably won't see any problems — because Rampart had the same bug up until the Rampart 1.5 release.
-
Christina Aguilera gives "The Star-Spangled Banner" an accidental remix during the Super Bowl pre-game, subbing "O'er the ramparts we watched/were so gallantly streaming" with the half-rehashed line "What so proudly we watched/at the twilight's last reaming.
Top Moments: Modern Family's Affair to Forget and Glee's Independent Woman
-
Hill-slope enclosures may have been occupied by livestock herders who used the gaps between the ramparts to corral animals.
-
But even here, where sap of time had breached the turfy ramparts, the hover of the dew-mist passed away, and the steady light was unfolded.
Mary Anerley
-
At the end of the rampart was a small colonnade, and at the end of that, winding stairs that led down to the Prophet's quarters.
Stone of Tears
-
A mole can undermine the strongest rampart.
-
Watch eagles and vultures flying from the castle ramparts and the world's largest working catapult launching a fireball 150m into the air!
The Sun
-
Minqin also planted ramparts of rose willow, buckthorn and other deep-root trees in a 200-mile file along the desert fronts.
-
These towers, called La Guaita, La Cesta, and Il Montale, are still linked by ramparts and walls constructed from the local sandstone.
-
But when the ramparts went up they bricked up all the stations underneath them.
-
On 21 May, having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, which heavy bombardment had almost made untenable, Versaillais troops entered the city.
-
Then the water clears and his sails swing to the wind, and he is off to the north, along that steel-gray shore of rampart rock, between the white-slab islands and the reefy coast.
Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
-
Between 600 BC and the Roman incursions at the end of the 1st century ad, clearly datable artefacts are harder to identify, but it seems probable that at least some of the visible ramparts belong to this period.
-
R—, a woman with whom I was more than casually preoccupied during my last few months in the city, and who belonged to a top-story, hands-off-you-sodden-peasant Garden District social caste, owned a large, enviable collection of 1970s soul LPs that she had arranged in a kind of rampart around her unmade, canopied, arrantly invitational bed.
Living With Music: Bill Cotter - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com
-
He was the only one not standing on a rampart, but was instead leaning out a window.
-
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
-
Against the rampart was the spectral shape of a man, propped up on his back, limbs spread out.
Crusader Gold
-
In a siege, the ramparts of the castle were often bombarded by large projectiles from catapults.
-
They stood silhouetted on the ramparts of the castle.
-
Soon after, the gateway, entrance passage, and parts of the ramparts were attacked and heavily burnt.
-
Two-thirds of the ramparts were undefended.
-
William fronts toward the river, and with its ramparts and buildings forms a striking object; while the whole is bordered and "beautified" by the broad river, with its crowd of masts and flags, its almost innumerable boats, its landing-ghats, and all its life and motion.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
-
This comprised an enclosure bounded by a single rampart and ditch on the eastern summit, more or less over the site of the Neolithic camp.
-
From there, the eye glances to the craggy ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, perched in the distance.
-
Semicircular solid bastions were spaced at regular intervals along the ramparts.
