Battlements Sentence Examples

These ranges contain remarkable rock formations, towers, battlements and pinnacles crowning the hills.

Boards were used to enclose the rails on the tower battlements.

But lo! the lovely maiden only smiles more sweetly, and breathes upon the icy battlements of her enemies, and in a moment they vanish, and the glad Earth gives her a royal welcome.

It is a town of medieval aspect and is surrounded by ancient walls, with battlements and four gates in good repair.

There on the right we see the handsome building of the old bakery, occupying the site of the present library; it has two arcades of Saracenic arches and a fine row of battlements.

To give this supremacy a firmer basis, Boniface fortified the Vatican and the Capitol, and restored the castle of St Angelo - which had previously been used as a quarry - providing it with walls and battlements, and erecting a tower in the centre.

The summit of Taragarh hill, overhanging Ajmere, is crowned by a fort, the lofty thick battlements of which run along its brow and enclose the table-land.

According to the paintings of the Middle Kingdom in the tombs of Beni Hasan, the battlements of brick fortresses were attacked and wrenched away with long and massive spears.

Built in a cleft among the hills which line the river Resava, an affluent of the Morava, this monastery is enclosed in a fortress, whose square towers, and curtain without loopholes or battlements, remain largely intact.

During the Trojan War her husband was slain by Achilles, and after the capture of the city her son Astyanax (or Scamandrius) was hurled from the battlements (Eurip. Troades, 7 20).

The town clusters at the foot of the monastery of St John, which, crowning the hill with its towers and battlements, resembles a fortress rather than a monastery.

Beyond these schists rises a broken wall of limestone, cleft to the base by gorges, through which flow the mountain torrents, and capped by pale precipitous battlements, which face the central chain at a height of 11,000 to 12,000 ft.

The walls, which are of great strength, are surmounted by machicolated battlements, flanked at intervals by thirty-nine massive towers and pierced by several gateways, three of which date from the 14th century.

They are of varying form; an altar shown in a relief at Khorsabad is ornamented with stepped battlements, which are the equivalent of the familiar "altarhorns" in Hebrew ritual.

These were used by the defenders of the castle to access the battlements and provide a line of defense around the castle.

The curtain wall also had battlements or crenellations to further enhance the defensive power of the castle.

If one looked skywards one saw the battlements and decorated rooflines of many centuries ago.

It is fascinating to explore the battlements, dark passages and huge basement with an exhibition of England's coastal defenses.

There are even rumors that King Richard III still walks the battlements.

The outer ward is nearly square, and its walls are nine feet in thickness and eighteen feet in height, surmounted by battlements.

The property is ideally located within yards of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor and enjoys Solent views over the historic battlements.

Its high battlements where pigeons live is.. ... .

The castle commands magnificent views that can be best appreciated from the mighty battlements.

This shows part of the walkway around the castle battlements with the Inner Ward to the right of the walkway.

The round tower is much restored, but very pretty with its flushwork and brick battlements.

A fourth, alone in the dell of the castle's battlements, has failed to persuade his mount to move at all.

The building is of flint rubble with stone dressings, and the tower has battlements and angle pinnacles, with two-light belfry windows.

Ironreign new it would not hold for long, some of the other ogres began trying to climb the battlements.

Perhaps the most familiar 'early dramatic ghost' is Hamlet's father, seen stalking the battlements at Elsinore.

Private houses were also provided with flat roofs (azoteas) and battlements, which gave them great defensive strength, as well as a cool, secluded retreat for their inmates in the evening.

The early thuribles were usually simple in design; but in the medieval period an architectural form was given to the lids by ornamenting them with towers, battlements and traceries, varying according to the prevalent Gothic style of the period.