Moat Sentence Examples

Traces of the moat and the foundations are still to be seen in Priory Close.

In plan it is a triangle, protected by a double moat, and has round towers at the angles.

But this practice was discontinued in 1852 and the moat was filled with earth in 1905.

Each of these canals marks the line of the city walls and moat at different periods.

The inner city, including the business quarter, is contained almost entirely between the river and the Rosenlunds canal, continued in the Vallgraf, the moat of the old fortifications; and is crossed by the Storahamn, Ostrahamn and Vestrahamn canals.

On the north of the Tsze-kin ch'eng, and separated from it by a moat, is an artificial mound known as the King shan, or "Prospect Hill."

The ancient part of the town is still surrounded by the former moat, and in the centre lies a group of open places, of which the Groote Markt is one of the largest market-squares in Holland.

On the west side of the park a paved causeway, leading over the moat and under a magnificent portico, extends for a distance of a quarter of a mile to the chief entrance of the main building.

The moat of the ancient castle built by the Mowbrays about 980 remains.

The palace contains no moat, or armed guards, nor do I detect any sophisticated security system.

It constitutes a little town of itself, surrounded by walls and a moat, and contains numerous small houses, 18 convents and a church.

The walls of the moat were utilized for the cellars of the houses which soon occupied the site of the ramparts, and the ground, which had been covered by the citadel, was laid out in gardens.

The manor house or palace of the bishops of London stands in grounds, beautifully planted and surrounded by a moat, believed to be a Danish work, near the river west of Putney Bridge.

To Mr Andrew Carnegie and Mr and Mrs M ` Kie of Moat House was due the free library.

Near the west extremity, abutting upon the Elbe, the moat was filled in in 1894-1897, and some good streets were built along the site, while the Kersten Miles-Briicke, adorned with statues of four Hamburg heroes, was thrown across the Helgolander Allee.

The Binnenhof, which has been already mentioned, was once surrounded by a moat, and is still entered through ancient gateways.

It has a station on the Cambrian line between Moat Lane and Brecon, and two others (high and low levels) at Builth Road about 14 m.

In 1140 a Benedictine monastery was founded here by Ralph Boteler of Oversley, and received the name of the Church of Our Lady of the Isle, owing to its insulation by a moat meeting the river Arrow.

During the time of its prosperity Amarapura was defended by a rampart and a large square citadel, with a broad moat, the walls being 7000 ft.

The castle of Angers, an imposing building girt with towers and a moat, dates from the 13th century and is now used as an armoury.

There were mass graves in the old moat.

A deep moat was dug outside it by Tukulti-Inaristi or Tukulti-Masu (about 1270 B.C.), and it was further defended on the land side by a salkhu or outwork.

The whole is surrounded by a deep moat 3 o to 40 ft.

It is quadrangular, surrounded by a moat filled by the Barada.

Working watermill, forge, 14th century gatehouse, beautiful gardens, moat walk, adventure play area, restaurant and gift shop.

Four marshy ponds to the SE of the moat were probably medieval fish ponds.

The site of the manor house is surrounded by a narrow moat which is fed by water from the New River.

Once enclosed by the longest moat in England, only 13 acres remain of the original 36.

During the 13th century the de Clinton family dug the moat and settled on the land, giving their name to the estate.

A moat surrounded all three enclosures, the inner bailey separated by its own moat surrounded all three enclosures, the inner bailey separated by its own moat.

This shows a large, square, water-filled moat with an arched causeway bridge over the west side.

Now the dry moat beneath the North Wall is playing host to an ice rink.

The clump of trees beyond the old barn indicate the site of the medieval moat.

Inside the bailey, the keep was further protected by a deep moat.

The most striking is the way it is lapped by the waters of its broad moat.

Bury Mount, the castle motte in Moat Lane, was probably built by the Normans in the 11th century.

West of Bishops Castle it headed straight for Moat Hill and became a deeply sunken lane.

It may even have been a smoking room, for some early clay tobacco pipes were found in the moat.

I had just reached the spot, when a loud whistle sounded over the moat behind me.

At Franeker his house was a small château, " separated by a moat from the rest of the town, where the mass could be said in safety."' And one motive in favour of accepting an invitation to England lay in the alleged leanings of Charles I.

Of the Château du Coudray, which is separated by a moat from the Château du Milieu, the chief remains are the Tour du Moulin (Tothce.ntury) and two less ancient towers.

Angkor-Vat, the best preserved example of Khmer architecture, lies less than a mile to the south of the royal city, within a rectangular park surrounded by a moat, the outer perimeter of which measures 6060 yds.

The moat, now dry, that surrounded the palace can still be seen along with a medieval key.

The delightful Severn Valley from MOAT LANE through NEWTOWN and WELSHPOOL to SHREWSBURY where semaphore signaling abounds.

Juan the Andean spectacled bear first paddled across a moat using a log for a raft, then scaled a wall.

A sheet cake castle might also feature a fun moat or drawbridge design in front.

It consists of a high mound surrounded by a moat, and is said to have been erected by Hengest.

The oblong block of buildings, fronted by lawns, is surrounded by a moat and protected by a gate-house, part of which dates from 1301, at which date the chapel and a part of the house were also built.

The Bavarian dukes of the Wittelsbach house occasionally resided at Munich, and in 1255 Duke Louis made it his capital, having previously surrounded it with walls and a moat.

The demolition of the ramparts of Old Calais was followed by the construction of a new circle of defences, embracing both the old and new quarters, and strengthened by a deep moat.

These streets are connected by an inner circle of boulevards, constructed just outside the canal, which marks the site of the town moat.

The beguinage of St Elizabeth at Ghent has some thousand sisters, and occupies quite a distinct quarter of the city, being surrounded by a wall and moat.

Formerly a moat flanked the city on theland sides, and a drawbridge at each of six gates was raised every night.

This last, a complex of buildings, dating from various centuries, but possessing few points of special interest, is surrounded by grounds occupying the site of the old moat.

It is surrounded by a rampart and moat, with five gates, and contains fine palaces, temples and tombs.

It is about two-thirds the size of Herat, square built and surrounded by a ruined wall and moat.

Not only was the wall of Anthemius restored, but, at the distance of 20 yds., another wall was built in front of it, and at the same distance from this second wall a broad moat was constructed with a breastwork along its inner edge.

According to some authorities, the moat was flooded during a siege by opening the aqueducts, which crossed the moat at intervals and conveyed water into the city in time of peace.

His "new palace" there was built in fifteen days; temples were erected to the gods, the great walls of the city were constructed with a moat surrounding them, the Euphrates was lined with brick and a strong fortress erected.

The clay dug from the moat served to make the bricks of the wall, which had loo gates, all of bronze, with bronze lintels and posts.

Tuggurt, which has a population (1906) of 2073, was formerly surrounded by a moat, which the French filled up. The town is entered by two gates.

There is a moat (Castle Dyke) on the landward side, and a wall with towers also protects the castle in this direction.

The once dangerous stream Daisan (rrapros) no longer flows southwards through the town, but encircles it on the north and east in the channel of the old moat.

The terramara, in spite of local differences, is of typical form; it is a settlement, trapezoidal in form, built upon piles on dry land protected by an earthwork strengthened on the inside by buttresses, and encircled by a wide moat supplied with running water.

Today the inner bailey is entered via a bridge over the moat toward the south of the castle.

There is a moat and an impressive aisled barn The unwieldy vicarage of 1882, built by its vicar, once had vast grounds.

View looking across the moat toward one of the massive bastions of Dig Fort.

The last coronation in Scotland - that of Charles II - took place here on Moat Hill in 1651.

And, for pudding - plump for fruity baked crumble, surrounded by a moat of hot creamy custard.

An ivory tower is better defended from behind a moat with a raised drawbridge.

The moat was perhaps twelve feet wide, crossed by a single drawbridge.

The third is of the brick bridge over the moat which replaced the original drawbridge.

But what is ultimately fatal to Mr Moat's argument on this point is what happened at the trial itself.

Set in 6½ acres of gardens, the Priory is sited on an island surrounded by England's longest water filled medieval moat.

The plant has now become a living bridge, which you can climb up to cross the moat.

The levelling of the walls and filling up of the moat made the Fort much more accessible and healthy, and since then it has become the business centre of the city.

Foes advancing through Asia Minor would have their march arrested, and their blows kept beyond striking distance, by the moat which the waters of the Bosporus, the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles combine to form.

Four thousand cubits to the east the great rampart was built "mountain high," which surrounded both the old and the new town; it was provided with a moat, and a reservoir was excavated in the triangle on the inner side of its south-east corner, the western wall of which is still visible.

This water, which is highly prized for its healing qualities, fills the moat and forms a fine lake in the northern quarter of the city.

The rampart and the moat are for defence against enemies, not against floods, and as Brizio brings in no new invading people till long after the terramara period, it is difficult to see why the Ibero-Ligurians should have abandoned their unprotected hut-settlements and taken to elaborate fortification.

At Franeker his house was a small château, " separated by a moat from the rest of the town, where the mass could be said in safety."' And one motive in favour of accepting an invitation to England lay in the alleged leanings of Charles I.

Of the Château du Coudray, which is separated by a moat from the Château du Milieu, the chief remains are the Tour du Moulin (Tothce.ntury) and two less ancient towers.

The older parts of the city, on the right bank of the river, are a maze of narrow and crooked streets, surrounded by ruined walls and a moat, and commanded by the ancient citadel, which stands on a height overlooking the plains of Noguera on the north and of Urgel on the south.

The most prominent building is the square castle of the house of Este, in the centre of the town, a brick building surrounded by a moat, with four towers.

Considerable sections of the ancient walls and moat still remain, though the demolition of portions to meet the exigencies of modern traffic and expansion has somewhat destroyed its quaint medieval character.

Beyond the walls and the deep moat, especially on the northward side towards the port of Gravosa, are many pleasant villas, surrounded by gardens in which the aloe, palm and cypress are conspicuous among a number of flowering trees and shrubs.

A strong wall and bastions, with a broad moat and outworks, and forts on the surrounding heights, give the city an appearance of great strength.

In 1157 an almost circular moat, still preserved in the inner canal or Naviglio, was constructed round the town; but in 1162 Frederick Barbarossa took and almost entirely destroyed the city, only a few churches surviving.

Other officers were the Burggraf 2 or praefectus for military matters, including the preservation of the town's defences, walls, moat, bridges and streets, to whom also appertained some jurisdiction over the craft-gilds in matters relating to their crafts; further the customs-officer or teleonarius and the mint-master or monetae magister.

Finally these two councillors, together with Fabricius, secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the Hradcany into the moat below - an event known in history as the Defenestration of Prague.