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He saith that the Wood upon the Walls is v. injured from the Redcoats & that the Balustrades be taken for Kindling.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Balustrades, ornamented with plant-filled urns, set off the great beds in which flora from widely separated parts of the world have been used.

From The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Mullgardt, Louis Christian

Balustrades of varied quatrefoils run round the aisles and body; and the centre-tower, which is wholly composed of open arches and tracery, terminates, like the south-tower of the cathedral, with an octangular crown of fleurs-de-lys.

From Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 by Turner, Dawson

Balustrades are affixed on the sides of the most abrupt precipices and buttresses also in order to secure the exterior part of the chaussèe.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Frye, Major W. E