rampart

She had to blink a few times to make sure the sight was real, much as Hamlet might have done at the sight of his father’s ghost appearing on the ramparts of the castle.

That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.

Mr Ambekar says that portions of an earthen rampart believed to have been built by the region's first settlers exists even today.

“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.

Anyone who hopes to preserve the sanctity of the civil-military ideal would do well to circle the wagons of law and constitutionalism and man the ramparts of institutional self-preservation.