bastioned

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Bastioned and sharply domed, it stood before him in clear outline; but within sides it was hollow as a skull; a place of ghosts.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud

Walls arose, Vast as the Andes when creation boomed Insurgent fire; and through the rushing snows Enormous battlements of tremendous ice, Bastioned and turreted, I saw arise.

From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius

Bastioned upon the ocean cloud-tier was piled upon cloud-tier, spacious and lofty, until we gazed upon a Grand Canyon a myriad times vaster and more celestial than that of the Colorado. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

Was Kotal's proud citadel— Bastioned, walled, and demi-luned, Beaten down with shot and shell By the guns of the Akhoond?

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

I have tossed you the spindrift Born of its fretting On its shallowest coast, But over the depths of it Bastioned in wonder And silent with fear God sits with me!

From Open Water by Stringer, Arthur