rampart
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On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023
One of them, “View From the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight,” shows two sailors and a soldier standing on the rampart of a citadel that was battered during the Napoleonic Wars.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
More than just a simple barrier, Hadrian’s Wall was a cleverly designed military rampart manned by 20,000 troops.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2018
On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
“We wanted to be outsiders on the ramparts picking off the big shots,” Carter writes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2025
Out the window, far beyond the neighboring block, beyond the ramparts, the single light of a boat appears and disappears as it rises and falls on distant swells.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
The old Radical ghosts go by, more real than the living men, to assault I know not what ramparted city in hell.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
They sleep at Langres, which ramparted town surely ought to have left a pleasant reminiscence; but they had hitherto found the route uninteresting and fatiguing.
From Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti
Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven,—heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
His faith was as firm as the bluffs that ramparted the fort, and his old heart was unafraid.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
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