battlements

• “Out of the four main battlements, all but the southernmost were under the firm, unyielding hand of the Clan Engineers.”

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• “Food isn't fantastic, though perfectly palatable – but evening chai on the battlements is a fabulous Indian experience.”

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• “The word thus rendered in Isa. 54: 12 ought rather to be rendered "battlements" (LXX., "bulwarks;" R.V., "pinnacles"), or as Gesenius renders it, "notched battlements, i.e., suns or rays of the sun" = having a radiated appearance like the sun.”

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• “Repeated to me by poor old drunken Jem White the sexton, many years since, when on the "battlements" of Oundle Church; Oundle being the market town for the three villages in the rhymes quoted.”

  Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

• “The cold, ethereal beauty he’d seen on the battlements was a warm, real girl after all.”

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• “The structure isnt a tent, like the ones in Haga Park in Sweden; it has too many details like the battlements.”

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• “But hell and goblins damned have no place on a stage that is dappled with the light of an ill-defined Scandinavia: Tom Scutt's design, of birch trees and wan stone, supplies battlements that look more country house than castle.”

  The Guardian: Hamlet; Passion; Beautiful Burnout; Wanderlust

• ““So perish whoever else shall overleap my battlements,” he cried, according to Livy.111 It is an old story—and a new story, as Mumford indicates.”

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• “Beyond the arch, huge towers of gray stone rose straight up into the sky, topped by steeply pitched roofs and crenellated battlements.”

  Simon & Schuster: Earl of Durkness

• “Paul Brown: John Damian was much ridiculed in 1507 when he jumped off the battlements of Stirling Castle”

  The Guardian: When storms cost 1,200 sailors' lives every year

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