crenelles

• “They made for this, and stayed not in their course till they drew near thereto, when, lo! it was a high castle, firm of foundations and great and gruesome, as it were a towering mountain, builded all of black stone, with frowning crenelles and a door of gleaming China steel, that dazzled the eyes and dazed the wits.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “So they bound them and were about to cast them into the fire when, behold, one of the crenelles of the palace parapet fell down upon the brazier and brake it and put out the fire, which became ashes flying in air.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “King of Al – Hind, before whom are a thousand elephants and upon whose palace-crenelles are a thousand jewels.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• ““Sharárif” plur. of Shurráfah = crenelles or battlements; mostly trefoil-shaped; remparts coquets which a six-pounder would crumble.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Then he addressed himself to seeking a place wherein he might safely bestow himself and his horse and where none should descry him, and presently behold, he espied a-middlemost of the city a palace rising high in upper air surrounded by a great wall with lofty crenelles and battlements, guarded by forty black slaves, clad in complete mail and armed with spears and swords, bows and arrows.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “Each bears a decoration resembling crenelles or Oriental ramparts broken into three steps; the lower set numbers eight, including the half ornaments at the corners, and the higher seven.”

  The Land of Midian

• “Diban, is a stone and mud house square and flat-roofed, with high windows, an attempt at crenelles, and, for some reason intelligible only to its own Vitruvius, but a single bastion at the northern angle.”

  First footsteps in East Africa

• “The public edifices are six mosques, including the Jami, or cathedral, for Friday prayer: these buildings have queer little crenelles on whitewashed walls, and a kind of elevated summer-house to represent the minaret.”

  First footsteps in East Africa

• “You are nearly wrecked, as a matter of course, at the Barrage; and you are certainly dumbfoundered by the sight of its ugly little Gothic crenelles. 3 The Pyramids of Khufa and”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “An adjacent parapet was a shadowy line, and further crenelles and embrasures were barely hinted at in the dim starlight.”

  The Bloody Crown of Conan

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