cullis

• “I care not, though, like Anacharsis, I were pounded to death in a mortar: and yet that death were fitter for usurers, gold and themselves to be beaten together, to make a most cordial cullis for the devil.”

  The White Devil

• “At length, they came to a metal gate, not unlike the port - cullis in a castle.”

  Second Skin

• “The word “cullis” is typical of the way the French language was dealt with by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English speakers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Savoring The Past

• “Put the butter and flour in the saucepan and put it back over the heat; cook and stir until the flour has taken on a rich golden color, but do not push it too far over a great heat, for fear the cullis will develop a scorched flavor.”

  Simon & Schuster: Savoring The Past

• “English cookbook writers routinely condemned them and routinely included cullis recipes in their own books.”

  Simon & Schuster: Savoring The Past

• “Then another noise blended with them as die mighty port - cullis of Hwamgaart's main gate squealed upwards and from it poured a host of well-aimed men.”

  Storm Bringer

• “Rub it through a search, and put it into a stewpan with two spoonfuls of cullis; put in a little salt and cayenne.”

  Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

• “It made him think of one of the old feudal castles he had lately been reading about in Sir Walter Scott's romances, where they had draw-bridges, moats, and a port-cullis to protect them against assault.”

  The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point or The Golden Cup Mystery

• “But Visconti's men did not reveal themselves, and Marco worked his way out of the Piazza -- since they surely were _not_ there, and since no hint of what was passing within the fortress came from behind the porte-cullis -- the single opening upon the square.”

  The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus

• “Tyre and Siphon where the lone lizard crawls on the walls of the main port-cullis. ”

  The Gentle Grafter

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