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There is the fierce sound of voices yelling and hooting as we race up toward the moat's edge, firing at will, firing over the long black cannons that nose out along the battlement, silently commanding the northern horizon.

Along the Battlement Paul de Denus 2010

“Let's head back to camp,” I say, taking William by the arm, waving Forrester back from the moat's edge.

Along the Battlement Paul de Denus 2010

Patrick, age five, offered her ladyship a sturdy bow while Dominique, age three, was more interested in the ducklings that splashed at the moat's edge.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

Patrick, age five, offered her ladyship a sturdy bow while Dominique, age three, was more interested in the ducklings that splashed at the moat's edge.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

The main bastion stood in the tidal shallows, but the northern half of the western wall was edged with sand as far as the moat's outflow.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

The moat's outflow was a sluice gate in a small, masonry dam at the fort's north-western corner.

Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987

And at the moat's far edge, their feet fast in the cat-ice, were reeds and sedge – brown and yellow and dried, that rustled and whispered as a wild duck flew out of them.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

With my gloved fist I gave him a straight blow on the side of the chin, and he dropped like a felled tree, at the very moat's edge, over which I rolled him that he might recover in safety from the effects of the shock.

An Enemy to the King Robert Neilson Stephens 1886

Above the moat's broad water, the quick dark May-flies chased one another, in dashes of straight lines, through the rosy haze, and as the sinking sun shot a last farewell glance between the oak trees on the knoll, the lady stood still and turned her smooth features to the light.

Via Crucis 1881

That's the trick, that way there's no food or debris that can get in the open moat's for the ants to walk.

Brad Ideas - Comments vessel sinks 2010