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Around all these houses they put a triple palisade, that is three rows of stout, sharpened stakes, driven deep into the ground and rising full six feet above it.— The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky
They rose nine or ten feet above the willow, so that the total height of the palisade was about twelve feet, and the tops of the stakes were sharpened.— After London Or, Wild England
It did not apply to the family of the owner Under some bushes by the palisade was a ladder of rope, the rungs, however, of wood.— After London Or, Wild England
In the palisade was a mighty breach, not an entrance-way, wide enough to admit six Daniel Lamberts abreast Look," cried Borabolla, as landing we stepped toward the place.— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
On the right the high trees that stand outside the ramparts of the town went dwindling in perspective like a palisade, and above them, here and there, was a roof showing the top of the towers of the Cathedral or of St Gengoult.— The Path to Rome

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