barbacans

For example: "Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning."

A Scholar Senator Speaks Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning. —

Ulysses 2003

Through the barbacans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor.

Ulysses 2003

With magic power I would invoke before you gothic towers and castellated turrets, bristling barbacans and mighty arches, baronial halls and clustered shafts; I would throw around you the giant shadows of vaulted domes and of revered cathedrals: but it may not be; all that is with the Past: the Past is never to return!

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Through the barbacans the shafts of light are moving ever, slowly ever as my feet are sinking, creeping duskward over the dial floor.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans: and at the meeting of their rays a cloud of coalsmoke and fumes of fried grease floated, turning.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

From the high barbacans of the tower two shafts of light fall on the smokepalled altarstone.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

But on entering the court behind the château the bare cliff is seen with a yawning opening halfway up, and indentations in the wall of rock show that at one time there were hanging barbacans and chambers suspended before the rock as well as others hewn out of it.

Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879

The officer favouring the royal cause, the garrison revolted, and Sir Arthur, marching from Newcastle to reduce them, took the place by storm; his men scaling the walls, and entering by the embrazures and the barbacans: the conflict within was short, but Colonel Lilburne fell in it, and the republican party triumphed.

The Castle of Tynemouth. A Tale 1830

In front of the King's palace there is a rampart constructed of large bricks, with barbacans in the manner of a fortress, on which are mounted fifty-six brass and six iron cannon. "

British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884