castle-walls

‘Though I am afraid it rather resembles the melancholy ruse of throwing loaves over castle-walls at besiegers, and suggests desperation rather than plenty inside.’

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

The frowning castle-walls were out of sight; look which way he would, he could see nothing but the hot flat sand below, and the hot bright sun in the clear sky above him.

The Rocky Island and Other Similitudes Samuel Wilberforce

It is as if we suddenly saw a princess come out upon her castle-walls, and hymned that fair emergence, which to herself is nothing.

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

Thus, centuries after feudal times are past, we find warriors still gathering under the old castle-walls, and commanded by a feudal lord, just as in the days of the King-Maker, who, no doubt, often mustered his retainers in the same market-place where I beheld this modern regiment.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

From within, the rampart was guarded by eight huge towers that stood out from the castle-walls, and the four corners of the ramparts were further strengthened by four more towers with apertures for crossbows, cannon, and muskets.

The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Paul Barron Watson

It lasted little longer than the three months of that strange summer of sports within the castle-walls of Amberley.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And as she walked by the water in the evening she looked across to her lost castle-walls, and touched the pennies in her pouch and dreamed, while the sun dressed the running flood in his royalest colors.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

It lasted little longer than the three months of that strange summer of sports within the castle-walls of Amberley.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

And as she walked by the water in the evening she looked across to her lost castle-walls, and touched the pennies in her pouch and dreamed, while the sun dressed the running flood in his royalest colours.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

And as she walked by the water in the evening she looked across to her lost castle-walls, and touched the pennies in her pouch and dreamed, while the sun dressed the running flood in his royalest colors.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923