city-wall

As such she was usually depicted crowned with the turrets of a city-wall and holding a cornucopia horn of plenty brimming with the fruits of the earth.

Deity of Your City Anne Johnson 2009

In this manner did we travel three long miles, making almost an intire circuit of the city-wall, without seeing the face of a human creature, and at length reached the gate, where we were examined by the guard, and allowed to pass, after they had told us it was a long mile from thence to the house of Vanini, where we proposed to lodge.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Below was the city-wall that ran round the town, going unevenly up and down as it followed the contours of the hillside.

Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

Between her mouthfuls she told them how she had got out of the window, walked along the city-wall, and found herself unexpectedly by Mr. Barling's house.

Five Go To Smugglers Top Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1983

According to the practice of the Sophists he gave instruction for a fee in the gymnasium of Cynosarges outside the city-wall of Athens, offering lessons intended for the education of young Athenians without full citizenship.

CYNICISM RAGNAR H 1968

Silpius, and the city-wall erected by Justinian extended from the river up to the hill-plateau.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

As soon as the city-wall was completed, fortifications of immense strength were carried round the whole of Peiraeus; and within this vast rampart rose

Stories from Thucydides

Perceiving their intention, the Syracusans began a second counterwork, consisting of a stockade and ditch, which started at the point of junction between the old city-wall and the new, and ran across the low swampy ground as far as the Anapus.

Stories from Thucydides

For miles, up and down, on either side of the city-wall, extended the glittering train of vehicles.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

The city lies by a lofty mountain, which is surrounded by the city-wall.

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela