city-walls

For I heard what awful deeds one of my daughters had done, just as I entered the city-walls with old

The Bacchantes 2008

To famed Mycenae will I go; crow-bars and pick-axes must I take, for I will heave from their very base with iron levers those city-walls which the

Heracles 2008

For I heard what awful deeds one of my daughters had done, just as I entered the city-walls with old

The Bacchantes 2008

To famed Mycenae will I go; crow-bars and pick-axes must I take, for I will heave from their very base with iron levers those city-walls which the

Heracles 2008

Nine gates open in the city-walls; these are strong and high, and flanked with towers, except on the south east where the

Travels in Morocco 2003

On the following day the petty official found the old literatus on the shady side of the city-walls and pierced him.

The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu 1959

He then constructed an altar compound outside the city-walls, buried the written documents there, and smeared the sacrificial vessels with the blood of chickens and piglings as though there they had taken an oath together.

The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu 1959

And the inhabitants of Chi-mo, witnessing the outrage from the city-walls, wept passionately and were all impatient to go out and fight, their fury being increased tenfold.

The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

The radiant Lord will show us stable dwellings, and gleaming city-walls.

Codex Junius 11 Unknown

And just so these beauties that grow and ripen against the city-walls, these young fellows with cheeks like peaches and young girls with cheeks like nectarines, show that the most perfect forms of artificial life can do as much for the human product as garden-culture for strawberries and blackberries.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various