hill-forts

And I want there to be a knights army in ships come to invade them, and hill-forts and ... and we can take it in turns to do the writing and the drawing ...

zornhau: Kurtzhau and Zornhau on the road to Neverwhen zornhau 2010

Old English/Anglo-Saxon adopted this word, in the context of hill-forts, to mean the hills themselves; and as tūn became our word "town", dūn became "down" as in the North and South Downs.

ἐφοβοῦντο nwhyte 2008

Certain it is, she received large sums of money, under pretence of paying off her troops, surrendering of hill-forts, and Heaven knows what besides.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

He was too apt to contrast it with Damascus: the wind-swept Istrian hills with the zephyr-ruffled Lebanon, the dull red plains of the Austrian sea-board with the saffron of the desert, the pre-historic castellieri or hill-forts, in which, nevertheless, he took some pleasure, with the columned glories of

The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

A good two hundred and fifty miles lay between the camp and Sammael's great hill-forts across a plain of grass where a fifty-foot rise was considered a tall hill and a thicket of two hides a forest.

Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

There was a ... place ... that he knew how to enter, a strange, unpeopled reflection of the real world, and he had walked the wooden walls of those massive hill-forts there.

Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

They dug themselves into the best of the local hill-forts, mended its walls, provisioned it, and waited upon events.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

Alexander took the hill-forts one by one, except those that surrendered.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

He learned wonderful skill and cunning in taking hill-forts.

The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

Hitherto we have seen the Zouaves only in time of active war, or in the defence of hill-forts, obliged to unity through fear of an ever-menacing foe, and laboring for their own preservation or comfort only; but now commenced a new training for them, no less severe and dangerous, in which they showed themselves equally willing and competent, -- a war against stubborn Nature in all her most forbidding aspects.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various