rampart
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Its towering, mostly unbroken face and narrow swimming pool suggested a rampart and a moat, but behind the concrete exterior, Caland eliminated every door save the guest bathroom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
On top of this base, turf would have been laid to build a rampart about 2 metres high.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2023
Up close, the structure, which will cost as much as $40 million, looks less like a dune and more like a rampart.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022
In a nation whose strict policies earned it the nickname “Fortress Australia,” the last rampart has fallen.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
The rampart loomed suddenly before them, a high shadow beyond a dark pit.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
This laid-back, cafe-laden ledge is located above the beaches and ancient ramparts where the Douro River pours through its last, lovely tributaries into the Atlantic Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
The tilted-over towers overlooking the palace moat have all been brought back upright, and workers are building new brick castellations for their supporting ramparts.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Defenders of the bolillo ascended the ramparts of the internet to defend their humble fare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
That same year, with his painstaking production of The Beach Boys’ blockbuster single “Good Vibrations,” Wilson seemed poised to explore even greater musical ramparts.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025
The two creatures sat out upon the ramparts sharing lunch, conversing in low secretive tones.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
His faith was as firm as the bluffs that ramparted the fort, and his old heart was unafraid.
From The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven,—heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
The old Radical ghosts go by, more real than the living men, to assault I know not what ramparted city in hell.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
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