embattlement

Example Sentences

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Along the Austrian frontier are the strong embattlements of Cracow and Przemysl, on the road to Lemberg in Galicia.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly

Overhead is a great castellated structure, surmounted by a lesser building, with a round tower, embattlements and all the architectural accompaniments of an elaborately equipped castle of ancient Europe.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton

In place of the busy marts of commerce and the towering chimneys of labor, we have the ruined embattlements of a warlike age, and the crumbling church of an ancient Mission.

From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret

Following years—in fact, centuries—of study, Central Europe has been strongly fortified with a system of embattlements which have reached the limits of human ingenuity.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Miller, Kelly

On the morning of July 8, in company with a body-guard of zaptiehs, which the mutessarif forced upon us, we wheeled down from the ruined embattlements of Bayazid.

From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell