palisade
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At Amnya, her team also noted a possible sign of social stratification, another development often linked to agriculture: a cluster of houses that sat, undefended, outside the palisade.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
Buckingham Palace was taken aback, and it responded with a terse, 61-word statement that sought to contain the drama within the familiar royal palisade of privacy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
Below the palisade parenchyma are loosely arranged cells of an irregular shape.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Eight stories tall, Solaris features a sleek palisade of broad teak-covered decks suitable for hosting a horde of well-heeled partygoers.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
Flames lick their way down the palisade, spreading like spilled wine.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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With room inside for dozens of people and dwellings sunk almost 2 meters deep for warmth in Siberian winters, the fortresses were ringed by earthen walls several meters high and topped with wooden palisades.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
The noodle house may be hard to find because it’s literally overshadowed by the palisades of the Great Wall Shopping Mall nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Survivors from his expedition described large towns of thatched houses, surrounded by strong palisades and watchtowers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
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On the palisades in front of the church hang red banners proclaiming the fifth commandment of the Catholic catechism: Huwag kang papatay, it reads.
From Time ● Jan. 16, 2017
How will we protect ourselves, with no palisades?
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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Last March, Historic St. Mary’s City announced that the outlines of the palisaded fort, erected by White settlers in 1634, had finally been discovered.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2022
Above the palisaded gate the torso of a square-headed Tartar was visible, with his elbows resting on the ramparts, holding his long musket in his hand.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by J?kai, M?r
When the Griffon sailed, Father Melithon Watteaux was left behind in the little palisaded house at Niagara as chaplain.
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.
In the second, Stuart succeeded in forming a new line, supported by a brick house and palisaded garden, and from this position Greene was unable to drive him.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
Another Indian habitation with pitched roof and palisaded walls once stood in a spot north of the present Pamunkey Indian Reservation, near West Point, Virginia.
From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee
A few of these dwellings are, however, of superior form and fabric; and one stands forth in all the glories of palisading, and if I mistake not, bright green verandahs.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
At each side of this construction was a species of fortification, constructed of high palisading and earth-works.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
The whole country was surrounded by nine circles of double palisading, formed of trunks of trees twenty feet in height.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
But whatever it meant, it stopped the elephant from crashing through a piece of palisading, and made it kneel again with its head over a flowerbed, and begin picking all the blossoms within its reach.
From Glyn Severn's Schooldays by Pears, Charles
From the prisoners he had learned all details as to the fort, and found that while almost impregnable from the river face, the flank of the fort was defended chiefly by a strong palisading.
From With Cochrane the Dauntless by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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