portcullis

Example Sentences

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For near a fortnight there had been so many comings and goings that Robb ordered both portcullises kept up and the drawbridge down between them, even in the dead of night.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Robinson seems rejoiced that he is to be allied to the Nevills, and that his posterity is to have the bear and ragged staff, red roses, and portcullises for their insignia.

From George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by Roscoe, E. S.

Double-folding doors and portcullises protected the gateways themselves.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 5 Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Switzerland, Part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

Naturally the Headmasters of the great public schools clanged their gates and dropped their portcullises against such an infraction of the law that a Headmaster's school is his castle.

From The Lighter Side of School Life by Hay, Ian

Orders were sent to him, not only to unhinge the gates and wedge the portcullises, as the Council had already ordered, but to break them in pieces.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David