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
The numerous small bumps in the palisade parenchyma cells are chloroplasts.
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
On the south side of fire castle, moss grew thick upon the palisade and crept halfway up the towers.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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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
Nevertheless, by Tisquantum’s time defensive palisades were increasingly common, especially in the river valleys.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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
And now, facing the sea, a strong palisaded fort was built, and completely clayed over, so as to be almost invisible from the sea.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon
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
The wonted inmates of the palisaded enclosure were no longer there, but their place was occupied by a shoal of even more wretched beings, just imported with a caravan from Guráguê.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
This was a work of greater magnitude than that of the first adventurers, inclosing a space one hundred feet square, strongly palisaded with pickets ten and a half feet high.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Sometimes the gardens and cornfields were inside this palisading, sometimes outside.
From American Indians by Starr, Frederick
Round the outer palisading Of the diamond walls are watching Many hosts from the Sabaoth Of the King of all these bright realms.
From A Leaf from the Old Forest by Cossar, John D.
Beyond it is another precipice, but wire netting is there to save the ball from this, and there is some wooden palisading to keep it out of trouble on the left.
From The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer by Leach, Henry
Elsewhere in dreadful guise Mezentius brandishes his Etruscan pine and hurls smoking brands; but Messapus, tamer of horses, seed of Neptune, tears away the palisading and calls for ladders to the ramparts.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
When I knew the place intimately, on the very highest part of the Park was a large enclosure of the wild forest, railed in with high wooden palisading.
From Spanish Life in Town and Country by Dawson, William Harbutt
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