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
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
Sometime in the 1930s, the Hungarian photographer Anna Barna shot “Onlooker,” a picture of a boy standing on a chair seen from behind as he peers over a palisade.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2021
He dried him with the blanket, kneeling there in the glow of the light with the shadow of the bridge’s understructure broken across the palisade of treetrunks beyond the creek.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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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
Other than the shell of a reconstructed barracks and the palisades outlining the fort, there were no other attempts at verisimilitude.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 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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Along the shore and up on the palisades, warm yellow light poured from the windows of homes and shell houses.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
MacFarlane told him that the country was so wild that Fort Eskimo was palisaded, flanked with bastions, and loop-holed for rifle-fire, owing to the desperate character of the surrounding and hostile tribes.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
In the more exposed localities the houses of the tenants were built together in palisaded villages.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
In this pleasant land the Iroquois dwelt in palisaded villages upon the fertile banks of the lakes and streams which watered their country.
From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler
It was a dutiful effort to remember that the Hôtel de Ville had not always been a mangled pile, its palisaded courtyard once something other than the site of a Y.M.C.A. hut.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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
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
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
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)
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.
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