battlement

Partly in commemoration of that event, local fishermen put their own stamp on the Good Friday bier procession by lighting fires on the battlements of the Venetian-built fortifications.

"Tomorrow they become our battlements. To wait until abortion was actually under threat would be to wait too long."

The property was built more than 170 years ago in a Scottish baronial style, a type of elaborate architecture featuring complex rooflines with turrets and fortress-like battlements.

His courage is undeniable as he leads from the front, surging up a siege ladder onto a fortress’s battlement, laying about him with his sword.

Presley was 33 — still young, but at a time when “don’t trust anybody over 30” was a counterculture mantra; he was revolutionary in his age, but those battlements had long been dismantled.