Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire 137 Chepstow Castle is an example of an Early Norman Fortress of the Rectangular Keep type, which was rendered concentric by the addition of Baileys and a wall of enceinte.
It is quite reasonable to infer, however, that one, or even both, of the baileys were added at some time subsequent to the throwing up of the mound.
Harlech and Kidwelly are similar in not being purely concentric; each have short fronts of wall and the defences of two of the baileys are united, thus only two lines of resistance are interposed.
By the arrangement of the walls two baileys are formed, the inner and outer, and the Castle affords an example of a fortress built upon the concentric ideal where the ground does not modify the detail in any way.
But we shan't be dining with the Baileys every night.
It was true, as Ruth had said, that they did not dine with the Baileys every night, but that seemed to Kirk, as the days went on, the one and only bright spot in the new state of affairs.
The shape of all the baileys is roughly quadrangular, except that of the fourth, which would be semicircular but for the towers which make corners to it.
There were two baileys to the castle of Colchester--the inner one, which scarcely covered 2 acres, and the outer one, which contained about 11.
We confine our attention to the keeps, because though mural towers of stone began to be added to the walls of baileysduring Henry II.
The fancy of the antiquary Wilkins that the motte was the centre of two concentric outworks[533] was completely disproved by Mr Harrod, who showed that the original castle was a motte with one of the ordinary half-moon baileys attached.
In the table in the Appendix, the area occupied by the original baileys of the castles in this list has been measured accurately by a planimeter, from the 25-in.
The motte-and-bailey plan is still very apparent in the ruins, though the motte is represented by a precipitous rock, only a few feet higher than the baileys attached, and separated from them by a ditch cut through the headland.
That the baileys of some of the most important castles in England had only these wooden and earthen defences, even as late as the 13th century, can be amply proved from the Close Rolls.
The area of the two baileys together is only 1 acre.
There are some mottes in England and Scotland which have nobaileys attached to them, and do not appear ever to have had any.
Already squalls were sweeping in from the sea in dark and menacing blots, and to the Baileys this did not promise to be merely a passing thundershower but an all-night deluge.
From a second window in her room, across a corner, she could see the windows of the barn which the Baileys had made into a living room, and she leaned far out to see clearly.
Everybody in Drake Eye Springs dressed up in Sunday clothes and came to the meeting; that is, everybody except the Baileys and the Lawsons.
The Baileys decided to go on; for Mrs. Bailey was to meet her sister at Verde and her parents at Whipple.
Our escort was now sent back to Camp Apache, and the Baileys remained at Fort Whipple, so our outfit consisted of one ambulance and one army wagon.
So I ses to Bart, if there's danger and trouble and Old Baileys about, the sooner Miss Sylvia have some dear man to give her a decent name and pertect her the more happy old Deborah will be.
Old Baileys and police-courts was in his mind, say what you like.
Temperamentally the Baileys were specialised, concentrated, accurate, while I am urged either by some Inner force or some entirely assimilated influence in my training, always to round off and shadow my outlines.
The Baileys don't intend to let this drop," I said.
The Baileys either hadn't got that or they didn't see it.
There were times when the blindness of the Baileysirritated me intensely.
The harsh precisions of the Baileys and Altiora's blunt directness threw up her fineness into relief and made a grace of every weakness.
Slowly that had passed into a more elaborate legislative constructiveness, which had led to my uneasy association with theBaileys and the professedly constructive Young Liberals.
Then we must make out a time-table as the Baileys do, and BEGIN!
It is easy to see how much in common there was between theBaileys and me, and how natural it was that I should become a constant visitor at their house and an ally of theirs in many enterprises.
That is what bothered me about Codger, about those various schoolmasters who had prepared me for life, about the Baileys and their dream of an official ruling class.
I was not going on as the Baileys thought I was going on.
The first table covers were great curiosities, and the homes of the Baileys were visited by all the neighboring housewives, who were anxious to see "how they worked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baileys" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
