If the ruse answered, and it was an old trick enough, the barbican and gate could be held till Fulviac came up and made matters sure.
You held thebarbican of loyalty till true friends rallied to the country's citadel.
Send an order to the camp for a hundred men to scour the country toward the Aire, and let another fifty muster before the barbican at daybreak; then come to me.
It is evident the garrison is very small," De Bury observed, "else they would not have abandoned the barbican without a blow.
As De Lacy and Dauvrey emerged from the shadow of the barbican a bugle spoke and Raynor Royk rode forward and saluted.
With banners to the fore, they marched across the open space to the barbican and the herald blew the parley.
When De Lacy drew rein before the barbican of Pontefract, there was no need to wind horn to gain entrance, for the drawbridge was down and Lord Darby, with a score of attendants, was just departing.
Five thousand people from all over the world pass its barbican in a year, and yet how few one recalls among his acquaintances who have ever been there.
From within, the Porte Narbonnaise was protected in a remarkable manner, the Chateau Narbonnaise commanding with its own barbican and walls every foot of the way from the gate to the chateau proper.
This one learns from the old plans, but the barbican itself disappeared in 1816.
They carried by assault thebarbican or outer defence of the gate, and with but a loss of four or five men.
The other defences, thebarbican and the wall of the outer bailey, had been carried by assault, the soldiers climbing the walls and forcing their way within.
Dismal is the granite pile With barbican and flanking tower, That frown beneath the merry smile Of laughing noontide hour.
This spur work was the entrance to the Castle, and contains a deep pit, now called the Dungeon, and a Barbican or Sally-port beyond.
I will charge from the main gate, and attack the barbican on the outside; and if we can regain that post, be assured we shall defend ourselves until we are relieved, or at least till they grant us fair quarter.
The castle moat divided this species of barbican [Footnote: A barbican is a tower or outwork built to defend the entry to a castle or fortification.
Two doors from Barbican stood the "Bell," an inn worthy of being remembered as having been the resort of John Taylor, the Water Poet.
In the last century, that portion from the Barbican to the Bars was called "Pick-axe Street.
Some remains of the old Barbican were to be seen here in the last century.
The besiegers also mined, but at another part, their object being to get under the square barbican and throw it down.
On the summit of the hill, immediately above his subterranean hermitage, he caused a great gateway or barbican to be erected, opening through the centre of a strong tower.
They passed up through the entrance of the cavern into the barbican of the Gate of Justice, and thence to the Plaza de los Algibes, or esplanade within the fortress.
Within the barbican was another group of veteran invalids, one mounting guard at the portal, while the rest, wrapped in their tattered cloaks, slept on the stone benches.
The clangor of drum and trumpet, the tramp of steed about the avenues and outer court, the glitter of arms and display of banners about barbican and battlement, recalled the ancient and warlike glories of the fortress.
I should be at a loss to say why the barbican should have commended it so; perhaps it was because we there realized, for the first time, what a barbican was; I doubt if the reader knows, now.
If he had projected the walls of the palace and its barbican in the same way as those of the other buildings he would either have had to encroach upon his streams and to hide their junction or to divert their course.
Guarded by a barbican and surrounded by trees it rises upon its artificial mound some little distance in front of the city.
Denton has explained the name of Cripplegate as due to the covered way between the postern and the Barbican or Burgh-kenning (A.
One morning in November, 1703, he left the Barbican to superintend repairs.
This work now goes by the name of the Barbican, but probably this name has been extended to it from a barbican covering the castle entrance (of which entrance the ruins still remain).
In this Barbican house Mr. Powell died at the end of that year.
Quickly she hastened to the outer barbican that it might be she who answered their hail rather than one of the men-at-arms on watch there.
The little boy was filled with awe and his childish imagination ran riot as they approached the crumbling barbican on foot, leading the horse after them.
Each barbican was portcullised, while the inner gates were similarly safeguarded in addition to the drawbridges which, spanning the moat when lowered, could be drawn up at the approach of an enemy, effectually stopping his advance.
It is practically an oblong with massive circular buttress towers at the four angles; two others defend the gateway and two smaller ones are on either side of the barbican entrance.
The barbican lies upon the eastern side of the fortress, and was only accessible by a steep and narrow entrance after a dry ditch had been crossed.
The great gateway and the barbicanpresent excellent examples of military architecture of the fourteenth century.
A circular barbican protects the main entrance to the Castle, while in the south-east angle of the enceinte wall an imposing rectangular tower has been built, containing the remains of an ancient postern.
Another drawbridge gives upon the artificial island upon the mainland previously mentioned, where the Inner Barbican stood, and beyond this again was a strong and massive Outer Barbican.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barbican" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
