Also he ordered them to build a large house inside the battlement walls for Legaspi's own residence--another large house and church for the priests, etc.
She rose from the battlement where she had seated herself to watch the moon, already far up in the heavens, as she brightened through the gathering dusk, and followed him with beating heart.
Lay a hand on each side of the battlement where you now stand; lean through it and look down.
For fifty feet thebattlement had been beaten down far lower than was the summit of the tower.
Right at the crown of the battlement stood a figure in armor, and behind the bulwark was the noise of struggle.
Longsword beheld Godfrey setting the great crucifix from the tower upright upon the battlementof the Holy City.
The rock smote the battlementwhere the first attacks had weakened it.
The gates clanged in the face of the assault, and again from battlement and flanking tower pelted the storm of death.
From the battlement above, beams and stones snowed down upon him.
The old Prince on the battlement was so eager for the combat, that he seemed quite to forget the danger which menaced himself, should his slim champion be discomfited by the tremendous Knight of Donnerblitz.
It is square, quite large for its height, having a battlement around the top, and every part of it is so covered with ivy as to expose no portion of the stonework to view.
It is very elaborately decorated, ending with a rich battlement and lofty turrets.
The sky was clear above them, and a fat, yellow moon was rolling along behind a battlement of chimney-tops.
The four heralds waved their silver wands; the white carpet was spread, and the canopy brought and set close by the eastern battlement of the turret; then the king came and stood in the shade before the people.
Olvir sprang up from his seat on the battlement as though stung.
When, the second time, he swung back into the saddle, his eye was caught by the battlement on one of the towers of Casseneuil.
Norman work may be seen in the arcading, the turrets, and traces of an original window; while the capping of the turrets, the windows and battlement belong to the Perpendicular style.
The noble towers, rising on each side of the west front, have buttresses similarly adorned, and each three windows, and over the second an open battlement forms a walk along the whole front.
The exterior consists of open tracery, niches and panelled work, crowned with a battlement and pinnacles.
The roof is in the form of a pyramid, and there is a battlement surrounding it.
I looked over the edge of the battlement where I stood.
To this high rockybattlement overlooking Lake Champlain, the French had hastily added a rugged outwork of felled trees on the crest of a flanking hill.
The clearstorey resembles that of the transept, but the corbel table is surmounted here by a slope, on which rest two large gargoyles (renewed), and instead of a Decorated battlement there is a plain coping.
The string or cornice above them is made to match that on the western portion of the aisle, but in the battlement the merlons are of merely ordinary width.
Above the windows comes the moulded string or cornice continued from the transept, and above this the pierced merlons of the Decorated battlement are again very broad in proportion to the embrasures.
I can descry no smoke, and the battlement appears ruinous.
Here, above the highest window and extending to the base of the battlement course, are seen the seven stars of the northern constellation Ursa Major or Great Bear, otherwise known as the Dipper.
Each of these pilasters rises above the parapets and battlement walls, and is capped by a granite block three and a half feet square at its base and two and a half feet high.
There was a momentary gleam of light, and with it a glimpse of a rugged battlement at the rock's edge.
The mellowing light, as it falls on battlement and buttress, corbel and gargoyle, brings out every projection and inequality with wondrous effect, and softens into beauty every scar and furrow which the corrosive hand of Time has made upon it.
At the battlement of the steeple, sundry times were used Popish anthems, to call upon their gods, with torch and paper in the evenings.
Juana in ungovernable excitement, running to the battlement and showing herself fearlessly.
