He smiled, and bade me cheer up, when the naval commander went by; had he not twitted me for sitting safe under the bulwark and wincing when the four-inch gun roared?
I sat under cover of the bulwark near some kneeling riflemen, far from enjoying myself.
In this case death was to be inflicted not for smiting a man, but a parent--a distinction cherished by God, and around which, He threw up a bulwark of defence.
In this case, death was to be inflicted not for smiting a man, but a parent--a distinction made sacred by God, and fortified by a bulwark of defence.
Swiftly Iko stood upon the bulwark of the Miro, and shouted just one word at the top of his voice.
The bowsprit dipped under the anchor chain, and the whole bulwark on the weatherside was carried away.
It goes without saying that the mighty Charles, the great King of the Franks, drew upon himself the gaze of Rome which looked to him as to its bulwark and protector.
Her conduct was certainly not controlled by religious principle; and, though thebulwark of the Protestant faith, it might be difficult to say whether she were at heart most a Protestant or a Catholic.
Jerusalem for the Papacy, how often must he have stood on the bulwarkof San Ciriaco's hill watching for the galleys of the Venetian to come into sight.
She has grown like a fair white flower upon the brown slope of Monte Subasio, whose shoulder is a bulwark between the ragged Appennines and the soft valleys of Umbria.
But that this Christian dog should incite the Turks against us was a crime against Europe, for Europe needs Russia as a bulwark against Asia.
Do not fear Prussia; you need it as a bulwark against Russia, which now, since the time of the Czar Peter, has a voice and vote in the Council of Europe.
Now the general is the bulwark of the State; if the bulwark is complete at all points; the State will be strong; if the bulwark is defective, the State will be weak.
They are over the side, and will escape us," bellowed Hanns Schlott, peering over the bulwarkin his endeavour to pierce the darkness.
He grasped a thick cable close at hand, and pulled upon it till the end came over the bulwark and fell upon the deck.
For surely you also are acquainted with the fact that up till now the land of the Lazi has been a bulwark against the Caucasus mountains.
For he considered that, as regards the barbarians dwelling in the Caucasus, Lazica was nothing else than a bulwark against them.
All the officers counselled the immediate erection of a bulwark on the side of the city exposed to the castle, but there were no miners nor engineers.
At one bound, Midwinter leaped on thebulwark of the wreck.
But I couldn't be sure that we were to have the whole ship to ourselves till I got over the bulwark and looked about me.
He drew back into the shadowy shelter of the bulwark as suddenly as he had come out from it.
So he answered the rector's questions, with his tawny face turned away over the low bulwark of the yacht, and his fishing-line dragging in his supple brown hands.
Across the entrance, or neck, there was erected a bulwark of heavy, seasoned logs, which fortification extended from bank to bank of the stream the distance of about three hundred yards.
Behind this formidable bulwark were gathered one thousand two hundred Indian warriors from the towns of Oakfuskee, Hillabee, New Yauka and Eufaula.
Affgans found, that the natural bulwark of their native mountains was alone a sufficient barrier against the victorious arms of Tamerlane.
The bulwark of the Crimea fell, and Russia found itself in the most critical situation.
He treated with invariable deference the senate, which was the last bulwark of political freedom.
Gratitude has no doubt done much to soften and sweeten the intercourse of life, but the corresponding feeling of revenge was for centuries the one bulwark against social anarchy, and is even now one of the chief restraints to crime.
Few things are more touching than the passionate joy with which, in the reign of Nero, Seneca clung to it as the one refuge for the oppressed, the last bulwark of the tottering mind.
Steel was a citadel of the open shop, the bulwark between free and union labor.
The good will he gained for the Corporation from those who otherwise would have been its enemies proved a strong bulwark of defence in the Government’s suit for the dissolution of the “Steel Trust.
For on the 31st the Australians stormed Mount St. Quentin the bulwark of Péronne, and Péronne itself fell into their hands on 1 September.
Vinal bent over the bulwark and looked down on the bubbles, as they fled past, flashing in the moon.
Instinctively he braced his feet to stop himself against the bulwark on the lee side.
