The crenellated walls now enclosing the small area in which stands the church were built by the Knights of Malta, who succeeded to the place that had been occupied by the Templars, after the suppression of this latter order.
Positively it is difficult to take it, for here comes a fort we must look at--miles of sloping coppery-coloured crenellated stone wall of moresque design.
The palace grounds are surrounded by four crenellated walls, each a mile long; each wall has three seven-roofed gates in it, and each gate has a bridge across the wide moat.
It stood in the midst of a fertile plain, surrounded by a crenellated wall, and when he saw it he stepped forward with resolution.
But when, reaching the top of the hill, you come once more to the crenellated walls that surround the city and go out through the frowning gate, you come to the graves.
They could walk along the high crenellated walls of the Barbican and shoot thence, and stop the way by lowering the portcullis.
Besides being crenellated the raised front of the wall itself was often pierced with slits shaped for the use of long or cross-bows.
Passing under the gate of Chella, with its richly carved corbels and lofty crenellated towers, one feels one's self thus completely reabsorbed into the past.
Great crenellated ramparts, cyclopean, superb, follow the curve of the cliff.
She was walking through the eastern side of the town, in the direction of Tilia's house, which he could see from up here, with the dovecote on its roof and its crenellated balconies, though Sophia could not.
Beyond the walls, out of a haze of dust and wood smoke, above masses of peaked roofs, crenellated palace towers rose lordly, vying for ascendancy with the bell towers of churches.
They had hanged him from Tilia's crenellated balcony.
The "fess embattled" is only crenellated upon the upper edge; but when both edges are embattled it is a fess embattled and counter-embattled.
Similarly a chevron is only crenellated on the upper edge unless it is described as both embattled and counter-embattled, but a pale embattled is crenellated on both edges as is the cross or saltire.
Strictly speaking, a bend embattled is crenellated upon the upper edge only, though with regard to this ordinary there is much laxity of practice.
Between Tarascon and Cabannes are some that were defended by crenellated walls, and are supposed to date from the Wars of Religion, but probably go back beyond the time of the English occupation.
Christophe, scooped out of the living rock, with above it an old crenellated bell tower.
The counterscarp at the north-west and south-west angles of these two fronts is for the distance of twenty yards composed of a crenellated wall four feet six inches thick.
It is proposed to connect it by a crenellatedwall with the main work.
It is a remarkable contrast to the rest of the fortress, which is surrounded by crenellated walls of high finish.
With a loud explosion, the powder magazine rose into the air, and flames presently spread above the crenellated parapets.
Shell with six unequal valves articulated by a scaly suture, of which the edges appear to be finely crenellated in the cavity; the form of the valves is conical, aperture ample, and nearly quadrangular.
I was only roused by the sight, over some tree tops, of a little bit of black crenellated wall.
The white walls of the Castle are raised from the moat on parapets formed of gigantic stones, and roofed with crenellated bronze tiles, whilst at the corners rise pagoda-shaped towers.
At intervals of three hundred yards there are massive flying buttresses, and a crenellated parapet crowns the summit.
The walls of Peking, with their crenellated gateways, are just fading away into the blue haze.
A round tower is here substituted for the square structure and a cupola for the pyramid, while the cornice is represented by crenellated markings.
Nestling between two mountains which seemed to hug the water was a village with a remarkable wall stretching from one peak to the other, and curving down, thus encircling the town; this wall had a crenellated edge and was perfectly preserved.
Pomegranate, almond, and apricot trees abound, and produce a charming contrast to the prevailingcrenellated mud walls.
The country hereabouts is a level plain, extending eastward to the Furrah Rood; within the first few miles adjacent to the Harood are seen the crenellated walls of several villages and the crumbling ruins of as many more.
The atmosphere seems phenomenally transparent, and the trees and ruins and crenellated walls, rising above the level plain, are outlined clear and distinct against the sky.
Crenellated walls, a park of artillery, and roomy English barracks greet the vision.
Roman, andcrenellated walls are extremely ancient, being represented upon the Nineveh marbles.
It has been occupied by the de Says, the Verduns, and ten generations of the Ludlows, the first of whom built the crenellated parts.
The approach from upstream is very striking, a grey city perched on a huge grey reef and enclosed in a strong, crenellated grey wall.
The wall is some forty feet high, and along the top runs a broad path enclosed by crenellated parapets.
The scenery was charming as ever, but I was wearying of inactivity and it was a relief to see the crenellated walls of Chung-king come in sight.
Built on a sandstone ledge at the junction of the Ta Tu and Ya with the Min, its crenellated red walls rise almost directly from the water, which, when in flood, dashes high against the foundations.
The rays of the rising sun wake me as they burst brightly into the courtyard of the yamen, filtering, rosy-coloured, through the embrasures of the crenellated walls.
The external ramp, with its pavement of burnt brick and its crenellated parapet, was also found.
That crenellated parapet once belonged to military architecture: between those pieces that stood up, the merlons, in the embrasure, the Greek and Roman archers shot their arrows at the enemy and darted back behind the merlons for protection.
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