The mass of La Grande Chartreuse was dedicated to religious devotion, but those of other mountain chains, and the plains and valleys lying between, were strewn with castle towers and donjons almost to the total exclusion of church spires.
These of course are of a class quite distinct from the countless forts, fortresses, towers and donjons with which the whole countryside is strewn.
The lights in the Lady chapel show the fleur-de-lis and the donjonsof Castile, and are apparently the work of Paris craftsmen, who controlled the vitrine art of the later XIII century.
The donjons of Castile adorn it in honor of the queen regent.
Small craftsmen were donors, drapers, and day laborers, and of course Queen Blanche's donjons of Castile are to be seen.
And opposite in the fourth window are donjonsand fleurs-de-lys showing that the queen-regent, Blanche of Castile, was generous here as elsewhere.
That Louis IX contributed toward it is shown by the fleur-de-lis and the donjons of Castile in the storied windows.
The arrangements in the stone donjons were probably the same as those we have already described when writing of the wooden ones.
It is, moreover, according to De Caumont, the most beautiful of all the donjons of France.
This great tower holds nothing save those two donjons on top and that awful empty space downward; black as midnight, having no loopholes for any gleam of sunlight, though probably it mattered not.
The donjons were all down, or in good keeping; and, from end to end and in all its breadth England was at peace, and none of the baronage were so daring as to resist the king and the law.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "donjons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
