Sir John, who saw the trick, instantly ordered the drawbridges to be raised, and shut the gates in the king's face, for by this time he had arrived at the Beverley gate.
The walls of the town were old, the ditches could scarcely be discerned, the gates and drawbridges were in disorder, and the town was commanded at various points by heights from which artillery might play upon it.
The great edifice was of noble dimensions--both a pleasure house and a prison, with towers and drawbridges for defense and suites of stately apartments.
Two drawbridges must be passed before entrance was gained by a steep ascent.
The eastern side of this important town was in former times defended by a wall strengthened by nine bastions, and by a broad and deep fosse over which were three drawbridges leading to the principal gates.
In front of the principal gates were drawbridges and half-moon shaped batteries.
Footnote 180: Coptic convents in Egypt still affect these drawbridges over the keep-moat.
Montreuil is a fortified town; we passed over drawbridges upon entering and leaving it: the houses are all very ancient, and the whole appearance is picturesque.
It was a very striking and singular spectacle to behold, as we now did, English sentinels on duty at thedrawbridges of this town, and an encampment of the same troops just beneath its walls.
By the drizzling rain I passed unhindered into Paris, all the gates being open and the drawbridges down, as the Federalists were both within and without the walls.
It was midnight, the gates of the town were shut and drawbridges up, and the hotel at the station had been closed for lack of visitors.
From here we also discovered that the only communication of the houses in this city, and of all the other towns built in the lake, was by means of drawbridges or canoes.
Nearly the whole of the houses of the city were built in the water, and it was only possible to get from one building to another by means of drawbridges or canoes.
The floating towers lowered their drawbridges upon the ramparts of the city, and whilst, at the foot of the walls, ten thousand arms planted ladders and battered with rams, on the summit a fearful conflict was maintained with sword and lance.
Scarcely were the drawbridges lowered, than two Frank warriors were seen upon one of the towers of the city.
The drawbridges are soon let down, and are covered with intrepid warriors, who threaten the invasion of the most lofty towers.
For, in order to give the General a good idea of the strength of our defences, I had ordered that the gates should be closed and the drawbridges raised.
For our own use winding paths led through the abattis to drawbridges before the two gates.
The attack was made with great vigour; but for a long time the besieged maintained their post, and drove back the assailants as they poured out across the drawbridges on to the wall.
The process was facilitated by the fact that the battlements had been shot away by the great stones, and there was a clear space on which the drawbridges could fall.
These were built so high that from their tops the parapet walk of the wall could be swept with arrows and stones; and drawbridges were let down from them, by which a storming party could reach the top of the wall.
We see, at C and D, the two excavations formed in front of the gates of the tower to intercept, when the drawbridges were raised, all communication between the town or the parapet walk and the several storeys of the tower.
It was also protected by a dry ditch and with drawbridges placed before the gateways.
From this island drawbridges permit of passage to the larger central island, around which a curtain wall of great strength has been built at the edge of the water with drum towers at the principal angles.
And about five o'clock in the evening (as everybody will who starts from Terracing early and pays the postboy well), the travellers came to an ancient city walled and fortified, with drawbridges over the shining moats.
The drawbridges are romantic to a degree; and there is a dungeon, that gives one a delightful idea of living in the days of soccage and under such goodly tenures.
Rapid indication of some of their applications to drawbridges and to the movable frames or wagons of saw-works and railways.
Then drawbridges were lowered, gates opened, and each vied with the other to show her homage.
The drawbridges seemed to cut off these delightful prospects.
We were stationed in Fort George, in exceedingly good quarters, though I could not bring myself to be reconciled to the ponderous drawbridges in use there, which foreboded no great stretch of liberty.
The attack was made with great vigor; but for a long time the besieged maintained their post, and drove back the assailants as they poured out across the drawbridges on to the wall.
The crowd which already surrounded it was considerable; the sentinels of the fortress were at their posts, and the drawbridges raised as in war.
The drawbridgeswere raised, and the enemy would soon be upon them!
The whole city was in arms, the drawbridges were raised, and the enemy was collecting from every quarter.
He was in the heart of a great capital, with dikes and drawbridges on every side, which might be converted into serious obstacles against him and his men, should the Aztecs determine to crush the small Spanish army.
A thorough examination of the machinery of the various portcullises and drawbridges followed; next an overhauling of the bolts, chains, and other defences of the gates.
They demanded with loud and reiterated cries to have the drawbridges let down; and on an assurance being given that no harm was intended, the bridges were lowered and the assailants tumultuously rushed in.
The inhabitants poured there in throngs from all quarters, armed with different weapons; the crowd that already surrounded it was considerable; the sentinels were at their posts, and the drawbridges raised as in war-time.
The sun was rising as the Sarrions' carriage slowly climbed the incline and clanked across the double drawbridges into the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drawbridges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
