There, to our front, and scarcely 500 yards distant, we saw a gate with embattled towers, the high walls of the city, and a bastion.
The embattled tower or peel is all that now remains, and whatever of other buildings there may have been have long since disappeared.
An embattled parapet surmounts the structure, and in the rear rise two octagonal towers, covered with dome-like cupolas crowned with eagles.
The external walls of both the nave and chancel are surmounted by an embattled parapet, relieved at intervals with crocketted pinnacles, that are carried above the edge of the parapet wall as a termination to each buttress.
Again the harmony comes o'er the vale, And through the trees I view the embattled tower Whence all the music.
My early youth was bred to martial pains, My soul impels me to th' embattled plains: Let me be foremost to defend the throne, And guard my father's glories and my own.
In the same line, and over the embattled parapets of the Newgate, the noble church of the Grey Friars, inferior in extent only to the cathedral of S.
New York and Pennsylvania on these plains Closed boldly in on the embattled town, Nor feared they threatened penalties and pains Of Parliament, or Crown.
Going on, you lose sight of the castle for awhile, and soon find yourself before a high embattled wall, built of large blocks of stone covered by Time with moss and creeping plants.
Yet its lofty tower, its embattled gateway, seem to infer some important destination.
Near by is the solid little church with pinnacled and embattled tower, still more ancient.
The grim gateway is flanked by two huge embattled round towers and the walls are pierced by small mullioned windows.
Louis passed with Martini over the embattled terraces, which, in the present fortified state of the city, occupied the place of citron groves on the flat roofs of the houses of Tetuan.
On your couch of glory slumber comes Bosomed amid the archangelic choir; Not with the grumble of impetuous drums Deepening the chorus of embattled ire.
Why your forts now embattled on headland and height, Your sons all in armor, unless for the fight?
The bold grandeur of the times seem to have departed with those cloistered and embattled buildings and the stately beings who inhabited them.
The square, thick-ribbed, and embattled tower of the guild of the Holy Cross, with its Norman windows and grotesque ornaments, alone looks dark in shadow.
As Grasp, therefore, approached this curious building, he beheld its embattled towers and massive chimneys embosomed in ancient trees of vast size, and most soft and lovely foliage.
The noble embattled tower, forming the west front, with its two minor square towers, serve as appendages to the north and south wing, and are united by low walls.
James and his company, passing through the ponderous and embattled gateway, entered into the great quadrangle, an area, it is reported, of sufficient size to contain six hundred men.
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
High walls with an embattled parapet surround the lower court, or ballium, which we enter by a gate defended by strong towers.
These are supported by short massy pillars: an embattled moulding runs round the windows.
The embattledornament round the southern door of the western front, is far from commonly seen in such situations.
It is the cause for which they fight that gives them dignity: embattled Greece must repossess the beauty which a lesser race has reft away from it.
If you would know Christianity militant against the embattled legions of the Saracens, read the "Jerusalem Liberated" of Tasso.
Baird, a machine gunner aboard one embattled vehicle, recounted his ordeal: “We were 100 yards in now and the enemy fire was awful damn intense and getting worse.
The stench of dead bodies covered the embattled island like a cloud.
The banner of Laon represented two embattled towers, between which rose a naked sword.
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