Its base is a broad square machicolated foundation with no openings, and suggests, as truly as does the tower at Albi, a churchly stronghold unlikely to give way before any ordinary attack.
On the machicolated summit is a square platform, where in the course of many peaceful ages a bay-tree has come to grow of a goodly size.
Without, covered with grass, is a square platform, protected by a machicolated parapet of turreted stone-work.
The machicolated heights, the encircling ramparts, the stern outlines of the fortress-palace of the pope, rose proudly impregnable in the air.
The machicolated heights, the encircling ramparts, the stern tomb of the Emperor Hadrian rose proudly impregnable into the golden air of evening, a massive witness to the power of a Church, literally militant here below.
The relics of the two Maries, who are said to have been buried at Saintes-Maries, are bestowed in the upper storey of the apse of the fortress-church, a remarkable building of the 12th century with crenelated and machicolated walls.
Le Puy possesses fragmentary remains of its old line of fortifications, among them a machicolated tower, which has been restored, and a few curious old houses dating from the 12th to the 17th century.
There is no beauty in these towers, their only features being the vast array of putlog holes in their walls, and the machicolated battlement of the higher of the two.
This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and surmounted with a flag-tower.
A high wall, machicolated at the top, connected this keep with a small octagonal tower, whose twin was placed some distance to the left, leaving an opening between for a wide entrance.
There was a broad level promenade parallel to the river front, protected by a strong machicolated parapet.
The narrow stone stair which gave access to both rooms ended at the circular flat roof of the tower, a platform protected by a machicolated parapet.
At first sight the town seems to be but a dolomite crown fixed on the cliffs themselves, until the eye discerns a circle of granite walls, broken at regular intervals by machicolated towers, to this day in perfect preservation.
In the centre rises a lofty square machicolated tower called the Tour Brune.
Of the outer fortifications there remains a brick gateway, with Gothic arch carrying a highmachicolated tower, connected to which is a fragment of the wall.
The embattlemented and machicolated summit, but not the chastelet, of this mighty tower has recently been restored; its walls are nearly twelve feet thick.
All along the Loire the walls had a stone parapet with machicolated battlements, whence pavingstones could be thrown, and whence, when attempts were made to scale the walls, the enemy's ladders could be hurled down.
On the right could be plainly seen the middle castle, with its ancient walls and its towers crowned with machicolated battlements.
The convent was fortified by the Spalatines in 1540, of which fortification the machicolated tower to the left of the church remains.
There were eight gates with machicolated defences above them, and the arms of fifteen rectors in different places showed that the walls had been long in building.
Some distance from it towered a great dark castle, as massive as the rocks on which it stood, with one strong keep at the corner, and four long lines of machicolated walls.
The part of the castle which is kept up is a single range of building; and an elegant machicolated tower, overlooking the whole, still frowns defiance on the petty innovations beneath.
On each side spread the brown machicolated battlements that vainly defended the death-stricken place.
The elderly victim of my furious entry was lounging, in spite of the mistral, by the grimmachicolated gateway.
A strong machicolated curtain, bending slightly westward, connects it with a lofty tower of slight projection, and separated by a short wall space from the well-advanced and diagonally set turrets of the great Gatehouse.
This is a fine modern doorway, of Norman design, in a machicolated central tower of three stories in height.
It seems a shapeless pile of towers and machicolated and battlemented curtains, falling into almost complete ruin.
But what is one of the grandest portions of the abbey is the machicolated tower that commands the plain for miles to the sea, a noble specimen of a donjon, and in excellent preservation.
From the top of one of the machicolated towers I saw a vast expanse of country, singularly grand, but very solemn.
They had been content to live and quietly to propagate their species in a huge machicolated Norman castle, surrounded by a triple moat, only sallying forth to cultivate their property and to collect their rents.
The great fortified gateway, which gives access to the old citadel, is a fine ogival work flanked by two massive machicolated towers.
Its origin dates back to an ancient eleventh-century fortress, which remains to-day in the form of a great cylindrical machicolated tower.
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