The walls are of brick, and the guns are protected by thick merlons of sand-bags.
The walls are of the hardest brick, of nine feet thickness in many places, and the crest of the parapets on which the merlons and traverses rest are of turf.
On further, a blackened mass arose in dim relief against the sky, with heavy merlons on its top.
Many minutes often intervened between shots, and as the preliminary object on the part of the besiegers was to destroy the merlons sheltering the warders, did a stone strike either wall near the top, the crash was saluted by cheers.
A magnificent range of machicoulis with crenellation above protects the towers and the curtain between, the merlons being pierced with oillets.
It is embattled, themerlons being pierced, while the embrasures have the ancient shutters still depending.
Battlementing was almost universal, and the system of piercing the merlons with arbalestraria may be assigned to this early date, although not reaching the full development it subsequently met with in the Edwardian Castles of Wales.
The merlons were six feet high, and the sill of the embrasures was three feet above the footway.
During the Middle Ages the merlons were usually perforated in the middle by a loop-hole.
The stones were falling from their places, the corners of the merlons were wearing away.
Above the windows comes the moulded string or cornice continued from the transept, and above this the pierced merlons of the Decorated battlement are again very broad in proportion to the embrasures.
The parapet shows the same wide merlons and cruciform piercings which characterize the other Decorated parapets of the church, and it may have been brought forward from the choir-aisle.
The string or cornice above them is made to match that on the western portion of the aisle, but in the battlement the merlons are of merely ordinary width.
With drawn bow he thrust his head outside the merlons for an instant and shot, managing to send his arrows into the loopholes of the tower, scattering death among the soldiers who thought themselves secure.
As Actaeon came into Saguntum he saw on the wall hundreds of slaves repairing the merlons worn by time, and filled with cracks which many years of peace had opened in them.
Over the merlonsappeared sinewy arms hurling missiles, slings swirled discharging stones, and bows bent followed by sharp hisses.
Many impatient ones swung from the merlons to fall more quickly upon the enemy.
Projectiles came hurtling from outside the walls, passing over the merlons like dark-colored birds, as if the Africans were covering an assault with battering-rams and pickaxes to open a breach.
From between the merlons stones and arrows leaped as an impetuous answer.
The multitude crowded upon them until many had to catch hold of the merlons to keep from falling.
Before he reached the merlons he heard a faint groan at his back, a gentle cry which recalled to Actaeon's mind the bleating of a fawn when pierced by the huntsman's arrow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merlons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
