It must have been a pleasant situation, facing the setting sun, with nothing but the town ramparts and the gleaming moat between it and the wide champaign.
The contents of the sacks were emptied out upon the planks, the latter having been first soaked with water, drawn from the moat by a pail one of the men carried.
Eustace, do you get two heavy beams thrust over, and lay the planks across them; then with Roger mount, cross the moatas soon as it is bridged, and follow the road after the Catholics.
Tis but a modern house, inclosed on three sides with a wall some twenty feet high, and surrounded by a moat of the same width.
If they had crossed the moat it would have gone hard with us; for, with that bank of bodies lying against the breastwork, they might have been able to leap it.
The moatwas doubled in width, and a work erected beyond it, to guard the approach across the drawbridge.
The strongest column advanced towards the great gate, others against the posterns; and four separate bodies, with planks and ladders, moved forward to bridge the moat and to attack at other points.
Stephen Gore watched them go, following them to the court-yard, and standing above the moat as they rode slowly away toward the woods.
The place must be of some size to have such a moat round it.
John Gore gained one of the thorn-trees close to the moat and took cover there, about twenty yards from the gate.
He had come within a hundred yards of the moat when he saw a beam of light steal out suddenly from the black mass of the ruin.
The place had a moat and a gate that suggested a manor-house or a grange of some size.
A deep and wide moat protects it upon the land side, and its Donjon is also strengthened by its own ditch.
Upon the opposite, or south face, is the postern leading to the moat and defended by a massive square tower, being one of nine in all surrounding the enclosure.
The moat at the entrance is now dry and filled up, and the Gateway there is modern.
It stands about two miles from Ightham village in Kent in a deep hollow, through which runs a rivulet flowing into the moat surrounding the House, from which the latter takes its name.
This wall formed the string of a bow as it were, and the semicircular portion defending the land side had to rely upon other obstacles, such as a deep moat and a curtain set with towers.
Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire 56 Although deprived of the charm of the great Moat which once surrounded the Castle, Kenilworth still forms a beautiful object, magnificent in its decay.
The eastern portion, and the smaller, has a curtain 15 feet in height and a moat of its own, the island thus formed being approached through two gatehouses from the land side, and joined to the inner ward by drawbridges.
The moat is of great width and depth and formed no inconsiderable portion of the original defences.
The square corner towers appear singularly inadequate for an effective flanking fire, and no doubt the building relied for defence chiefly upon the broad moat which encompassed it upon three sides and the deep dry ditch defending the approach.
Tower of London, The Middle Tower 128 This building might more aptly be termed 'The Barbican,' as it lies upon the farther side of the Moat from the Fortress.
Its position probably detracts from impressiveness, for it was designed to have the moat surrounding it filled with water at every tide from the Menai Strait, and this necessitated the selection of low ground for a site.
It was fortified by a double moatand square towers.
The island now known as the Cité, which the founders of Paris chose for their stronghold, was the largest of the group which lay involved in the many windings of the Seine, and was embraced by a natural moat of deep waters.
There is a colony of these Bats in the roof of Cliff Hall, near Kingsbury, and another in a hollow of a lime tree in the Moat House Avenue, Tamworth.
Smithfield market, which had buildings and moat till 1815.
The cry Allah-il-Allah shouted from the moat was trifling in comparison with what they might have overheard around the bonfires.
The open maw of a ravenous monster swallowing the column fast as Mahommed down by the great moat drove it on--such was the new ditch.
The sea was dragged, and the great moat from the Golden Gate to the Cynegion raked for traces of a new-made grave.
Simultaneously Justiniani should sally by the Gate St. Romain, cross the moat temporarily bridged for the purpose, and, with the footmen composing the force in reserve, throw himself upon the guns.
The moat is in places so cumbered I doubt if it can be everywhere flooded.
Corti made the passage safely, and in the road beyond the moat halted, and drove the staff of his banderole firmly in the ground.
Nay, Captain, our enemy must attack; otherwise he cannot make themoat passable.
Ordinarily the roadway from the country was carried over the deep moat in front of the Gate St. Romain by a floor of stout timbers well balustraded at the sides, and resting on brick piers.
The gate is a hill of stone and mortar, without form; the moat almost level from side to side; and Justiniani has decided upon a barricade behind a new ditch.
Footnote 1: A worked flint was found in the moat not long ago by Dr.
There was a moat on three sides, a square tower at each corner, and a fifth containing the gateway presumably on the eastward face.
Outside the square of buildings was a moat full of green slime and mosquito larvæ.
Here a small stream, dignified by the name of the Douve River, wandered lazily across the flat at the foot of the Messines Ridge and coiled like a natural moat in front of the Petite Douve Farm.
Even to-day, when staying in a moated house, have I felt the sense of security that a moat affords.
Perhaps it would not so much have mattered what he would have said as what he would have done to him--with a deep moat so handy.
Crossing the broad and brimming moat by a stone bridge (with the date of 1735 upon it) that replaces the drawbridge of past times, I found the door locked, so I inquired of a farmhouse close by if it were possible to see the building.
The second line of fortifications established subsequently by Philip Augustus comprised also a moat "twenty-five metres in depth," and bastions flanked by round towers and "tours a bec.
Levy] After luncheon I mount the hill to the tower, which I find in stately seclusion amidst a grove of trees and still surrounded by its moat full of stagnant water.
A wide moat in which water still flows is crossed by an ancient bridge, and beyond rises a structure of the date of Francis I.
The great donjon and inner sections surrounded by its immense wall, with many towers, is in its turn encompassed by a moat completely isolating the whole.
The fortress was enclosed by a lofty wall and towers, surrounded by a deep moat filled with water, which set at defiance the efforts of the Scots for several weeks.
More than one-half of the second moat had disappeared before Masazumi could be found.
The Soga mansion, on the eastern slope of Mount Unebi, was a species of fortress, surrounded by a moat and provided with an armoury having ample supply of bows and arrows.
After considerable correspondence it was agreed that Harunaga's son should go to Yedo as a hostage, and that a portion of the outer moat of Osaka Castle should be filled up.
The mansion was surrounded by a deepmoat which he could not cross.
From this Chapel a door in the wall opened on to a path that led straight over the drawbridge across the moat to the Manor House.
The Manor House was encircled by a moat on which graceful white swans swam to and fro.
A strange boy,' Joyce said to herself a few minutes later as she stood on the stone bridge that crossed the moat in front of the Manor House.
General Savary was not in themoat during the execution, but on the bank, from whence he could easily see all that passed.
He had so little suspicion of the fate that awaited him that on descending the staircase leading to the moathe asked where they were taking him.
The moat was then fixed upon, and there the pit was dug.
I passed the night there under arms, and at daybreak was ordered down to the moat with six men.
He was just in the mood for a spin through country lanes, and for once was tempted to wish that the Moat was situated at a greater distance from the station.
The telegram showed the expansiveness of the man of means, and ran as follows: "Returning to Moat this afternoon.
Although surrounded by fortifications with five gates and three miles in circuit, it is now practically an open town, for the walls are in ruins and the moat is choked with rubbish.
The town is surrounded by a brick wall and moat about 5 m.
Skirting the courtyards, the intendant led the way to the rear of the château, passing between the moat and the grim old walls of the mediæval towers.
We came within the fosses deep, thatmoat This region comfortless.
The moat was full, and the stately swans came sailing towards the sloping bank, where two girls were standing.
A branch line fromMoat Lane leads to Llanidloes at the junction of the Clywedog and Afon Tylwch with the Severn.
He then constructed a dyke or bank with a moat that ran from the estuary of the Dee to the mouth of the Wye, as a limit beyond which no Welshman might pass.
We look out over a moat filled with water and covered with leaves and pink flowers.
The moat of the chateau, however, offered the means of avoiding all these dangers, as it would conceal the murder as well as the victim.
Savary, at the same time, marched down and arranged slowly in the moat the detachments of troops who were to witness this military death, and ordered the firing party to load their muskets.
When they had turned the angle of this pavilion, which concealed another part of the moat behind its walls, the Prince suddenly found himself in front of the detachment of the troops drawn up to witness his death.
Among those that read Matilda's heart was her cousin, Rose Westel, she whose mother had thrown herself in her despair into the moat of Ely Castle.
The grewsome picture of her mother's waterlogged body floating on the moat had kept her from the one, a certain leer on the Father Confessor's face had kept her from the other.
She shivered, for she knew it was the moat onto which her mother in her despair had flung herself from the lower parapet.
I saw a great deal of General Floyd, while he was commanding in Nashville, and I was remarkably impressed by him.
I saw him give way but once to anger, which was, then, provoked by the most stupid and insolent pertinacity.
