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Example sentences for "moated"

Lexicographically close words:
moans; moar; moare; moast; moat; moats; mob; mobbed; mobbers; mobbing
  1. As one within a moated tower I lived my life alone; And dreamed not other granges' dower Nor ways unlike mine own.

  2. But all alone As one within a moated tower I lived.

  3. As one within a moated tower, One fate alone I knew.

  4. The road running directly south leads to the coast at Atherington, where are the remains of a chapel attached to the "Bailiff's Court House," a moated mediaeval building with portions of a cloister.

  5. The "Place" is an old moated house, the property of Lord Chichester.

  6. The castle was provided with a lofty moated mound for this particular purpose.

  7. The broken sheds looked sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  8. The mansion-house, which is moated round, but now in a very ruinous condition, having been much neglected ever since the gunpowder treason in 1606, in which plot the Winters were deeply concerned.

  9. It was moated and very strong; but has been so far altered that only the keep is of special interest.

  10. I followed along behind the Colonel down the road, down the corduroy boards, and out at the old moated farm not far from Wulverghem.

  11. The broken sheds looked sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch: Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  12. Two miles inland from Sandyseal, there is a lonely old moated house.

  13. Our old moated house at Sandyseal, in which we have spent so many happy holidays when we were schoolfellows, is sold.

  14. Remember the marish mosses in the rotting fosse which encircled the "Moated Grange.

  15. It was decidedly a foreign edition, uncarpeted and waxy-smelling, of the "Moated Grange.

  16. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  17. In Aldingham Moat Hill (in Furness) we have an example of the moated mound or "burh" of a Saxon lord, which probably dates from the tenth century.

  18. I had to lay all the blame at the 'open door' of the 'Moated Grange,' which I had been reading.

  19. Lines written on the steps of a small moated garden at Chatsworth, called "Queen Mary's Bower.

  20. The moated bower is wild and drear, And sad the dark yew's shade; The flowers which bloom in silence here, In silence also fade.

  21. A moated grange in the country is bad enough for the life of any Mariana, but a moated grange in town is much worse.

  22. Mariana's solitude in the moated grange was as nothing to hers.

  23. Her life in London had been altogether of the moated grange kind, and long before her brother's death it had been very wearisome to her.

  24. Moated granges in the midst of populous towns are very terrible.

  25. For me, if I am to live in a moated grange, let it be in the country.

  26. About midnight, in the autumn of 1724, two persons cautiously approached an old moated mansion, situated in Cheshire, though close to the borders of Lancashire.

  27. Because if there were a moated grange, I could meet her.

  28. The Princess hopes that the moated grange is still free, and feels that, if she obtains early possession, her health will soon be restored in such beautiful surroundings.

  29. Alas for all these people who burned to possess our moated grange "practically free," at its absurdly low rent!

  30. He got our advertisement, and read it out to me, pausing at each detail of perfection which we had light-heartedly bestowed upon our moated grange.

  31. We could simply see the marvellous moated grange, and Terry thought that life would be bearable after all if he could live there.

  32. As the moated grange was "rich in old oak," so did we now become rich in new stamps!

  33. But the gate led us into the Second Castle, which is the separately moated portion of the official quarter, lying along the east side of the citadel.

  34. In the midst of this dull expanse rose an island of low hills, upon whose wooded crests the moated official quarter was built about the citadel-palace of the Shogun.

  35. Yet we be come hither in good time, for they may be preparing to lay siege to my ladie in the moated manor house.

  36. The conditions were immediately agreed to: a garrison of armed Saxons took possession of the moated and battlemented house, and the Normans were sent as war prisoners to Ely.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.