The =bridge= over the moats of the ramparts, which the Germans blew up before leaving, has been temporarily repaired.
They came presently where the roadway overlooked a sunken temple yard encircled by moats of oozy slime dotted with pink and white lotos buds.
The defendingmoats at the foot of the walls have marble bridges, triple like the gates, and from here on the road is paved with superb big slabs crossing one another at an angle, like the boards of a parquetry floor.
This Yellow City surrounds and protects with its tranquil shadows the still more mysterious Violet City, the residence of the Son of Heaven, which occupies a commanding square in the centre of it, protected by moats and double ramparts.
Following a Chinese outrider sent to guide us, we start off at a rapid trot through the dust and silence under the sun's white rays, along the great walls and marshy moats of the Emperor's Palace.
And, lastly, they strewed innumerable caltrops and steel-traps upon the space between the town-moats and the camp of the besiegers.
The deep moats were to be filled up with countless bundles of brushwood and reeds.
Look here, those moats are now filled up; those towers are ruined; the wall here is broken down, those gates defenceless.
If these moats were at once planted with this sacred flower the evil spirits would depart, and your lord, his wife and child, grow well again.
Within a week the Lord Koriyama, his wife and son, were able to get up and resume their respective duties, for by this time the walls had been repaired, the moats filled with pure water, which reflected the nodding heads of countless lotus.
They have come because the moats about the abode are dry and contain no lotus.
When he had told his story the moatswere dragged and cleaned, but nothing could be found of the supposed kappas.
They tunnelled like moles, under the moats and through the earthworks.
Deep moats surrounded the earthworks, and were so constructed that they could be raked by machine-guns.
She crossed her ankles and lay back watching the sun-moats floating.
On the north is the Pasig; on the west the sea; while moats flank the other two sides.
These moats are connected with the river by sluices; but they are sadly in need of repair, and are filled with stagnant water and putrid matter,--a continual menace to the health of the city.
The moats were cleaned out of their miasmatic growth and certain of the grass-carpeted parterres resown and given a semblance of their former selves.
Before the hand of Francis fell upon the Louvre it was but an isolated stronghold--a combined castle, prison and palace, gloomy, foreboding and surrounded by moats and ramparts almost impassable.
Some of the newer farms, land devoted to agriculture with the declining demand for charcoal, had neither moatsnor walls.
But now the moats were dry, and the walls falling into disrepair.
Around the older estates, thick walls of flint and petrified wood had been built, and wide moats dug, to keep out the shellosaurs.
Water was supplied by the Choser to all the moats south of it; those to the north were fed from a canal which entered the city near its northern corner.
At these and other points one can still trace the remains of huge dams, batardeaux and sluices; and the moats might be emptied by opening at either end of the western wall other dams, which kept back the waters from the bed of the Tigris.
Round all the walls except the western ran moats about a hundred and fifty feet broad—not close up to the foot of the walls, but at a distance of some sixty feet.
Here they would be upon a level with its highest point, and would command the waterworks by which most of the moats were fed.
It grows wonderfully, however, on the castle moats in Tokyo.
The moatsand foundations that remain are splendid specimens of masonry.
Hidden away there in his palace behind the ramparts and moats of ancient castles, strange and far away, he is still held sacred by his millions of people!
These camps were nothing more than bluffs overlooking the sea on the south, and protected on the land side by moats and earthworks.
The outlying protection of this great castle consisted of triple moats and escarpments.
Let us not talk any more about the castle's moats or parapets.
Crenelated walls and deep moats (of castles) are causes of anarchy.
He ordered some of the fudai daimyo of the Kwanto to proceed to Osaka with several thousands of men, who should go to work forthwith to tear down the parapets and fill up the moats of the castle.
The moats were twenty feet deep, with six to ten feet of water.
He found the water in the moats was deeper than his spies had declared, and the scaling ladders too short: most of those led to the attack were killed, or drowned in the water, and the small number that crossed the moats were made prisoners.
Then we arrived within the moats profound, That circumvallate that disconsolate city; The walls appeared to me to be of iron.
History was repeating itself; there weremoats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land.
In the moats and on the bastions are numerous concrete blockhouses built by the Germans.
At one end there was a second building, also surrounded by moats and flanked by towers, in one of which was the famous “Mande-Guerre” bell.
He lived eight years at Chambord, and filled up the moats of the castle.
I think they are afraid because the moats are deeper at this place than elsewhere, and the black water that comes down from the mountains boils horribly between the walls before it goes hurling itself into the sea.
Close by, at the Manor House, are the remains of some moats constructed five centuries ago by the resident knight, Sir John Thornbury, because of the many marauders that infested the neighbourhood.
There are miles of ancient moats around the city, filled with lotus, the great pink-and-white blossoms giving joy to the eye as its roots gave food for the body.
The ascent of Kearsarge and of the Moats fittingly crowns the series of excursions which are the most attractive feature of out-of-door life at North Conway.
The ascent of Kearsarge (from Kearsarge village) or of the Moats (from Diana's Baths) each demands a day to itself.
Probably the most striking view of the Moatsis from Conway.
The filling-in of the wide moatsthat formerly surrounded it has, in vulgar parlance, let it down and given it a monstrous over-crowned air that is at the same time a magnificent Orientalism.
He lived eight years at Chambord and filled up themoats of the castle.
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