At each angle of the wall is a large square building rising above the parapet to four heights or stories of port-holes, and covered with two roofs.
For a moment the king stood as if struck by the lightning he had just referred to, then staggering back a step, rested his hand on the parapet and steadied himself.
The young man precipitated himself over the parapetinto the tree.
Startled by the appalling sound, he turned and beheld upon the battlemented parapet on his left a tall ghostly figure, whose antlered helm told him it was Herne the Hunter.
A priest and a young girl who sat there on the parapet rose as he approached.
On the low parapet bordering the eastern esplanade of the city wall the solitary figure of the priest cast a narrow shadow in the pale moonlight.
They told me the deck of the Pittsburg was furnished with a parapet of cotton bales for riflemen.
The Yankees attacked the fort three times with much bravery and determination, and actually reached the superior slope of the parapet before they were driven back.
As it turned out, she had not far to go; for she saw that he was now seated on the parapet of the little bridge spanning the Mudal Water, and no doubt he was cutting tobacco for his pipe.
The parapet to the aisle chapels in the four western bays is plain, with a weathered coping and string-course in which is some carved work of late fourteenth-century date.
The parapet of the tower has features in its design which indicate that the original one W been added to the earlier tower during the fifteenth century.
The gable of the transept rises above the parapet just described, but it is not in the same vertical plane as the face of the wall below.
In this they are like those of the twelfth century; but their upper parts were rebuilt when the parapet was made.
It consists of a parapet with a weathered coping for the top course of stonework, so that the water might not rest upon it and percolate through the walls.
The original corbel course of the parapet remains, but not the upper part of the parapet.
It will be interesting later to notice the way in which the parapeton the north side of the nave has been dealt with.
The flat projection was continued up to the parapet at a later date, probably when the parapet itself was built on.
On the west side, this part of the transept almost repeats what is to be observed on the east; but the parapet here is the same as that on the north end, and near the ground is one of the twelfth-century windows.
The parapet of the north wall between them is of the same design, detail, and date as that on the north and south walls of the clerestory to the nave.
The parapet on the south is of the same character and date as that over the wall of the choir, but earlier than that above the south window of the transept, which is of the same date as that on the south wall of the nave.
Some, notes preserved in the cathedral records lead to the supposition that the portion of the old central tower above the roof and up to the parapet at the foot of the spire was built, or at least begun, during Ralph's tenure of the see.
The lady-chapel has been much restored in many ways, but the old parapet remains in part on the north side.
The roof may have had eaves originally, but now there is a parapet of about the same date as the present buttresses; and the projection of this parapet is carried upon the corbels that were carved and built in before the second fire occurred.
The parapet has a plain weathered coping, close under which is a string-course which helps to throw the water clear from the top of the wall; and two coupes below this one is another moulded string.
The parapet was evenly built up, the firing step had been partly restored, and in the Snout there were good emplacements for the machine guns.
Mounting the firestep, he peeped over the parapet between the sandbags, into the low, twisting mist.
Claude's appearance on the parapet had attracted no attention from the enemy at first, but now the bullets began popping about him; two rattled on his tin hat, one caught him in the shoulder.
As might have been expected, the first Blackfoot that raised his head cautiously above the parapet saw the dreamer, tapped his cranium, and rendered him unconscious.
From a sitting posture he sprang to his feet at one bound, darted through the doorway of the hut, cleared the low parapet like a deer, and went down the zigzag path in a succession of leaps that might have shamed a kangaroo.
McKay rested his folded arms on the parapet and regarded the advance of the flashy man up the grassy slope below.
Wood Lane (the enemy front line) to catch such of the enemy as had manned the parapet to withstand an attack.
Shafts ran down to it at intervals of twenty yards, and to all intents and purposes it formed a vast dug-out exactly under the parapet of the trench and running beneath it throughout all the miles of its length.
At the far end the parapet stops, and the quay expands into an oblong peninsula in the lagoon, the breathing-place and summer parlour of the king.
Three tiers of terrace ran on the slope of the hill; in front, a crumbling parapet contained the main arena; and the pavement of that was pierced and parcelled out with several wells and small enclosures.
Two officers, Lieutenant Commander Bradford and Lieutenant Hawkins, climbed ashore and sat astride the parapet trying to make the grapnels fast till each was killed and fell down between the ship and the wall.
The gangways were lowered, and they scraped and rebounded upon the high parapet of the mole as the Vindictive rolled in the seaway.
I just ducked in time as it burst on the parapet behind where I was standing--a splinter caught my tin hat, but bounded off.
I am on the parapet of a huge circular tower, hollow like a well, and pierced with windows at irregular intervals.
Over the parapet that skirts the precipice lean heavy-foliaged locust-trees, and the terraces in sunny nooks are set with lemon-orchards.
The parapetis broad, and slabbed with red Verona marble.
Far better looks San Siro from theparapet above the torrent.
Here, too, below the Villa Jovis, gazing 700 feet sheer down into the waves, we tread the very parapet whence fell the victims of that maniac lust for blood.
From the piazza parapet we saw the wind scooping the surface of the waves, and flinging spray-fleeces in sheets upon the churning water.
Over the parapet our horses dropped, down through sable spruce and amber larch, down between tangles of rowan and autumnal underwood.
The fire upon the gorge had, by the morning of the 23d, succeeded in destroying every gun upon the parapet of it.
We are looking from the bottom of the parapet of Battery Robinett.
The parapet and ramparts of the gorge were completely demolished for nearly the entire length of the face, and in places everything was swept off down to the arches, the debris forming an accessible ramp to the top of the ruins.
Then the courageous troops of Thomas charged up the face of the mountain and planted their colors on the very parapet of the Confederate works.
But ere that Van Dorn's troops had hurled themselves on Battery Robinett to the left of the Federal line, and fought their way over the parapet and into the battery.
As soon as a regiment gained a position desirable to hold, the soldiers would throw up a strong parapet of dirt and logs in a single night.
With the mine explosion, the Federal soldiers before the redoubt began to dash into the opening, only to meet with a withering fire from an interior parapet which the Confederates had constructed in anticipation of this event.
At five o'clock in the afternoon of the 13th Hazen's men rushed through a shower of grape, over abatis and hidden torpedoes, scaled the parapet and captured the garrison.
Slowly and cautiously he approached the fort, firing as he went, the guns on the parapet answering those of the fleet.
He picks up the bag and throws it over the parapet into the sea.
Britannus rushes to the parapet and looks along the mole.
Caesar is standing on the step at the parapet looking out anxiously, evidently ill at ease.
We behold gallant Prescott leisurely promenading the Bunker Hill parapet to inspirit his men, shot and shell hurtling thick around.
Janet joined the circle with Baker, and Inness, after leaning on the parapet awhile, with his back to the dancers, gazing into space, disappeared.
At a word from Rollo, El Sarria pushed the ladder over and the two received it and laid it along the parapet in a place where it would remain completely hidden till wanted.
And Ramon was over the parapet with his long knife bare in his hand.
Rollo, looking out over the parapet and pointing to the grim line of sentries which guarded the Hermitage of San Ildefonso.
It was only by craning far out over the parapet (so far indeed that he might easily have been discovered from below had there been any to look) that Rollo was able to see what followed.
A parapet surrounding the upper part is turreted, and on some of the largest houses guns are mounted.
Although much grown, I recognized them at first sight; they were the child who was found near the parapet of the Louvre, and his young guide.
The chains of the drawbridge rattled; they could see a lantern flash on a steel cap as its owner made the parapet rounds; a few glints of light from the narrow windows in the keep faded one by one; then--silence.
More steps on the parapet above; and a voice very far away, and mysterious in the dark.
Then he went to the chamber of his grandfather, who had sat all that night, gnawing his nails, crying to the varlets to run to the parapet to see if the sky was aglow toward Valmont.
Richard, and he leaped from theparapet into the court below.
It runs up almost without a break in an octagonal form to a parapet ornamented with open quatrefoils.
The great gravelly Place des Beaux-Regards that runs from the western side of the church, is terminated at the very edge of the rocky platform, and looking over the stoneparapet you see the Vire flowing a hundred feet below.
There Piper Laidlaw of the King's Own Scottish Borderers mounted the parapet and piped his men forward to the tune of "Blue Bonnets over the Border.
He was last seen lying desperately wounded under the parapet wall of the Mole; but this was not reported until afterwards, and his fate remained uncertain.
A parapet runs round the exposed sides for the sake of security.
Beneath the frescos on one side of the cloistered walk, and along the low stone parapet that separates it from the grass-plat on the other, are inscriptions to the memory of the dead who are buried underneath the pavement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parapet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
