Far back, behind the rampart formed by the notes, the doctor had hidden the blue paper wrappers.
He wished to have her with him as a rampart against his father's abominable designs; as a sweet and upright woman after all, who would take care of him.
Fontenay seems effectually to disprove by pointing out that, since the Roman rampart at that period was broken down in many places, any additional defences to the gates would have been a useless precaution.
Just below the Hotel Rolin are the remains of the old tower of the Porte des Bancs, of the fifth century, part of the rampart surrounding the Castrum, or upper city of Autun.
What melancholy thought," said the king, "can possibly reach your heart when I place mine as a rampart before it?
The lieutenant of the third brigade commanded his men to fire; but the guards had before them their terrified companions, who served as a living rampart for Porthos.
But at dawn he had not reached the hills; they were a long, low, blue rampart stretching along the horizon ahead of him.
And like an iron rampart they held the right bank of the stream, and at last the squire gave Conan the news that the Nemedians were falling back from the river.
The shoreline became more broken, a marching rampart of green fronds and trees, and behind them rose bare, sandy hills.
So much is certain inference; the rest is absolute mystery, and to delay at the rampart for a day would not solve the outermost wrapper of it.
Then shall you see as much as is necessary, or indeed possible, of this ancient rampart and its fosse, and understand all that can be understood about it, to wit that is there, and has been there since prehistoric times.
What is known is that it has a rampart on the west side, and that the Iceni, of whom all that is necessary will be told soon, held the land to the eastward, so far as land was held in those days.
Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
Of Jezebel also spoke Yahweh, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by therampart of Jezreel.
Straight ahead of him he stared, over the jagged rampart of mountains to the clear steely hue of the sky above.
When Teigue asked who occupied the dun with the silver rampart the maiden with Connla made this reply:--'In that one there is not any one.
Teigue with his people moved on till they gained the middle dun, the dun with a rampart of gold.
The rampart was nevertheless so far weakened as to be unable longer to stand against the powerful artillery.
Having endured a siege for several days and nights, did they protect their rampart by their arms, and themselves by their rampart?
By night also alarm was frequently occasioned in the gates and rampart by his sudden attacks.
Their arms only were placed at the outposts, the men being unarmed, and either sitting and reclining upon the ground, or else walking up and down before the rampart and the gates.
Many places were struck by lightning; two buildings in the Capitol, the rampart in the camp above Suessula in many places, and two of the men on guard were killed.
By this time the Romans had gone out in large bodies to witness the contest, and the Campanians had crowded not only the rampart of the camp, but the walls of the city to get a view of it.
The inexorable child-logic rose like an unyielding rampart before Octavian's scared pleadings.
We have some very fine Jaffa oranges," he said hurriedly, pointing to a corner where they were stored, behind a high rampart of biscuit tins.
It is defended by one rampart gun, but it enjoys a fair reputation.
Billet did not let the rampart of flame stop him: but urged Maggie through smoke and fire.
At the taking of the Bastile old men were on hand: they stood so that the younger ones could rest their guns on their shoulder so that the balls of your Switzers might be buried in the useless old body, the rampart of the able man.
Within this rampart all the arms, the ammunition and the provisions of the settlement were collected, and several huts of thin plank were built.
Several outworks were carried by storm; and a breach in the rampart of the city began to appear.
Above the rampart of the darkened Alps swung up the army of the stars.
The rampartof the Alps stood out more clearly against the sky.
Then I went back, and reached the gap in the rampart that had been the gate next the ford, and that was at the east end of the church, so that the porch was far from me.
And before I had gone halfway to the church--over the western rampart spurred a score of horsemen, dimly seen in the half moonlight that was now.
Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.
The Colonel was on his accustomed bench on the rampart at this sunny hour.
There are few prospects more charming than the familiar view from those old French walls--few places where young children may play, and ruminating old age repose more pleasantly than on those peaceful rampart gardens.
Even the timberless mountains that rose sheer from the westward plain into a tumbling purple-shadowed rampart were Mexican.
Ahead loomed the dark ridge of the river thickets, a dense rampart of mesquite, ebony, and coma, with here and there a taller alamo or hackberry thrusting itself skyward.
A river whose estuary resembles a breach in a sand rampart may flow through a most fertile country.
Away in the far background the land rises, closing the view with a continuous wooded slope, forming in the distance an interminable rampart overgrown with bushes.
Arms were got out now; the one little gate that led through the rampart was doubly barricaded; the little garrison waited and watched.
It was well surrounded--as indeed it needed to be--by a rampart and a ditch, and more than once it had to stand a siege.
The rampart gates were opened, and the besieged bade speedy farewell for ever to their cave and fort.
The rampart was soon completed round the terrace, and a strong one it was.
Through an opening in the rampart they could perceive fully a score of club- and spear-armed savages creeping stealthily up the hill.
On the edge of this ditch stands a wall, supported on the inside with so high and broad a rampart that it can neither be shaken by battering-rams nor thrown down by undermining the foundations.
This rampart is about seven stadia in length and fifty feet in breadth" (Dionysius, ix.
