And the first thing that he always did was to cast his eye round all the little towers that rose up from the ramparts to see that the little golden dragons were flying there on their flags.
Maubeuge I found a bright little town, surrounded by mighty ramparts with spacious gates and bridges over the fosse.
The modern town is huddled picturesquely between theramparts and the Abbey to the east and south.
But the ill-disciplined hordes were hard to hold in and bands of brigands, as soon as the ramparts were passed, began to plunder and slew a score of Christian men.
The Paris we have rapidly surveyed is, mainly, enclosed by the inner boulevards, which correspond to the ramparts of Louis XIII.
He was hastily buried in the ramparts near the sea; a monument in the Jardin de San Carlos raised by the British government commemorates his death.
A church of the same periods and remains of the original ramparts are also to be seen.
Treignac, with its church, bridge andramparts of the 15th century, and Turenne, dominated by the ruins of the castle of the famous family of that name, are ancient and interesting towns.
On that day the doctor, whom for nearly a year the lofty ramparts of the Wartburg have concealed from every eye, will reappear before the people in the pulpit of the church.
Seated in loneliness on theramparts of the Wartburg, he remained whole days lost in deep meditation.
It has a rival in the person of Avignon, but the ramparts of Avignon are much less effective.
The heathen defended themselves with the bravery of despair; many assaults were beaten back, and many a Christian fell in death before the ramparts of the fortress.
It seemed miles up the undulating slopes of the foothills with the black and white ramparts of the crater close before us.
Nearly all those old palaces are known at the present day; and in most of them the ramparts and mounds are still to be seen, more or less dilapidated after the long lapse of time.
The signal was answered by another from the ramparts of the fortification itself, and presently a boat put out from the foot of the rock.
Go therefore to your apartments; the ramparts are for men-at-arms and not for women.
The ramparts are as safe as the quietest street in Frankfort, and I do assure you that the valley in the moonlight is most lovely and well worth gazing upon.
The ringing sound of the iron-shod hoofs on the stone causeway echoed from the ramparts in the deep stillness.
The old spearman, with whom I talked in the guard-room, and beside the ramparts underneath which this Christian was imprisoned, he surely cannot be the only witness that remains to give testimony.
Talmadge, and the writer chanced to meet in the ramparts of the fortress, when Capt.
Who knows, but that it is a black hand which shall first plant the standard of the Republic upon the doomed ramparts of Port Hudson?
The snow-bound ramparts of the hills came nearer to them, encircling the valley with a clear-cut beauty.
It lay cut lengthways by the Indus under the line of the Khusru hills--ramparts of useless earth and tumbled stone.
Nevertheless, on the day named, the ramparts are crowded, people go up to the towers and to the belfries.
There were stone stair-cases leading up to the ramparts in different directions, and down one of these flights a gentleman in steel armor was coming slowly when the troop entered.
Bourges preserves portions of the Roman ramparts of the 4th century, which are for the most part built into the houses of the old quarter.
From the slope beyond Phyle the young man saw the B[oe]otian plain spread out before them, and beyond, in the purple distance, the rocky ramparts of Phocis.
Chares and Leonidas felt the chill of autumn in the air as they strolled out upon the earthen rampartsthat sheltered the Macedonian camp.
The ships of war moved backward and forward, while the archers and slingers swept the towers and ramparts with a hissing hail of lead and steel.
This stanza, printed in the edition of 1786, was omitted from the later editions.
It has become painfully evident that Mr. Bixby is that rare type of man who can sit down under the enemy's ramparts and smoke him out.
They had now reached that part of the ramparts whence the shot from Sir Everard's rifle had been fired.
Taking advantage of the terror produced, by this catastrophe, in the savages, Captain Erskine caused the men bearing the corpse to retreat, with all possible expedition, under the ramparts of the fort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ramparts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
