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  • From the park bench, I can see the old ramparts ringing the ancient town center and its tangle of narrow, crooked streets; the west tower of the Avignon Cathedral, the gilded statue of the Virgin Mary gleaming atop it.†   (source)
  • Think of the ghost of Hamlet's father when he takes to appearing on the castle ramparts at midnight.†   (source)
  • To our left, far away in the gloom, fires burned on the ramparts of Erebos, the great black walls of Hades's kingdom.†   (source)
  • Lestat had his coffin in a miserable room near the ramparts.†   (source)
  • He regarded with curiosity the pile of clothes on the hall floor and the rampart of bags filled with newspapers; then he peered through the bedroom door while Salander's world started spinning in the wrong direction.†   (source)
  • In contrast to Tarnag's thickly built ramparts, the buildings within, though of stone, were shaped with such cunning as to give the impression of grace and lightness.†   (source)
  • You touch, burn you finger off" The fog was sweeping over the ramparts of the bridge, devouring the headlamps of cars.†   (source)
  • People kept appearing from behind a high rampart and trudging across the overpass, shoulders dust ed with snow, hundreds of people moving with a kind of fated determination.†   (source)
  • Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†   (source)
  • Cracked cement ramparts, a less than mighty bastion, swamp cooler overflow, drool down the battlement.†   (source)
  • Her face was set to the east, and after a time a pallid line showed itself above the great bulk of mountains which in this quarter backed up the ramparts of the circling ridges about Watauga.†   (source)
  • Roads were crowded with spectators to whom the giant ramparts were wondrous works.†   (source)
  • The great curving ramparts of the Bala Hisar Fort loomed over the receding town, glowing in the fiery light like a long-dormant volcano on the verge of awakening.†   (source)
  • Crunching through broken pottery, Max climbed a spiral staircase to a rampart connecting two of the towers.†   (source)
  • There is no sound other than the rhythmic clink of armor as the legionnaires patrol the ramparts.†   (source)
  • "Follow me," he commanded the nearby guard, and ran back down the rampart stairs even faster than he had climbed them.†   (source)
  • In the confusion of 150 men in thrall to two nude women in the surf, no one noticed at first a tiny voice from below the rampart.†   (source)
  • The rampart loomed suddenly before them, a high shadow beyond a dark pit.†   (source)
  • Ramparts of fire at least three hundred feet across blocked the way back to the cabin.†   (source)
  • In a few minutes all Miraz's followers were running down to the Great River in the hope of crossing the bridge to the town of Beruna and there defending themselves behind ramparts and closed gates.†   (source)
  • And if in my life I've witnessed the most terrible of things, if I've seen what no decent being should ever look upon and have to hold in close remembrance, perhaps it means I should be left to the cold device of history, my likeness festooning the ramparts of every house and town and district of man.†   (source)
  • I turned off Rampart, one of three major streets surrounding the Quarter, and parked.†   (source)
  • Across the Colorado River from Needles, the dark and jagged ramparts of Arizona stood up against the sky, and behind them the huge tilted plain rising toward the backbone of the continent again.†   (source)
  • What other course lies open to them now that the rampart has been built across Berlin and the flow of Western spies has been checked?†   (source)
  • But I can never forget when I was an intern and had to go down on South Rampart Street to patch them up.†   (source)
  • Thunder still grumbled over the far Brooklyn ramparts, but the rain's fragile pattering now, like the intermittent sound of a single tap dancer, told me that most of the deluge had ceased.†   (source)
  • As he looked at those remote ramparts, George felt awed into a sudden sobriety.†   (source)
  • It was as though the sky over there were enclosed by a rampart, and the road were leading to its gate.†   (source)
  • Around each was painted, or perhaps tattooed, the multi-universal design we call "Wall of Troy"—and so strong was her reaction that Ileum's ramparts crumbled again.†   (source)
  • High up on the ramparts of town some old iron bells were ringing.†   (source)
  • they dug deep holes in the snow, piling it up in ramparts to windward as a protection   (source)
  • Earthen ramparts rose almost to the tops of the surrounding trees—a hundred feet at least.†   (source)
  • We had strayed far from the main part of the old town and were near the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.†   (source)
  • These ramparts had fended off armies of Berbers, heathens, and Moors.†   (source)
  • There are more possibilities now Rampart†   (source)
  • On the ramparts, a guardsman in a gold cloak walked his rounds.†   (source)
  • He eats half a Joltbar, downs some water, continues along the rampart.†   (source)
  • The rampart a huge crumbling bulwark above him.†   (source)
  • Torches flickered atop its ramparts, and the horned moon danced upon the dark waters of its moat.†   (source)
  • High above the ramparts, gulls course through an open sky.†   (source)
  • He progresses along the rampart, step by wrenching step.†   (source)
  • No animals about, apart from a trio of crows perched on the rampart.†   (source)
  • They make for the lee of the ramparts, both of them staggering like drunks.†   (source)
  • —the ramparts crumbling, streets leaking away, block-long mansions falling like toys.†   (source)
  • The rampart is twenty feet high, twenty-seven counting the walls.†   (source)
  • The rampart is six feet wide, with a wall on either side.†   (source)
  • Tonight they work a section of the old city tucked against the southern ramparts.†   (source)
  • She imagines the walled city behind her, its soaring ramparts, its puzzle of streets.†   (source)
  • Already they have restricted access to the walkways atop the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.†   (source)
  • Where the wall of the ramparts should be, on their left, Marie—†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure's fingers rove to the outer ramparts.†   (source)
  • And the Meereenese have a dozen fire hulks tied up beneath the ramparts—" She cut him off.†   (source)
  • Nothing else disturbed the gloom of Helgrind's inky, windswept ramparts.†   (source)
  • A cold rain was falling, turning the walls and ramparts of the Red Keep dark as blood.†   (source)
  • They disappeared behind the ramparts of the fort.†   (source)
  • On the inside of the rampart and in the wide crenel between two upthrust merlons.†   (source)
  • As soon as the sky lightens, close the window in the gate and come down off the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The snow-brick ramparts glared blinding white.†   (source)
  • O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†   (source)
  • Before they reached the castle, twenty pairs of eyes were watching them from the gatehouse ramparts.†   (source)
  • Waves heaved against the ramparts and lightning flashed.†   (source)
  • Across the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord had built a rampart of stone.†   (source)
  • Jaime could see archers moving behind the merlons on the castle ramparts.†   (source)
  • But when he lowered his gaze from the sky to the castle ramparts, he was not so certain.†   (source)
  • Far off a horn blew on the ramparts of the Morannon.†   (source)
  • ach morning, from her western ramparts, the queen would Lcount the sails on Slaver's Bay.†   (source)
  • I want one sentry at the gate and one on the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The praetor turned and walked across the ramparts, her greyhounds behind her.†   (source)
  • On the ramparts walked ironbom with spears and axes, and some of Euron's mongrels too.†   (source)
  • ...through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†   (source)
  • His staff sent horse and rider tumbling over the ice, crashing into the ramparts.†   (source)
  • On their ramparts, wisps of fog moved like ghostly sentinels.†   (source)
  • ...through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†   (source)
  • O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?†   (source)
  • Up there, Jan knew, was the main base of the Overlords, lying within the ramparts of Pluto.†   (source)
  • He said the Butler on Rampart Street was as good as any, and told me what bus to take from downtown.†   (source)
  • I caught the bus to South Rampart Street.†   (source)
  • The sun glared brilliantly on Rampart Street.†   (source)
  • I walked over to South Rampart in search of a cafe.†   (source)
  • I went into one store after the other along Dryades and Rampart Streets.†   (source)
  • Harry bellowed, as somewhere out of sight Hermione screamed, and Harry heard innumerable objects crashing to the floor on the other side of the destabilized wall: He pointed his wand at the rampart, cried, "Finite!" and it steadied.†   (source)
  • Like Hamlet's father roaming the ramparts of Elsinore after the midnight watch ...Or like Akaky Akakievich, that forsaken spirit of Gogol's who in the wee hours haunted the Kalinkin Bridge in search of his stolen coat ... Why is it that so many ghosts prefer to travel the halls of night?†   (source)
  • His ascent of the peak's "savage and awful, though beautiful" ramparts shocked and frightened him, but it also induced a giddy sort of awe.†   (source)
  • He looked terrified as he stared into Dumbledore's face, which was even paler, and rather lower than usual, as he had slid so far down the rampart wall.†   (source)
  • Displaying a surprising amount of alacrity, strength, and flexibility, she clambered over the many rows of breastwork the dwarves had engineered, swinging from pole to pole, leaping over trenches, and finally running helter-skelter down the steep face of the last rampart to stop, panting, by Saphira.†   (source)
  • Standing against the ramparts, very white in the face, Dumbledore still showed no sign of panic or distress.†   (source)
  • The outer rampart was fifty feet tall.†   (source)
  • As you—" He yelped with surprise and clutched Saphira's neck to keep from falling as she reared above the ramparts, planting her front legs upon the chartreuse bank.†   (source)
  • But he said now that the father and the brother were no more, that death had come to dinner in their small house near the ramparts and stayed to say grace when everyone was done.†   (source)
  • 'I said no!' shouted the brutal-faced man; there was a flash of light and the werewolf was blasted out of the way; he hit the ramparts and staggered, looking furious.†   (source)
  • When Saphira halted at the ramparts, trenches, and rows of sharpened poles that protected the Varden's leading edge, Eragon saw a lone soldier riding at a furious clip across the bleak no-man's-land.†   (source)
  • From every rampart waved the banner of House Tully: a leaping trout, silver, against a rippling blue-and-red field.†   (source)
  • Around Saphira, the clouds billowed in a fantastic architecture: vaulting arches, domes, and columns; crenelated ramparts; towers the size of mountains; and ridges and valleys suffused with a glowing light that made Eragon feel as if they flew through a dream.†   (source)
  • A thick stone parapet protected the outer edge of the rampart, reaching as high as Sansa's chin, with crenellations cut into it every five feet for archers.†   (source)
  • The ramparts were deserted.†   (source)
  • There was no Lannister crimson to be seen, but Ned was reassured by the number of gold cloaks visible on the ramparts and at the gates.†   (source)
  • Harry's heart was hammering so hard it seemed impossible that nobody could hear him standing there, imprisoned by Dumbledore's spell —if he could only move, he could aim a curse from under the Cloak — 'Draco, do it, or stand aside so one of us —' screeched the woman, but at that precise moment the door to the ramparts burst open once more and there stood Snape, his wand clutched in his hand as his black eyes swept the scene, from Dumbledore slumped against the wall, to the four Death Eaters, including the enraged werewolf, and Malfoy.†   (source)
  • He could not understand how it had happened — Expelliarmus was not a Freezing Charm — Then, by the light of the Mark, he saw Dumbledore's wand flying in an arc over the edge of the ramparts and under-stood ...Dumbledore had wordlessly immobilised Harry, and the second he had taken to perform the spell had cost him the chance of defending himself.†   (source)
  • The guardsman leaning on the ramparts?†   (source)
  • And you resorted to crude and badly judged meas-ures such as sending me a cursed necklace that was bound to reach the wrong hands ...poisoning mead there was only the slightest chance I might drink ...' 'Yeah, well, you still didn't realise who was behind that stuff, did you?' sneered Malfoy, as Dumbledore slid a little down the ramparts, the strength in his legs apparently fading, and Harry struggled fruitlessly, mutely, against the enchantment binding him.†   (source)
  • Snowman limps along the rampart, towards the glassy white swell of the bubble-dome, which is receding from him like a mirage.†   (source)
  • The climb was something out of a nightmare; every step was a struggle, as if she were pulling her feet out of ankle-deep mud, and there were more steps than she would have believed, a thousand thousand steps, and horror waiting on the ramparts.†   (source)
  • And above it all, frowning down from Aegon's high hill, was the Red Keep; seven huge drum-towers crowned with iron ramparts, an immense grim barbican, vaulted halls and covered bridges, barracks and dungeons and granaries, massive curtain walls studded with archers' nests, all fashioned of pale red stone.†   (source)
  • Snowman — goon, buffoon, poltroon —crouches on the rampart, arms over his head, pelted from above like an object of general derision.†   (source)
  • It's an eight-foot drop to the rampart.†   (source)
  • He'd like to show himself to the pigoons, jeer at them, but he resists this impulse: they'd follow along beside the rampart, keep him from descending.†   (source)
  • There's a watchtower here, and access to the rampart; he'd like to climb up, have a look around, check out that smoke he saw.†   (source)
  • Over the top of the rampart wall he can see something white — greyish white and cloudlike — but it's too low down to be a cloud.†   (source)
  • The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered.†   (source)
  • He unpacks his twisted sheet, ties it to a ventilation pipe — flimsy, but the only possibility — and lowers the free end over the edge of the rampart.†   (source)
  • He has already transmitted the location of one air-defense battery: a cannon on a shelf of rampart beside the Hotel of Bees.†   (source)
  • He tries smashing the kitchen window — he could lower himself down onto the Compound rampart with the bedsheet he's torn into strips and twisted — but no luck: the glass is attack-proof.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure puts the loaf in her knapsack, leaves the bakery, and winds toward the ramparts to Hubert Bazin's grotto.†   (source)
  • His plan is to get what he needs out of there, then circle around via the rampart — or, if conditions are right, he can cut across the Compound space on level ground — and make his way out by a side gate.†   (source)
  • The Austrians at the Hotel of Bees use a crane to lower an 88-millimeter cannon onto a bastion in the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Beyond the gun, beyond the embrasures, ramparts plunge forty feet to the green and white plumes of surf.†   (source)
  • Then he continues on, across the moat, past the sentry boxes where the CorpSeCorps armed guards once stood and the glassed-in cubicles where they'd monitored the surveillance equipment, then past the rampart watchtower with the steel door — standing forever open, now — where he'd once have been ordered to present his thumbprint and the iris of his eye.†   (source)
  • Long ago, in the days of knights and dragons, the kings and dukes had lived in castles, with high walls and drawbridges and slots on the ramparts so you could pour hot pitch on your enemies, said Jimmy's father, and the Compounds were the same idea.†   (source)
  • He narrates what he sees: a portcullis, defensive walls called ramparts, granite mansions, a steeple above rooftops.†   (source)
  • Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.†   (source)
  • Over the centuries, he tells Marie-Laure, the city ramparts have kept out bloodthirsty marauders, Romans, Celts, Norsemen.†   (source)
  • No sunbathing, no singing, no lovers strolling the ramparts in the evenings—such rules are not written down, but they may as well be.†   (source)
  • Marie-Laure runs her fingertips along the centimeter-wide parapet crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model.†   (source)
  • As he approaches the dark bulwark of the ramparts, a man in uniform limps toward him out of the blackness.†   (source)
  • Weeks ago, while taking measurements for the model, the locksmith saw this same man atop the ramparts pointing a camera out to sea.†   (source)
  • Fifty steps to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls to the mouth of the alley that grows ever narrower.†   (source)
  • The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark.†   (source)
  • With binoculars, von Rumpel watches what might be bats go flaming and careening out over the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Again her fingers find the outer ramparts, the Bastion de la Hollande, the little staircase leading down.†   (source)
  • They reach the base of the ramparts and turn right, following a lane Marie-Laure has not been on before.†   (source)
  • Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin's iron key.†   (source)
  • Out the window, far beyond the neighboring block, beyond the ramparts, the single light of a boat appears and disappears as it rises and falls on distant swells.†   (source)
  • He runs across the sand at full tilt, then stops and stares up at the ramparts rearing above him as though imagining pennants and cannons and medieval archers ranged along the parapets.†   (source)
  • But it's complete enough for his daughter to use if she must: the irregular polygon of the island framed by ramparts, each of its eight hundred and sixty-five buildings in place.†   (source)
  • Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam.†   (source)
  • From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor.†   (source)
  • They turn right and left, past a walnut tree like a giant charred toothpick jammed into the ground, past two crows picking at something unidentifiable, until they reach the base of the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Lately he stays up working frenetically on a model of Saint-Mato that he claims is for her, adding new houses every day, framing ramparts, mapping streets, so that she can learn the town the way she learned their neighborhood in Paris.†   (source)
  • The hotel's fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles.†   (source)
  • Etienne takes Marie-Laure's hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance.†   (source)
  • He remembers the cramped restaurants with leaded windows and linenfold paneling where his parents took them to dinner; and the corsairs' villas with scalloped friezes and Doric columns and gold coins mortared inside the walls; the storefronts of gunsmiths and shipmasters and money changers and hostelers; the graffiti Henri used to scratch into the stones of ramparts, I cannot wait to leave, flick this place.†   (source)
  • Storms rinse the sky, the beaches, the streets, and a red sun dips into the sea, setting all the west-facing granite in Saint-Malo on fire, and three limousines with wrapped mufflers glide down the rue de la Crosse like wraiths, and a dozen or so German officers, accompanied by men carrying stage lights and movie cameras, climb the steps to the Bastion de la Hollande and stroll the ramparts in the cold.†   (source)
  • A single side of salted bacon twists in the butcher's otherwise empty window, and three schoolboys stand on a bench watching him, waiting for him to fall, and just as he is certain the morning is about to shatter, Etienne sees in his memory the rusted gate leading to the crumbling kennel beneath the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The cathedral bells chime one two three four, all the way to eight; Etienne turns down the rue du Boyer and reaches the slightly angled base of the ramparts, traveling the paths of his youth, navigating by instinct; he turns right, passes through the curtain of swinging ivy, and ahead, behind the same locked gate, in the grotto, shivering, wet to her thighs, wholly intact, crouches Marie-Laure with the ruins of a loaf of bread in her lap.†   (source)
  • The ramparts too.†   (source)
  • Given time, they could carve out a toehold for themselves up there, throwing up ramparts of their own and dropping ropes and ladders for thousands more to clamber over after them.†   (source)
  • The 25,790-foot ramparts of Nuptse defined the right wall of the Cum, Everest's massive Southwest Face formed the left wall, and the broad frozen thrust of the Lhotse Face loomed above its head.†   (source)
  • When a judge ruled that the prosecution couldn't do this, they decided to try me for manslaughter and again I thought why not, considering the recklessness of the act, but my lawyer Imperato, a man with sallow jowls and a briefcase that was shedding skin, arranged a plea deal and they went for a lesser charge and now I stood looking at the golf course on a soft summer morning a few days before my release and saw that someone had painted names all over the ramparts and windmills, the nicknames of gang members, all hail the Alhambras, and the guys gawked and pointed and bent over laughing and I thought this was the time to start my round of guilty goodbyes.†   (source)
  • He found Ser Jacelyn on the ramparts, watching several hundred new recruits drilling in the field below.†   (source)
  • Even as the avalanche of water bore down upon them, the twomen standing on the lowest berm continued to pull on the beams embedded within the weakened rampart.†   (source)
  • It was about a quarter mile square, with earthen ramparts on all four sides, the tops lined with sharpened spikes.†   (source)
  • Jason imagined what the palace must have looked like when it was newly built, with Imperial guards walking the ramparts and the golden eagles of Rome glinting on the parapets.†   (source)
  • And circling the edge of the city were white ramparts that made the Great Wall of China look like a baby fence.†   (source)
  • We walked down Bourbon toward Rampart, the street on the northern edge of the Quarter, and there we finally found the tiny car.†   (source)
  • But the plume of snow now blowing from the summit ridge was a bad sign: the Montenegrins were struggling upward through ferocious wind arrived on the South Colour launching pad for the summit as sau It, at 1:00 P.M. A forlorn plateau of bulletproof ice and windswept boulders 26,000 feet above sea level, it occupies a broad notch between the upper ramparts of Lhotse and Everest.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, he traversed the hundred or so feet that separated the rain barrel from the slope of the rampart and dashed up the embankment so fast, he felt as if he were a stone skipping across water.†   (source)
  • The standoff with Dras-Leona continued unabated, although there was some excitement when Thorn altered his customary location from above the front gates to a section of the rampart several hundred feet to the right.†   (source)
  • After much discussion—and after consulting extensively with Saphira—Nasuada and her advisers concluded that Thorn had relocated for no other reason than comfort; the other section of rampart was somewhat flatter and longer.†   (source)
  • The crude rampart enclosed the two things most worth defending; the gate to the north, and the foot of the great wooden switchback stair that clawed and climbed its way up the face of the Wall like a drunken thunderbolt, supported by wooden beams as big as tree trunks driven deep into the ice.†   (source)
  • Below, the Varden at the foot of the city and the defenders upon the ramparts paused, and for a moment, silence enveloped the battlefield.†   (source)
  • The knight in the spiked helm reached the rampart, but Yoren tangled his black banner around his spike, and forced the point of his dirk through his armor while the man was fighting the cloth.†   (source)
  • At night the River Guard lay on their backs, on the ramparts, and watched the sky disintegrate in tracer-like shots of silver and white.†   (source)
  • Four Brave Companions climbed to the ramparts and hauled down the lion of Lannister and Ser Amory's own black manticore.†   (source)
  • From behind them came alarums and the sounds of running feet, then the blast of a trumpet from the ramparts of the inner wall.†   (source)
  • On top of the ice field stood a legion camp—ramparts, moats, towers, barracks, just like Camp Jupiter except three times as large.†   (source)
  • It looked like a great rampart or sea-wall whose foundations had shifted, so that its courses were all twisted and disordered, leaving great fissures and long slanting edges that were in places almost as wide as stairs.†   (source)
  • The wind was whipping at the black cloaks of the scarecrow sentinels who stood along the ramparts, spears in hand.†   (source)
  • Eragon was sitting in the wooden stands that the dwarves had built along the base of the outer ramparts of Bregan Hold.†   (source)
  • Sansa saw the embattled ramparts of one of the Imp's winch towers looming above, but the great chain had been lowered, and they rowed unimpeded past the spot where a thousand men had burned.†   (source)
  • Soldiers crawled over the city walls like ants with torches, and crowded the hoardings that had sprouted from the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Overlooking the beach between the place where they had come ashore and the town a few kilometers to the north was a group of buildings joined by massive stone walls topped with ramparts.†   (source)
  • If he had been trying to enter the camp, it would have been extremely difficult to escape detection by one of the many sentinels who patrolled the ramparts, even while invisible.†   (source)
  • Only half a gate, in truth, it had a drawbridge that spanned the frozen moat but no corresponding gateway through the outer wall, offering access to the outer ramparts but not the world beyond.†   (source)
  • Within the walls, crossbowmen walked the ramparts, some in crimson cloaks and lion-crested helms, others in the blue and grey of House Frey.†   (source)
  • But since the trenches and the ramparts had been designed to repel attackers and not imprison the defenders, crossing them from the opposite direction was a far easier task.†   (source)
  • The Blackfish appeared on the ramparts long enough to say that he would not waste fair words on foul men.†   (source)
  • Joffrey's voice cracked as he shouted up from the wallwalk, where he huddled with his guards behind the ramparts.†   (source)
  • Suspecting a trap, the colonel ordered his men off the ramparts, but not before serious injuries had resulted from fights for possession of an insufficient number of binoculars.†   (source)
  • Stannis had posted bowmen below, to fire up at the defenders whenever one was rash enough to lift his head above the ramparts, but otherwise had not troubled.†   (source)
  • If they do, they will sweep over these ramparts like a storm-driven wave and wreak untold havoc in our midst, among the tents, where we cannot maneuver effectively.†   (source)
  • She stayed in the shadow of the curtain wall whenever she could, so the sentries walking their rounds on the ramparts above would have needed to look almost straight down to see her.†   (source)
  • He paused behind a rain barrel, hiding his footprints in its thick shadow, and studied the packed-earth ramparts and ditches lined with sharpened stakes that protected the Varden's eastern flank.†   (source)
  • By the ruddy light of the fires, Eragon saw a sea of flashing spearpoints and gleaming helmets surging against the base of the large, well-fortified city, the walls of which teemed with tiny figures busy firing arrows at the army below, pouring cauldrons of boiling oil between the merlons of the parapet, cutting ropes thrown over the walls, and pushing away the rickety wooden ladders the besiegers kept leaning against the ramparts.†   (source)
  • The carrion crows wheeled about the gatehouse in raucous unkindness and quarreled upon the ramparts over every eye, screaming and cawing at each other and taking to the air whenever a sentry passed along the battlements.†   (source)
  • Even from atop the merlon—he had been too short to see over the ramparts, so he'd had them boost him up—the flames and smoke and chaos of battle made it impossible for Tyrion to see what was happening down-river under the castle, but he had seen it a thousand times in his mind's eye.†   (source)
  • But that shoulder, which rose to the height of the fifth wall, was hedged with great ramparts right up to the precipice that overhung its western end; and in that space stood the houses and domed tombs of bygone kings and lords, for ever silent between the mountain and the tower.†   (source)
  • The Spaniard looked affirmative, but first disengaged himself and made water toward the sea, throwing up a rampart, a regular castle, in the sand.†   (source)
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