Both Uses of
bulwark
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks.†
Chpt 1-2 *
- The next morning going on deck, as he always did at an early hour, the patron found Dantes leaning against the bulwarks gazing with intense earnestness at a pile of granite rocks, which the rising sun tinged with rosy light.†
Chpt 22-23
Definition:
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(bulwark) something that offers protection -- especially a defensive wall or embankment, or a sea wall
or (especially in classic literature): the part of a ship's side that is above the upper deck