All 4 Uses of
bulwark
in
Gone with the Wind
- There was only one thing in the world that was a certain bulwark against any calamity which fate could bring, and that was money.†
Chpt 4.37 *
- Rude, illiterate, dirty, he was a bulwark between the ladies and the terrors of Reconstruction.†
Chpt 4.42
- At the end of the road to Tara she had found security gone, all strength, all wisdom, all loving tenderness, all understanding goneāall those things which, embodied in Ellen, had been the bulwark of her girlhood.†
Chpt 5.62
- "I won't think of it now," she said again, aloud, trying to push her misery to the back of her mind, trying to find some bulwark against the rising tide of pain.†
Chpt 5.63
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