Sample Sentences for
bulwark
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    Hands, who was not so far up, was in consequence nearer to the ship and fell between me and the bulwarks.  (source)
    bulwarks = the part of a ship's side that  is above the upper deck
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    He stood at the bulwark with his pipe clenched between his teeth, watching me with unblinking eyes.†  (source)
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    Over the causeway toward the huge smoldering bulwark of Saint-Malo.†  (source)
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    Within that mighty bulwark, the kitchens and stables and yards sheltered safe from wind and wave.†  (source)
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    A day later, as the trail crested a ridge, he got his first glimpse of Mt. McKinley's high, blinding-white bulwarks, and a day after that, May 1, some twenty miles down the trail from where he was dropped by Gallien, he stumbled upon the old bus beside the Sushana River.†  (source)
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    Alessandro dropped to his knees and crawled along the floor behind the bulwark of table tops.†  (source)
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    Flames of abnormal size were pursuing them, licking up the sides of the junk bulwarks, which were crumbling to soot at their touch.†  (source)
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    By our valour the wild folk of the East are still restrained, and the terror of Morgul kept at bay; and thus alone are peace and freedom maintained in the lands behind us, bulwark of the West.†  (source)
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    A radiant Thursday was breaking over the golden domes of the city of the Viceroys, but Fermina Daza, standing at the railing, could not bear the pestilential stink of its glories, the arrogance of its bulwarks profaned by iguanas: the horror of real life.†  (source)
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    I knew that I shouldn't be mad at Ty for being what he'd always been, patient, understanding, careful, willing to act as the bulwark against my father, but I was mad at him.†  (source)
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    White college students, after all, had been one of the great bulwarks in the battle for racial justice, and many had dedicated themselves heroically to this cause.†  (source)
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    A growing number of Americans agree with Jackie that the Kennedy White House is a similarly mythical place and a bulwark of idealism in the midst of the cold war.†  (source)
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    But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.†  (source)
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