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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    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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    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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    I required more, a discipline as bulwark within which to hold all I valued, a shield against the onslaught.†  (source)
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    Every soul aboard stood at the bulwarks or on the seats of the steamer and stared at that distant shape, higher than the trees or church towers inland, and advancing with a leisurely parody of a human stride.†  (source)
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    Rude, illiterate, dirty, he was a bulwark between the ladies and the terrors of Reconstruction.†  (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 saw he was of the material from which nature hews her heroes — Christian and Pagan — her lawgivers, her statesmen, her conquerors: a steadfast bulwark for great interests to rest upon; but, at the fireside, too often a cold cumbrous column, gloomy and out of place.†  (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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    Before I could say a word, or move forward to seize him, he sprang on the bulwark and deliberately threw himself into the sea.†  (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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