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  • There's a watchtower on either side of the main gate, and other towers all the way around the rampart wall.  (source)
    rampart = a wall built for defensive purposes
  • On the northern margin of the Alaska Range, just before the hulking ramparts of Mt. McKinley and its satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain, a series of lesser ridges, known as the Outer Range, sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed.†  (source)
  • And hidden somewhere under the tree was that unexpected gift—be it a wooden sword with which to defend the ramparts, or a lantern with which to explore a mummy's tomb.†  (source)
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  • Except our feelings stood around us like ramparts, and we could not unknow what we knew.†  (source)
  • The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • Lestat had his coffin in a miserable room near the ramparts.†  (source)
  • The outer rampart was fifty feet tall.†  (source)
  • Think of the ghost of Hamlet's father when he takes to appearing on the castle ramparts at midnight.†  (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)
  • For weeks Kassad sPent every free hour wandering the Command School grounds, watching from the ramparts as the evening shadow of Mons Olympus covered first the Plateau forest, then the heavily settled highlands, then everything halfway to the horizon, and then all the world.†  (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)
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