All 11 Uses
bastion
in
The Pathfinder, by Cooper
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- There were bastions of earth and logs, a dry ditch, a stockade, a parade of considerable extent, and barracks of logs, that answered the double purpose of dwellings and fortifications.†
Chpt 8
- When Mabel, quitting the convenient, but comparatively retired hut where her father had been permitted to place her, issued into the pure air of the morning, she found herself at the foot of a bastion, which lay invitingly before her, with a promise of giving a coup d'oeil of all that had been concealed in the darkness of the preceding night.†
Chpt 8
- "How beautiful!" she exclaimed, unconscious of speaking, as she stood on the solitary bastion, facing the air from the lake, and experiencing the genial influence of its freshness pervading both her body and her mind.†
Chpt 8
- Sure enough, Cap, who had announced his approach by a couple of lusty hems, now made his appearance on the bastion, where, after nodding to his niece and her companion, he made a deliberate survey of the expanse of water before him.†
Chpt 8
- "Good morrow, brother Cap," said the Sergeant giving the military salute, as he walked, in a grave, stately manner, on the bastion.†
Chpt 8 *
- "Uncle;" said Mabel, "if you have breakfasted, I will thank you to go out upon the bastion with me again.†
Chpt 9
- A few hours later Mabel Dunham was on the bastion that overlooked the river and the lake, seemingly in deep thought.†
Chpt 12
- Cap made no other answer than a dissatisfied ejaculation, and then a general silence followed, all on the bastion studying the movements of the cutter with the interest that was natural to their own future connection with the vessel.†
Chpt 12
- In the meanwhile the interview on the bastion, to which we have already alluded, took place between Lundie and the Sergeant.†
Chpt 13
- Yes, there is Major Duncan himself on the north-eastern bastion; I know him by his height, and by the officers around him.†
Chpt 16
- Suddenly an opening appeared ahead, and then the massive walls of a chateau-looking house, with outworks, bastions, blockhouses, and palisadoes, frowned on a headland that bordered the outlet of a broad stream.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(bastion) a strong defender or reliable example of something -- like a fortress or a person upholding a principle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)