All 44 Uses of
rampart
in
All the Light We Cannot See
- They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses.†
p. 3.1 *
- Marie-Laure runs her fingertips along the centimeter-wide parapet crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model.†
p. 5.5
- The hotel's fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles.†
p. 8.4
- Again her fingers find the outer ramparts, the Bastion de la Hollande, the little staircase leading down.†
p. 12.3
- The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark.†
p. 95.3
- Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.†
p. 95.9
- —the ramparts crumbling, streets leaking away, block-long mansions falling like toys.†
p. 96.6
- He narrates what he sees: a portcullis, defensive walls called ramparts, granite mansions, a steeple above rooftops.†
p. 118.3
- From the kitchen window comes the wit wit wit of a barn swallow, footfalls on ramparts, halyards clinking against masts, hinges and chains creaking in the harbor.†
p. 147.7
- Lately he stays up working frenetically on a model of Saint-Mato that he claims is for her, adding new houses every day, framing ramparts, mapping streets, so that she can learn the town the way she learned their neighborhood in Paris.†
p. 150.5
- No sunbathing, no singing, no lovers strolling the ramparts in the evenings—such rules are not written down, but they may as well be.†
p. 166.7
- But it's complete enough for his daughter to use if she must: the irregular polygon of the island framed by ramparts, each of its eight hundred and sixty-five buildings in place.†
p. 187.2
- Weeks ago, while taking measurements for the model, the locksmith saw this same man atop the ramparts pointing a camera out to sea.†
p. 188.2
- Marie-Laure's fingers rove to the outer ramparts.†
p. 190.9
- With binoculars, von Rumpel watches what might be bats go flaming and careening out over the ramparts.†
p. 201.8
- She imagines the walled city behind her, its soaring ramparts, its puzzle of streets.†
p. 232.7
- Over the centuries, he tells Marie-Laure, the city ramparts have kept out bloodthirsty marauders, Romans, Celts, Norsemen.†
p. 242.6
- They reach the base of the ramparts and turn right, following a lane Marie-Laure has not been on before.†
p. 259.2
- Where the wall of the ramparts should be, on their left, Marie-Laure hears a lock give way.†
p. 259.6
- Storms rinse the sky, the beaches, the streets, and a red sun dips into the sea, setting all the west-facing granite in Saint-Malo on fire, and three limousines with wrapped mufflers glide down the rue de la Crosse like wraiths, and a dozen or so German officers, accompanied by men carrying stage lights and movie cameras, climb the steps to the Bastion de la Hollande and stroll the ramparts in the cold.†
p. 331.2
- Etienne takes Marie-Laure's hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance.†
p. 332.8
- Fifty steps to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls to the mouth of the alley that grows ever narrower.†
p. 341.6
- Already they have restricted access to the walkways atop the ramparts.†
p. 359.6
- Fifty meters to the ramparts, a hundred or so more along the base of the walls; from her pocket she pulls Hubert Bazin's iron key.†
p. 403.4
- Tonight they work a section of the old city tucked against the southern ramparts.†
p. 406.1
- The Austrians at the Hotel of Bees use a crane to lower an 88-millimeter cannon onto a bastion in the ramparts.†
p. 408.7
- Shearwaters skim the ramparts; sleeves of vapor enshroud the steeple.†
p. 409.2
- Marie-Laure puts the loaf in her knapsack, leaves the bakery, and winds toward the ramparts to Hubert Bazin's grotto.†
p. 414.5
- The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth.†
p. 416.7
- High above the ramparts, gulls course through an open sky.†
p. 419.9
- The ramparts too.†
p. 421.6
- A single side of salted bacon twists in the butcher's otherwise empty window, and three schoolboys stand on a bench watching him, waiting for him to fall, and just as he is certain the morning is about to shatter, Etienne sees in his memory the rusted gate leading to the crumbling kennel beneath the ramparts.†
p. 422.2
- The cathedral bells chime one two three four, all the way to eight; Etienne turns down the rue du Boyer and reaches the slightly angled base of the ramparts, traveling the paths of his youth, navigating by instinct; he turns right, passes through the curtain of swinging ivy, and ahead, behind the same locked gate, in the grotto, shivering, wet to her thighs, wholly intact, crouches Marie-Laure with the ruins of a loaf of bread in her lap.†
p. 422.6
- Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam.†
p. 430.3
- He has already transmitted the location of one air-defense battery: a cannon on a shelf of rampart beside the Hotel of Bees.†
p. 432.2
- As he approaches the dark bulwark of the ramparts, a man in uniform limps toward him out of the blackness.†
p. 432.9
- Beyond the gun, beyond the embrasures, ramparts plunge forty feet to the green and white plumes of surf.†
p. 437.5
- He remembers the cramped restaurants with leaded windows and linenfold paneling where his parents took them to dinner; and the corsairs' villas with scalloped friezes and Doric columns and gold coins mortared inside the walls; the storefronts of gunsmiths and shipmasters and money changers and hostelers; the graffiti Henri used to scratch into the stones of ramparts, I cannot wait to leave, flick this place.†
p. 444.4
- The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered.†
p. 459.1
- They make for the lee of the ramparts, both of them staggering like drunks.†
p. 459.3
- Out the window, far beyond the neighboring block, beyond the ramparts, the single light of a boat appears and disappears as it rises and falls on distant swells.†
p. 463.8
- They turn right and left, past a walnut tree like a giant charred toothpick jammed into the ground, past two crows picking at something unidentifiable, until they reach the base of the ramparts.†
p. 475.6
- He runs across the sand at full tilt, then stops and stares up at the ramparts rearing above him as though imagining pennants and cannons and medieval archers ranged along the parapets.†
p. 508.2
- The rampart a huge crumbling bulwark above him.†
p. 518.5
Definition:
a defensive wall or barrier -- built for military defense