24 collocations for barricade

"Hurry up, and barricade the door!

I never cease admiring his tactics of allowing the enemy to fortify and barricade the entrance that he does not mean to attack.

Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of frost.

He barricaded all the streets and avenues leading to these points, and fortified the gates.

Possessed of these securities, he barricaded his house on the Carinae, and determined to watch the course of events.

They had closed and barricaded the gates of the magazine; and they had posted six-pounders at the gates, loaded with double charges of grape, and laid a train to the powder-magazine.

"Six companies of a British regiment, under their lieutenant-colonel, being hard pressed by an advancing column, threw themselves into Chew's house, and, barricading the lower windows, opened a destructive fire from the cellars and upper windows.

Having meanwhile barricaded and obstructed with fortifications the roads leading to the harbor so that no one should attack him while sailing off, he then set sail by night.

'See', they said, 'how the two islands flank both sides of the sea-passage to Smyrna, the terminus of all the railways which penetrate the Anatolian interior, while Mitylini barricades Aivali and Edremid as well.

Some hours after our arrival, (which time was spent by the filibusters in drinking spirits and resting from the late unsuccessful assault,by the enemy in barricading their position, and drinking spirits, perhaps, likewise,)

An attempt was made to shift them shortly before I came to Vancouver, but it was not very successful, because the Japanese barricaded their quarters and flocked out, a broken bottle held by the neck in either hand, which they jabbed in the faces of the demonstrators.

The other Paris, making ready to stand siege, with the Government gone to Bordeaux with all the gold of the Bank of France, with the enemy's guns audible in the suburbs and old men cutting down trees and tearing up paving-stones to barricade the streetsnever had that Paris been more alive.

A period of dolorous bellowing was followed by an outburst of homicidal mania, during which "A" Company prudently barricaded itself into the barn, the sufferer having taken entire possession of the farmyard.

Whatever it was, they were apprehensive; for throughout the night we heard them barricading the town with great hurry and clatter; and it gave us sad discomfort to think that in the morning there would be these walls to climb before our men could get at them.

The French have not thought of barricading the railway viaduct; three German battalions have occupied it during the night.

In the moist places great trees grow, die, fall, rot, and barricade the way with their corpses.

and barricade their persons.'

They had fortified and barricaded the bazaar, and kept up a constant fire from it.

Rowcliffe had barricaded the bed with a chest of drawers.

He had been with Crook and knew that hostiles did not come out, shake their red blankets and dare the soldiers to a fight, so he barricaded his camp, using the apparajos as breast works and told the packers to "let the mules go to the devil.

The Turks were so intent on defending themselves against the Portuguese boats, that they neglected to barricade this hole, of which the people in De Silvas boat took advantage to get on board; Alonzo Lopez the master, and Alvaro Lopez one of the kings servants, now town-clerk of Santarem, being the first who entered by the hole.

But she had so carefully barricaded certain issues in her memory as almost to obstruct their flow into her life; if she were a cook, one would say that it was her bad dinners which she was trying to keep out of remembrance.

"We call this entrance trench the Handle, and the trench that runs out from behind that barricade the Leak.

I can only fall back upon this agnosticism: if any man argue to the effect, that music has a moral influence on life, I will hurl at his head some of the most brilliant rascals in domestic chronicle; and equally, if any man will deny that music has a moral effect, I will barricade his path with some of the most beautiful lives that have ever bloomed upon earth.

24 collocations for  barricade