A wall of gray stone, strengthened by the modern science of English engineers, and nearly seven miles in circumference, surrounds the city upon three sides, while the fourth is defended by a wide offset of the Jumna, and by a portion of the high, embattled, red stone wall of the palace, which almost equals the city wall in strength, and is itself more than a mile in length.

the embattled tower Whence all the music.

This knot of barricade, this labyrinth of streets, embattled like a redoubt, was the last citadel of the People and of Right.

How strange the state of society when a Christian bishop lived in such jealously armed seclusion, behind moated walls and embattled towers!

The coat-of-arms was a shield "band sinister battled and embattled," the crest a closed visor surmounted by a squirrel holding a nut.

By fate divine receive men also valour and wisdom: how else might the hands of Herakles have wielded his club against the trident, when at Pylos Poseidon took his stand and prest hard on him, ay, and there prest him hard embattled Phoibos with his silver bow, neither would Hades keep his staff unraised, wherewith he leadeth down to ways beneath the hollow earth the bodies of men that die?

This was undoubtedly the case, for we find in Fozbrooke that the Archbishop of York had license to "embattle his house" here in the reign of Edward I. A mosaic pavement, discovered here about 1811, was placed in the British Museum.

The upper part of the wall is dilapidated, so that it is impossible to say whether it was originally embattled or not.

The buttresses which help the walls to support the vaulting of the nave and choir are the most remarkable feature of the design, and, together with the tower, which rises in diminishing stages to the height of 260 feet and there ends in an embattled platform, account for the singularly feudal and fortress-like character of the building.

By night also the blacks, with the whites occasionally joining in, sought the canny 'possum and the embattled 'coon; in spare times by day they hied their curs after the fleeing Brer Rabbit, or built and baited seductive traps for turkeys and quail; and fishing was available both by day and by night.

A Mockingbird sang at Chickamauga: a tale of embattled Chattanooga.

The great egg-shaped court is a mosaic of incongruous masonry; above the porch, a wall of pebbles from the Gave, and of red bricks crossed like a tapestry design; opposite, fixt to the wall, a row of medallions in stone; upon the sides, doors of every form and age; dormer windows, windows square, pointed, embattled, with stone mullions garlanded with elaborate reliefs.

The enormous city heaps its monumental houses along the river like bastions; the red sky is embattled by their coping.

In places, as you stand upon it, the great towered and embattled enceinte produces an illusion; it looks as if it were still equipped and defended.

A few points resisted, and their embattled turrets are drawn out in line on the crest; but their layers are dislocated, their sides creviced, their points jagged.

You're a hero; I'm a hero; everybody north of Charleston is an embattled citizen or a hero!

There's something going on down by the Astor House!" "A Massachusetts regiment of embattled farmers arrived in this hamlet last night.

Known to Ptolemy as Dunum, it was, during Concobar's sway at Emain of Maca, the fortress of the strong chief, Celtcar, whose huge embattled hill of earth still rises formidable over the Quoyle River.

ll, as I hear the voice of a crushed race, lifting amid its misery a cry of unconquerable confidence in the Just and Holy One, who was ordering alike the embattled armies of earth and the starry hosts of the skies, and through history, as in nature, was sweeping on resistlessly to fulfill the good pleasure of His Will.

The embattled tower has double belfry windows, and is noteworthy for the unusual way in which the buttresses are finished.

The low embattled tower has a very wide staircase-turret.

The church is cruciform, with an embattled central tower, crowned by a small pyramidal cap, and is remarkable for possessing a clerestory to the chancel as well as the nave.

The church has a dignified tower with numerous pinnacles, and a pierced, embattled parapet.

Its church, in the main Perp., has a plain embattled tower and some Dec. windows.

Just across the narrow bridge the "embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world."