451 examples of moat in sentences

There is a draw-bridgewhat has been a moat,and an ancient court.

There he mounted the rampart and, never stopping to gauge its height, sprang down into the moat, landing upon his feet in the bottom of the dry ditch.

' We were walking on the edge of the dried moat, and as I looked up there, sure enough, was the little yellow face toned towards us in the angle of one of the windows.

The intervals between the enclosures are filled up with handsome houses, &c. We passed over the first moat, and rode up to the second.

The moat was some forty or fifty yards wide; beyond it a high bank of grass nicely kept, with trees rather like yews every here and there dropped upon it.

" I tell you what,the idea of the professions' digging a moat round their close corporations, like that Japanese one at Jeddo, which you could put Park-Street Church on the bottom of and look over the vane from its side, and try to stretch another such spire across it without spanning the chasm,that idea, I say, is pretty nearly worn out.

* * To see a man fish in a moat, is no news; But to see a monkey shaving a goat, is strange indeed!

I passed the Château de la Caze, a small but well-preserved castle, showing the transition from the feudal to the Renaissance style, and still surrounded by its moat.

The moat which once cut the neck of land was now dry and overgrown; the gateway remained, but it was sinkingthe earth claimed it.

There was no moat, nor had there been for a hundred years; but round the old pilehoary, and shrivelled, and palsied enough, in all conscience, for delighting the mole-eye of any antiquarian hunks- there was a visible trace of the old ditch in a hollow covered with green sward going all round the house, which hollow was the only place clear of trees.

The mansion is a large, square building, situated in a garden, wherein may be observed the remains of aggera, a moat, terrace, &c.; a river so shallow that it might be easily forded, flows at the back of the house, and serves as one boundary to this garden.

You know that it is just acting, and that the villain is not really going to swim the moat with his band of steel warriors, and burn the castle, and capture the duchess and marry her by force.

Next is Scotney Castle, the ancient part of which is said to have been a fortress in the reign of Richard II.; the moat still remains.

The little river Cosson fills its deep and ample moat, and above it the huge towers and heavy battlements rise in stern and solemn grandeur, moss-grown with age, and blackened by the storms of three centuries.

The château of Chenonceau is built upon arches across the river Cher, whose waters are made to supply the deep moat at each extremity.

As a matter of fact, the château practically bridges the river, which flows under its foundations and beneath its drawbridge on either side, besides filling the moat with water.

Even to-day one enters the precincts of the château proper over a drawbridge which spans an arm of the Loire, or rather, a moat which leads directly from the parent stream.

Balthazar reached the rampart of the town in safety, hoping to swim to the other side of the moat, where a horse awaited him.

But the ruined Grange, with a moat round it full of willows and big water-plants, approached by a pretty bridge with ruinous parapets, had the perfect quality of beauty.

Then as I wandered in a place of dark leaves, beside the moat under the frowning towers, I saw a kingfisher sit on a bough, his back powdered with sapphires, his red breast, his wise head on one side, watching the stream.

As there was no moat, there was a certain danger from an attack with fire unless water was stored within; and it was of course necessary to guard carefully against surprise.

I wrapped my shawl closer about me and sat down on the low stone wall that borders the moat, while little groups of peasants, unable to sleep, clustered together on the roadside.

On its accessible side the castle was protected by a moat.

The site of the original house, of which nothing remains, is locally known as Marston Moat.

A small building, surrounded by a moat, is said to occupy the site of a manor house given to Lord Monteagle for bringing about the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.

451 examples of  moat  in sentences