She was still strong in her combinations, but they were combinations that had the vicious error of being formed for the benefit of the minority, and which, like the mimic fortresses and moats of a scenic representation, needed only a strong light to destroy the illusion.

Not a soldier dared to risk trying to follow him by the road he had taken, over the ramparts and moats; for, without that passion for liberty which lent wings to the prisoner there was no hope of any of them scaling the walls without killing himself a dozen times over.

The 'Castle' is surrounded by three concentric enclosures, consisting of walls and moats.

The extreme end of the Prado lies along the shore of the bay of Manila, having the roadstead and ships on one side, and the city proper with its fortifications and moats on the other.

Castles and moats, and the bright steel coats, By the flowing river of Aise.

Spinola conducted his imperial guests along the edge of extinct volcanoes, amid upturned cemeteries, through quagmires, which once were moats, over huge mounds of sand, and vast shapeless masses of bricks and masonry, which had been forts.

In our days, the largest cities take down their walls, the moats of the princes' castles are filled in; cities are no more than great places, and when one travels and sees all this, one might fancy that universal peace was just established, and the golden age was before the door.

In her honor and to his own glory he gave her new parks, filled in her moats along her ancient fortifications, laid out boulevards shaded with trees, erected arches, monuments, museums.

MOATS, ALICE LEONE.

SEE MOATS, LEONE.

MOATS, LEONE.

Off to Mexico, by Leone & Alice-Leone Moats.

Leone Moats & Alice-Leone Moats (A); 10Apr63; R313809.

Leone Moats & Alice-Leone Moats (A); 10Apr63; R313809.

A152572. Virginia Prewett Mizelle (A); 10Apr69; R459731. MOATS, ALICE LEONE.

Alice-Leone Moats (A); 23Jun69; R463417.

MOATS, ALICE LEONE. Blind date with Mars.

Alice-Leone Moats (A); 2Mar70; R479891.

Philip, on his side, tried hard to reconcile the communes of Flanders to their count, and so make them faithful to himself; he let them off two years' payment of a rent due to him of forty thousand livres of Paris per annum; he promised them the monopoly of exporting wools from France; he authorized the Brugesmen to widen the moats of their city, and even to repair its ramparts.

I had little knowledge of princesses and their ways, but I felt sure they were not in the habit of lurking in dark places or wandering by sluggish moats in the black shadow of a grim castle.

In this condition I left them, buying up stores of provisions, working hard to scour their moats, set up palisadoes, repair their fortifications, and preparing all things for a siege; and following the Saxon army to Torgau, I continued in the camp till a few days before they joined the King of Sweden.

In a brown gloom the moats gleam; Slender the sweet wife stands; Her lips are red; her eyes dream; Kisses are warm on her hands.

Its defenders were burning down the houses and woods beyond the moats to clear the way for their gunners.

The moats they crossed in spite of the gaps that had been made in the ice to stop them, but the garrison had poured water over the walls that froze as it ran, until they were like slippery icebergs.

The moats were filled with the dead.