Which preposition to use with stockade
This, as I afterward came to know, was the "horn-works," which as yet was in an unfinished condition, and protected by a stockade of logs, between each of which last were spaces, in some cases two or three inches wide.
We built the stockade in a day.
A mile from here is a hillock within hearing of the stockade at Robertson's Ford.
The girl had probably ridden out from the stockade to the open prairie because she loved to ride.
Ere he had reached that high and strong stockade From whence, alas!
Now, I wonder who told you how badly I needed a woman of some sort to happen along this morning?" said Peter M'Crawney, coming out from the stockade on which the house was built, and advancing to meet Katherine, who was coming up from the shore with a great bundle of pelts on each shoulder, while Phil, laden in similar fashion, walked behind.
"Even Woods might stand a siege in a house built and stockaded like this.
THE STOCKADE AMONG THE PINES XXI.
Nicholas regarded the stockade with a cold and beady eye.
I. On steep Knockfarrel had the Fians made, For safe retreat, a high and strong stockade Around their dwellings.
At last Rauparaha, reaching the stockade by skilful sapping, piled up brushwood against it, albeit many of his men were shot in the process.
They built and burnt innumerable stockades for and against: built wooden Forts which are now stone Towns.
They found the Pequots within a circular stockade near the present town of Stonington, where of 400 warriors all save five were killed.
" By the "new works" he meant the stockade over which we had come, and I hastened to impart the information to Sergeant Corney and Jacob, knowing full well that they would be as interested in the venture as was I.
The herd, mad with fright, is only slightly less afraid of the spreading wings of the stockade than of the yelling, whooping beaters behind.
" Her brother met the clasp; then, hands in his pockets, followed us back through the stockade towards the porch.