He had not read the Arabian tales as yet; but be sure that there are other folks who build castles in the air, and have fine hopes, and kick them down, too, besides honest Alnaschar.

'Twas for this I left my goodly castle of Alain and journeyed, a lorn pilgrim, hither to Pentavalon, since when strange stories have I heard that whisper in the air, speeding from lip to lip, of a certain doughty knight-at-arms, valiant beyond thought,

But, not having the honour of being much known to his grace, I could not have presumed to enter his castle, though to introduce even so celebrated a stranger.

War renewed in Normandy by the rebellion of certain powerful barons; Henry I, King of England, takes their castles.

The Turks had got an immensely strong position about Talat ed Dumm, the 'Mound of Blood,' where stands a ruined castle of the Crusaders, the Chastel Rouge.

In the distance, upon an eminence to my left, I saw a huge castle; it was Vandresse.

Had the village of Osterno possessed the liveliness of a Spanish hamlet, the sound of voices and laughter could not have reached the castle perched high up on the rock above.

And she was wise and modest, as her race has ever been, And in Alhambra's palace courts she waited on the Queen, A daughter of Hameteof royal line was he, And held the mighty castle of Baja's town in fee.

I first discovered the secret of our blunder, when visiting a castle in France, that dated back from the time of the crusade.

The flames, spreading into the neighbouring streets, reduced the whole city to ashes: the enraged inhabitants, aided by the Danes, took advantage of the confusion to attack the castle, which they carried by assault; and the garrison, to the number of three thousand men, was put to the sword without mercy

He landed with a well-appointed band of followers in 1153, and besieged various castles.

"We are in the park which surrounds the castle.

They came forth from the lurking places whence they had fled, at that time Hengist harried them by mount and by dale, after he had slain the lords by felony, and destroyed their castles.

Reid, in his Annals of Auchterarder, relates how, after the Civil War, Lord Dundrennan, in company with his cousin, George Lochan of Ochiltree, and burgess of Auchterarder and the Laird of M'Nab, descended into Strathearn and occupied the castle with about fifty men.

"Ha, Beltane, canst burn gibbets, storm mighty castles and out-face desperate odds, yet is old Benedict thy master at stroke of sword stillthough, forsooth, hast dinted me my helm, methinks!

It was the king's first visit to the northern shires which he had restored to the English crown; he visited and fortified the most important border castles, and then through the bitter winter months he journeyed to Yorkshire, the fastnesses of the Peak, Nottingham, and the midland and southern counties.

We found one castle of the Alanians, which had been subdued by the Tartars, about which there were many vineyards, and there we drank wine for the first time.

The Bishop had erected castles at Devizes, at Sherborne, and at Malmesbury.

King Henry had given him the castle of Salisbury.

In the morning we passed a ruined castle, standing in a dry, treeless dell, among the hot hills.

She must have repented of her action when she heard the clatter of the rioters all round the castle.

In the time of Edward I. the Kirby of that day, Roger, rebuilt the castle, but it is not the ruins of his work we see, these being of a much later building.

In order to obtain a good view of the entrance and the towers that guard it, it is preferable to approach the castle by the Rue Henri IV.

'Johnson said that one of the castles in Wales would contain all the castles that he had seen in Scotland.'

That there might be fewer obstacles to the execution of justice, the king was vigilant in demolishing all the new-erected castles of the nobility, in England as well as in his foreign dominions; and he permitted no fortress to remain in the custody of those whom he found reason to suspect [x].