Example Sentences

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These platforms, being nineteen or twenty feet above the ground, extended horizontally from the central to the inner and outer walls of palisadoes.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.

This included the granary with all their provisions, and the "palisadoes."

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Haynie, Miriam

While the guns were deserted, the pirates ran along the bottom of the ditch, thrusting their fireballs under the palisadoes, which now began to burn in many places.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

They never settled without palisadoes and a fort.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Clarkson, Thomas

It is surrounded with palisadoes and a guard of soldiers.

From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland