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For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they turned a corner, Putnam's lay before them, a Queen Anne manor-house, homely, solid, snug, with low blue parapeted roof, standing a little back from the road, and buttressed by barns and stable-buildings.

From Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs by Ollivant, Alfred

That takes you to a terraced, parapeted garden very well tended, as one should be which has four men at its disposition.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

The parapeted walls of the galleries were once decorated with four hundred and thirty-two niches, each with three turrets, and contained four hundred and thirty-two life-sized Buddhas, seated on lotus cushions.

From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes

They jumped out of the carriage, and while their bags were being carried in they ran to the parapeted edge of the cliff in front of the hotel.

From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.