Example Sentences
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We visited rambling, ramparted castles like the massive Llansteffan, framed by cerulean skies overlooking the sea, and we walked through landscapes where thick hedgerows line country lanes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2014
That is why all the theological heavens are sublimely ramparted against attack.
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven,—heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various
The old Radical ghosts go by, more real than the living men, to assault I know not what ramparted city in hell.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Step by step he fought his way up, over breastworks and rifle pits, felled trees and bowlders, through ravines and gullies, till the vanguard reached the giant palisades of rock which ramparted the top.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry
