Sentence examples for over the moat from inspiring English sources

I should really be wearing tights - and walking over the moat of a medieval castle, sackbut and flaming torch in hand.

"What a gaff you've got here," he says to the man who has lowered his drawbridge so Danny can drive his SUV over the moat.

When he eventually noticed, he became enraged and led both teams over the moat, past the guards, through the electrified fence and into the stands.

As I walked up the huge stone staircase and crossed over the moat, I remembered that a New Zealand winemaker had once told me that South Moravia could also produce good pinot noir and other reds.

The course wound its way around the fort, over the moat? and included a blind par 3 hole, where you had to wait for the previous group to run the "all clear" flag up before teeing off.But the unique backdrop for every hole was the skyline of lower Manhattan, looming a mile away.

The other day I bought three bananas for a dollar from a pushcart vendor around Madison Avenue and 47th Street, but now I was over the moat and inside the castle walls at Yankeeland, and thrilled to find something healthy to eat.

In fact, the two most over-the-top things are the moat around the house and Bundchen's closet, which has a gorgeous antique chandelier, custom-made cabinetry and marble countertops.

Over there, by the moat, was where they lined up, in 1943 after the Nazi invasion, the people "whose attitude to the new Fascist party was doubtful", and shot them.

More important, it towers over the castle beyond the moat.

Although there are few still living who have even childhood memories of the war, Paul Cummins and Tom Piper's 888,246 ceramic flowers – one for every dead British soldier – which steadily filled the moat over three months, provided a reminder that scarcely any family in Britain was unaffected by that war.

York forsingles Solo's Holidays (0181 951 2800) has taken over the Viking Moat House in York for a three-night gathering from 30 December.