Sentence examples for stone battlements from inspiring English sources

Army officers and their families live alongside the parade ground where the fugitives once camped; a children's swing set stands in the shadow of medieval-looking stone battlements.

IF YOU GO A sampling of some of Spain's spectacular paradors: Zafra Parador A 15th-century storybook castle with stone battlements, nine looming towers and original coats of arms in the hallways.

By this time, yellowish, debris-­ridden water had cascaded over the Seine's stone battlements and seeped up through oversaturated soil throughout the city, transforming streets into canals and public squares into lagoons.

I'm relieved to be given a map on check-in: not of the city (you can't get too lost between giant stone battlements), but of the sprawling wings of the hotel itself.

MATSUYAMA, Japan — For more than a half-century, this city in rural western Japan has been a political stronghold of the long-governing Liberal Democratic Party, as unshakable as the stone battlements of the medieval castle overlooking its downtown.

Its stone battlements and vaulted halls filled with ancient cannon and oil paintings of past leaders feel distinctly Commonwealth, similar to the halls of the University of Toronto or Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario – educational institutions that date back to the era in which Americans and Canadians alike saw themselves as Britons.

After 20 minutes a hilltop fortress came into view, its red-stone battlements hovering over a village that spilled down the hillside toward a river.

But hell and goblins damned have no place on a stage that is dappled with the light of an ill-defined Scandinavia: Tom Scutt's design, of birch trees and wan stone, supplies battlements that look more country house than castle.

Side streets nearby, like East 105th, contain worn apartments laced with fire escapes; better-aged row houses, whose earth-toned stone facades recall battlements, stand on East 94th.

The trip takes 20 minutes, and as we close in on the island I can make out our landing point - whitewashed steps cut from the seaweedy rocks, leading up to a stone wall with battlements and an arched doorway.

If only the bleeding, blistered hands and the broken backs of the Bulgarian Empire could have seen into the admittedly very-distant future, and glimpsed upon what the stone turrets and battlements of their medieval fortifications would one day play host to.