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    moat


    moated


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    1. At the other side of the moat, a sentry post full of archers was raised high above the ground and below it was the enormous arched entrance into the palace


    2. Anything that makes it past the moat must deal with him


    3. A dry moat


    4. So far he had been correct and the first small village that they had come to, Moat Wood, although half deserted, had provided fair pickings


    5. Dazed by exhaustion, she wandered into the moat, wading into the murky waters until they were at her waist


    6. I just hope his stamina holds out, she thought, once more turning her attention to the horde of shadows lurking beyond the moat


    7. Plus there’s a dry moat


    8. “The moat will become impassable, and we will be safe!”


    9. However, all that bullshit on the phone paid off and we learned that Novorski was sponsoring the fair - a highly prestigious event considering the amount of vomit already visible - and had been scheduled to appear right about midnight, say a couple of words to the gathered crowd and then probably go back to counting cotton balls in his well-guarded warehouse complex, complete with electric fences, a minefield, and a piranha-filled moat, with trained alligators for guards, riding sharks armed with lasers and rocket jets


    10. A city under siege, without walls or trenches, nothing but the river as a moat

    11. Eynochia crawled, wheezing out of the moat surrounding the dark castle


    12. stated, “Cinder, can you port us past the moat?” he asked before realizing that


    13. he lightly touched down at the other side of the castle’s moat, dew-dropped with


    14. drain, and into the moat


    15. The water poured into the moat, and Orphenn was dumped into its dark


    16. through the cracked glass into the moat, stories below


    17. watched Orphenn crawl out of the moat and fly away on a sky ride


    18. Ardara had shot to death and thrown into the castle moat


    19. There was the River Atella that came out of the north, swept around the city, and flowed to the northeast, practically surrounding the city with a moat


    20. The deep moat was empty

    21. The outer stone walls on the other side of the moat were more than three times the height of a man, and had recently been fortified with iron spikes that glistened in the sunlight


    22. Behind him, the moat sparkled in the dawn light


    23. type of moat around the altar as the others shifted into their animal


    24. struggling, as the blood flowed out of her into the moat around the


    25. A few moments later they themselves were standing on the brink of the mighty moat that cut them off from the castle of the Black Seers


    26. Purple, red, yellow, and pink surrounded the base of the house like a moat of full plush hues


    27. Furthermore, between us and the moat


    28. In front of the bars was a moat that appeared to border the


    29. THE MOAT TO TOUCH THE BEASTS! THEY’LL BITE YOUR HAND OFF!


    30. through the moat and then somehow crawl up the incline and

    31. the moat and if tomorrow ‘they’ ask us what happened to her


    32. She’s in the moat


    33. moat and a fence


    34. � Nancy was relieved to see that the village outside the southern moat of the castle was basically the same as when she had toured it in 2003


    35. I may not have spent two thousand hours in the library researching castle moat irrigation or drawbridge gears, like some people we know, but I do like the stories about the battles in these old castles


    36. Go get pikes and lances there, then cut the heads of those executed here and plant them on pikes along the outer moat


    37. The fifth one was greeted by a piercing war scream and a punch to his plexus, while the sixth one, charging at a run with his musket wielded like a club, was grabbed by an arm, swung around her twice and sent flying in the water-filled moat


    38. Across the moat the ceremonial center was filled with massive platforms that


    39. "The temple complex within the moat and the one behind us are ancient," the


    40. Across the moat the center was filled with massive platforms that were topped with

    41. “The temple complex within the moat and the one behind us are ancient,” the mahu


    42. As they neared the other side, Rinard couldn’t help but comment, “Krane, even you must think this crazy moat is a bit over the top


    43. Aside from the daunting stairs, a moat populated by the deadliest creatures of Hroon was busily under construction


    44. There is an unbridgeable moat of disposable possessions growing between the indulgent and indigent classes


    45. The queen stood alone; the child gone, the maze a memory of a daydream, ripples of a teared regret she was wish-casting into the parasite-repelling chemical moat protecting her Emporium of Shitzmos


    46. Litzia rode her horse hard along the bridleway that circled the great moat, far harder than she knew she ought, as if physical exertion, if not a modicum of danger, could drive the feelings of restlessness from her body


    47. Nic and I scooped out a moat


    48. If there is no water around, you can fill the dry moat with tarps


    49. the far end where the wall had crumbled into the moat years ago


    50. no doubt that Violet Gamble had just walked across the moat and














































    1. moated castle that had been abandoned for many years


    1. h7ELL IMAGINE THAT YOURE mOATING DOWN A STREAM


    2. THINGS mOATING ALONG WITH YOU DOWN THAT STREAM REPRESENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU


    3. ANY STAGE YOU CAN CHOOSE TO STOP mOATING AND STAND STILL AGAINST THE CURRENT TRYING TO lGHT


    4. h"UT IF YOURE JUST mOATING WITH THE CURRENT OF THE STREAM OR mOWING AS YOU PUT IT SURELY


    1. A section of the castles had moats


    2. Around this barrier was a succession of moats and sharpened poles


    3. Still when he went to bed, his dreams were filled with dragons and moats as he valiantly rescued a beautiful Princess (nevertheless that the Princess looked like his classmate Becky)


    4. They had run barefoot across the white sandy beaches, had swum in the sun warmed sea and later with their children had made sandcastles with moats and ate icecreams, which melted in the heat of the sun


    5. Castles became more elaborate with thick walls, moats and towers topped by a row of crustaceans


    6. They may not have moats with crocodiles, but they have gated entries and high fences


    7. With its defensive walls and moats and its multiple pagoda temples, Chang’an made a truly impressive sight


    8. ” Tears formed moats around his eyes


    9. Dickie Moats was our class hero


    10. Hence I lost track of Heath, Moats, Pohoski and many other friends and classmates for many, many years and it was only with the advent of the internet, the English School site that the old boys set up, and the Sherlock Holmes capabilities of Pipsy (a nickname I gave Michael Pohoski, which after half a century is still holding strong) that some of us were reunited, if not physically, at least by email

    11. Basil and Enver Murad went there, later, with their spouses, as well as Dickie Moats with his


    12. Moats of dust floated in the rays and I imagined and dreamed on and on


    13. I trust in moats, ser, and mine will not go dry


    14. Dunk’s head was full of dragons, red and black…full of chequy lions, old shields, battered boots…full of streams and moats and dams, and papers stamped with the king’s great seal that he could not read


    15. The way I think about the linkage between moats (competitive advantages) and intrinsic value is that moats add the most value to businesses that have lots of reinvestment opportunities within their moats


    16. By contrast, the moats around businesses like Fastenal or C


    17. This relationship between growth, moats, and intrinsic value is central to understanding when it’s truly worth paying up for a business


    18. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the


    19. There are two ways to discover businesses with moats:


    20. In the case of Moats, it will help us to delineate whether sustainable competitive advantages exist

    21. Let’s start by identifying the different types of moats


    22. This is probably the most important sustainable competitive advantage --- especially when it is combined with other types of moats


    23. In addition, moats can be penetrated due to the competitive nature of capitalism


    24. Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpetriere, the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or four times each day by those currents of coach fiacres and omnibuses which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets


    25. The consumer staples sector is also filled with companies that have wide moats and world-recognized brands


    26. Two of the biggest business advantages that company’s can have are monopoly power or brand power with wide moats


    27. We've struggled to underwrite moats based on intellectual capital, say in a company like Qualcomm, where its earnings power is enormous if all its patents hold up


    28. We're trying to find businesses that have great moats, which translates into great returns on capital


    29. Moats are fairly rare but come from a variety of things, such as intellectual property, scale economies, a regulatory advantage, high customer switching costs, or some sort of network effect


    30. True moats give you more confidence in projecting future performance

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    Synonyms for "moat"

    fosse moat channel canal ditch gutter furrow

    "moat" definitions

    ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water