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    1. A metal palisade fence had now been erected across the front of their property with an electronic gate system – the motor thereof protected by an all-enclosing steel and concrete box which also contained a long-life back-up battery, which automatically came into play, in the event of a “power-cut” or failure – this also activated powerful floodlights attached to the front and sides of the house


    2. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid rock in which bits of quartz winked dazzlingly in the sunlight


    3. Once, the fort had been a small village of log and timber cabins surrounded by a palisade of high trees


    4. Torches lit the four corners of the log outpost that consisted of a pair of towers four stories high, a block house, stables and barracks set in the square surrounded by a palisade fence


    5. Atop the palisade fence, men patrolled armed with rifles, bows and pikes


    6. The first house was impossible: vicious palisade with peeling spikes


    7. They all could see clearly now the wooden palisade of the large Viking fortified camp that was their objective this morning


    8. However, large, incinerated holes were visible along the palisade, while a multitude of crows were either turning over the camp or were perched on top of the palisade


    9. Twenty minutes later, Saburo ordered his ashigaru to work, with one group going into the nearby forest to cut down trees while another group started digging a long trench that would be used to plant the wooden poles of the palisade


    10. While not a military genius in Jenny’s mind, he at least had enough common sense to use the outer buildings along the perimeter of the town to anchor solidly the palisade being built

    11. Running to the palisade, Saburo listened carefully for a moment, then snapped his head around and shouted as well


    12. It took everything for Jenny not to flee in panic at the sight of nearly 600 mounted samurai charging her troop of less than forty ashigaru: if not for the palisade, the enemy would certainly sweep away the ashigaru and herself in mere seconds


    13. The archers, who had been ready for that, let fly at once another volley of arrows in the mass of enemy cavalry, then kept shooting as quickly as they could, concentrating their fire on the enemy samurai who were approaching the harquebusiers standing behind the palisade


    14. That was when the palisade really proved its worth


    15. The Japanese horses of the time were much smaller than modern horses, weighing only half as much, and simply could not jump over the one and a half meter-high palisade while carrying an armored rider


    16. They were barely in time to stop a fresh surge forward of enemy samurai from finally overwhelming the thinned ranks of the ashigaru holding the western palisade


    17. “THEY ARE GOING TO GO AROUND THE PALISADE AND TAKE US IN THE FLANK! TEN SPEARMEN WILL STAY HERE WITH THE ASHIGARU KO GASHIRA SABURO


    18. The triumphant Ryuzoji horsemen then regrouped and galloped down the street leading to the shore, charging the samurai and spearmen of the Arima in the back while the latter were already fighting with the 300 cavalrymen that went around the palisade


    19. Its rear courtyard was fenced in by a white wooden palisade surrounding a ground lot of very respectable size that also included two grown trees, while a public playground sat in nearby Fort Scott Park


    20. Despite their fatigue and being covered with sweat, the six men and two women manning the oars kept on, rowing hard until the whaler boat entered the mouth of the Saint-Maurice River and beached itself on a sandy beach less than fifty meters from the wooden palisade of the French outpost of Trois-Rivières

    21. As the newcomers followed Pierre Boucher and his men towards the fort’s gate, they passed in front of a cemetery located just outside of the palisade


    22. Lambert Closse did a last scan of the forest surrounding the fort, then gave back the telescope to the militiaman on lookout duty before climbing down from the southeast tower of the palisade and walking through the open gate


    23. A number of annexes, including a small barn with cages for chickens and hares, sat inside a courtyard, their back part of a three meter-high wood palisade with a large gate door facing south, towards the fort of Ville-Marie


    24. As for the large vegetable patch just outside the palisade, it had been carefully worked so that it would be ready for seeding during next spring, the group having arrived too late in the Summer to plant anything


    25. Stopping his work at once, he got on his feet and ran outside of the palisade, intent on shouting a warning at Frida, who was working in their vegetable plot


    26. The four agents then left the inn, making the gate of the palisade lock by itself behind them before they took the trail leading to the fort, adopting a quick walking pace and with their muskets at the ready


    27. Val helped me up, up by my right leg; swing my left leg over, and I was ready to ride, easy out of the gate in the palisade wall, my left arm bandaged from shoulder to chest, strapped to my chest


    28. All remained quiet inside the palisade, though we could see some men running around and shutting down the door of the largest long-house


    29. I even got off my horse right by the palisade wall and slung the pig over my saddle


    30. Behind us we began to hear wailing and howling coming over the palisade of the Saxon settlement; their women, wailing for the slaughter of their men outside their walls

    31. There it stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all around it for a space of thirty years, by that slow and continuous movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in a hollow, and it looked as though the ground were giving way beneath it


    32. I own a 1,000-acre farm in Palisade, Nebraska, and because of that I started watching the grain futures prices


    33. For a moment he stood motionless, his quick, bright eyes scanning the interior of the palisade


    34. The hunting warriors emerged from the forest, and when all were within the palisade the gates were closed and barred


    35. He soon noticed the food always standing at the foot of the tree which was his avenue into the palisade, and after a little, he commenced to eat whatever the blacks put there


    36. A cry went up within the palisade


    37. Their original intention had been to burn the village, but this idea was abandoned and the prisoners were left behind, weeping and moaning, but with roofs to cover them and a palisade for refuge from the beasts of the jungle


    38. In an instant the air was filled with cries of terror from the fleeing gardeners, but before any had reached the palisade a white man emerged from the enclosure, rifle in hand, to discover the cause of the commotion


    39. Most Englishmen, if we were to replace verst-posts with milestones and substitute a graveyard for a palisade, would instantly recognize its Yankee extraction


    40. One of them waved a sheet of paper above his head; another bore on the point of his pike the head of Joulaï, which he cast to us over the palisade

    41. Soon the bullets whistled about our ears, and some arrows came quivering around us in the earth and in the posts of the palisade


    42. He was standing up with his face against the palisade and his arms resting on the stakes


    43. He turned away from me, and struck the palisade with his forehead and began to sob


    44. In spite of the branding and the chains, in spite of the palisade which hides from his eyes the free world, and encloses him in a cage like a wild beast, he can get himself spirits and other delights; sometimes even (not always), corrupt his immediate superintendents, the old soldiers and non-commissioned officers, and get them to close their eyes to his infractions of discipline within the prison


    45. The reddish spots of light grew bigger and bigger; at last the stakes of the palisade, the moving figure of the sentinel, a post painted with white and black stripes and the sentinel’s box became visible


    46. The sentinel called his usual “Who goes there?” as they approached, and seeing they were strangers treated them with such severity that he would not allow them to wait by the palisade; but Nekhludoff’s guide was not abashed by this severity


    47. From behind the palisade came the hum of male and female voices


    48. This halting station, like all such stations along the Siberian road, was surrounded by a courtyard, fenced in with a palisade of sharp-pointed stakes, and consisted of three one-storied houses


    49. —, heights in, above the level of the sea, of points in the Palisade range, ii, 184


    1. I climbed aboard the ship, and as I was being led to the main cabin, I noticed that there were some small islands just east of our position and on the nearest one there was some sort of a palisaded town


    2. For there before us was a Saxon settlement, a palisaded village, not very large and with its main gate wide open


    3. And when we broke out over the cleared ground before the palisaded walls of the settlement, it started to rain, though not heavy, bringing with it a cold wind


    4. It was a material train returning from the Campo to the palisaded yards


    5. Taking the body across his shoulder, he moved more slowly through the trees toward the little palisaded village, for he again needed arrows


    1. On through the blackness that preceded moonrise they drove, between banks that were solid palisades of darkness, whence came mysterious rustlings and stealthy footfalls, and the gleam of grim eyes


    2. Palisades gently came walking by


    3. moon was rising over the Palisades


    4. The following year when the two girls were on a picnic in the Palisades, Alexandra somehow slipped off the edge of a cliff and saved herself by clinging to a shrub growing out of the steep mountainside


    5. Now she spends many nights alone here in Pacific Palisades as Reagan travels the country to give speeches


    6. The Zillow website, for instance, allowed us a tour of the Reagan home in Pacific Palisades, which was recently on the market


    7. But the eye of love had already seen, even through the narrow chinks of the wooden palisades, the movement of the white robe,


    8. , more than seventy-five thousand people lined both banks of the river, sitting on beaches, standing on docks, perched on roofs, bluffs, and palisades along the racecourse, sipping lemonade and fanning themselves with copies of the program


    9. Along the shore and up on the palisades, warm yellow light poured from the windows of homes and shell houses


    10. , with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Pantheon, the pole of the DeafMutes, the Val-de-Grace, black, squat, fantastic, amusing, magnificent, and in the background, the severe square crests of the towers of Notre Dame

    11. The police ambulance went up into the palisades at the wrong hour


    12. Parties at Pat and Peter’s home at 625 Palisades Beach Road in Malibu (now Pacific Coast Highway) were practically legendary at this time


    13. The lawn, bounded on each side by a high wall, contained beyond the first planted area a bowling-green, and beyond the bowling-green a long terrace walk, backed by iron palisades, and commanding a view over them into the tops of the trees of the wilderness immediately adjoining


    14. Several had already fallen prey to old Sabor, and because the jungle was so infested with these fierce and bloodthirsty cats, and with lions and leopards, the ebony warriors hesitated to trust themselves far from the safety of their palisades


    15. By my retentive memory of the hieroglyphics upon one Sperm Whale in particular, I was much struck with a plate representing the old Indian characters chiselled on the famous hieroglyphic palisades on the banks of the Upper Mississippi


    16. All the convicts ran hastily to the palisades to see what would be done with them; but they saw nothing except the carriages of the Governor and the Major, which were waiting in front of the guard-house


    17. How many a thousand times had I made the circuit of those palisades during those ten years! There, at the rear of the barracks, had I gone to and fro during the whole of that first year, a solitary, despairing man


    18. Ball lived in a big, graystone house that stood apart and commanded a noble view of the Hudson and the Palisades


    1. Lydgate was only two yards off on the other side of some iron palisading, and turned round at the sudden sound of the sash, before she called to him


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    Synonyms for "palisade"

    palisade fence fence in surround wall trench bulwark defense dike stockade fort

    "palisade" definitions

    fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground


    surround with a wall in order to fortify