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1. Meantime, while resting upon a rampart or some other commanding viewpoints around the island, Chloe and Kaitlyn read to each other from books of poetry, or from the book of histories which Harry had borrowed, not just for their entertainment, but for the sheer pleasure of broadening their horizons of knowledge
2. Then standing up to dry himself, the wind quickened and thrust him legs and arms ‘aflailing back over the rampart edge
3. Strange to say very little of the latter could actually be seen, a few eagles and hawks overhead mainly following the uplift at the rampart edge, no rabits appeared in the grass clumps, the landscape seemed totally deserted
4. Just beyond the last ford the woods ended abruptly and a gentle grassy slope led to the foot of the San Juan ridge, which is like a huge rampart thrown up to defend Santiago
5. The hard clay of the hill had made revetments unnecessary, but the perpendicular trenches, backed by a second rampart before the fort, had impeded their retreat and caused the only serious loss from our fire
6. The avalanche of water had rushed back from its devastatingly bruising brush with the mountain rampart almost as urgently as it had rushed forward
7. stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they
8. populous No, that was situated among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was
9. 19 And on the next day the sons of Jacob went to Sarton, for they heard that the men of Sarton who had remained in the city were assembling to fight with them for having killed their king, and Sarton was a very high and fortified city, and it had a deep rampart surrounding the city
10. 20 And the pillar of the rampart was about fifty cubits and its breadth forty cubits, and there was no place for a man to enter the city on account of the rampart, and the sons of Jacob saw the rampart of the city, and they sought an entrance in it but could not find it
11. 27 And the sons of Jacob were provoked at them, and they all rose and sprang over the rampart with the force of their strength, and through their might passed the forty cubits' breadth of the rampart
12. 28 And when they had passed the rampart they stood under the wall of the city, and they found all the gates of the city enclosed with iron doors
13. 19 And on the next day the sons of Jacob went to Sarton for they heard that the men of Sarton who had remained in the city were assembling to fight with them for having killed their king and Sarton was a very high and fortified city and it had a deep rampart surrounding the city
14. 20 And the pillar of the rampart was about fifty cubits and its breadth forty cubits and there was no place for a man to enter the city on account of the rampart and the sons of Jacob saw the rampart of the city and they sought an entrance in it but could not find it
15. 27 And the sons of Jacob were provoked at them and they all rose and sprang over the rampart with the force of their strength and through their might passed the forty cubits' breadth of the rampart
16. 28 And when they had passed the rampart they stood under the wall of the city and they found all the gates of the city enclosed with iron doors
17. The Lord Aten, closing out a most taxing day for those who were merely human, peered back as he slipped below his western rampart, upon a much fuller and happier group than he had risen upon
18. “There you have it!” I knelt and began tracing on the rampart floor with
19. This they guided up the wall and across the rampart where the Drystyx Monks stood
20. Ahead of them lay a range of low hills, sweeping in an unbroken rampart from east to west
21. Here the sheer wall of the rampart was broken
22. He led her to the southwestern wall, and without difficulty found a stone stair that mounted the rampart
23. The sun was high above the eastern horizon when they stood before the great gate in the northern wall, in the shadow of the lofty rampart
24. But at dawn he had not reached the hills; they were a long, low, blue rampart stretching along the horizon ahead of him
25. Rampart: A low outer wall of earth, around a fort as a defense; a fortification
26. Over the wall and into the north was a rampart built to hold back Saxon incursions, as if such men could be stopped by mounds of earth
27. In time of war the thousand citizens are to stand like a rampart impregnable against the world or the Persian host; in time of peace the preparation for war and their duties to the State, which are also their duties to one another, take up their whole life and time
28. Just then a figure was seen to approach the edge of the rampart, where it stood, apparently contemplating in its turn the distant tents of the French encampment
29. The scout repeated the call, and in a few moments, Duncan saw the figure of Uncas stealing cautiously along the rampart, to the spot where they stood
30. Heyward withdrew to the rampart, too uneasy and too little accustomed to the warfare of the woods to remain at ease under the possibility of such insidious attacks
31. About two-thirds of the way along the Faubourg Saint-Honore, and in the rear of one of the most imposing mansions in this rich neighborhood, where the various houses vie with each other for elegance of design and magnificence of construction, extended a large garden, where the wide-spreading chestnut-trees raised their heads high above the walls in a solid rampart, and with the coming of every spring scattered a shower of delicate pink and white blossoms into the large stone vases that stood upon the two square pilasters of a curiously wrought iron gate, that dated from the time of Louis XII
32. The Palikares had remained on the shore of the lake, ready to cover our retreat; they were kneeling on the lowest of the marble steps, and in that manner intended making a rampart of the three others, in case of pursuit
33. The bulk of the rampart holds her in its breadth
34. The rampart behind the hotel remains, though many of its embrasures along the top have been shattered
35. He climbed the crumbling slope of the rampart, and, putting aside the bushes, looked upon the harbour
36. Meade summed up the civilian point of view on the matter, one warm May evening on the veranda of Aunt Pitty’s house, when he said that Atlanta had nothing to fear, for heard him with varying emotions, for all who sat there rocking quietly in the fading General Johnston was standing in the mountains like an iron rampart
37. You ladies need have no alarm about the proximity of the Yankees, for General Johnston and his army stands there in the mountains like an iron rampart
38. Yes, an iron rampart,” he repeated, relishing his phrase
39. and if he said General Johnston was an iron rampart, he must be one
40. Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away
41. It looked like a great rampart or sea-wall whose foundations had
42. Across the mouth of the pass, from cliff to cliff, the Dark Lord had built a rampart of stone
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44. door, I sat down at the dressing table and tried to remember everything that had happened on the rampart
45. I was Toria standing on the rampart, watching the sun
46. When they had all been brought for the night to a large house on the Zubov Rampart that was being used as a guardhouse, Pierre was placed apart under strict guard
47. The smoke did not hang low as on the day when Pierre had been taken from the guardhouse on the Zubovski rampart, but rose through the pure air in columns
48. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened a breach from the cord of the parapet to the foot of the glacis
49. When Bossuet and Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with a rampart higher than a man
50. Her husband, Thomas, glanced over the rampart of The Wall Street Journa4 saw nothing to fasten his regard, and sank back in place
