Stump, rector of Yatton Keynell; was a boy of a most daring spirit; he would climbe towers and trees most dangerously; nay, he would walke on thebattlements of the tower there.
Conon retaliated by immediately hanging four prisoners just out of bowshot of the castle, and causing his largest trenchbut to fling a dead horse clear over the battlements and into the court.
Think ye no shame, poor cowards, thus again Behind your sheltering battlementsto stand, Twice-captured Phrygians!
The frowning battlements neglected lie, And lofty scaffolding that threats the sky.
Some o'er the battlements leapt headlong, some Sank fainting in the flames; the final hour was come.
Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain To clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, Their right hands strive the battlements to gain, Their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.
Major Hennessy proceeded to Sumter, and soon waved the old Stars and Stripes over the battered battlements of the work, from which they had been torn down in April, 1861.
Over the battlements of rebellion poured the iron tempest upon Sherman’s unyielding lines.
When their crimes merited death they were executed on the Piazza della Minerva, or if time pressed, the Castellano hanged them from the battlements of the fortress or threw them out of a window into the ravine below.
The town lies so directly below, that by stepping to the edge and looking across the white acacias, we can only see a mass of brown roofs all purple at sundown, the tops of towers and the battlements of gateways.
It was surrounded by seven walls, each overtopping the one before it, from the outer to the inner, crowned with battlements of different colours.
A swallow on the battlements to-day Fell from the hawk: you soothed and set it free.
The trumpetings Of seraphs whose gold blasts of light break o'er Purplescent passing battlements of cloud, Sound clear .
A white town climbs in irregular tiers up the shelving terraces of a fairy island, the central hill crowned by the crenellated battlements of a grey citadel.
Volcanic mountains replace Alpine crests, but the white battlements of Papandayang's smoking crater give the effect of distant snow, and the dark pines of the Swiss valley are merely translated into the lustrous green of crowding palms.
Not relishing the morsel, however, the bird dropped him above the battlements of a big castle that stood close to the sea.
To this he consented, and, after he was crowned, the Christian host went on towards Egypt where King Ptolemy, in despair of vanquishing such stalwart knights, threw himself down from the battlements of the palace and was killed.
The old Longobard walls curved away on each hand, for a long distance, high and grim, with battlements and towers, bare and menacing.
Here and there above the broken crenelations of the city's battlements rose dark and massive towers, square and round, marking the fortified mansions of the Roman nobles.
There the light of heaven irradiates it; its visions are unclouded there; and from those battlements of uncreated glory it comes to thee on errands of love and mercy.
During this time life went on in a very triste manner at Desmond Court.
I do wonder that you keep hon at that work," said Mollett junior, reproachfully.
Why, you've hardly tried your own mare at all," said the lad, reproachfully.
Antiochus contented himself with destroying the battlements of Jerusalem (autumn 134).
Many of the unfortunate victims threw themselves headlong from the battlements into the depths below, whilst others lit their own funeral pyre.
He counted the layers; for as the tower had been built of regular layers of stone, it was very easy to reckon the height of the battlements from the ground.
From the battlements the Prince climbed, in turn, into each of the turrets, but there was nobody in them at all, and no living thing except the owls asleep in the crevices of the walls, and the bats that hung head downward from the rafters.
It is the slowest seven miles ever ridden on the road by a wheelman, I think; a funeral procession is a lively, rattling affair, beside our onward progress toward the mud battlements of Khoi, but there is no help for it.
Owing to its walls and battlements being chiefly erected by nature, the Persian peasantry call it the Perii-Kasr, believing it to have been built by fairies.
Most of the ladies of distinction who were in the place attended, dressed in their best array, upon the battlements and defences of the gate, to see the gallant show of the warriors setting forth on the expedition.
When he came nearer, he could hear, and partly see, men dropping from the garden wall into the castle fosse, and others who seemed precipitated from the battlements by the assailants.
I lost no time in complying with their counsel, and felt my heart relieved from an oppressive weight, as I left the gloomy and fate-bound battlements of Têtefoulques behind me.
At length one furious demon grasped the sun And sped away as fast as he could run, And with a ringing laugh of fiendish mirth, He leaped the battlements and fell to earth.
In the heart of the town its old castle towers up from an isolated crag, and from the battlements you can look across the valley to the Italian and Austrian lines on the slopes of San Marco opposite.
Only the fact that the shell had fallen deeply into the rain-softened bank of earth on top of the battlements saved the names of the last four visitors to the Italian front from being recorded on graves in Gorizia cemetery.
Thy battlements are crumbling now, And ivy decks thy faded brow.
The train runs fairly close to the mountain, so that even from the car window the fortifications on its top may be distinguished; but evidently they are Venetian battlements rather than old Greek remains that are thus visible.
The latter urged them to make haste and seize the favourable interval, as armed men, with lighted torches, patrolled the battlements every half-hour, and at that instant they had just passed.
In the distance is the representation of a castle, from the battlements of which the royal parents of the destined victim witness the fray, whilst the disconsolate damsel is depicted in a kneeling attitude.
It is now tenantless and forlorn, its battlements are broken, its rooms are desolated, and the wind whistles through the narrow casements that once were storied with the heraldic achievements of its knightly owners.
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