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Immediately, the chief appeared at the palisades, rubbing sleep from his eyes, but still awake enough to raise the alarm.
Already in this phase the village was surrounded by two wooden palisades defending the upper and lower slopes.
Altogether, though, with the palisades which were 23 feet in length and supported by marble columns at each end, the weight was 40 tons.
This distinctive industry may have been tied to new timbering practices, such as posts and palisades at the town and mound centers.
Early French St. Louis was a compact settlement, and lots were enclosed with palisades.
It was a combination of towers, palisades, ditches, abatis, and caltrops to slow the attacking Gauls.
The daimyo and their warriors also built numerous stockades, palisades, and barricades of wood.
At the south end we have those Maori palisades lining the road but the entrance to the CBD is a line of white crosses.
For each section, terram was laid, sandbags placed to hold it in position, and then the lines of historic palisades and piles were sandbagged.
It was a fort-looking place, nestled in a valley and surrounded by tall wooden palisades.
Most books mark the route's end where Santa Monica Boulevard intersects Ocean Avenue, on the palisades above Santa Monica State Beach.
Building banks or palisades of bamboo is one defence, but each year the work has to be repeated.
This experience is even more pronounced in the Double Torqued Ellipses, which consist of two curving palisades nested one inside the other.
The African village required construction of yellow and black native huts, palisades, sacrificial altars, and jungle backdrop.
It is a rousing thing to find yourself crossing the George Washington Bridge, the skyline of Manhattan falling away as the green palisades of New Jersey surge forward.
Firewood and the logs used for buildings and palisades were hewn with axes, adzes and wedges.
Additional mines were used to destroy the palisades of the covered passage and the supporting walls of the counterscarp or scarp, thus facilitating entry into the fortress.
The Foxes' forts were remarkable structures, with double palisades, an earth parapet and a ditch.
Without these refuges, colourfully known as the palisades of Vogt, the transplanted stem cells could not survive.
In its first form, the fort was a simple field fortification of shallow ditches, earth banks, and timber palisades.
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Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates.
A park keeper is no longer called a Parker, nor a maker of palings and palisades a Palliser.
The fort was escaladed by the French late at night and the palisades made short work of by the hatchets of their bushrangers.
The palisades were of iron, though the tops were tipped with gilding, and they were very high.
The huts, looking like huge beehives, were sheltered behind bristling palisades.
A portion of the scarp was provided with palisades some ten feet high.
We'd take you to the high country above these battlements and palisades.
But none of the motley crew were allowed inside the palisades.
The streets were almost deserted, except in the vicinity of the temple, which they only reached after having traversed several quarters surrounded by palisades.
But the eye of love had already seen, even through the narrow chinks of the wooden palisades, the movement of the white robe, and observed the fluttering of the blue sash.
Where once shone its opaline palisades is now but a field of crumpled ice.
On one side of this wide street were high houses with wonderful shop fronts, and on the other was an old church and churchyard, surrounded by iron palisades.
The Vendeans had no axes to cut down the Palisades, nor powder to blow then in.
Not by threats can he compel them to help mend the breaches in the Palisades.
He taught them how to surround their village with Palisades, and influenced them to build a fort with intrenchments.
This landscape is from the Palisades, where we have roamed in leisure hours.
They turned into a sort of lane that led below the Palisades.
She walked along Riverside Drive, marveling at the Palisades.
They gained the first and second Palisades at the point of the sword.
But the rough bush lopers inside the Palisades were expert marksmen.
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