Definitionn. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
Last update: October 6, 2015
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Visitors are walking along the castle ramparts. [Please select]
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This is the view along the castle rampart to the entrance of the room used by BBC engineers as a studio. [Please select]
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The rampart was thence extended along the northern side of the city to the great Martinengo bastion at the northwest corner. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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Herse crouched half hidden behind a sacrificial stone which lay at the top of the hastily-constructed rampart, and handed weapons to the combatants as they needed them. [Please select]
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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. [Please select]
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On the fourth day fires broke out on the Zubovski rampart. [Please select]
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When Bossuet and Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with a rampart higher than a man. [Please select]
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The new city formed a rectangle, enclosed by a colossal mud rampart, the longer sides of which ran north and south. [Please select]
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