Four gates, with appropriate barbicans, outworks, and drawbridges, corresponded nearly to the cardinal points of the compass, and gave admission to the city. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Plus a 14 Stations of the cross that zigzags up the cliff to a cavernous grotto Paths of the Dead anyone? and, elsewhere on the Lot, the phenomenon of 'fortified caves' --refuges that godeep into the limestone with walls and barbicans built across them. ❋ Slimmeroftheyea (2006)
Here were palisades of burning orange with barbicans of incandescent bronze; there aiguilles of azure rising from bastions of cinnabar red; turrets of royal purple, obelisks of indigo; titanic forts whose walls were splashed with vermilion, with citron yellows and with rust of rubies; watch towers of flaming scarlet. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Meantime the prudent Freibergers had not in the least relaxed their diligence in filling up the enemy's trenches and destroying their batteries, while repairing their own barbicans and moat, building the former up with gabions, and strengthening the latter with a stout wooden parapet. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Some of the barbicans before the gates were in the enemy's possession, and even the Peter Gate itself. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The manuscript adds, that for the greater defence of this castle, there was, on one of the sides of it, a barbican; which seems to have not merely been a single tower, but (according to an ancient deed) a place, or outwork, containing several habitations; and from other accounts it further appears, that there were more barbicans than one. ❋ Various (N/A)
The ruins of certain other towers of the castle, besides the barbicans, and those already described, are also said to have been standing till ❋ Various (N/A)
Ultimate City, never knew that he should see the Under Pits, the barbicans and the holy minarets of the mightiest city known. ❋ Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany (1917)
Norman of Torn was to inspire in all the men who served him during the long years that saw thousands pass the barbicans of Torn to crave a position beneath his grim banner. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
All three gates were strongly fortified with towered and buttressed barbicans which must be taken before the main gates could be reached. ❋ Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912)
They fought against it three days and three nights so bravely that all the ditches were filled up, and the barbicans thrown down, and they who were within fought sword in hand with those without, and the waters of the Douro, as they past below the town, were all discoloured with blood. ❋ William Patten (1902)
It had tourelles, emblazoned gateways, bastions, donjons, barbicans; it had innumerable rooms; in the _salle des chevaliers_ two hundred men-at-arms had his ancestors fed at a sitting. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
The great grim _cité_, with its battlements and bastions and barbicans and fifty towers on the hill looking over the rubbishy modern town? ❋ William John Locke (1896)
The stronghold itself consisted of a large square or oblong like that at Donnington, Berkshire, and the approach was carefully guarded by strong gateways, advanced works, walled galleries, and barbicans. ❋ Unknown (1892)
About eighty years ago the Corporation destroyed the picturesque old barbicans of the Bootham, Micklegate, and Monk Bars, and only one, Walmgate, was suffered to retain this interesting feature. ❋ Unknown (1892)
It has a double enceinte, complete outer walls and complete inner (these, elaborately fortified, are the more curious); and this congregation of ramparts, towers, bastions, battlements, barbicans, is as fantastic and romantic as you please. ❋ Various (1885)
Gasquet, received 1,273 florins for the completed new tower, with its barbicans, battlements and machicoulis, which was on the site and which retained the appellation of the Tour de la Campane, or Bell Tower. ❋ Various (1885)
These barbicans had a device by which hot water or stones could be flung down upon any enemy who succeeded in passing the bridge. ❋ Various (1873)
He espieth it at the head of the forest, and seeth that it is large and strong, with strong barbicans embattelled, and at the entrance of the gateway were fifteen heads of knights hanging. ❋ Anonymous (1869)
