I had thought that Castilla referred to "castellations" You set me straight! ❋ Unknown (2006)
But as Laxness begins elaborating the description, the language takes on density and texture; the words become more specific and harder-edged, the landscape comes alive in the imagination: The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)
The crags soar up from the landslides in sheer castellations, and in one place above the fold in the mountain is cloven by a gully in the basalt, and down from this gully in spring cascades a waterfall, long and slender. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2007)
The head still shows the castellations of the Hismá. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The latter attaches to the higher Libn, whose triad of peaks, the central and highest built of three distinct castellations, flush and blush with a delicate pink-white cheek as it receives the hot caresses of the sun. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And it's more of a grand house rather than a castle with battlements and castellations. ❋ Unknown (2002)
To Sharpe's front the Castle seemed suddenly bare of defenders, driven behind the castellations or the rubble by the Rifles 'accuracy. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
He lowered the sword, his eyes grim on the terrified men who pressed back against the castellations. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
The tower looked old, its summit crowned by castellations like the Castle walls, but at its foot he could see the scars of earthworks and he guessed the Spanish garrison had made new defences there. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
They were on the ramparts of the keep, on the turret of a great gatetower that faced into the pass, and behind the castellations of the wall around the courtyard. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1984)
The stone blocks forming the castellations of the battlements broke outwards, but the Saint dropped straight down with his legs actually brushing the wall. ❋ Charteris, Leslie, 1907- (1983)
The only element in this elaborate cocktail half as mysterious as ancient Egypt was the director, Michael Curtiz, a tall and upright Hungarian who had come to Hollywood so long ago that he gazed over the palm trees and stucco castellations of its civilization with the blind, all-seeing faith of its prophet. ❋ Peter, Ustinov (1977)
Their father was thus of the Canton de Vaud -- only their mother had been native among ourselves and sister to the Colonel of the castellations. ❋ Henry James (1879)
Travellers describe the features almost in the words of Clapperton and Denham -- the towering masses of granite which contrast so strongly with the southern swamps; upstanding outcrops resembling cathedrals and castellations in ruins; boulders like footballs of enormous dimensions; pyramids a thousand feet high; and solitary cones which rise like giant ninepins. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
In EH there was an additional six sided upper storey with some sort of castellations and a short spire. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As a surface-mount module with 28 reflow-solderable edge castellations, the C1919 requires no costly I/O and RF connectors. ❋ Media-newswire.com (2010)