The man on watch at the gate, before unharring, looked from the bastion over the stockades, to see who might be the three men who sought an entrance.So saying, she carried me round the battlements towards the opposite or southern side of the fortress, and indeed to a bastion almost immediately overlooking the place of our projected flight. The companies gathered in their respective bastions in the fort and we expected a lively brush.It was a mild night, though the waves beat noisily enough against the bastions of the pier.Moving forward slowly he climbed the hills in the general direction of the castle, the sunlit bastions of which suddenly appeared through the foliage above him and to the right.Most picturesque is the old Turkish quarter, still surrounded by the same bastions and walls which not so long ago defied the Montenegrin army.Ridges and bastions of rock, above profound valleys, culminate in cloud-capped Indrapura, at a height of 12,000 feet.The remains of its walls and bastions attest the many centuries during which it held its own against all comers, Christian or Infidel.Great rock bastions shut you in on either side, and behind, the green slope you had descended rises upward till it meets the blue sky beyond.They make the bastions of the town their Corso, but none except the nobles can go and drive upon one part of it.Rounded bastions project at intervals from the main structure, which is of an oblong form, with a lofty wing flanking its western end.Par un de ses bastions d'angle, ce lieu communique avec les enceintes du palais.She walked hither and thither along the scarps and bastions of the barrier, but never found the breach.The adventurers instantly occupied the bastions and gate, and the other troops seized the ramparts.I will post a sentry at the sally-port we shall have to leave the bastions without a guard.
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