How To Use machicolate In A Sentence
- Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice. Quogue-mire!
- Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on. The Turn of the Screw
- An enceinte marked by the towers and machicolated balconies stretches along the Seine in front of the château.
- Each corner of these square towers is again surmounted by a projecting octagon turret, machicolated.
- Of the City gates, Gosford Gate had machicolated ones but not Spon Gate adjacent to the church. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
- We can scarcely think the scene real, so completely do those machicolated towers, the long line of battlements, the massive buttresses, the high-windowed walls, shape out our indistinct ideas of the antique time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
- The balcony can be reached by two bridges projecting from squat, machicolated towers - the houses have now been demolished, but the gallery remains.
- One enters the court of arms through a door with a pointed arch defended by a machicolated gallery above.
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- With its great round bastions and tall machicolated towers, Lahore station may look as if it is the product of some short lived collaboration between the Raj and the Diney Corporation.
