battlements
crenelation , auch: crenellation BrE

But I saw him for only a moment, at the very top, over those battlements.

Where were all the men who had gone to the battlements to look at the fire?

Just then there came a voice from the battlements above.

From here on the battlements the sea seemed so near.

And against the sky I saw the battlements of my father's house.

He came upon the battlements, and asked who it was that called at such an hour.

When the final door opened I found myself on the battlements at the front of the house.

The guards looked down from the battlements and asked us our business.

I looked away from them to the gleaming battlements of white.

Which friends, at this point, had reached and passed the battlements.

On the right and left of the entrance two large battlements can be seen.

He sat upon the battlements and stared back at the Keep.

In response, there came the pop of fire from the battlements.

I ran to the battlements, and looked out between their teeth.

I spent that night atop the battlements, and never heard a sound.

They stand behind the battlements; nearly all her men, and some of the women from the camp as well.

They expected to see everybody start running or hiding behind the battlements.

The site was enclosed by a wall with battlements in 1327.

From the darkness behind the battlements came the sound of movement.

He could be on the battlements, or you might try the mess hall.

He had not seen any of them standing on the battlements with sword in hand.

She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through.

The battlements were almost clear, except for the dead and wounded.

No guards walked the battlements, as he might have expected.

Willow had come down from the battlements and was waiting for him.

I looked through the crenelation again, standing back from it.

It is hard to throw these with accuracy without standing above the crenelation.

I ran to the place and thrust through the crenelation at a fellow, his hand already half over the wall.

I crouched in the crenelation, bracing myself with my left arm.

Not a moat or a crenelation to be seen.

More than one fellow leapt over the crenelation but the ladder itself was thrust back.

I went to my left and bent over the crenelation, leaning over the wall.

Half concealed by a large, fanged crenelation, he watched them descend.

The Duke steps up to the nearest stone crenelation.

The towers are crowned with a modern fantasy crenelation.

IN 1855 the trustees added a third story with a picturesque Gothic crenelation.

Some, reaching the crenelation again, were struck back by the jabbing spears of their own men, screaming at them.

There are several variations of crenelation, wavering in number of tiers.

Bronwyn wrapped one end of the rope around a stone crenelation and used that to lower Judith slowly.

The deep cornice is crested with a crenelation of blubber spades.

Two swung back on ropes and climbed through the crenelation, almost as though they might have been Cosians.

At a single blast of trumpets, the eleven bridges were loosened, rattling, to the crenelation.

We lock the gates behind us, admiring for a moment the crenelation of razor wire and a shed piled high with salt.

The riches of Johannesburg still appear as a crenelation of high-rises on the skyline.

Another fellow had just appeared in the opening in the crenelation and I pushed out at him with the long impaling spear.

Its legs buckled; but since it was standing in the crenelation, it was prevented from falling.

Even the sentries on the watchtowers were silent, as were the archers stationed at every crenelation along the eastern wall.

It lifted one back leg up into the nearest crenelation, hoisting itself and the overlord up at an awkward angle.

I bore it as long as I could, then stepped out from behind the merlon, to stand at the low crenelation.

Crenelated Tombs (see crenelation) are popular within Nabataean architecture.