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    castle


    castles


    1. boxes, glue and crayons and Sarah was very proud of her castle


    2. As soon as Barney spots the bouncy castle, all interest in his old Gran disappears and he starts clamouring to have a go … Emma and Adrian exchange a glance


    3. She could bring the probe in very quietly among the pointed glass turrets of the castle this courtyard was on and swoop down to perch on a windowsill


    4. A castle that wasn't taller than it was wide, and wasn't wider at the top than it was at the base, was distinctly gauche


    5. This castle was a clan home no doubt, everyone related by blood and enterprise, many of these clans had patriarchs older than Christ who still sat at the heads of tables in their great and echoing crystal halls


    6. stay in the castle for as long as they wished


    7. I found it while ferreting around in the ruins of a castle stronghold in the north of Wales where she was imprisoned for some time before being transferred to Wight where she spent the last years of her life


    8. He didn't keep Essone around the castle just for sex, though she was outstandingly skilled at it, and equipped with everything his labs could provide


    9. Safe behind their crumbling castle walls, the family’s ancient lust for life dissipated, and the vitality of these new lives completely passed them by


    10. He explained that they had a castle built into the side of a mountain

    11. Of course, he knew that wasn’t really the case, but once the thought had thrown its grappling hook and caught on the battlements of Tom’s mental castle, there was nothing he could do about the waves of nausea that battered at the door of his mental redoubt


    12. castle, there was nothing he could do about the waves of nausea


    13. The castle stood to one side of the path that enters the


    14. “Oh no,” he replied, “The castle itself had a garrison – of sorts


    15. “The caravan did not stop at the castle, but pressed on into the


    16. the castle on the other side


    17. “Another castle?” Tom asked, breath bated


    18. was a ruined castle


    19. castle contrasted the other fortifications Tom could see in several


    20. steps to the door of the Oriel Witch’s castle,

    21. Black Mountain, was more a tower than a castle


    22. Pressing on along the track, Tom could see the castle on its


    23. the castle and the causeway had been built at the same time


    24. Finally bored with exploring the castle, Tom found his way back


    25. promontory that the castle sat upon


    26. protected from the ever-present wind by the castle walls and the


    27. Tom completed the loop around the end of the castle promontory,


    28. Chloe pointed excitedly out towards the sea, “Ooh, look!” There through the late mists rising from the bay, rose what appeared to be the turrets and spires of a fairy tale castle


    29. Principal Hartman ate as he drove to his castle, seeing the same skeleton


    30. He said this when he was up at the ruins of the castle

    31. It had been built as the stables of Oliar’s castle, the ruins of which loomed behind the house and fields on the other side of the street


    32. Braneen wanted to participate even less when she found out she would have to play the part in the ruined castle


    33. He stared out of his glass castle looking past Luanda out beyond the sea up into the sky


    34. On the top of one of the nearest cliffs to the river itself, so close the twenty-mile-wide water is blue in the distance below, stands a great castle


    35. His current name is Brancetrabble, and he is the owner of this castle and the vast fortune it represents


    36. Something that would translate as Bliyig's Castle was the first big hall they passed and that had a couple up and coming pumpers on the bill for prime time this evening


    37. turns out to be a castle; and Bruniquel, where the horror


    38. She got a good view of the rugged mountain slope below this castle with plains in the distance


    39. Because of the time limit to when they could visit, she had found his castle on the planet within a week


    40. Once she had seen it with detailed probes from above, she would defend the beauty in his creation at that castle with whatever might the expedition could muster

    41. It's a hologram actually, of another deck of my castle


    42. ruined castle, dating from the 10th century and


    43. opposite rose the hill upon which the castle stood


    44. Of signs to the castle and


    45. loomed the huge castle complex, dominated by an


    46. castle across the river and the lamp-lit, cobble-stoned


    47. If there was something out there it would have to be built among the ruins of some old Wescarpian wizard's castle


    48. They were on the edge of the roof garden way up on the Klehymnehorn, only the top castle is above it


    49. During this decade she had only casual relations with quite a few different guys who lived and/or worked and/or hung out in the castle


    50. That was just one ramble she went on while telling him about castle life while the streetcar rumbled back up the Southeast Khume














































    1. A section of the castles had moats


    2. other castles were like – she had made herself and that is exactly


    3. For another, I knew of sorceresses from lands of kings and castles only in fairy-tales


    4. of building sand castles, crenellated walls,


    5. vast wealth to build huge palaces, monuments and castles


    6. naturally defensible,” he said thoughtfully, “And with castles to add


    7. “Well, yes,” Alistair agreed, “It was almost as if the two castles


    8. castles and the military garrisons


    9. “Why are there so many castles around here?” Alistair asked


    10. There were large and impressive castles in a good state of repair

    11. the island and the castles were lost to view, obscured by the trees and


    12. impressed with ruined castles, and the Auvergne offered


    13. SAND CASTLES crumble with the tide


    14. Dordogne – I just love the castles


    15. castles! Najac – strung out along a wooded ridge with its


    16. and we’d planned to spend it exploring the Cathar castles


    17. castles so far, that we decided to backtrack a little the


    18. The cliffs became castles


    19. of occupied castles increased markedly


    20. citadels and castles, and the successors of former

    21. After the fall of the Roman empire, on the contrary, the proprietors of land seem generally to have lived in fortified castles on their own estates, and in the midst of their own tenants and dependants


    22. In countries such as Italy or Switzerland, in which, on account either of their distance from the principal seat of government, of the natural strength of the country itself, or of some other reason, the sovereign came to lose the whole of his authority; the cities generally became independent republics, and conquered all the nobility in their neighbourhood; obliging them to pull down their castles in the country, and to live, like other peaceable inhabitants, in the city


    23. Other castles had much larger keeps, though they were made mostly of wood and clay


    24. Asylin (AS-ih-lihn): One of the three castles of the Last Stand


    25. Last Stand, The: A series of three castles on the Teriam River, built so close together as to control all traffic over the river


    26. Morylin (MORE-ih-lihn): One of the three castles of the Last Stand


    27. Satyrin (SAHT-ih-rihn): One of the three castles of the Last Stand


    28. His houses were all built in the form of castles, and seem to have been the principal fortresses which he possessed


    29. The keepers of those houses or castles might be considered as a sort of military governors


    30. There was much more to Frank and her aunt Shelagh than old castles and art exhibitions

    31. The immortal cities were considered safer than the mortal castles and holds, the pay was better, and the chance of being robbed or murdered on the streets after dark was minimal to almost impossible, so it was a great honour to be chosen as a mortal servant in Nordhel


    32. These monsters were huge, some as big as castles, big enough to knock even the largest trees down with a swipe from their tail


    33. pink and white ices, and the cakes with sugar castles and flower


    34. Perhaps it is common in larger castles – but it is not something we have encountered here


    35. She has been to England numerous times and loves exploring old castles and churches


    36. As usual, everyone wanted to spend time outside, and Elena and her daughters went to their customary spot in the dunes so that the girls could build sand castles


    37. 54 Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the


    38. Walking the streets of Barcelona (those ancient walls!), viewing the cloisters of Majorca (and those castles on distant hilltops), breathing the air of Athens and enjoying the people of the Plaka (the Parthenon – it’s real, not just pictures in a book!), exploring the alleys of the “silent city” in Malta (now I feel the terror of the besieged, of Ottoman sails in the east), my spirit recognised its home


    39. treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel, and over the storehouses in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles,


    40. Judah castles, and cities of store

    41. With his base gone, Montpensier retreated to the city’s two castles, Del Ovo and Nuovo


    42. Not willing to wait for the reinforcements from the Holy League, Ferrante decided to sally forth against the remaining Frances leaving Montpensier trapped in his castles


    43. Isobel sent a legion of the soldier’s whose spirit she had absorbed in half to reinforce the fortresses and castles in the Realm of Water, but the paroling legions of Elena and Elijah had caught up to them and they were all captured


    44. impressive churches, castles, or other buildings


    45. were fled together into two very strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege, 19 Maccabeus left Simon


    46. pain we call pleasure — and we build castles in the air hoping


    47. impressive semicircle surrounded by a sensational ring of walls, churches and castles


    48. As a result of that transfer, the United States has governed the island of Puerto Rico, and the San Juan castles, which have never completely relinquished their constant vigilant status, are today principally custodians of five centuries of an inheritance rich in history and in culture


    49. The triangles are our towers or castles and each of them, belongs to one magical family


    50. Seven point stars like the castles of the wizards in their city










































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    Synonyms for "castle"

    castle castling rook palace residence chateau mansion fortress fortification citadel fort stronghold rook (chess)

    "castle" definitions

    a large and stately mansion


    a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack


    (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard


    interchanging the positions of the king and a rook


    move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king