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crenel
1. of building sand castles, crenellated walls,
2. Between the primary towers, smaller towers of red stone divided up the length of the crenelated wall
3. Yet unfinished, it required another tier of brick to create the crenellation, thus providing the defenders narrow gaps to fire upon their enemies far below
4. Like something from ancient history, the five-story structure boasted stone walls, arrow slits, turrets, and even a crenellated rooftop
5. Kay lent against the crenellated stone wall, the cool breezes rising as the sun slipped beneath the horizon
6. Turning around and craning my neck, I could see the dormered windows of the servant’s quarters, high up over the crenellated fake battlements
7. They laughed together as the walls reached full height and crenellations formed, and Mark knew without a doubt that he had correctly identified the design when the top of the keep rose above the walls
8. They had faded like smoke—the battlements, the crenellated towers, the great bronze gates, the velvets, the gold, the ivory, and the dark-haired women, and the men with their shaven skulls
9. An adjacent parapet was a shadowy line, and further crenelles and embrasures were barely hinted at in the dim starlight
10. The walls went up 25 feet and were wide enough to gallop a horse across yet were protected by crenellations
11. Cannons also were visible at the crenellations, especially on the side facing the nearby sea
12. The battlements circled the edge, with wide embrasures, or crenels, between them
13. The crenels allowed archers and casters to attack from above while also providing some cover
14. He pulled the arrow out, nocked it, then stepped back over to the crenellation and fired
15. Starlight rains onto every crenellation
16. The building looked like a miniature fortress, with a crenellated parapet around its flat roof and windows hardly larger than arrow loops
17. Resolving out of the snow, like a picture tuned in on a television, were crenellated apartment buildings, yellow windows punched out of the darkness, powdered sugar shaking down over the layer-cake hotels down on Central Park South
18. Its crenellated outer walls stood thirty feet high, with towers at each corner, each one half again the size of Standfast
19. bridge from the roof of the Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping of the outer wall the whole distance round the prison as far as the hut? But the outer wall of La Force formed a crenellated and unequal line; it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose towards the bath-house, it was cut in twain by buildings, it was not even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavee; everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by Thenardier still remains rather inexplicable
20. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles that were bastions in themselves throwing out capes here and there, powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the formidable place which had seen the 14th of July
21. “The teeth are called merlons and the gaps between them are called crenels