Battlements Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon…
— John Owen
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Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts Tells…
— Ann Radcliffe
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built…
— John Owen
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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,…
— John Milton
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With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.
— William Wordsworth
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What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. ... Our…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here…
— Joaquin Miller
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The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.
— Bill Vaughan
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast…
— Bram Stoker
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From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in a sea of…
— Cornelia Funke
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The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies…
— Catherine Fisher
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen…
— Emma Donoghue
Who Wrote These Battlements Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Battlements Quotes as follows: