"It is not the glorious battlements, the painted……" — John Owen

More Battlements Quotes

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• Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns, And as the portal opens to receive me, A voice in hollow… — Ann Radcliffe
• The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments,… — John Owen
• Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees,… — John Milton
• With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars. — William Wordsworth
• What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army… — Abraham Lincoln
• Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs… — Joaquin Miller
• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of… — Bill Vaughan
• Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in… — Bram Stoker
• From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle… — Cornelia Funke
• The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing… — Catherine Fisher
• Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges… — Zelda Fitzgerald
• And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the… — Emma Donoghue

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