1 You ladies need have no alarm about the proximity of the Yankees, for General Johnston and his army stands there in the mountains like an iron rampart.
2 Yes, an iron rampart, he repeated, relishing his phrase.
3 After all, men understood these matters much better than women, and if he said General Johnston was an iron rampart, he must be one.
4 Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
5 This rampart is pierced by several sally-ports for the convenience of ships and whales; conspicuous among which are the straits of Sunda and Malacca.
6 Just then a figure was seen to approach the edge of the rampart, where it stood, apparently contemplating in its turn the distant tents of the French encampment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 7 The scout repeated the call, and in a few moments, Duncan saw the figure of Uncas stealing cautiously along the rampart, to the spot where they stood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 Heyward withdrew to the rampart, too uneasy and too little accustomed to the warfare of the woods to remain at ease under the possibility of such insidious attacks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 9 When Bossuet and Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with a rampart higher than a man.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER III—NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE 10 The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop was the dungeon.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY 11 On arriving at the angle of the trench which was to serve them as a rampart, one of the Guardsmen fell.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 41 THE SEIGE OF LA ROCHELLE 12 The poor young woman could not possibly suspect what frightful cruelty was behind the rampart of that pure brow, behind those brilliant eyes in which she read nothing but interest and compassion.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE 13 Nor do the bold Rutulians care longer to continue the blind fight, but strive to clear the rampart with missiles.
14 Lynceus advanced to meet him, calling up his comrades; from the rampart the glittering sword sweeps to the left and catches him; struck off by the one downright blow, head and helmet lay far away.
15 No cities ever received him within house or rampart, nor had his savagery submitted to it; he led his life on the lonely pastoral hills.