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After all, men understood these matters much better than women, and if he said General Johnston was an iron rampart, he must be one.

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 Meanings and Examples of RAMPART
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rampart
 n.  something defends from assault or secures safety; defense
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Yes, an iron rampart, he repeated, relishing his phrase.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Johnston did stand like an iron rampart in the mountains above Dalton, one hundred miles away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
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 Cooper
Context  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 Cooper
Context  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 Cooper
Context  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 Hugo
Context  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 Hugo
Context  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 Dumas
Context  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 Dumas
Context  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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  Perhaps the tower is part of the rampart of the city.
2  Suddenly something flashed from the ramparts, a swirl of smoke jetted from the fort, a hellish explosion rocked the battlements.