Palisades
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Examples
- As is well known, the Hudson River, for the length of Manhattan Island, is approximately a mile wide, reducing in width at the Palisades north of Hoboken. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- As they passed by the Palisades it is said they sang Ye Banks and Braes o’ Bonny Doon. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They began to make camps with walls of earth and palisades, many of which are still to be traced in the history-worn contours of the European scenery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many were wounded, of course, and some killed; but they soon reached the palisades. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Waldo