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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 upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace»
Author: John Owen
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battlement, battlements, oftentimes, ornaments, privileges, The Rock, The Sand, windows
«Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? / Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.»
«When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.»
«Huge knots of sea-weed hung upon the jagged and pointed stones, trembling in every breath of wind; and the green ivy clung mournfully round the dark and ruined battlements. Behind it rose the ancient castle, its towers roofless, and its massive walls crumbling away, but telling us proudly of its own might and strength, as when, seven hundred years ago, it rang with the clash of arms, or resounded with the noise of feasting and revelry.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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airy, battlement, battlements, city wall, gloom, heaped, Long Winter, The Long Dark, The Shining, withdrawn
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