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Definition of Bastions
1. bastion [n] - See also: bastion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bastions
Literary usage of Bastions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"Wall and bastions. 26. Rock with sepulchral grottoes. 37. Same. 28. ... Sarcophagi.
principal entrance, but from thence the walls and bastions extended all ..."
2. The Antiquary (1888)
"19. into the city, between limestone rocks, and defended by two bastions.
There was also a modern tower at the south-east corner near the necropolis. ..."
3. Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty by Alexander Graydon (1811)
"The second line was stronger, both from the nature of the ground, which afforded
small eminences for bastions closed in the rear, and from having the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"20, reproduced from a French engraving of 1705, shows an imaginary place fortified
as a hexagon with bastions and all the FIG. ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Next, from a and b as centres, with radius, ag, describe arcs cutting aC, bC,
produced in / and e ; join de, fg, for the flanks of bastions, and tf for the ..."
6. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... drawn up in rear of the bastions to meet the CHAP, expected assault had been
subjected to a different, ' nay, almost an opposite, kind of trial. ..."
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