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Definition of Ramparting
1. rampart [v] - See also: rampart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramparting
Literary usage of Ramparting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association (1906)
"This breast-work or palisade, then, must have been the crowning point in the
construction of the ramparting, and it must have been fixed practically on the ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"At sundown there was a sure sign of rain : clouds of opaque, dark purple, with
a gap between them and the yellow sky, ramparting themselves around the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"... the parapet bordering and ramparting the broad causeway, all give it an exterior
of finish which corresponds fully with the minuteness and perfectness ..."
4. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands by Hiram Bingham (1848)
"Of its completion and dedication, Mr. T. thus writes to the Secretary of the
Board :— While providing and ramparting a ceiled house for himself, ..."
5. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Civil by Hiram Bingham (1848)
"... his establishment, which he has been enclosing with a wall ten or twelve feet
high, and about the same in thickness." While providing and ramparting a ..."
6. A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Civil by Hiram Bingham (1849)
"While providing and ramparting a ceiled house for himself, the governor had been
equally prompt in erecting a church, ..."
7. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"Late one October afternoon they came to the little village of Waynesville, a
drowsy hamlet hung upon the edge of a lofty summit, shadowy peaks ramparting ..."
8. The Agonists: A Trilogy of God and Man by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1911)
"... Win strength from your strength to abide What fortune us may betide. They now
turn their faces above the city to the ramparting hills. ..."
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