Row of cliffs on the Hudson

Usage examples of palisades.

Many remained outside to dig a ditch around the palisades as a first line of defense in case the Eika raided again.

Not only are they having the mound raised, the ditches deepened, and the palisades strengthened, they have laid at least one section of dressed stone about halfway between the front gate and the northern front corner.

They also seem to be doing some work on the flanking palisades and the rear, but I could not see them all that clearly.

Palisading villages did no good, for they were filled with evil medicine, and when their hunger for the flesh of the folk gnawed at their bellies, they could leap clear over the palisades or climb them or even tear them down.

Even when the monsters resembled porcupines, so filled were they with arrows and darts and lances, still could they easily kill and kill and escape back over the palisades with a poor unfortunate clamped between their fearsome jaws or grasped in a huge, manlike paw.

The Old Ones slew them in great numbers, but none of our warriors could seem to even hurt them badly when they came over our palisades in search of men and women and children to eat.

The entrance through the palisades was directly in front of that to the house, and both passages still remained open, one set of gates not being completed, and the other not yet being hung.

The sentinels were directed to take their posts so near the palisades as to command views of the open lawn without, a precaution that would effectually prevent the usual stealthy approach of an enemy without discovery.

In a word, the captain, when he went forth to review his men, who were now all assembled under arms within the palisades for that purpose, went to meet a wavering, rather than a positively disaffected or rebellious body.

All this time, everything without the palisades lay in the silence of nature.

The height confounded objects with the ground on which they were placed, though Blodget told the captain he did not think a man could cross the palisades without his being seen.

The dark object that lay at the foot of the palisades was pointed out to the serjeant the instant he was on the stage, and one of his offices was to observe it, in order to ascertain if it moved, or whether any attempts were made to carry off the body.

In a word, daylight brought the comfortable assurance to those within the palisades that another night was passed without bringing an assault.

If I might presume to advise, we shall do well to leave a single sentinel on this stage, since no one can approach the palisades without being seen, if the man keeps in motion.

When outside of the palisades, the captain and his companions proceeded at once towards the body.