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rampart .
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Examples
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He turned back to his elaborately ramparted castle.
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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The Getty Center is a multi-use complex made up of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Conservation Institute, the Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Education Institute for the Arts, the Information Institute, and the Getty Grant Program, as well as offices for the Getty Trust, an auditorium, a restaurant pavilion, and a stone-ramparted helicopter landing pad.
The Big Rock Candy Mountain Filler, Martin 1997
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The church, which has no vicar of its own, being served from Selmeston, a mile away, stands high amid its graves, the whole churchyard having been heaped up and ramparted much as a castle is.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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Youth is a fool; the young Titans cannot scale heaven, -- heaven, that, if what I live through be true, is ramparted round with tyrant lies!
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The Rounds have been cut across by a road, but there are distinct traces of two ramparted circles, with some remains of a sheltering earthwork to the west.
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But never have the factional differences been more pronounced and the lines of separation drawn with a sharper ploughshare in this mountain-ramparted
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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Impassive he sits, aloof and aloft, ramparted by his desk, ensconced between curtains to keep out the draught -- for might not a puff of wind scatter the animated dust that he consists of?
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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No passer-by would have guessed that the three partners were ensconced in the black mouth of the tunnel, ramparted by the dump heap, watching for developments they were fairly sure would start with darkness.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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Sandy, Sam and Westlake ramparted Mormon from enthusiastic admirers and pushed down to the creek where he washed his hurts with the stinging icy water and stiffly put on his clothes.
Rimrock Trail 1906
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The site is ramparted and habitable where the ovens stand.
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