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How to use bulwarks in a sentence

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The passengers were all above, grouped about the bulwarks, or looking after their effects amid a wilderness of baggage.
The head and the arched tail were both gilt, and the bulwarks were as high as in sea-going ships.
A section of the starboard bulwarks was removed to create a gangway, or opening.
The bulwarks are high above the deck, the scuppers wide enough to clear the most drenching waves.
He threw the dog's twitching body over the bulwarks just as he had done other sailors.
The aesthetic benefit of bulwarks derives from the scuppers and hawseholes cut into them.
Pharmaceutical stocks such as Elan and Galen are usually good defensive bulwarks.
The Secure-Marine company sells a 9,000-volt electric fence, to be installed on a ship's bulwarks.
The next section covers Miscellaneous Facilities, such as decks and bulwarks, proper lighting, humidity and condensation control.
The captain of the Greek ship turned and stared out over the bulwarks and, shading his eyes, squinted into the sun.
The remaining four were bower anchors mounted on bulwarks in the bow for use.
It is very odd that this ship shipped a sea the very hour as we were, which stove her boats, and bulwarks.
Rounded towers and thick bulwarks provided maximum protection against the siege engines of that era.
They are the bulwarks upon which we build a great society, a society that is the envy still of the entire world.
An extension placed beyond the limits of the stern and flush with the top of the bulwarks was used to store fishing gear.
The deck area forward of the superstructure filled with water to the level of the bulwarks.
Open fishing vessels are susceptible to taking on water over the bulwarks, particularly in conditions where low freeboard and rough seas prevail.
Two side platform dive doors are fitted in the port and starboard bulwarks.
Our recovery measures have been veritable bulwarks against the fury of the depression.
An active legislature, a free judiciary, free and fair elections and a vibrant civil society are the bulwarks of democracy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They crowded to the bulwarks of the waist-deck and swarmed upon the rat-lines of the mainmast.
But where now is the church which st louis left to France, strong in her anti-papal bulwarks?
As Spike uttered this order, his foot was on the plank-sheer of the bulwarks, in the act of passing to the wharf again.
The recoil was taken up by a heavy hempen hawser fastened to the bulwarks and passed through the cascabel of the gun.
Hanging on to the bulwarks, I smell the salts that are thrust under my nose.
The wooden reel and angular log attached hung, long untouched, just beneath the railing of the after bulwarks.
Yes, rejoined a Guernsey-man from the bulwarks, who turned out to be the chief-mate.
Soon he was carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and gently landed upon the capstan head.
Outside of the bulwarks their eager crews with one hand clung to the rail, while one foot was expectantly poised on the gunwale.
But at that moment he is sprung upon by a panther billow leaping over the bulwarks.
Those three places have given La Rochelle three bulwarks to the north.
These boasted bulwarks of Italy have proved as nugatory as the Alps.
Hands go diligently along the bulwarks, and with buckets of water and rags restore them to their full tidiness.
When the young man on board saw this person approach, he left his station by the pilot, and, hat in hand, leaned over the ship's bulwarks.
Many of the ivory inlayings of her bulwarks and cabins were started from their places, by the unnatural dislocation.
By this accident we lost three men overboard with the caboose, and nearly the whole of the larboard bulwarks.
There's a dim half-memory of being lifted up to the gangway, and of a big red countenance covered with freckles and surrounded with red hair staring at me over the bulwarks.
No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil's claws must have left their mouldings there since yesterday, murmured Starbuck to himself, leaning against the bulwarks.
But hardly had the blinding vapor cleared away, when a naked figure with a boarding-sword in its hand, was for one swift moment seen hovering over the bulwarks.
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