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Sentence Examples When the savages began to encircle the livestock, the herdsmen attempted to drive the cattle into the stockade. Ahead of him, he could barely make out the camp and its wooden stockade around its borders, swaying in the wind as it was pelted with rain. The stockade performed so many favours for the town and outlying farms that it was quite okay by the townsfolk. Hurrying across the paved stone road, they came up to the gate of the wooden stockade wall. Villages of 300 to 600 people were protected by a triple-walled stockade of wooden stakes 15 to 20 feet tall. The farmstead had storage pits, drying frames and granaries, and was surrounded by a stockade. It is holding 360 captured fighters in Kandahar in an unsheltered stockade, exposed to the bitter winter cold. The smell of sulfurous marsh gas drifted over the stockade to mix with the smell of disease and spoiling food. Having succeeded in this attempt, we made sail for the stockade of the other chief, and arrived there that evening. The goldfields rebellion did not last very long and government forces quickly overran the Eureka stockade. They have also found evidence of Spanish jacales, room blocks in an octagonal pattern within the stockade wall. They encircle their village with a stockade and a confusing maze of approaches, most of them lethally booby-trapped. A British stockade stood at the border of the two neighborhoods, patrols leaving at regular intervals despite a recently declared cease-fire. The only break in the stockade is a narrow passageway that zigzags up the middle. The raid by guards on the stockade set up by diggers in the Victorian goldfields only lasted an hour. He spent just three days in a military stockade before President Nixon ordered his release. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Rhode Island underground. Rather than giving up on him and discharging him from the Army, he is released from the stockade to return for training. The stockade was designed to hold 10,000 prisoners and the first Union soldiers to arrive were housed and fed decently. The expedition constructed winter quarters, consisting of an enclosed stockade and barracks. Show More Sentences These men promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the Southport Underground. Corporal punishment and physical hazing of American soldiers was still permitted, including use of the stockade. At this writing, he's still locked up, indefinitely and without charges, in some military stockade. One of the few remaining structures from the camp was the concrete stockade, a jail within an internment camp. The guards erected a line of fence in front of the stockade, and shot to kill any prisoner who crossed the line. Jacques Cartier welcomes you near the Grande Hermine surrounded by a wooden stockade. A small group built a stockade at the Eureka diggings and flew their rebel flag with the Southern Cross on it. After the war, Dachau was used by American forces as a military stockade, then as a refugee camp for Germans expelled from the Sudetenland. His great-great-uncle, a university professor, heard of trouble at the local stockade, he explains. They have been manning the stockade and demonstrating against the rise in gas prices for quite some time now. The light spread by a torch gets through a window or a door but not a wall or a stockade. The habitants risked lethal ambush every time they strayed from the wooden stockade which enclosed their houses. Archaeological digs have uncovered the remains of a stockade around an old fortified village. Description: These towns nearly always featured long bark covered houses encircled by a log stockade wall for protection. The painted stylized stockade, believed to represent the boundaries of ancestral lands, for instance, is often found on Nipmuc and Mohegan baskets. The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding. Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade. A new stockade built in 1717 of wooden stakes quickly fell to ruin. The typical Slav village was surrounded by a wooden stockade. He spent four years in hard labour in a stockade, wearing fetters. Show More Sentences The stockade which they were encamped in was a wonderful place. Replicas of sections of the original stockade and the north gate stand as reminders of a prison facility that was a deadly home to thousands of Union soldiers. This circumvallation had begun modestly enough as a yard-high rampart with stockade and ditch, but successive developments raised it to well over 30 feet. The Mandans maintained the stockade around Mitutanka Village when threats were present. He had met her a month earlier just after she had been interned at the Choisel camp and kept in touch with her through a wooden stockade surmounted by a fence that separated the boys' and girls' sections. In 1659 Kurbat Ivanov took over, build a proper stockade and made major improvements in administration. It was said to have consisted of little more than a stockade of bamboo and mud. He spent two months locked up without trial, and while in the stockade received a telegram announcing his son's birth. Saint Croix Island, named by Pierre Dugua de Mons, was the first European settlement in North America, with houses, storehouses, a chapel and a fortified stockade. A bretagium, a type of stockade, was created around the site to protect it while the permanent defences were under construction. The word stockade also refers to a military prison in an army camp, and in some cases, even a crude prison camp or a slave camp. Builders could also place stones or thick mud layers at the foot of the stockade, improving the resistance of the wall. Sometimes they would add additional defence by placing sharpened sticks in a shallow secondary trench outside the stockade. Houses were arranged around the edge of the stockade and within the centre of the village there would be either a grove of trees or a large thatched structure called a moro, places for meetings of the council of elders. A stockade is an enclosure of palisades and tall walls made of logs placed side by side vertically with the tops sharpened to provide security. A charge of 200 pounds of gunpowder, in bags merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded. Using a small bicycle cart, now tucked securely between the hut and its flimsy stockade of thorn-branches, he fetches the carcasses, skins them and leaves what remains for the dogs. Nowadays, stockade walls are often used as garden fencing, made of finished planks more useful for privacy fencing and more decoration than security. In these cases, the stockade keeps people inside, rather than out. Many of these outposts were simply a trading post, with a stockade and possibly blockhouses added, or a combination of a trading post and an Army post. Show More Sentences From that the defenders could, if they had the materials, raise a stone or brick wall inside the stockade, creating a more permanent defence while working protected. The troops or settlers would build a stockade by clearing a space of woodland and using the trees whole or chopped in half, with one end sharpened on each. Examples from Classical Literature For one thing every man had carried boulders to the great stockade surrounding the magnetograph House. On the right ran the wall of the stockade, impenetrable and unscalable, and it was a long two miles to the north gate. This village had half a mile of ooze and sludgy marsh in front of it, and a stockade as usual. They saw that the brush had been cut from the ground outside the stockade, as if for battle. A large number of the Abeokuta warriors also lined the walls, while the rest gathered on the stockade. Over the stockade and the Rajah's buildings Brown saw their lights on the water. That relation of his, Si-Lapa by name, was then with Doramin in the stockade only a few feet away. And, indeed, if they had been short he would have been too anxious to send food into the stockade had he been able. They passed out by the big gate and caught sight of the brown dwarf on the parapet of the stockade. When she saw that, of the canvas row below the stockade not a tent remained, and the campground lay deserted. The medicine lodge of the Indians stood just within the sliding-panel of the stockade. And now, through its lifting folds, rises in dark loom the jagged silhouette of the mopani stockade. That night the white people left the stockade in a cortege of torch bearers. Let no more of the salvages into the stockade until we have settled with these. Hunter was shot in the femoral artery, when within nine or ten yards of the stockade. But, pouf, there is little they can do against that stockade of logs for all their numbers. It consisted of cabins of roughhewn logs surrounded by a stockade. I heard that Wambe had a stockade round his kraal made of elephant tusks. I was the chief of a stockade at the mouth of the river, and collected tolls for my brother from the passing boats. The first evening they talked of the wonder of the ivory stockade. Show More Sentences Suddenly, with a loud huzza, a little cloud of pirates leaped from the woods on the north side and ran straight on the stockade. He had been sent from the stockade to beg for stores at Biloxi. This done, it was thought prudent to dismantle and evacuate the stockade. He said the men were rebuilding the stockade and getting in the harvest. We then made a lodgment on the side of the mount near the stockade. With this they were to surmount the stockade and gain the open. His presentment at the arched loophole in his stockade was formidable. Ningrat was spirited away by Tengga's men into their master's stockade. A double stockade, or palisade, composed of pointed beams, which the adjacent forest supplied, defended the outer and inner bank of the trench. If the mutineers succeeded in crossing the stockade, he argued, they would take possession of any unprotected loophole and shoot us down like rats in our own stronghold. There was an entrance from the west through the outer stockade, which communicated by a drawbridge, with a similar opening in the interior defences. Then I skirted among the woods until I had regained the rear, or shoreward side, of the stockade, and was soon warmly welcomed by the faithful party. Part of the property of the city of Telephonia consists of ten million poles, as many as would make a fence from New York to California, or put a stockade around Texas. Find more words! 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