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How to use donjon in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word donjon? Here are some examples.

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The donjon was located on the podium of the former Roman temple of Claudius, also the site of a Late Saxon villa regalis.
Indeed, it was his anxiety to survey the scene while laying siege to the donjon at Challus-Chabrol that brought his premature death.
At Chepstow too, Roman tile and brick was deliberately re-used, here to form a conspicuous string course on the exterior of the Norman donjon.
As they progressed through the city toward the donjon in the centre of the city, he realised something that he mentally smacked himself for missing.
The larger towers provided space for habitation to make up for the loss of the donjon.
This could be the most ancient part of the complex, composed of keep or donjon equipped with a foregate that must have been served by a drawbridge.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then Richard was captured and cast into a donjon to await the Duke's pleasure.
In the middle of the court is the donjon, which contains the archives and the treasure.
I've even hired spiritualists to come and cut their didoes in the towers and donjon keep.
The gaolers obeyed, and soon the merchant and isoline disappeared with them in the depths of the subterranean donjon.
Most of the provisions had been in a storehouse outside the donjon.
The donjon and the encircling wall have been skillfully restored.
Within the donjon is the remains of the well, fifty feet deep.
The donjon still exists, serving now as a soldiers barracks.
The hieroglyph deserts the cathedral, and betakes itself to blazoning the donjon keep, in order to lend prestige to feudalism.
But the story of the crab made a great noise through the interior of the donjon and even outside.
We reached the chateau, and, as we approached it, saw four gendarmes pacing in front of a little door in the ground floor of the donjon.
Once more shall its donjon overlook from its height the two valleys.
At the same moment they heard a cry from the top of the donjon.
I went to the donjon in search of my ladder, and in the lower part of the donjon which serves me and the gardener for a lumber room, I found the door open and the ladder gone.
A mass of inharmonious structures, it is dominated by a donjon.
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