We need to build castles of security along trade routes that feature security technology equivalent to the moats, drawbridges, and watch towers of that period. |
Since it's evening now, I bet by the time we get to the drawbridges at the gatehouses, they'll be raised for the day. |
But homes today don't normally feature ramparts, drawbridges, moats and six-foot thick stone walls to keep out unwanted visitors. |
Before it came the scow schooners, wing-and-wing, blowing their horns for the drawbridges to open. |
I asked the students to consider the courtyard space, and stimulated thought about guard houses, archways, entrance ways, lower courtyards, moats and drawbridges. |
Fortified towns with their stockades, guard-houses, gates, trenches, and drawbridges, seemed to the mender of roads, to be so much air as against this figure. |