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bulwark
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synonyms: rampart ???
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Definition:1. (Fort.) Defn: A rampart; a fortification; a bastion or outwork.2. That which secures against an enemy, or defends from attack; any means of defense or protection.3. pl. (Naut.) Defn: The sides of a ship above the upper deck.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“Save from calamity Thy servants, O Mother of God,” and the priest and deacon chimed in: “For to Thee under God we all flee as to an inviolable bulwark and protection,”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity. That these were the ornament and bulwark of the kingdom, worthy followers of their most renowned ancestors, whose honour had been the reward of their virtue,
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)
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It is Euphues that lately arrived here at Naples, that hath battered the bulwark of my breast, and shall shortly enter as conqueror into my bosom.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets—him I could always recognize—while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap—the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stride-legs upon the palisade.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,—out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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