Drawbridge
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Two halberdiers, clad in black, guarded the
drawbridge
, and others, in the same sad livery, glided to and fro upon the walls with a funereal pace, resembling spectres more than soldiers.
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But fear can drive people to pull up the
drawbridge.
As such, any politically motivated “raising of the drawbridge” would affect all international finance, not just the UK.
At the door were standing two young women, girls of the district as they call them, on their way to Seville with some carriers who had chanced to halt that night at the inn; and as, happen what might to our adventurer, everything he saw or imaged seemed to him to be and to happen after the fashion of what he read of, the moment he saw the inn he pictured it to himself as a castle with its four turrets and pinnacles of shining silver, not forgetting the
drawbridge
and moat and all the belongings usually ascribed to castles of the sort.
They dismounted at a hostelry which Don Quixote recognised as such and did not take to be a castle with moat, turrets, portcullis, and drawbridge; for ever since he had been vanquished he talked more rationally about everything, as will be shown presently.
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