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Palisade in sentence

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The field was prepared, then surrounded with a strong palisade, high and pointed, which quadrupeds would have found difficulty in leaping.
It was surrounded by a palisade, and in it were constructed various shelters for the birds which were to populate it.
This meadow was to be surrounded by a palisade, high enough to prevent even the most agile animals from leaping over.
The perimeter of the corral was then traced by the engineer, and they would then have proceeded to fell the trees necessary for the construction of the palisade, but as the opening up of the road had already necessitated the sacrifice of a considerable number, those were brought and supplied a hundred stakes, which were firmly fixed in the ground.
The construction of this corral did not take less than three weeks, for besides the palisade, Cyrus Harding built large sheds, in which the animals could take shelter.
The prisoners had been trying to overthrow the palisade, but of course had not succeeded, and were not long in becoming more tranquil.
At last the palisade appeared through the trees.
And he ran round the left corner of the palisade.
During this time, Gideon Spilett and the sailor hoisted themselves over the palisade, leaped into the enclosure, threw down the props which supported the inner door, ran into the empty house, and soon, poor Herbert was lying on Ayrton's bed.
Gideon Spilett, at the moment he scaled the palisade, had clearly seen some one of the convicts running along the southern spur of Mount Franklin, towards whom Top had sprung.
Nor could they see traces of any struggle, any devastation, either in the hut, or in the palisade.
Once or twice the reporter ventured out into the road and made the tour of the palisade.
Top, at the foot of the palisade, was jumping, barking, but it was with pleasure, not anger.
These words had hardly been exchanged between the engineer and his two companions when a body leaped over the palisade and fell on the ground inside the corral.
Towards five in the evening the cart stopped nearly 600 feet from the palisade.
Five minutes after leaving the cart, Gideon Spilett and Pencroft arrived at the edge of the wood before the clearing beyond which rose the palisade.
This thirty feet, which it was necessary to cross from the wood to the palisade, constituted the dangerous zone, to borrow a ballistic term: in fact, one or more bullets fired from behind the palisade might knock over any one who ventured on to this zone.
The reporter and Pencroft, since posting themselves on the edge of the wood, had not once lost sight of the palisade.
The top of the palisade formed a line, a little darker than the surrounding shadow, and nothing disturbed its distinctness.
Not a sound could be heard inside the palisade.
One thing was certain, that it was possible to reach the palisade without being seen, and also that it did not appear to be guarded.
"We shall soon know," said Pencroft, "when we have scaled the palisade."
The cart emerged from the wood and began to roll noiselessly towards the palisade.
Without hesitating, the little band moved towards the palisade.
Cyrus Harding, Pencroft, and Gideon Spilett on one side, Herbert and Neb on the other, going along by the palisade, surveyed the absolutely dark and deserted corral.
In a moment the reporter and his two companions had crossed the corral and reached the gate of the palisade behind which Top was heard growling sullenly.
From the side of the mountain, the house and a part of the palisade stood out white in the moonlight.
The day after his arrival at the corral, on the 10th of last November, at nightfall, he was surprised by the convicts, who had scaled the palisade.
It appeared prudent to him to heighten the palisade and to flank it with a sort of blockhouse, which, if necessary, the settlers could hold against the enemy.
At ten o'clock a vivid flash showed them the palisade, and as they reached the gate the storm burst forth with tremendous fury.