Word: moat
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...place even had castellated edging around the rim of a flat roof and an obviously home-made, handy-andy porch pretending to be a gate-house; every man's home his castle. Note to monograph; Reminiscent of old Mr. Wemmick in Great Expectations with his miniature castle, moat, and drawbridge. Home-made: There were efforts to make house homes like the initialled screen doors on plain white houses the mill had built not far away...
...that cost, the lavish mansion, offered by the Smoke Rise Co. of New Jersey, is probably the most expensive new house ever put on sale by a developer in the U.S. Fronted by an electrically heated moat guaranteed not to freeze up in winter, the white stucco, three-story villa has 25 rooms, including a temperature-controlled wine cellar for 10,000 bottles, a gymnasium, dance hall, his-and-her saunas, and a master bedroom suite complete with a 10-ft. whirlpool bath...
...Yard. The single stairway is grossly inadequate for this purpose. Stuvvins's final proposal is at best mediocre and is in fact analagous to draining the IAB pool and installing study carrels there. (Who is to say that a student shouldn't plunge into his work anyway?) The moat surrounding the library clearly characterizes the plan as a last-ditch attempt to artificially improve upon an area best preserved in its natural state. Once the library is completed, how many will never see the grassy knoll that rises past Houghton to a stand of lilac trees, soon to be mere...
...name of the game of soccer is a worldwide phenomenon, hardly unique to Israel. Altercations are so common that in Bulgaria, for instance, a judge set up his court on the sidelines to prosecute offenders on the spot, while in Rio de Janeiro one team requested that the moat built round their field be stocked with piranhas. In Israel the Union of Referees has decided on a more practical tactic. Last April, after a record total of 42 referees were injured in 175 riots and fights during the season, the union went on strike. "Soccer fields have become battlefields," Labor...
...city's citadel, Jones asked how to get to the citadel. "Just walk across that field," said the officer, "and someone will show you the way." Jones noted that not only was the field under intense enemy fire but also that his crew would have to swim a moat and scale a wall as well in order to reach the citadel. "You go," the officer told him with a smile. "I'll stay here." Jones and his crew...