Usage examples for palisade
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In general these trading- houses are constructed thus, one close to the other, and surrounded with a common palisade, with a door of communication in the interior for mutual succor, in case of attack on the part of the Indians. – Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific by Gabriel Franchere
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The huge kraal was very near now, the palisade lined with the faces of eager spectators. – The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
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They bound Lord Herman fast as hate, And bore him o'er to Staten Isle; Behind him closed the postern gate, And round him pitiless as fate, Closed moat and palisade and pile: " Thou diest at morn," they smile. – Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend