Pierre covered two and a half acres of ground, but Union was better built-she had twenty-foot palisades a foot square, and she stood two hundred and forty by two hundred and twenty feet, with stone bastions at two corners, pierced for cannon, and a riflemen's banquette clear around inside.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough
The boys were dragging along the banquette a small "express wagon," which they had filled with blocks and sticks.
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories"
Kate Chopin
Edna rang the bell at this side garden gate, and stood upon the banquette, waiting to be admitted.
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories"
Kate Chopin