By scores and hundreds and battalions, it seemed to the traders at De Seviere, they poured out of the wilderness, choking the river with their numbers, spilling their contents on the slope under the bastioned walls until a camp was made so vast that it stretched into the forest on each side the clearing of the post and even extended to the marsh at the south.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
She could no more move than the bastioned wall behind her.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe
Parma, although founded by the Boii, and conquered by the Romans 183 B.C., is a neat clean town of modern appearance, surrounded by bastioned walls.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black