Use castles in a sentence
Sentences starting with castles
- Castles in the air, do you say? [10]
Sentences ending with castles
- My mistress began to make her preparations, and Susanna was a witness of her consultation with the marquis about whether she would keep or sell the Holland estates and castles. [10]
- Patiently awaiting a more fitting season, he therefore contented himself with questioning him carelessly about the foe and his castles. [10]
- It was like a long, smooth, narrow street, with a gradual descending grade, and shut in by enormous perpendicular walls of coarse conglomerate, four hundred feet high in many places, and turreted like mediaeval castles. [5]
More example sentences with the word castles in them
- The castles here, with the gingerbread work on the gables, are the guildhalls. [10]
- Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castles of song and story, with its towers, turreted walls, and ivy-mantled porches. [5]
- Well, as I was saying about the parlor, there was beautiful curtains on the windows: white, with pictures painted on them of castles with vines all down the walls, and cattle coming down to drink. [5]
- It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
- I don't quite understand Mr. Ruskin's saying (if he said it) that he couldn't get along in a country where there were no castles, but I do think we lose a great deal in living where there are so few permanent homes. [6]
- They made themselves thick-walled castles, with slits in the masonry for windows, for defense, and magnificent banquet-halls for pleasure; the stone rooms into which they crawled for the night were often little better than dog-kennels. [4]
- When she reached the scene of festivity it was already thronged with richly attired princes and counts, knights and ladies, citizens of Ratisbon, as well as nobles and distinguished townspeople from the neighbouring castles, citadels, and cities. [10]
- I cannot get the plaids and tartans and Jacobins and castles and what-not out of my head. [4]
- I could not sleep, my fancy so rioted through its castles in the air. [5]
- So he went on building castles in the air, which melted and were renewed day after day, like the transient but unfailing splendor of the sunset. [4]
- Window shades, of oil stuff, with milk-maids and ruined castles stenciled on them in fierce colors. [5]
- After this streak of luck, he roamed about France, viewing the castles and strongholds, and at length embarked at Marseilles on a ship for Italy. [4]
- Baton Rouge has no patent on imitation castles, however, and no monopoly of them. [5]
- My master, however, need have no fear of creditors; for though you may not yet know it, Sir Knight, there are generous noblemen in Nuremberg during the Reichstag who throw away castles and lands in his favour at the gaming table. [10]
- It was a merry ride, for on the way they met numerous travellers, who were going through the hamlet of Rappolts to the "three castles on the mountain" and saluted the old nobleman with lively songs. [10]
- But it must make a difference what the imagination has to work upon, and I do not at all wonder that Mr. Ruskin would not wish to live in a land where there are no old ruins of castles and monasteries. [6]
- Old bachelor Gridley lets them come up into his room, and builds forts and castles for them with his big books! [6]
- The magistrate had learned that the Siebenburg brothers, with the robber knights who had joined them, were obstinately defending their castles and making it difficult for Heinz Schorlin to perform his task. [10]
- Instead of breaking ladies' hearts, he is destroying the castles of robber knights and disturbers of the peace of the country. [10]
- By such tokens it will be seen that Isaac D. Worthington is destined to become great, though the greatness will be akin to that possessed by those gentlemen who in past ages had built castles across the highway between Venice and the North Sea. [9]
- Believe me, there is no resemblance; nor would there be if the Hudson were lined with castles, and Julius Caesar had crossed it every half mile. [4]
- There was interest in this beetling border, too, for it was honey-combed with quaint caves and arches and tunnels, and had a rude semblance of the dilapidated architecture of ruined keeps and castles rising out of the restless sea. [5]
- Few of us hold any castles, I think, in these days, except those _chateaux en Espagne_, of which I doubt not, many of us are lords and masters. [6]
- A Jamaica castle has none of the marks of antiquity, chivalry, and distinction which castles that you and I know in the old land possess. [11]
- His oil-cloth window-curtains had noble pictures on them of castles such as had never been seen anywhere in the world but on window-curtains. [5]
- I said I had been having a general jail-delivery at Camelot and among neighboring castles, and with her permission I would like to examine her collection, her bric-a-brac--that is to say, her prisoners. [5]
- Now for the first time robber-knights were sentenced and their castles destroyed. [10]
- There were ruined castles on the overhanging cliffs and crags all the way; these were said to have their legends, like those on the Rhine, and what was better still, they had never been in print. [5]
- Plump down into castles as full of little milk-white princesses as a nest is of young sparrows. [6]
- We could build castles and cathedrals with our blocks, and cooking was a pleasure, too, when our sisters allowed us to act as scullions and waiters in white aprons and caps. [10]
- She would sit by the hour in the swing Uncle Tom had hung for her under the maple near the lattice, while castles rose on distant heights against blue skies. [9]
- She could look back dreamily on the past, and build castles in the air in a blue-skyed future-this was easy enough; but she did not find it easy to reflect with due deliberation, and to think in earnest. [10]
- Matthew was far away among the mountains and castles of Spain. [9]
- And how slender, and delicate, and white her hands were--those hands for which her mother had often scolded her when, after building castles of sand, she had sat down to table unwashed. [10]
- We passed through a range of wild, picturesque hills, steep, wooded, cone-shaped, with rugged crags projecting here and there, and with dwellings and ruinous castles perched away up toward the drifting clouds. [5]
- You must be a little indulgent with parents, Cynthia," he added with a little smile, "we have our castles in the air, too. [9]
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