Use citadel in a sentence
Sentences ending with citadel
- He can make your bed hard or soft at the citadel. [11]
- That would serve with the common soldier, but I knew well it would not with Gabord or with the commandant of the citadel. [11]
- That night he was lodged in the citadel. [11]
- Champagny called upon the citizens to help themselves, and used their labor in throwing up a wall of defence in the open part of the city, which was most dangerously threatened by the citadel. [10]
- He was the soldier whom Gabord had sent as messenger to Voban the night I was first taken to the citadel. [11]
- Then the warriors scattered, the fire was lighted on every hearth, the plan of battle was discussed, some were sent out to reconnoitre, others kept to defend the citadel. [10]
- On the north-west rose the royal citadel. [10]
- It was now quite dark, and their motions, or the motions of the vessels of war, could not be seen from the French encampment or the citadel. [11]
- The indignation gradually quieted down, peace reigned again and the sufferer retired in safety and got him to his own citadel. [5]
- Ephraim had already proposed to go with some of his companions in quest of tidings, when a messenger announced that Hur's men had lost courage at the sight of the well-fortified Egyptian citadel. [10]
Short sentences using citadel
- The citadel was safe. [9]
More example sentences with the word citadel in them
- He was too young to die, but he had gold, and the captain of the citadel needed money. [11]
- In the gloom we passed lazily on with the flow of the tide, unquestioned, soon leaving the citadel behind, and ere long came softly to that point called Anse du Foulon, above which Sillery stood. [11]
- The sedan chair was set down, and it was just at the place where the road at her left, leading to the citadel, climbed the height where rose the proud Trausnitz fortress. [10]
- The sedan chair was now swaying past the place where the "short cut" for pedestrians led up to the Trausnitzburg, the proud citadel of the dukes of Bavarian Landshut. [10]
- At the top was a plateau, smooth and fine as a parade-ground, where battle could be given, or move be made upon the city and citadel, which lay on ground no higher. [11]
- I shall never view again the citadel on those tall heights where I was detained so barbarously, nor the gracious Manor House at Beauport, sacred to me because of her who dwelt therein--how long ago, how long! [11]
- Soon we came upon a row of open graves, cut in the solid rock--(for a while one of them served Socrates for a prison)--we passed around the shoulder of the hill, and the citadel, in all its ruined magnificence, burst upon us! [5]
- Then I stole up to my room, put on my brother's uniform, and came down to meet Voban near the citadel, as we had arranged. [11]
- In the one tower of the citadel there were prisons of tolerably pleasant aspect, but she had heard whispers of terrible subterranean dungeons connected with the secret tribunal. [10]
- He had been told off to be my especial guard, his services at the citadel having been deemed so efficient. [11]
- The fewer outworks to the citadel of belief, the fewer points there are to be threatened and endangered. [6]
- As soon as this citadel was completed, preparations for the impending battle were made. [10]
- Gabord explained that this chaplain had been in the citadel for some weeks; that he had often inquired about me; that he had been brought from the Ohio; and had known of me, having tended the lieutenant of my Virginian infantry in his last hours. [11]
- He and Doltaire then moved on to the doors of the citadel, and, pausing there, Doltaire turned round and made a motion of his hand to Gabord. [11]
- The Emperor received them at the gate of the citadel, where he was keeping watch ere he mounted his steed. [10]
- Away off, across the undulating Plain of Attica, could be seen a little square-topped hill with a something on it, which our glasses soon discovered to be the ruined edifices of the citadel of the Athenians, and most prominent among them loomed the venerable Parthenon. [5]
- We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. [5]
- The ascent of the hill of the citadel is very steep, and we proceeded rather slowly. [5]
- These buildings formed the citadel, round the threefold walls of which, many centuries before, King Meles had carried a lion in order to render them impregnable. [10]
- The cannonade from the citadel stopped the citizens' work. [10]
- I tell you, that if, instead of raw Boston sailors, ploughmen and merchant captains, and fishing craft and trading vessels, I had three English war-ships and one thousand men, I would level your town from the citadel to the altar of St. Joseph's. [11]
- A warrior had succeeded in penetrating the hostile citadel untouched and setting his foot on the hearth! [10]
- It was a strong will and a subtle intellect that had arrayed their force and skill against the ill-defended citadel of Myrtle's heart. [6]
- It has a strong citadel, from which we command you to maintain the peace of the country and overthrow robber knights. [10]
- Their brazen voices stirred my soul and heart, and presently the cannon in the citadel and on the wails rattled out a thundering welcome to the Emperor, rending the summer air. [10]
- For the present, some of the most distinguished officers were here in the citadel as guests of the Duke of Bavaria. [10]
- But I was sick of doing nothing, thinking with horror on a long winter in the citadel, and I caught at the least straw of freedom. [11]
- It is the Senate which, in this somewhat inaccurate repetition of history, hold the citadel if not the bridge; and in spite of the howling mob below their windows, scornfully refuse even to discuss the Pingsquit bill. [9]
- One wanted to rush to the citadel, another to the town-hall and, in the excitement of the moment, no sensible reflection was made. [10]
- Now, in a room of the citadel which looked out on the darkness of the river and the deeper gloom of the Levis shore, they sat and talked, a single candle burning, their weapons laid on the table between them. [11]
- A French officer, returning from the advanced detachment, rode up to Murat and reported that the gates of the citadel had been barricaded and that there was probably an ambuscade there. [2]
- Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
- After years of play and work,--play in France and stout work in the Spaniards' country,--he was shipped away to 'Those battle heights, Quebec heights, our own heights, The citadel our golden lily bears, And Frontenac--' But I babble again. [11]
- The Governor, whose petty vanity was roused, showed a foolish fury at seeing me, and straightway ordered me to the citadel again. [11]
- We left the Parthenon to keep its watch over old Athens, as it had kept it for twenty-three hundred years, and went and stood outside the walls of the citadel. [5]
- France first, then our dogs will take a snap at the flag on the citadel yonder. [11]
- The mist parted on a sudden as at the signal of a magician, and before us lay the city with its walls, and towers, and shining roofs, over-topped by the noble citadel. [10]
- Then the blare of trumpets echoed, and a few minutes later from the Turnitz and the covered staircase between the main building and the right win; of the citadel the most brilliant body of men that Barbara had ever seen poured into the courtyard. [10]
- A vast number of the populace ascended the citadel hill early in the morning, to get out of the way of the general destruction, and many of the infatuated closed up their shops and retired from all earthly business. [5]
- This highest part of the house afforded a beautiful prospect; the view was almost as extensive as the one from the top of the citadel, the old Roman tower situated in the midst of Leyden. [10]
- About the middle of the Arbat Street, near the Church of the Miraculous Icon of St. Nicholas, Murat halted to await news from the advanced detachment as to the condition in which they had found the citadel, le Kremlin. [2]
- The whole body of pupils was divided into three, afterwards into four sections, each of which had its own citadel. [10]
- At the door of his house stood the American whom he had met at the citadel yesterday-it seemed a hundred years ago. [11]
- Then I fixed my eyes steadily on the open door and the shaking light, and presently it all came to me: the events of the night, and that I was now in a cell of the citadel. [11]
- On the first morning of the sixth month cannon thundered from the citadel of the capital. [10]
- Then M'sieu' Doltaire lean over to him and say, 'M'sieu', you will carry for me a message to the citadel for M'sieu' Ramesay, the commandant. [11]
- A large space leading from the city itself to the royal citadel was given up to the soldiers, and there, by the side of the shady court-yards, were the houses of the police-guard and the prisons. [10]
- At his feet lay the great mosque, and the citadel, whose guns controlled the city, could pour into it a lava stream of shot and shell. [11]
- They were the Knights of the Golden Fleece and the princes, counts, barons and knights, generals and colonels whom the Emperor Charles had invited to the Trausnitz citadel to attend the approaching solemn ceremonial. [10]
- This had startled Katterle, and attracted her to the citadel to aid her countrywoman and her little daughter. [10]
- I don't know, I've been so long out of the world-- 'Bruised hearts when all is ended, Bear the better all after-stings; Broken once, the citadel mended Standeth through all things. [11]
- Cannot one see it all from the citadel hill, and by walking down by the horticultural garden and the Roman Catholic cemetery? [4]
- I was led into the yard of the citadel, where was drawn up a company of soldiers. [11]
- Were my husband in the citadel now I should be admitted. [11]
- And if Wolff, in his biding-place in the citadel, should learn what was said of his Els, to whom yesterday old and young raised their hats in glad yet respectful greeting, would he not believe those who appealed to his own father? [10]
- A moment later he was riding towards the Citadel with Harrik's message to Achmet. [11]
- The next morning he negotiated cleverly and boldly with the commandant of the Spanish forces in the citadel. [10]
- The imperial commander had not gone up to the citadel because he wished to remain among his troops. [10]
- When the Cure had gone, he flung back his shoulders, with a laugh, as he had seen the major-general do at the officers' mess at the citadel, and said in English: "Heretics are damn' funny. [11]
- The sedan chair had already passed through half a dozen citadel gates and left one solid wall behind it, but now a second rose, with a lofty door set in its strong masonry. [10]
- Count Oberstein, the German commander of the lansquenets, who while intoxicated had pledged himself to make common cause with the mutineers in the citadel, remembered his duty and remained faithful to the end. [10]
- Every other exit from this second court of the citadel led into the strictly guarded gardens and buildings of the palace itself. [10]
- Great guns boomed from the Citadel, as the gorgeous procession, forming itself beneath the Mokattam Hills, began its slow march to where, seated in the shade of an ornate pavilion, Prince Kaid awaited its approach to pay devout homage. [11]
- She felt freed from her former wavering and hesitation, and as formerly in the modest house of the Beguines, now in the stately citadel she realised that, in sorrow and severe trial, she had learned to assert her position in life by her own strength. [10]
- Have you entirely forgotten the fights under the citadel? [10]
- Then he started for Quebec, and arriving there with Perrot and Du Lhut, went to the citadel at night and asked to be admitted to Count Frontenac. [11]
- I saw our flag replace the golden lilies of France on the citadel where Doltaire had baited me, and at the top of Mountain Street, near to the bishop's palace, our colours also flew. [11]
- Five hundred will find their way into the citadel, with the priests and other visitors to congratulate you on your birthday, the other two thousand will remain concealed in the tents. [10]
- He and the faithful sister vanished from New York and appeared in Quebec, where they were made welcome in Government House, at the citadel, and among all who cared to know the weight of an inherited title. [11]
- It began to express itself about the time I was thrown into the citadel dungeon, and I knew from what Alixe had told me, and from the gossip of the soldiers, that there was a more open show of disagreement now. [11]
- They both had ends to serve in working ill to me, and neither was content that I should be shut away in the citadel, and no more. [11]
- Hours grew to days, days to weeks, and not until Roda's messenger appeared from the citadel in Antwerp to summon him to action, did he revive and regain his old vivacity. [10]
- I attended Manchon constantly straight along, out of January and into February, and was often in the citadel with him--in the very fortress where Joan was imprisoned, though not in the dungeon where she was confined, and so did not see her, of course. [5]
- His intention of communicating with the commandant of the citadel remained unexecuted; for he thought of nothing but his father's anger, of Ruth, his own shame and misery. [10]
- Once since my coming to the chateau I had been visited by the English chaplain who had been a prisoner at the citadel the year before. [11]
- I took his coat and wig and cap, a poor disguise, and came straight to the citadel, handing the order to the soldiers at the gate. [11]
- But inside the citadel he changed at once, and, taking from my head this cap and wig, he said quite gently, yet I could see he was angry, too, 'This is a mad doing, young lady. [11]
- I felt a chill at my heart when the citadel loomed up again out of the November shadow, and I half paused as I entered the gates. [11]
- By the St. Charles River and the Palace Gate, and by the St. Louis Gate, not far from the citadel, were the only ways, and both were difficult. [11]
- When it yields--you can hold it," were his last words; but the citadel remained impregnable, though the besieger could bring into the field as allies a knightly, aristocratic bearing, an unsullied character, a handsome, manly figure, winning manners, and great wealth. [10]
- Then the blood came up into her cheeks with a great rush, as if the heart had sent up a herald with a red flag from the citadel to know what was going on at the outworks. [6]
- From the citadel came the boom of the evening gun. [11]
- Yet with surly brow and a rough accent he gave the word to go forward, and in a moment we were marching through the passages, up frosty steps, in the stone corridors, and on out of the citadel into the yard. [11]
- As the sunset-gun boomed from the citadel, lids had been snatched off millions of cooking- pots throughout the land, and fingers had been thrust into the meat and rice of the evening feast, and their owner had gulped down a bowl of water. [11]
- The citadel has better butchers than barbers. [11]
- The guns to be trained on the Citadel, the Palace surrounded. [11]
- Perhaps he might be able to procure a staff, but there was just as much bustle outside the gate of the citadel as by day. [10]
- The soldier Gabord, at the citadel, he hath a good heart. [11]
- When we arrived at the citadel next morning, we found that a change had been made. [5]
- The victor vanquished, at her feet he fell, A prisoner in his conquered citadel. [11]
- I rode along at a trot, and once again beyond the citadel was summoned by a sentinel. [11]
- At last I asked Gabord if no word had come to the citadel for me; and he said, none at all, nothing save a message from the Governor, before midnight, ordering certain matters. [11]
- Georgette is now as old as when I first came to love you, and you were thrown into the citadel, and yet in feeling and experience, I am ten years older than she; and necessity has made me wiser. [11]
- The garrison of Antwerp rose and began to make common cause with the friends of the mutineers in the citadel. [10]
- We sauntered carelessly and unthinkingly to the edge of the lofty battlements of the citadel, and looked down--a vision! [5]
- The cavaliers, officers, and pages who attended him entered the citadel in no regular order. [10]
- I had stormed and gained entrance to the citadel itself. [9]
- He soon reached Amru's house and was there informed by an Egyptian secretary that his master was gone out hunting and would receive him, not in the town, but at the citadel. [10]
- We came quickly along the river brink, and, skirting the citadel, got clear of it without discovery, though we could see soldiers hurrying past, roused by the firing at the chateau. [11]
- One patriotic song after another was sung, and at last each Bergwacht withdrew to its citadel and lay down on the moss to sleep under the sheltering roof. [10]
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