A chemin de ronde (French, "round path"' or "patrol path"; French pronunciation: [ʃəmɛ̃ də ʁɔ̃d]), also called an allure, alure or, more prosaically, a wall-walk, is a raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement.In early fortifications, high castle walls were difficult to defend from the ground.
Veja mais 1 Archers and footmen guarded the wall - walk , one every three feet or so.
2 Raj Ahten's flameweavers ran to the wall - walk above the city gates.
3 Young men, torchbearers, were racing along the wall - walk , bringing light to anyone who wanted it.
4 Atop the wall - walk , there had been a massacre.
5 He succumbed atop the wall - walk , felt it swaying.
6 As Fallion raced out the tower door, along a wall - walk , he grabbed a torch from a sconce.
7 Blood pooled hot upon the wall - walk .
8 There was a young man standing on the short length of the wall - walk that led to the Garden Tower.
9 We walked for a time in silence until we eventually left the corridor and stepped out onto a wall - walk between towers.
10 A reaver raced along the wall - walk , and having seen the damage that its weight alone could cause, it bounded atop the tower.
11 Alone, in the dark, Myrrima climbed a tower up onto the wall - walk above the Duke's Keep and stared out over the plains.
12 In a daze, he crawled backward against the stone of the wall - walk , tried to clear out of the path of other castle defenders.
13 Indeed, men crowded the wall - walks and were stuffed in every tower like meat in sausage skins.
14 All along the wall - walks , men around him huddled, wiping their faces, squinting to pierce the darkness.
15 The mage's spells had so wrung the sweat from them that many had fallen to the wall - walks .
16 "Bah!" I stalked off the wall - walk and back into the palace.
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