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The parapet on top was some 3 ft.
"Clear that away!" was all that was said of them, and they were thrown over the parapet and removed later on that they might not stink.
On a parapet at the rear of each chamber a single slender Ionic column between two antae supported an Ionic entablature.
On the lath of December, when the Swedish approaches had come within 280 paces of the fortress of Fredriksten, which the Swedes were closely besieging, Charles looked over the parapet of the foremost trench, and was shot through the head by a bullet from the fortress.
Most of it was made, by bursting the rock by means of wooden wedges, through the solid granite, and its outside parapet was supported by walls of brick resting on ledges far below.