Word: battlement
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...aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches...
...endurance and were shrieking their own war whoops. Then it was closing time, and the band went into the "Sunset Ceremony." At the end, the band stopped playing and a spotlight picked out a lone piper-high in the gallery, as if he were perched on a castle battlement-playing a lullabye called Highland Cradle Song. It was enough to dew the eyes of even the un-kilted. The only thing missing from the program was a dirge or two, for Scots are among the world's finest dirgers...
Along the Indian-Chinese frontier, the longest frontier in the world between oppression and a democracy, Communist infiltrators are burrowing into the border states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim-which lie upon India's side of the great Himalayan battlement (see below). From this frontier, where ice-winds howl and lichen creeps around the tall mountains, an Indian Army Mission reported: "Long considered impregnable ... the frontier . . . [is] now looked upon as a possible route of infiltration, if not of invasion...
...color blind. His technical perfectionism was the despair of Meryon himself ("I should have been a tinker"). Combined with his gloomy appreciation of Paris' medieval buildings, it gave his prints the quality of polished mirrors reflecting a magnificently sinister world. "I see an enemy behind each battlement," he once told a friend, "and arms through each loophole...
...artists try to paint what they see, but some look inside themselves for subjects, some look out. Winslow Homer, who died in 1910, was one who looked out. His huntsman's eyes, above the hairy battlement of his mustache, saw the world his contemporaries saw, but saw it more sharply. "When I have selected the thing carefully," he explained, "I paint it exactly as it appears...