Pronunciation of the English word battlements.
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1. | Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain. | |
2. | I look around for comrades; none are near. / Some o'er the battlements leapt headlong, some / sank fainting in the flames; the final hour was come. | |
3. | Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath. |