The storm was not diminishing at all, but the huge ramparts of redwoods sheltered the pavement from the worst of the deluge.

Its fortifications built with granite stones comprise huge ramparts, magazines, warehouses, granaries and wells.

The air bled diamonds around us, sparkling off the immense spires of rock, the huge lunar ramparts suddenly giving way .

The iceberg loomed: a daunting presence, at least one hundred feet high, disappearing into the darkness to the right and left, a huge rampart more formidable than the fortifications of any castle in the world.

The impregnable citadel is built with huge ramparts overlooking the river and built in tiers.

Several times the ice has come south, grinding and scouring, smoothing the mountains, scooping the valleys on its way until it stood in huge ramparts, dizzy cliffs of glass-green ice, vast slow-crawling glaciers, across half Europe.

Before them and to the right and left rose a vast maze of ragged, splintery peaks and huge ramparts of mountain-walls enclosing plains so far below their summits that the light of neither sun nor earth ever reached them.

The scene here is as one would expect of one of the world's great man made wonders, with huge steep ramparts criss crossing this mountainous area.

At the top of the Rue du Chateau, the busyness of the town ends and the castle's huge ramparts rise up abruptly.

The defences first consisted of huge ramparts built of large boulders, consolidated with earth and clay.