The edifice was ringed by a narrow, black moat and the obscurity in which most of the rebuilt castle was wrapped only sharpened the impression of Gothic romance.

New residences used a buke-zukuri style that was associated with buildings surrounded by narrow moats or stockades.

That is a very pleasant smell," Temeraire said, approvingly, as they crossed a small bridge into another district, surrounded by a narrow moat of water and a low stone wall.

Now he understood why each beetle-house was surrounded by a narrow moat; it prevented the flame from spreading sideways, and therefore increased its intensity.

The armed Huey made its first pass over the camp, a cluster of brown thatched huts surrounded by a mud wall, narrow moat, and several distinct barbed wire barriers.

The narrow moat was little more than a muddy ditch now; without the dam to divert the creek, it would never keep water.

To either side ran narrow moats of algae-coated water.

Outside the outer moat, a third narrower moat covers the northwest and northeast.

Vast as the Pacific was around us, suddenly, between us, it seemed a very narrow moat, with no bars or walls.

Late in the afternoon, topping a low ridge, Duncan Standish sighted the manor, a rude set of buildings fortified by palisades and a narrow moat.