At last where Hudson, with majestic pace, Swells at the sight, and checks his rapid race, Thro dark Stillwater slow and silent moves, And flying troops with sullen pause reproves, A few firm bands their starry standard rear, Wheel, front and face the desolating war.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

Wide walls of stone, on which three men could walk abreast, had in some places risen a few feet above the outer level, their bases sunk ten feet, perhaps, below the deep cellar bottom, and the trenches for founding the partition-walls were being dug in the same manner.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Some paddy (rice) and five fanams are given to the family from the temple funds towards the expenses of the ceremony.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It was a small plateau, raised a few feet above the plain around, and by connecting the different buildings by walls, which could be mounted with batteries 227 and loopholed for musketry, the whole could be constructed into a kind of fortress.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field