At sunrise Silas Zane, bare-chested, his face dark and fierce, strode into the bastion which was connected with the blockhouse. It was a small shedlike room, and with portholes opening to the river and the forest. This bastion had seen the severest fighting. Five men had been killed here. As Silas entered four haggard and powder-begrimed men, who were kneeling before the portholes, looked up at him. A dead man lay in one corner. "Smith's dead. That makes fifteen," said Silas.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
They were seen to fall in numbers, shot down from the embrasures. But the living took the place of the dead: and the fight ranged evenly there. Where are the colors? Towards the rear there. The colonel and a hundred men are fighting hand to hand with the Prussians, who have charged out at the back doors of the bastion. Success there, and the bastion must fall--both sides know this. The colors disappeared. There was a groan from the French lines.英文原著 · 《White Lies》
Probably the writer refers either to bastions or towers, or to strongly fortified places of refuge on the hilltops. The passage is obscure. [412] -- Four words, TEMDES HUA PORTA PRIMCIPAL, have been accidentally omitted in the printed copy. [413] -- TERREIRO. The gateway here spoken of is most probably the great entrance to the palace enclosure, just to the north of the village of Kamalapur. [414] -- The writer forgot to fulfil this promise. [415] -- POR QUE SAO COMO AS COMFRARYAS que NAS NOSSAS PARTES HAA. [416] -- A MUYTOS NATURAES DA TERRA.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
"Fifteen out of forty-two, that leaves twenty-seven. We must hold out. Len, don't expose yourselves recklessly. How goes it at the south bastion?"
"All right. There's been firin' over there all night," answered one of the men. "I guess it's been kinder warm over that way. But I ain't heard any shootin' for some time."
"Young Bennet is over there, and if the men needed any thing they would send him for it," answered Silas. "I'll send some food and water.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
Anything else?"
"Powder. We're nigh out of powder," replied the man addressed. "And we might jes as well make ready fer a high old time. The red devils hadn't been quiet all this last hour fer nothin'."
Silas passed along the narrow hallway which led from the bastion into the main room of the block-house. As he turned the corner at the head of the stairway he encountered a boy who was dragging himself up the steps. "Hello! Who's this? Why, Harry!" exclaimed Silas, grasping the boy and drawing him into the room.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
To make the body and the spirit one With all right things, till no thing live in vain From morn to noon, but in sweet unison With every pulse of flesh and throb of brain The soul in flawless essence high enthroned, Against all outer vain attack invincibly bastioned,英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》