Frances Beinecke

The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.

American Activist

Fatema Mernissi

The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

Moroccan Activist

Steve Erickson

Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else.

American Novelist

Pierre Loti

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

French Writer

David Mitchell

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

English Novelist

Sallust

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Roman Historian

Douglas Reed

It looked like a pagan banner planted on a Christian rampart.

British Journalist

Edna St. Vincent Millay

American Author

Ramparts are often found in historical or military contexts, related to old cities or castles.

Historical Context

'Rampart' can symbolize any form of protection or defense, not just physical walls.

Symbol of Defense

The term can be used metaphorically to describe a safeguard in an argument or discussion.

Metaphorical Use

 traveling there and this was way back in 1981 when I was first visiting this place and doing a trek around the annapurna region which is a classic Trek that many people do when they go to Nepal I noticed caves surrounding some of the ramparts of the walls of the Kali

Sky Caves of Nepal, Part...

 Squads of Roman defenders would carry portable flame throwers, spraying anyone trying to climb out of the moat. The terrified victims would leap back, only to find that they still burned underwater. At times, the Romans would also mount siphons onto the ramparts,