battlement-wise

Updated: July 9, 2026

The pyramid itself was twenty years in building. It is a square, eight hundred feet each way, and the height the game, built entirely of polished stone, fitted together with the utmost care. The stones of which it is composed are none of them less than thirty feet in length. The pyramid was built in steps, battlement-wise, as it is called, or, according to others, altar-wise.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece