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Updated: May 3, 2025
I wasn't looking for an adventure; I didn't want any adventure; I wanted nothing in the world but a meal and a bed. But for the chill of the night air the breath of the mountain is cold at night I should have been perfectly willing to sleep in the open. Down drawbridge, up portcullis! I boldly climbed the steps and groped around for the knocker.
She roamed on till she came to the open seashore; a pretty little harbour surrounded with quaint-looking houses; two or three white villas in fertile gardens, on a raised road; and, dominating all the scene, a fine old feudal castle, with keep, battlements, drawbridge, portcullis, and all that becomes a fortress.
They were placed in two apartments, divided by a portcullis. The male soon found out that this was fastened only by a perpendicular bolt, which he soon raised, and then rushed into the other room. The joy of the two at meeting can scarcely be described: their cries of joy shook the whole building, and they blew air from their trunks resembling the blasts from smiths' bellows.
A moat filled with wild shrubs and brambles surrounded the place; the drawbridge had been replaced by a stone arch, and the portcullis by an iron gate. I stood for a long time on the hither side of the moat, gazing about me, and letting the influence of the place sink in.
Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair. Laban Tall's lips were thin, and his face were rigid. Matthew's jaws sank, and his eyes turned whichever way the strongest muscle happened to pull them.
I am proud of my battlements and of the circular uncovered sewer which girds me round. I am proud of my portcullis and donjon and keep. There is but one thing wanting to round off the mediævalism of my abode, and to render it symmetrically and completely antique. Goresthorpe Grange is not provided with a ghost.
A single sentinel stood at the end near to an iron grating, or small portcullis; there, then, was Wallace! Forgetting her disguise and situation, in the frantic eagerness of her pursuit, she hastily advanced to the man: "Let me pass to Sir William Wallace," cried she, "and treasures shall be your reward."
If he dies of his wounds, what good would my life do me, save to avenge him and from that he has debarred me. So, grim Oliver, do thy worst! Ha!" as he entered the Castle "down portcullis up drawbridge! Archers, bend your bows! Martin, stones for the mangonel!" Nor was the assault long delayed.
Henceforward, she may perhaps find the calm glades of Shaftesbury more pleasant than the bowers of Arundel. At least, I venture to beg that she will make the trial. And he went forth, calling to his hounds. "Ay, went forth, without another word, and left her lying there at my feet her, to save whom one pang of pain I would have laid down my life. And the portcullis was shut upon me.
George who rides full tilt at the dragon in the rude sculptures on the portal of the Romanesque Cathedral hard by; it is the same warrior-saint who, in his gleaming armour, looks down from the painted fresco above the portcullis of the castle drawbridge.
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