She was standing on the
parapet. Before I could move, before I could cry out, before I could even breathe again freely, she leaped into the river.
A dog, which had lain concealed till now, ran backwards and forwards on the
parapet with a dismal howl, and collecting himself for a spring, jumped for the dead man's shoulders.
"It is D'Artagnan, no doubt," said Porthos, in a voice of thunder, approaching the
parapet.
I left him hanging far over the
parapet of the bridge.
For people had found out how fearful and vast and silent was the force of the savage secret society, and by the time Flambeau and Father Brown were leaning on the parade
parapet in April, the Black Man meant in England almost what he once meant in Scotland.
When the first arrangements were completed, and we must say, to the honor of vagabond discipline, that Clopin's orders were executed in silence, and with admirable precision, the worthy chief of the band, mounted on the parapet of the church square, and raised his hoarse and surly voice, turning towards Notre-Dame, and brandishing his torch whose light, tossed by the wind, and veiled every moment by its own smoke, made the reddish façade of the church appear and disappear before the eye.
Quasimodo was seen on the parapet of the gallery, holding the scholar by the feet with one hand and whirling him over the abyss like a sling; then a sound like that of a bony structure in contact with a wall was heard, and something was seen to fall which halted a third of the way down in its fall, on a projection in the architecture.
If I were to toss a pebble over this parapet it would be something like a bullet by the time it struck him.
Wilfred Bohun threw one leg over the parapet, and Father Brown had him in a minute by the collar.
The single window opened upon an embattled space surmounting the turret, which gave Rebecca, at first sight, some hopes of escaping; but she soon found it had no communication with any other part of the battlements, being an isolated bartisan, or balcony, secured, as usual, by a parapet, with embrasures, at which a few archers might be stationed for defending the turret, and flanking with their shot the wall of the castle on that side.
As she spoke, she threw open the latticed window which led to the bartisan, and in an instant after, stood on the very verge of the parapet, with not the slightest screen between her and the tremendous depth below.
And, inside the house, the beams--and the staircase through a door--picturesque enough, but not a place to live in." He glanced over the parapet cheerfully.
Margaret leant over the parapet and watched it sadly.
`Already I saw other vast shapes--huge buildings with intricate
parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hill-side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm.
