Lexicographical Neighbors of Barricados
Literary usage of Barricados
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Centennial of the Boston Pier, Or the Long Wharf Corporation, 1873 by Boston Pier, or the Long Wharf Corporation (1873)
"The old barricades or " outer walls " were fully drawn upon this map ; and several
hundred feet beyond them two new barricados (one north and the other ..."
2. Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern by Herodotus, Cornelius Tacitus, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Raleigh, Walter Biggs, Edward Haies, George Campbell Macaulay (1910)
"And so with pikes roundly together we approached the place, where we soon found
out the barricados of pipes or butts to be the meetest place for our assault ..."
3. The New Pacific by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1914)
"The first place we came to was the barricados, where we discharged our shot ...
At every street's end they had made barricados, but we quickly took them ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The English forced the barricados, and set fire to the town, which consisted of
three streets, and about 150 houses. The same night the boats were sent to ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"The Duke of Guise thrust himself into Paris on the day of the barricados, in his
doublet and hose, attended only with eight gentlemen, and found that help ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"They were at any rate mobile; for they could be carried on a pony's back or
stacked together by the half dozen in “barricados of wood,” borne on wheels. ..."
7. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"We saluted the Towne with nine peeces of Ordnance, but were not answered, for
they have no Ordnance heere, nor any Fort, but barricados only for small shot. ..."
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