A gate-house, with a drawbridge commands the entrance.
But the drawbridge was up.
The drawbridge lowered, and open swung the gates.
The sometime moat was now full of smooth, green grass, and the drawbridge no longer remains.
There were two drawbridges—seldom used but always practicable.
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The trolley's hitting the one will stop its forward progression and cause it to fall into the water below thedrawbridge.
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So doing will send the trolley up the ramp of the opendrawbridgeand into the air, where it will hit one person standing on a pedestrian bridge overhead.
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What we need is partnership, and not thedrawbridgementality of the nationalists.
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I was teetering on the edge of thedrawbridge, but withdrew very quickly.
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We are not talking about raising thedrawbridge.
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Pulling up thedrawbridgeor pretending that the problem does not exist is not responsible government.
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The people in it tilled the land outside, going over by thedrawbridgeof the castle, and it was a happy community.
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Surely we cannot pull up adrawbridgeand say that we do not need to account for ourselves in the way we conduct our affairs.
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We must avoid thedrawbridgebeing pulled up by the premiership, especially when club directors see the money that is available.
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I suspect that that is where he is tonight and that thedrawbridgeis up.
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It was a barbed wire enclosure surrounded by a stake moat and provided with adrawbridge.
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I am not too sure whether arks have drawbridges, but the analogy is right.
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There is nothing wrong with that, but thedrawbridgeis being pulled up after them to prevent other parents having the same choices and opportunities.
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For the moment, thedrawbridgeis effectively up, and there is fury and anger on both sides.
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It is said that replacing the drawbridges with fixed bridges will ultimately save the taxpayer a good deal of money.
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