wallstead

Definitions

A site with the remains of a building or buildings, especially one with wall remnants still standing.

Examples

“"You're too 'feared, but my sister Rose willna be 'feared for me, — tell⟳ her to meet⟳ me to-morrow evening, in the old wallsteads."”

“The dumb animals refused to leave⟳ the wallsteads, and in some cases were with difficulty rescued from the falling timbers.”

“Till the works of the city-dwellers, the works of the giants of earth, Stood empty and lorn of the burst⟳ of the mighty reveller's mirth. Who wisely hath mus'd on this wallstead, and ponders this dark life well, n his heart he hath often bethought him of slayings many and fell[.]”

“So Grendel ruled in definace of right, one against all, until the greatest house in the world stood empty, a deserted wallstead.”

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