Wednesday 2 November 2011
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
"Day set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone; The massive towers, the donjon keep, The flanking walls that round them sweep, In yellow lustre shone"
Wednesday 5 October 2011
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The king was conducted to the castle with great pomp, and Fouquet saw him dismount under the portcullis, and say something in the ear of D'Artagnan, who held his stirrup.
Wednesday 7 September 2011
A Connecticut Yankee by Mark Twain
Hardly a month went by without one of these tramps arriving; and generally loaded with a tale about some princess or other wanting help to get her out of some far-away castle where she was held in captivity by a lawless scoundrel, usually a giant.
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