donjon-keep

On the left, lay the palace and donjon-keep; but the right, more attractive, seemed to invite to the apartment of the women.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

Roland Graeme looked with some degree of dismay on the water-girdled fortress, which then, as now, consisted only of one large donjon-keep, surrounded with a court-yard, with two round flanking-towers at the angles, which contained within its circuit some other buildings of inferior importance.

The Abbot 2008

After the usual remarks of the guide had been duly attended to, he directed their attention to the donjon-keep -- an abode so full of dreary horror, that to it might justly be applied Dante's motto above the gates of Eblis.

Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

It had been used, apparently, in remote feudal times, for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep, and in later days as a place of deposit for powder, or some other highly combustible substance, as a portion of its floor, and the whole interior of a long archway through which we reached it, were carefully sheathed with copper.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

That sheaf of enormous black towers to the right of the inky Tournelles, pressing one against the other, and bound together, as it were, by a circular moat; that donjon-keep, pierced far more numerously with shot-holes than with windows, its drawbridge always raised, its portcullis always lowered—that is the Bastile.

II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris. Book III 1917

This chambrette which the King reserved for his own use in the famous prison was spacious enough, nevertheless, and occupied the uppermost storey of a turret forming part of the donjon-keep.

V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X 1917

It proceeded for some time through the interior of the grim donjon-keep, perforated by flights of stairs and corridors even to the thickness of the walls.

V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X 1917

It had been used apparently in remote feudal times for the worst purposes of a donjon-keep, and in later days as a place of deposit for powder or some other highly-combustible substance, as a portion of its floor, and the whole interior of a long archway through which we reached it, were carefully sheathed with copper.

The Fall of the House of Usher 1917

There was a partially defaced sign upon the front wall of the box; the donjon-keep had known mercantile impulses:

Penrod 1914

And he will lock the Lovely Princess in the donjon-keep until the dumb but devoted

Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914