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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, before she could shoot, Rupert jumped over the side of the bridge, and down into the moat below.
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He could not understand why he should not put them in the moats.
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It was surrounded by a 100-foot-wide moat , crossed by causeways lined by statues of soldiers and elephants.
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No one spoke of it but it was there, like a little moat between us, widening each day.
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Silently, he went down into the water and swam across the moat .
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The far end of his cell faced the moat , where executions took place.
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The new north front was built rising directly from the moat .
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To the south-west, a deep moat , spanned by a drawbridge, completed defences.