Orders were issued for each ship to attach strong cables to the bow and stern of their neighbours, which would effectively turn the line into a long battery forming a theoretically impregnable barrier.

" He goes on to say, " His face was slender and mobile ; but there was a stern, sardonic expression to his features, which acted as a barrier between him and his fellows.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Her role is some kind of grandma, but since 1996 in a more stern way.

Her commands originally came from Jack and Lucy-Ann's unfriendly uncle and his stern caretaker, with whom they had to live until Jack and Lucy-Ann were adopted by Mrs. Mannering.

Her light-blue eyes were both gay and stern: their charm and beauty attracted, but the fear they caused so dazzled the bystander that he could neither look nor turn away ... Generally she accompanied her words with graceful gestures, her hands bare to the wrists, and you would say it was ivory turned by some craftsman into the form of fingers and hand.

The cells in the blood vessel walls are joined tightly to one another, forming the so-called blood – brain barrier, which protects the brain from toxins that might enter through the bloodstream.

This storm surge barrier protects Rotterdam against north westerly Beaufort Force 10 to 12 storms.

He erects forts on both banks of the river for further missile fire and protects his barrier with a large boom.

The Alps and Appennines form a natural barrier that protects the city from the major circulations coming from northern Europe and the sea.

It protects the wearer from rough surfaces, rash-causing plants, insect bites, splinters, thorns and prickles by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment.

* Thermal protection system or the Space Shuttle thermal protection system, the barrier that protects a spacecraft from the heat of atmospheric reentry

* Blood – brain barrier, a structure that protects the brain from chemicals in the blood

Fire Island National Seashore ( FINS ) is a United States National Seashore that protects a section of Fire Island, an approximately long barrier island separated from Long Island by the Great South Bay.

A comet in the game is a barrier which temporarily protects from enemy fire, and a smart bomb appears at the bottom of the screen and destroys all on-screen enemies if shot.

The sand forms a natural barrier which protects the coast from storm surges.

This tissue serves as a barrier wall and protects the internal tissues from injury.

* Identifies and protects itself from evil in the form of a magical barrier.

Her permanent titanium shell was recessed behind an even more indestructible barrier in the central shaft of the scout ship.

Her Olympic victories are credited with helping to demolish the convention that age and motherhood were a barrier to success in women's sport.

Her ability is to create a barrier with her familiars.

Her absence and the Doctor's pained estrangement from her proves a point of contention for the Doctor's series 3 companion Martha ( Freema Agyeman ); when Martha protects the Doctor, living as a human without his memories, it is still Rose that he dreams of.