breastwork

How to use breastwork in a sentence

• My station was on the right of the line, where the breastwork, ending in a redoubt, was steep and high.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various

• Our camp was enclosed with a solid wall of the dead—a bulwark, a breastwork, of corpses, you may say.

  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Complete | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

• I found the reserves had thrown up a breastwork from the Ohio 348 to the Kanawha, thus inclosing the camp on the Point.

  A Virginia Scout | Hugh Pendexter

• He was on the crest of the hill, and at every lull in the strife his men piled the loose stones into a rude breastwork.

  The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.

• They move upon the run,—up to the breastwork of rails,—bearing Hancock's line to the top of the ridge,—so powerful their momentum.

  The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.