Example Sentences

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Situated in a wide-open plateau, rare in that country, Nasan, with its fortified air strip and embrasured artillery, dug in for a spiky hedgehog battle.

From Time Magazine Archive

He directed me, particularly, to have in view the question whether it would be advisable to bring the siege guns forward against the embrasured battery at the Garita.

From Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war by Smith, Gustavus Woodson

First I erected an ancient castle, consisting of four towers built on a rectangular base, and connected by straight curtains embrasured a-top.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

A tunneled, revetted, embrasured and battlemented citadel filled with rusty armor and broken lances.

From The Short Life by Donovan, Francis

No barbette or merely embrasured battery of that day could stand up against the twenty or more heavy guns carried on each broadside by the steam-frigates, if these could get near enough.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)