Parapets
[pærəpits]
Examples
- Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- To give additional protection sand bags, bullet-proof, were placed along the tops of the parapets far enough apart to make loop-holes for musketry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- All the streets leading from it were swept by artillery, cannon being intrenched behind temporary parapets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was dusk when our troops under Sheridan went over the parapets of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At points on the San Cosme road parapets were thrown across, with an embrasure for a single piece of artillery in each. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The house-tops near the plaza were converted into infantry fortifications by the use of sand-bags for parapets. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typed by Elbert