Parapet

Examples

• Some of his men had snatched a flag from the parapet of the fort, and others had taken a horse from the inside of the stockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Mr. Guppy, refolding his arms, resettles himself against the parapet, as resuming a conversation of interest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When I arrived there I rode my horse over the parapet just as Wright's three thousand prisoners were coming out. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She crouches on the parapet outside for hours and hours. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But his men struggled on until some of them got up to the very parapet covering the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• That is, he had lain down where the ground fell sharply away below the triple belt of wire and shouted up at the rock and earth parapet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I mean the endurance of bombardments, the necessity to attack, the life of the parapet. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Somebody was leaning out of my bedroom window, refreshing his forehead against the cool stone of the parapet, and feeling the air upon his face. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was begun in 1857 and finished in 1864, with the exception of the parapet walls of the roadway, which were added in 1872-3. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I got on his back, with my cudgel in my mouth, seized the parapet with both hands, and was instantly on the roof. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes, and they have been leaning in conversation against the low stone parapet under the trees. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Burnside, on the left, had advanced up east of the salient to the very parapet of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• 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.

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