blockhouse

• The years of watching Mishra's back were finally telling on the lean-faced bodyguard They arrived at last at a blockhouse, and a huge fortress of rough-hewn lumber and unmortared stone. —  JEFF GRUBB
• You will understand when you see him again The throne room of the blockhouse was a rough, frontier affair, a rude dais made of slabs of stone with a captain's chair from one of the ships serving as a throne. —  JEFF GRUBB
• The Fort Pitt Museum and the adjoining blockhouse are in Point State Park, which has itself just undergone a $35 million restoration. —  post-gazette.com - News
• The commandant mounted to the top of a blockhouse, and, looking across the meadows behind the fort, saw a throng of savages coming out of the woods,--Pottawattamies, Sacs, Menominies, Illinois, Missouris, and other tribes yet more remote, each band distinguished by a kind of ensign. —  A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I France and England in North America
• Everything in the shape of a fort or a blockhouse, be it ever so untenable or miserable, terrifies the Arabs. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

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