breast-work

There, under a wagon and behind the little breast-work of sand, Jed and I received our last instructions.

Chapter 13 2010

I had been working hard with the others at the barricade, and had got up a pretty good breast-work within the gate.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

I had been working hard with the others at the barricade, and had got up a pretty good breast-work within the gate.

The Perils of Certain English Prisoners 2007

Away also went, at a rapid scamper, three men who had watched them from the breast-work of the cliffs — one went northward, another to the south, and the third rode a pony up an inland lane.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

He had volunteered to take the command of a floating battery, which was a raft, consisting merely of a number of beams nailed together, with a flooring to support the guns: it was square, with a breast-work full of port-holes, and without masts -- carrying twenty-four guns, and one hundred and twenty men.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Joowye is the largest village I have seen, it is of great extent but straggling; near its entrance is a breast-work now nearly complete.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Their chief town they had in the first place surrounded with a wooden breast-work, for the security of their own families.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

Every family there had fled to town, except in one place, where seventy white men and forty negroes had surrounded themselves with a breast-work, and resolved to remain and defend themselves in the best manner they could.

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

There many of them had been shot, and being so close together many were still standing, or had fallen down on their knees -- dead, but they served as a breast-work for the men.

Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various

It was a square redoubt, the curtains of which were about sixty or seventy feet in extent, with an entrenchment, or breast-work, extending fifty or sixty feet from the northern angle, towards Mystic river.

The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson