defile

• Fighting continued, however, on the peaks, far into the night No explanations were forthcoming why the enemy should have allowed the force to pass through the defile, without obstruction, when a determined body of riflemen could have kept the whole of them at bay; for the artillery could not have been brought into position, as the defile was the most difficult, of its kind, that a British division had ever crossed The day following the withdrawal of the rear guard, it rained in the Bara Valley, which meant snow in the Maidan. —  Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
• At the extremity of this defile was the whole English army, on foot, compact and sheltered on all sides; while, behind the hill that separated the two armies, was placed an ambuscade of six hundred knights and cross-bowmen The French army was divided into three parts, and disposed in an oblique line. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• Stand aside, sons of Eblis, or you shall bite the earth which curses you A wild shout from every height of the defile was the answer. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
• In front there was only one defile, and their wings were well protected, the left resting upon a deep morass. —  Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III
• Davoust wrote to the king to push the Russians briskly into this defile, the outlet of which at Glusck he was about to occupy. —  History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812

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