hornwork

• The sea-wall, for almost half its length, formed but a fausse braye for the hornwork towering formidably behind it. —  Corporal Sam and Other Stories
• (208 I thoght I had done, and lo, I had forgot to tell you, that who d'ye think is here?-Even Mr. More! our Rheims Mr. More! the fortification, hornwork, ravelin, bastion Mr. More! which is very pleasant sure. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
• Do you suppose there's naught inside here but beer And he laid his hand, as Drayton might have said, on that stout bastion, hornwork, ravelin, or demilune, which formed the outworks to the citadel of his purple isle of man Naught but beer?--Cheese, I suppose Bread Beef Love!" —  Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
• Ringfield takes its name from its circular meadow (Montcalm's hornwork). —  Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present
• There are yet some noble specimens of elm, the survivors of a thick clump, that once stood on the edge of the hornwork. —  Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present

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