ramparts

• The glacis of the ramparts was covered by black masses of soldiers, watching the placing of a cordon of German sentinels around the walls All public buildings, all the churches, were choked with wounded; their blood covered everything. —  Lorraine A romance
• The Stars and Stripes were still flying above the badly damaged ramparts, and cheer after cheer went up from thousands of throats, including those of the rescued garrison. —  Ahead of the Army
• All other ramparts are vulnerable. —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• When the fighting is going on he is never to be seen on the ramparts, and though he receives his rations I suspect that it is only a make-believe, and that he has a secret store of provisions in his own house It would not do to say that to the burgomaster," observed Berthold. —  The Lily of Leyden
• Schamyl seems to be well aware that his best ramparts are the rocks, and his palisades the primitive forests. —  Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia

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