fosses

We went up to the citadel, which crowns the hill, and is composed of an agglomeration of granite walls, fosses, and casemates, mounds, ditches, barracks, and water-tanks.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

All the fortifications were strengthened; the fosses carefully filled with spikes and water; large stones placed over the gates, convenient to tumble on the heads of the assaulting parties; and caldrons prepared, with furnaces to melt up pitch, brimstone, boiling oil, &c., wherewith hospitably to receive them.

A Legend of the Rhine 2006

All the fortifications were strengthened; the fosses carefully filled with spikes and water; large stones placed over the gates, convenient to tumble on the heads of the assaulting parties; and caldrons prepared, with furnaces to melt up pitch, brimstone, boiling oil, &c., wherewith hospitably to receive them.

Burlesques 2006

Most of the bones came from the fosses aux pauvres, the great common graves of the poor in the center of the atrium.

The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

It is somewhat conical and consists of two steps or gradations, where two fosses scooped out of the hill go round it, one above the other, the lower one embracing considerably the most space.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

Both these fosses are about six feet deep, and at one time doubtless were bricked, as stout large, red bricks are yet to be seen, here and there, in their sides.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

The table – cloth represented the invaded country, and round it they built barricades of baskets, set up the wine bottles in a rampart, made fortifications of bread and dug fosses of salt.

The Voyage Out 2004

Cuves d'pandage, lagunes, fosses septiques et autres installations de traitement des immondices

Chapter 13 1973

Southwards and south-west were the mining villages of the Lens district with their huge conical fosses.

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

"My old establishment has sunk into the fosses of the fort: it was a transaction between the government and myself."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various