| 单词 | fosse |
| 例句 | Beyond it was a deep fosse lost in soft shadow, but the grass upon its brink was green, as if it glowed still in memory of the sun that had gone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z There was a road paved with white stone running on the outer brink of the fosse. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Heaving dirt from a pit, I would hear on another man’s breath some song half-sung in time to his swing; the engineers called their instructions, wending their way through our deep, loamy fosses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Although this is not the biggest of the Icelandic “fosses”, the magic of the place was palpable. 20 of the world's best waterfalls: readers’ tips 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z During the writer’s last visit to this historic spot he met a small farmer whose potatoes were planted over part of the obliterated fosse and rampart of this famous stronghold of Ulster. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z A surly arquebusier with a steel cap on his head, his gun upon his shoulder, and the rest thereof in his hand, was the first person that he encountered at the bridge over the fosse. Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois 2012-04-11T02:00:35.290Z Then Crombach describes that there were some large fosses, sixty feet long, eight feet deep, and sixteen wide, containing a large number of bodies. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He went back, got his blanket, cut it into strips, made a rope, and by its means climbed the gate, dropped into a fosse, from which he reached and swam across the harbour. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The night was intensely dark, and the causeway very narrow, and bounded on each side by a deep fosse, into which many of the men slipped. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z Huge heaps of the ruined walls, some of them tons in weight, have been tumbled into the deep fosse that surrounds the castle, but they are still almost as solid as rocks. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Some portions of a fosse may still be traced on the lower edge of the wood; but no tradition connected with its history has descended to us. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-03-11T03:00:15.507Z Fell the rain; And to the fosses came all that the land Contained not; and as mightiest streams are wont. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The camp has an area of about four acres, and was defended by a ditch fifteen feet deep, and about thirty feet wide, with a rampart on either side of the fosse. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z This fort was defended by a fosse of immense depth, and by massy walls of an extraordinary thickness, flanked at each corner by a bastion well supplied with cannon. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z The great fosse by which it was once surrounded is entirely obliterated save on the west side, where it is nearly twenty feet in depth. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z This fort contained thirty-three guns; had four bastions, and was defended by a dry fosse cut in the rocks. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z The fosse surrounding the fortress was thirty-six feet wide, and was pierced in the solid rock to a depth of forty-three feet. The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple 2012-01-18T03:00:11.003Z Abbés, heroes, ministers of state were indiscriminately cast into the fosse. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The old ramparts of the town are now replaced by manufactories, and the fosses are transformed into vegetable gardens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" 2012-01-02T03:00:22.443Z It is encompassed by a fosse in some places forty feet in depth, that descends sheer from the walls. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Round210 this spot they raised a rampart, encircled by a fosse. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z There was also the donjon keep, and the remains of a fosse; but all the rest of this feudal castle had been unceremoniously carted away, to erect cowsheds and pig-styes with it. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z When they were all three in the fosse, the moon was obscured and a little rain fell. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z Swift in expedient, the stewards supplied the difficulty with quicklime, which was scattered with a lavish hand in the fosse, and shone like snow through the barrier of furze bushes on the take-off side. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Now is sung: Nicolette the fair, the fond, Climbed the fosse and won beyond; There she kneeled her, and implored Very help of Christ the Lord. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z Joan, cheering on her brave forces, and calling on them to follow, seized a scaling-ladder, and ascended the enemy's breastworks, when she was pierced with an arrow in the shoulder, and fell into the fosse. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z On the inner brink of this deep fosse there are now left thirty-five huge stones out of the original number of about one thousand. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z But let us return to our miserable fugitives, whom we left in the fosse. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z The order was instantly obeyed, and the door afloat in the fosse, and springing upon it, he impelled himself with a pike towards the opposite bank. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Gazing below, she saw that the fosse was very deep and perilous, and the maid had great fear. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z 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 The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z The keep stands upon an artificial mound, the height of which, from the fosse, is one hundred and ten feet on one side, and eighty on the other. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z New cannon were brought to the intrenchments by janissaries, countless throngs of whom covered the new castle, taking refuge in its fosses and ruins, so as to be in readiness for a hand-to-hand struggle. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z In these engagements bodies fell thickly; the fosses and the open space as far as the intrenchments were full of graves, in which were placed sometimes small bundles of the weapons of the dead. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z In the fosse, which still remains on the garden side, was the universally installed jeu-de-paume, a favourite amusement throughout the courts of Europe in the middle ages. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z 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 The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z Bewcastle Church is a small edifice, standing on a rising ground near the castle, a fosse surrounding them both. Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. 2011-09-26T02:00:29.140Z The Turks had dug a fosse at the side of the castle, five hundred yards long; in one place, at the very wall, they were digging deeply. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z In one spot the fosse was partly filled up, and an opening cut in the rampart, by which he rode through and found the “castle,” a vast earthwork of unknown antiquity. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z At the four angles of the protecting walls were the principal logis, and between the lines of its ramparts or fosses was an advance-guard of buildings presumably intended for the vassals in time of danger. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z Meanwhile they crossed the bridge over the fosse, passed the gate, and found themselves on the broad fortified square, surrounded by thirty-eight large wooden structures. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z I came, ere long, to a broad fosse, by which the park was separated from the adjoining forest. The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) 2011-08-09T02:00:28.197Z The attack was repulsed on the whole line, when the janissaries, deserting the fosse, ran, like madmen, with a howl of terror. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z He led Geoffrey across the plain and up a swelling shoulder of down, on whose ridge was a broad deep fosse and green rampart. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The magnitude of the space enclosed by the earthwork, the height of the rampart and depth of the fosse, show that it was originally intended to be occupied by a large force. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The hinges of the gate squeaked sharply, the bridge fell over the fosse, and the two horsemen rode into the square. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Upon the glacis we halted, and tied up the animals, and the order came to take them down into the fosses behind the arsenal. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z From that fosse there went against the walls an unceasing fire from janissary muskets. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Without, the fosse was wide, and the hedge thick and strong, so they could not come close to one another. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z If we look closely into the grass here on the slope of the fosse it is animated by a busy throng of insects rushing in hot haste to and fro. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Many fragments of the walls accompanied by the fosse are evident; deprived of the facing-stones, they appear in great masses of grout-work; i.e. of stones, broken tiles, and bricks promiscuously bedded in cement. A Tour throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire 2011-07-08T02:00:18.387Z All day long the companies were coming back with their booty, so that the fosses were filled with cattle, which remained in the open air. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z At one moment she had bent over the battlement so far that Zagloba seized her by the waist, lest she might fall to the fosse. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z But on none of these occasions were any earthworks thrown up, and the fosses and ditches that still remain to be explored are of undoubted Roman construction. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The wall was protected by a dry fosse, or ditch, twenty-five feet wide and about twenty feet deep; this, in turn, was guarded by a counterscarp and glacis. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Independently of the fosse, there was a deep pit, hewn out of the solid rock, to be crossed by a drawbridge, and then commenced a dark vaulted passage between two semicircular towers. The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble 2011-06-12T02:00:06.820Z When the tutorial ends, that second team usually joins the others in the fosse, or box. There?s Only One Way to Get These Seats 2011-06-01T00:30:26Z When they had run to the fosse, they began to fill it with fascines and bundles of straw, and filled it in a twinkle. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z A little further and they came to the fosse of the old camp. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z At the terrace of the Tuileries about twelve navvies sadly dug away at a useless fosse. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Standing at the edge of the fosse, she urged her men on to the assault. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z A bastioned wall and fosse defend the town on the north-east and south sides, while the sea entrance is protected by heavy batteries on Mount Wise. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z But when the first ranks stood on the stuff with which the fosse had been filled, in one of the battlement openings a pistol-shot was heard; then a shrill voice shouted,— "Fire!" Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z Spirits of the blest! if you could but have seen that fosse when it was dug!—twenty times over in the course of the last month. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z In the night, in the fosses, a hundred yards from the spot where the Duke of Enghien had fallen, these nine officers formed in a line before a firing-party. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Under cannon-fire and through flights of arrows, the assailants leaped into the fosse and swarmed up the escarpment, "as if they believed themselves immortal." Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z The cornet, thus commanded, clapped spurs to his horse; and, after galloping within fifty paces of the fosse, pulled up. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z They could easily have sprung over out of the fosse, but for some reason seemed not to care for it. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z For it is a walled city without suburbs, scarce a building of any kind beyond the parapet and fosse engirdling it. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z To the south of the stone wall, at a distance perpetually varying from a few yards to half a mile, runs the vallum, or earthwork, consisting, where most perfect, of three ramparts and a fosse. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z At last, as if to force victory, she sprang into the fosse, and was setting a scaling-ladder against the wall when an arrow pierced her between the neck and shoulder. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z He could not reach it with his hands—though springing several feet upward from the bottom of the fosse. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Around it runs a fosse or ditch some forty feet wide and nine or ten feet deep. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Yet he was still far from the fosse; indeed, he saw, with dismay, that he was a good distance above the level of the outer wall. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z A little to the left in front of me was one of the fosses which rise among the broken houses. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z The attack began about noon; the bastion of the St. Honoré gate having been set on fire, its defenders were forced to abandon it, and the assailants, headed by Joan, passed the outer fosse. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z So saying, he turned away from the statue—which he had been so long criticising—and faced to the footbridge that spanned the fosse. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z One can see traces of the moat, even yet, with a fosse beyond, and there is enough left of the castle to show how great and strong this citadel of the Geraldines was. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z He believed that the rope would reach down almost to the fosse, which separated the prison from the outer wall. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z He found the ramparts giving way, the turfing all crumbled off, and the escarpment and counter escarpment of the fosses much filled up. The Niagara River 2011-02-08T03:00:09.703Z They dragged the cannons into position, and brought bundles of wood, doors, furniture, everything they could lay hands on, to fill up the fosse. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z It has been calculated that from the time of Philippe-Auguste over a million bodies had been interred in these fosses communes. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z It was very high and surrounded by a fosse still clearly recognisable in spite of the landslips. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Unfortunately for the cathedral, Bishop de Langdon, Treasurer of England under Edward I., by surrounding the Close with a wall and a fosse, made of it a stout fortress. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z With these he searched the shrubbery, the garden, from the fosse to the drawbridge, and the fosse itself. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z She climbed the ridge separating it from the inner fosse, which was full of water, and from that place summoned the city to surrender. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z In every fosse the bladderwort's bright heads Like orange helmets on the surface show. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z Accompanied by Sir James, he went, during the hours of twilight, up to the margin of the fosse. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The circles are the standing stones, fosses, and ramparts which often surrounded it; and the line or duct drawn from the centre outwards represents the subterranean approach to the sepulchre. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race They searched the houses, the country around, the forest down to the shore, and even the great fosse; for they all agreed that the poor child must have taken her own life. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z Beneath the choir there is a crypt of Romanesque construction, where traces of the Roman fosses are to be found; the two lateral portals are also survivals of a Romanesque church. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" They were well supplied with food, deposited at dusk in a fosse, and obtained when the opening bars of “La Brabançonne” were whistled at a distance. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 She soon arrived at the spot, and about the same time she observed that the van she had noticed had also got to that part of the fosse opposite to where she was now placed. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 In front of the royal ch�teau was a deep fosse, looking into which were the chambers of most of the princes who inhabited the palace. Marguerite de Valois The inner slope of the green fosse is inclined at an angle pleasant to recline on, with the head just below the edge, in the summer sunshine. The Vagabond in Literature There were hundreds of human beings, from the lowest kitchen servant up to the major-domo, who served in place of wall or fosse, and prevented all except the favored few from entering the royal presence. On the Heights A Novel After lighting the fire in the forge, the old man opened the window that looked over the fosse, to let the smoke escape. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess She could perceive nothing now but the wide plain spread forth in the silver light of the moon, and below her feet the deep fosse which reflected the bright beams from its quiet surface. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 In the antechamber he found Gillonne, who guided him to the window on the ground floor, and in the fosse he found his page, with whom he returned to the H�tel de Guise. Marguerite de Valois Behind, the fosse sinks and the rampart rises high and steep—two butterflies are wheeling in uncertain flight over the summit. The Vagabond in Literature The royal palace was in the center of the city, and was without walls or fosse. On the Heights A Novel The soldiers rank themselves in a cordon along the edge of the esplanade, and with the points of their lowered lances drive the human mass of prisoners into a burning fosse. The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades She bent and listened, for articulate sentences now rose from the warriors, who stood for a moment on the brink of the fosse. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 The fosse is laid out in vegetable gardens; public gardens have been constructed outside the walls; and artesian wells have been bored by the government. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" The fosses have been filled up and the ramparts in part levelled to make way, as the suburbs extended, for avenues stretching out on all sides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In this municipal columbarium, families have a right to deposit their ashes for the space of five years, at the end of which period the urns are taken out and emptied in the fosse commune. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 The Sire de Daulon, her knight, rushed back to the fosse of the fort to recover the sacred banner, dropped there in the confusion of the fray. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) Soon they came pouring in over the fosse, which, choked up as it was, offered no impediment. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 Can curtains and bastions—fosses and half-moons, exclude intelligence as effectually as they do an enemy? are batteries as fetal to pleasure as they are to platoons? Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands A double fosse and vallum, with the outer and inner court lines, can be traced. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" And soon the towering marble castle formed an assault-proof rampart for the Aurelian Grate, so much the more because the Tiber formed a natural fosse close before it. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 A single year sufficed to form its immense fosses, and to raise those walls which might seem to be the structure of a lifetime. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 The fosse, choked up with the ruins of the ramparts, afforded a bridge to the assailants, who had no need of the fascines with which their pioneers were prepared to fill up the chasm. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 In front lay a deep fosse, traversed by a narrow wall, scarce wide enough for one person to venture on. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands He leaped from the wall into the fosse, a height of thirty feet and upwards. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II A gloomy fosse, crossed by a narrow drawbridge, surrounded the external wall of this dreary building, which needed no superstition to invest it with a character of crime and misfortune. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I Every week boys—they were no more for all their sounding pronunciamientos—were being murdered in the fosses of Caba�as fortress. The Bright Shawl On that side, a draw-bridge built of rough logs spans the fosse during the day, in order to afford a passage to man, wagons and horses. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Having woke up this morning before dawn, I happened near the fosse of the castle. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium For the last tariff a pine coffin painted black, a stretcher and two men to bear the body to the fosse commune, are accorded. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. He saw them build up and enclose the fort, and dig the fosse around it. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries The city was surrounded by thick and lofty walls and a deep fosse, was amply garrisoned, and was abundantly supplied with provisions, having food-supplies, it was said, sufficient "for a period of ten years." Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Thus spoke count Neroweg as, followed by his warriors, he rode out to meet Prince Chram, whom he found, together with his suite, within two bows' shot of the fosse that girded the burg. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres At the corner of a sort of demilune we saw the frozen fosse of the city, and the brick ramparts towering above, and opposite us an old, dark gate, with the drawbridge raised. The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 He blessed the cemetery adjoining, which was arranged according to Irish usage, within a deep fosse. A Calendar of Scottish Saints Then another lake, with shiny granite walls running up sheer two thousand feet, so that of the fosses which jump in cream over the brinks above, only the stouter ones reach more than half-way down. The Recipe for Diamonds I would have Rather the raking of the guns across The world, and shrieks against Heaven’s architrave; Rather the struggle in the slippery fosse Of dying men and horses, and the wave Blood-bubbling.... The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV "Friends, what large residence is that which I see yonder, girt by a fosse?" The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres A deep fosse and a wall barred the further end of the cave; but he broke a passage through, and found a second vault, in which stood an alabaster sarcophagus, covered with hieroglyphics. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. I soon reached the bushes by the fosse, and used them for my own concealment in following him. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire The outer walls were surrounded by a deep fosse and "frasing" which rendered it secure from escalade. The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 The fosse which surrounds the walls is wide and deep. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy The bridge is raised; besides, the slime in the fosse is so deep that anyone trying to cross it would sink over his head in it. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Little more than thirty years ago Rangoon consisted of a mere swamp, with a few mat huts mounted on wooden piles, and surrounded by a log stockade and fosse. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' That it was defended by the stream of Walbrook on the west, and by a wide fosse on the northern side, seems certain. Memorials of Old London Volume I Some boldly strove to cross the fosses, but fell beneath the sudden sallies of soldiers rushing out from postern gates, or were driven back with severe wounds. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens The fosses of the castle are planted with lofty trees, which shade and intermingle with the towers and ramparts; and on every side they groupe themselves with picturesque beauty. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Our ten friends are ready, either to proceed with us to Clermont, or to join us on the road, or even to approach the fosse of the burg to-night. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Neither is it an artillery duel, or firing at long range; it is ofttimes a grapple in the fosse for victory or death. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election This fosse probably communicated with the Walbrook, and from what Stow says, seems to have had a certain amount of stream through it. Memorials of Old London Volume I Then a rampart was raised round the camp, with dense rows of palisades, and a deep fosse, as sudden sallies and various formidable manœuvres were dreaded, since they were very near Ctesiphon. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens The rest of the outworks, which were many, have now disappeared; but people are still living in the town, who remember to have seen the fosses filled with water. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Strangers are not usually allowed to cross the fosse of the burg, without special permission from the seigneur count. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The fosse and rampart belong to the Roman period. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Sherborn Lane has now disappeared, but there can be little doubt the "burn" or "bourne" was a relic of the fosse of the first Roman London. Memorials of Old London Volume I To this last is to be credited the terrible device of throwing converts into the solfataras at Unzen, and under him, also, the punishment of the "fosse" was resorted to. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Standard in hand, the Maid leaped into the fosse near the pig market. The Red True Story Book He abuses us, the female slaves, seeing he is master, and you never complain; you never set foot outside of the women's apartments, except for a short walk along the fosse of the burg. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Though the height was great, he fell into the fosse without injury, and still grasping his sword. The True Story Book The Maid planted her banner on the edge of the fosse, and then, springing down into the ditch, she placed the first ladder against the wall and began to mount. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 They had two enclosures, each surrounded by a boarded fence, and the whole was encircled by a fosse crossed by outer and inner gates. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Homer tells us how Achilles, alone and unarmed, stood by the fosse and shouted, and how all the Trojans fled. The Red True Story Book Their companions had no sooner arrived on the other side of the fosse, than they met, running towards the ergastula to liberate the prisoners, about thirty revolted slaves armed with clubs, scythes and forks. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres And at last they tossed the watchman into the deep fosse and broke his neck. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 In less than a year the greater part of the northern walls, with gates, bastilles and fosses, was completed—the greatest feat, says Froissart, the provost ever achieved. The Story of Paris In some cases the ditches or fosses were on the inside, in others on the outside. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology It was a meagre old town, long since in ruins, the fosses and castle of which had been hastily repaired. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 After the troop of Karadeucq was safely on the other side a vigorous shove threw the keeper off the bridge down into the fosse, in the bottom of which he disappeared. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Has it a fosse and a drawbridge and a Gothic chapel?” asked Miss Christabel. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol Bishop Gozlin brings down the Norman chieftain, who had butchered the prisoners, by a well-aimed arrow: his body, too, is flung into the fosse. The Story of Paris They are 30 to 40 feet high, surrounded by a dry fosse, and the entrance is by a ladder at a door several feet from the ground. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As your hansom pulls up abruptly under the shadow of the ancient castle, you find your further progress stopped by a fosse, across which is haughtily flung a sixteenth-century drawbridge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 Attracted by the light of the conflagration, the signal that was agreed upon, the good, brave Vagres had crossed the fosse; but how? The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres After a bitter altercation both Martinitz and Slavata were dragged to a window which overlooked the fosse below from a dizzy height of some seventy feet. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 After battering the walls of the north tower, monstrous machines on sixteen wheels are advanced and the besiegers strive to fill the fosse. The Story of Paris But still as determined as ever, he pushed on, and presently stood on the summit, on the edge of the fosse. Wood Magic A Fable He had commenced the excavation of a mass of the pilulary, making a circular cut downwards, and was half buried in the fosse which was to isolate a sufficient fragment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Was not that fosse filled with such deep slime that a man would be swallowed up in it if he attempted to cross it? The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres It was surrounded by a deep fosse, which could be filled by water from the sea. A Yacht Voyage Round England By the end of 1804 the work was well in hand, the expense of cutting the fosse of ten feet deep being estimated at £150,000. William Pitt and the Great War Up he jumped, ran up the rampart, and then down again into the fosse. Wood Magic A Fable Hard by the edge of the sand-hills, and close beside the high road on the last rise before it dips to the coast, stands a turfed embankment surrounded by a shallow fosse. From a Cornish Window A New Edition The long and light improvised bridge was thrown across the fosse, and nimble as cats they crept one after another over the two trunks and reached the opposite side. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Alas! against an adverse maid Nor fosse can serve nor palisade— Too soon I found my fault! Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II Shorty contemplated with interest a shell bursting on the derelict fosse in the next village of Annequin, and turned thoughtfully to the speaker. No Man's Land He went into the fosse, and there it seemed so pleasant that he sat down, and in a minute lay extended at full length in his favourite position, looking up at the sky. Wood Magic A Fable Just above the village the rapids and fosses were finished by a broad pool pouring over a fall, and creating the particular pool about which something has been said. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Foreseeing the need thereof in these disturbed times, my father and Loysik had the unprotected accesses of the valley fortified with fosses and entrenchments made of felled trees. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The preparations for the continuation of his flight were nearly completed; but he had not yet been disturbed, when a strange horn was heard outside the fosse of the Castle. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time An abattis or a fosse would have made this step futile; but as things were, it was not altogether impossible that they might surmount our low wall. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn A little farther and they came to the fosse of the old camp. Wood Magic A Fable They clambered down over the breach that had been made on the counterscarp, crossed the fosse by three ladders they had brought with them, and reached the foot of the breach. At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt Dragut brought up some of his largest yards and laid them like a bridge across the fosse, and a tremendous struggle raged for five terrible hours on Dragut’s bridge. The Story of the Barbary Corsairs And then ope the back windows, and drop down into the fosse.” The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time It entered from the south side by a drawbridge, across a deep fosse or ditch, which being now removed and filled up with rubbish, very much injures the picturesque appearance of the Castle. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) At its foot, too, a wide and deep fosse had been cut in the solid rock: rendering it impossible for the assailants to advance to the attack, until this was filled up. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem It is surrounded by a fosse and low ramparts, of a modern style of fortification. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar Great ditches and fosses cut up the ground. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London "Take this gentleman to the fosse," said the Duke, with the ring of steel in his voice and his eyes snapping. Doom Castle G, "fowsie;" that is, the fosse, or ditch, which extended round the Castle, except towards the sea. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) But, on the northwest, the walls had not been made equally strong; nor had the fosse been continued from Psephinus to the Jaffa Gate. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem The walls are lofty and broad, the towers numerous, and the fosses deep. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 So they trooped this morning; and when they reached the fosse, all stopped but one: "The oldest Gipsy then above ground." Browning's Heroines He shivered as he walked along the fosse, through which blew a shrewd north wind, driving the first flakes of an approaching snowstorm. Doom Castle The ruined fosse, stagnant and moss-covered, speaks of ruin and desolation. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. Across this neck of land a deep fosse had been dug, so as to cut off all approach. For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem I left the precincts of the church; and, walking along the path by the fosse, directed my steps towards the Prebend’s Walk, hoping to light upon the object of my quest. She and I, Volume 1 Even then there was only time to huddle the corpses together in a fosse commune, and to cover them with a scanty supply of earth. London and the Kingdom - Volume II The fosse was wide and deep, girding the four-square castle, mantled on its outer walls by dense ivy, where a few birds twittered. Doom Castle All round the city is a wide fosse; and there are four great canals inside, with many minor cuts. Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland Cicely said that once some snow lingered in the fosse of the entrenchment we had left behind till the haymaking. Round About a Great Estate In the seventeenth century it was certainly a place of importance, and was well defended by walls, gates, and fosses, of which a few picturesque ruins alone remain. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre There is a double line of walls with towers at frequent intervals, some square, some octagonal, and deep fosses running along beside the Page 41 walls, now in spring often bright green with growing corn. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation The window was out of the question, for in all probability the watch was still on the other side of the fosse—a tombstone for steadfastness and constancy. Doom Castle He had his breakfast brought to him on the field, and ate it with a hearty appetite, seated in a fosse with his officers around him. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French. There was a snowstorm late in the spring, and a drift was formed in a hollow at the bottom of the fosse. Round About a Great Estate Nothing, however, like enough of the parapet and the earthwork above had been thrown down to fill up the fosse. The Insurrection in Paris The deep fosse below fortunately remained as it was, not filled up. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed. Doom Castle It was built on the top of an enormous circular mound of earth several hundred yards in diameter, and was supposed to have been surrounded by the usual fosse and ditch. On the Fringe of the Great Fight Who will ever forget the road up to it, and the corner near the ruined fosse, which was always liable to be shelled unexpectedly? The Great War As I Saw It His own boy was buried in some unknown common fosse in Paris. Cobwebs and Cables But now when the Goths were close to the Page 333 fosse, Belisarius lifted his bow, singled out a mail-clad chief, and sent an arrow through his neck, inflicting a deadly wound. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation "The Count is at this moment cooling his heels in the fosse cell." Doom Castle The Spaniard had come to a stand, and was leaning on the wall, looking idly into the fosse. The Long Night In the town of Maroc itself there was a large fosse or mine-head. The Great War As I Saw It I wish," said Simp, in a suicidal way, "that I were lying by Lees in the fosse commune. Bohemian Days Three American Tales With this small force he made a sudden and unexpected irruption into the English camp, and, surmounting all resistance, advanced to the fosse of the town, where each horseman threw down his burden. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary But still," said she after a little—"still the unlucky Frenchman is in the fosse more for his want of tact, I fear, than for his crime against the law of the land. Doom Castle He rushed up the fosse under cover of the wall, and almost stumbled over a prostrate figure, which was helplessly trying to raise itself on its hands and knees. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Many of them, like that on which Civita Castellana is perched, are surrounded by rifts and chasms and ravines and fosses, strangely furrowed and twisted by the force of fiery convulsions. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Rearward a steep glacis and a deep fosse defended the works. The Four Feathers Intending a closer inspection of the steep, artificial hill, he crossed a dry fosse which ran around it in a perfect circle, and was clambering up the mound when a voice from above startled him. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Like a wise woman, she made up her mind to say no more, and she was saved an awkward pause by an uproar in the fosse. Doom Castle 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 A sunken fosse and earthwork have slipped together. Nature Near London Presently both wall and fosse turn sharply W. and may be followed in that direction for a considerable distance. Hertfordshire The water in the fosse sank and sank, until he could no longer see it; but he could see the sun glistening on the wet grass of the bank, and he was satisfied. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars The only place in the neighbourhood where he could obscure his footsteps in that white night of stars was in the castle itself—perhaps in the very fosse whence he had made his escape. Doom Castle Lady Mabel, turning to ask L'Isle a question, saw him gazing gloomily down into the deep but dry fosse below them. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters This latter rebounded slightly as it reached its level: and I think I hear, at this moment, the hollow rumbling noise of our horses' feet, as we passed over the deep yawning fosse below. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two The house was on the site of the old ramparts, and the garden sloped to the fosse. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The water had fallen below the top of the loophole, and swimming up to it, he could see across the fosse, and watch the sunlight sparkling on the water. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars But between them and the object of their journey lay a deep fosse or moat, and the rusty drawbridge was suspended by its chains to the walls of the towers. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars The fosse under the drawbridge seemed a ravenous abyss, and the deep road cut through the glacis and overhung by the outworks appeared to be leading down into the bowels of the earth. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters "Around the fosse they go by thousands, piercing with their arrows whatever spirit wrenches itself out of the blood farther than its guilt has allotted for it." Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 A roughly constructed bridge over the fosse was then made, and after a desperate struggle the fortress was taken. Joan of Arc Looking up it, Rupert saw that it was crossed by a dozen iron bars, the height too was very great, and even when at the top the height was immense to descend to the fosse. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars They had been formerly a portion of an old church; and are situated on the edge of the great fosse which encircles the town. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One The vallum surrounding each enclosure is still of formidable height, and in camp A is double with a double fosse of considerable depth. The Evolution of an English Town A favourite game seems to be to surround the parental sentry-boxes with a fosse. A Wanderer in Holland The camp was defended by fosse and bridge. The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Rupert looked over the battlement, and saw a little party issue from a small postern gate far below him, cross the broad fosse, and pause in an open space formed by an outlying work beyond. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Its form is circular, having an internal diameter averaging from forty to two hundred feet, encompassed by a mound and outer fosse or ditch. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 On the land side the town was defended by a fosse, and there are still considerable remains of the old wall, including the fine Gothic South Gates. Vanishing England We buried many by subscription, thus rescuing them from the fosse commune to which soldiers, French or German, were as a rule consigned within the French lines. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 There his sword fell, shivered in his hand, and his horse rolled over at the very verge of the fosse. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Then hours passed away; for the fosse would have to be emptied before the drain leading from the dungeon could be opened. The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars Forts were erected for defence, and the surrounding fosse was filled with water. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Two avenues of stones led to the two entrances to the space surrounded by the fosse. Vanishing England Like a military camp, the whole place would be surrounded with fosse and vallum. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 With him they swarmed into the fosse, up the bank, and fell on the defenders. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) The castle of Treryn, which our friend pronounced Treen, was situated on a small headland jutting out into the sea, but only the triple vallum and fosse of the castle remained. From John O'Groats to Land's End These forts were sometimes of considerable size, and in such cases were surrounded by several fosses and outworks. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 In 1870 a farmer employed his men during a hard winter in digging down the west side of the rampart and flinging the earth into the fosse. Vanishing England The stranger stood on the lip of the fosse, and waved a hand to him to hurry. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales It stood in the midst of a vast enclosure, surrounded by a deep and wide fosse; and the thick walls, as Roger remarked, appeared capable of withstanding the assaults of a well-equipped army. For The Admiral There was no fosse to the wall, so that, pushing forward, they were soon at the foot. After London Or, Wild England To right and left, however, upon the glacis soldiers were already arranging their bivouacs, while entire batteries, guns, caissons, and horses, in confusion worse confounded, had thrown themselves pell-mell into the fosse for safety. The Downfall "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 He walked slowly along the fosse, and, at the end of that distance, faced about. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Fell the rain: And to the fosses came all that the land Contain'd not, and, as mightiest streams are wont, To the great river with such headlong sweep Rush'd, that naught stayed its course. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times It stood in the midst of the fields, and the corn came up to the fosse; there were many people at work, but, as he noticed, most of them were old men, bowed and feeble. After London Or, Wild England Communicating my idea to Lafontaine, we returned to the spot, loaded ourselves with the planks, and fortunately found them of the length that would reach across the narrowest part of the fosse. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 We were struck by the dirty, narrow, ill-paved or unpaved streets of the suburbs, and overpowered by the noisome vapour arising from a deep open fosse that ran along the street behind the wharf. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America But down in the fosse the pair were secure from all eyes. I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales So they crawled again across the fosse full of the slain, dragging their huge house of timber behind them, and all the blast and din of war broke again about their heads. The New Jerusalem A breastwork encircled the booth, enclosing a space about seventy yards in diameter, with a fosse, and stakes so planted as to repel assailants. After London Or, Wild England Doubtless it was he who slew him, and is himself wounded in the fosse. A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex It is a circular area above twenty yards in diameter, surrounded by a fosse and mound. Rides on Railways The town possesses portions of an ancient city wall and fosse that were made at a time when the town was, for the moment, the most important in Great Britain. Civics: as Applied Sociology Castle Dore is its name; a close of short smooth turf set within two circular ramparts and two fosses choked with brambles. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales Felix thought that had the enemy come suddenly down in force they might have made a clean sweep of the camp, for there were no defences, neither breastwork, nor fosse, nor any set guard. After London Or, Wild England Mr. Coxe, in his "Tour through Monmouthshire," has given a plan of the Roman town, which was defended on all sides except the southern, by a deep fosse. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 481, March 19, 1831 To the west of the course, on an isolated eminence, sometimes called "Roche's Hill" and sometimes "The Beacon" is an ancient camp with double vallum and fosse enclosing over five acres. Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End Yet the Town Council, a year ago, destroyed part of this wall and filled a section of the fosse for the purpose of providing a site for a new elementary school. Civics: as Applied Sociology Its situation is good, upon an artificial hill, surrounded by a fosse; and the principal entrance is still tolerably entire. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 Of the power of the castle an idea may be formed from the extent of the fosse, little less than half a mile in circumference. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1 The fosse is now partly filled with trees. Somerset Ha's!/ to express their astonishment when the edge of the fosse brought them to an unexpected stop. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The next day a little hatless boy, in rags and nearly barefooted, followed two men bearing a small pine coffin which they deposited in the fosse commune of Pére la Chaise. Delsarte System of Oratory The place was inaccessible to an invading enemy, when these fosses were filled with the waters of the Epte; but Philip Augustus caused the protecting element to become his most powerful auxiliary. Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 On his passage, it was necessary to pull down lumps of wall and throw bridges over the fosses to make way for this vast litter and the indomitable man that lay dying within it. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 On the S., or level side, it is defended not only by the main rampart, but by two supplementary walls separated by a fosse. Somerset On the 7th of April, 1498, Charles VIII. was pleased, after dinner, to go down with the queen into the fosses of the castle of Amboise, to see a game of tennis. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 Perhaps you do not know that our burying ground is at Vaugirard: as that burying ground is not much in fashion, we have been allowed to retain our privilege of having a fosse to ourselves.' The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) One can trace the limits of the place by the indications of the vallum and fosse. What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association At present the most interesting part of the great mound is the actual fosse and vallum. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter However this may be, the balloon continued its flight alone, and the body of the aeronaut was found partly buried in the sand of the fosse which surrounds the town. Wonderful Balloon Ascents True, his camp was without its castle—but it had its fosse and keep—its draw-bridge and portcullis. The Life of Francis Marion A deep fosse, or ditch, was drawn round the whole building, and filled with water from a neighbouring stream. Ivanhoe This fosse is filled with water and spanned by a drawbridge, which when lifted makes the palace nearly impregnable to anything except siege guns. Allan Quatermain 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 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 His musqueteers being better provided with powder than ours did good service by keeping down for a time the deadly fire from across the fosse. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 The rest were thrown into "fosses communes" dug in the neighbourhood. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Between them -- for one set is placed at the entrance to an interior, and one at that of the exterior wall -- is a fosse, forty-five feet in width. Allan Quatermain 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 On the side towards the town the castle is defended by a deep fosse cut in the rock; near which are seen several remains of columns of gray and red granite. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land It was muddy at the bottom of the fosse, but not so deep as they thought it would be, and they scrambled up the opposite side and then struck across the country south. Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest In the centre of the gateway a deep fosse or ditch is dug, and over it is suspended by two cords an enormous beam. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok This they did in a few moments, informing me that they had left Perpendicular in the haha, which, as your lordship is aware, is a fosse of the very greenest and most stagnant nature. Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 It consisted of a dish of trout, and some crawfish taken in the fosse of the castle. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies There, with the bridge and river at his back, he formed an entrenched camp of extraordinary strength, with a wall 12 feet high and a fosse 22 feet deep. Caesar: a Sketch The fosse in the rock and the narrow platform at the foot of the wall were alike crowded with foes, who were planting a number of ladders side by side. Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest Until the acquisition of Avignon by Clement VI., the city was an open one and only defended by a double fosse. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 The dung and moisture are collected in a fosse in the stable. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished In front of the second enclosure, he said, there ran another fosse, and a third, both of the same unusual dimensions, was led between the second and the innermost inclosure. Quentin Durward The standard-bearer, surrounded by enemies, reached the fosse, flung the eagle over the rampart, and fell with the last effort. Caesar: a Sketch The outlines of the castle had been traced, and the ground dug for its foundations, while already the broad deep fosse which was to surround it had been dug to a depth of several feet. Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest 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 But where that clandestine boat had glided into gloom and greyness, a fosse of Nature's digging, deeply lined with wood and thicket, offered snug harbourage to craft and fraud. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War When he came nearer, he could hear, and partly see, men dropping from the garden wall into the castle fosse, and others who seemed precipitated from the battlements by the assailants. Quentin Durward A flash of lightning broke the immense cloud for a moment, and the prince fancied that he saw below him in the fosse the same figures he had imagined before. Chicot the Jester Rough labour can doubtless be obtained, and your tenants can transport the stones from the quarry and dig the fosse. Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest He then doubled back and, proceeding some distance, got down into the fosse and stole forward to them again under the wall. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs That indentation presents as an obstacle a great fosse, defended by a battery of ten or twelve guns, firing from eighteen to twenty-four-pound balls. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Full in the midst a mighty pile arose, Where iron grated gates their strength oppose To each invading step—and strong and steep, The battled walls arose, the fosse sunk deep. Quentin Durward In the meantime some of the men-at-arms had run up on to the wall, hoisted the portcullis, and lowered the drawbridge across the fosse. At Agincourt Then they stepped out on to the narrow pathway along the battlements, fastened one end of the rope round a piece of stonework and let the other end drop down into the fosse. Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest In that part of Wiltshire there is a famous monument of antiquity, a vast mound-like wall, with a deep depression or fosse running at its side. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs During all his life, even in his exile, Napoleon vainly sought to wash off the innocent and illustrious blood which he caused to flow in the fosse of Vincennes on the 20th of March, 1804. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France Surrounding it was a broad and deep fosse, into which a stream was turned. Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion In a much shorter time than might be supposed the active sailors had succeeded in reaching the bottom of the fosse, without having made the slightest noise. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 A few resolute men now passed over the fosse, and arrived without accident on the other side. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) And double mound and fosse, By narrow drawbridge, outworks strong, Through studded gates, and entrance long, To the main court they cross. The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border Caesar, however, did not interrupt his work, relying on the protection of the three legions, and the strength of the fosse. "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries They made the wild fire ready and caused men to cast timber in the moat, till the deep fosse was filled. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut Carefully leading the way, Paul crossed the broad fosse, and felt with his hand the opposite wall, against which he expected to find the rope that was to have been arranged by Léontine. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 This old fosse seemed to strike the somewhat forgotten, out-of-the-world note of the surrounding country. October Vagabonds From the terrace on the other side of the Castle, the remains of the old fosse may be seen, though houses are now built where the water used to lie. Twixt France and Spain But the English charged and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses and men. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) The Burg is seated on a rock dominating the town and an immensely deep fosse guards it on the northern side. Dracula's Guest It is interesting because it is curiously and cleverly fortified, the rampart being built up below and outside the fosse, owing to the steepness of the hill. England of My Heart : Spring They cheered him as, turning to the right after issuance from the gate, he plunged at a lively trot into the ravine at the foot of the wall, practically an immense natural fosse. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Besides this, the castle fosse was filled with rubbish, though the old man had been bidding his sons, for the last year, to get it cleared, but they never minded him, the idle knaves. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 The English stood in close ranks, ready and eager for the fight; and they, moreover, made a fosse, which went across the field, guarding one side of their army. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) He rode slowly round from bank to bank, sometimes speaking to the workers in the fosse, sometimes lingering for a few minutes. Thaddeus of Warsaw Live within the limits of your rank, as heretofore within your donjon tower and your fosses, my lord, undisturbed by the sympathy of any mean man like me. The Betrothed Though the height was great he fell into the fosse without injury, still grasping his sword. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism High-bounding o'er the fosse, the whirling car Smokes through the ranks, o'ertakes the flying war, And thunders after Hector; Hector flies, Patroclus shakes his lance; but fate denies. The Iliad The varlets who were set to guard the harness began to abandon it as they saw the loss of the Frenchmen when thrown back upon the fosse without power to recover themselves. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) But I must add, they were soon disappointed, for in less than half an hour the detachment returned in despair, showing me his majesty's coat, which they had found in the fosse. Thaddeus of Warsaw The keep, the fosse, the inner and outer bailey, the general construction, were much the same in all fortresses of Normandy or Norman Britain. Masters of the Guild Here their attention was diverted by a wild-looking person, who passed with long strides under the archway in the fosse, right beneath them, and disappeared among the bushes. Hyperion Beneath this wall were rubbish-heaps, foul-smelling and covered over with rough grasses and some spring flowers, which grew upon the slopes of the ancient fosse. Pearl-Maiden The fosse was shallow and contained but little water, and he at once dashed into it and waded across, for the drawbridge had, of course, been raised. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus The knights had regarded the fosse that had been cut at such an enormous expenditure of labour as forming an altogether impassable obstruction, and were dismayed at seeing the progress made in filling it up. A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes Then our first care must be to prevent this, MacIntosh, by building walls along by the fosse from the corner towers to the edge of the plateau. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War And see what a solid mass of masonry lies in the great fosse down there, toppled from its base by the explosion of a mine! Hyperion Heavy blows were given, followed by a crash, which Archie judged to be the fall of the drawbridge across the fosse. In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce In the centre stood an inner entrenchment with earthworks and a deep fosse. The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus So she bade farewell to Aucassins, and went on to a breach in the city wall, and she looked through it down into the fosse which was very deep and very steep. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres All returned loaded with sacks of earth; these were taken into the castle, when the portcullis was lowered and the drawbridge across the fosse raised. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War The wide fosse is blocked, and remains no more than a field of new-turned earth, made of holes symmetrically bored side by side, in length and in breadth. Under Fire: the story of a squad I believe it would surpass your understanding," resumed the chairman, "to fill up the fosse."—"That, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle But the English charged, and drove the Normans before them till they made them fall back upon this fosse, overthrowing into it horses and men. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo The fosse varies in depth and width, but the minimum of the former is twenty-five feet, and of the width eighty feet, but in some places it exceeds one hundred and forty. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The night passed off quietly, the horses and carts remaining beyond the fosse. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War The three faces of the fort measured 455 yards of fosse and earthen rampart. Ismailia He was still undecided what course to take, when he heard the sound of an approaching caravan; and he hid himself in the fosse of the fortress to watch it. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 The varlets who were set to guard the harness began to abandon it as they saw the loss of the Frenchmen, when thrown back upon the fosse without power to recover themselves. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo The walls are of solid squared masonry, the stones jointed with the usual imperishable cement, and rise to the great perpendicular height of upwards of seventy feet sheer from the bottom of the fosse. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 At three o'clock in the morning the horses, round whose hoofs pieces of sacking had been tied, were led across the fosse. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War The fosse was eight feet wide, eight feet deep, and the face of the rampart was protected by chevaux-de-frise of sharpened stakes. Ismailia But Wakhs El Fellat said, "If you speak truth, come with me across the fosse of the castle into the open ground." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 The Maid planted her banner on the edge of the fosse, and then springing down into the ditch, she placed the first ladder against the wall, and began to mount. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo This seemed to be the only plan that offered, and abandoning the straight road they wound down the defile spanned further on by the old castle arch, and forming the original fosse of the fortress. The Well-Beloved They stood some twenty feet back from the edge of the fosse, and extended from the wall to the verge of the precipice. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War I gave orders that all hands, including the sailors, should immediately be employed to dig the fosse. Ismailia They are protected by an interior fosse seven feet deep by thirty-five feet wide. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples As they had foreseen, except by direct assault, the place proved impregnable, its moat protecting it upon three sides and the sheer wall of the old city terminating in the deep fosse upon the fourth. Red Eve There each gave it into the charge of his own charioteer, to keep the horses orderly there by the fosse. The Iliad "Now, my lads," he said, "I want a big gap made in one of these walls we built today, wide enough for a horse to pass through it, and strong planks laid across the fosse." Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War It begins with a heave of the whole atmosphere, like the sigh of a weary strong man on turning to re-commence unusual exertion, just as I stand here in the second fosse. A Changed Man; and other tales The ancient Americans knew how to protect every height and every delta formed by the junction of two rivers with redoubts, walls, parapets, fosses, and circumvallations. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples Seeing this, Joan raised her inspiring battle-cry and descended into the fosse herself, the Dwarf helping her and the Paladin sticking bravely at her side with the standard. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 Nor was escape any longer possible, for both the plain without and the fosse within were filled with the men of Ithobal who advanced also by hundreds down the broad coping of the captured wall. Elissa A deep fosse ran along the foot of the wall. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War The earthen sides of the fosse seem to quiver under the drenching onset, though it is practically no more to them than the blows of Thor upon the giant of Jotun-land. A Changed Man; and other tales These intrenchments, generally of round or oval form, are protected by deep fosses, parapets, and palisades. Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples He left the street, and, entering the fosse, began a circuit, scanning the walls with morbid fascination. The Island Pharisees Presently a great shout announced that the enemy had gained the fosse and were setting up the ladders. Benita, an African romance If you choose to throw the money into the fosse, that is your own business, mine is to see that my castellan is paid. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War These palisades, twelve feet in length, were situated in the front of the principal fosse, and my sentinels stood within. The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 Besides, as the fosses were lower than, or on a level with, the sea, these fosses could be instantly inundated by means of subterranean sluices. The Vicomte De Bragelonne At length, in one of the Roman fosses, I stumbled and fell. John Halifax, Gentleman There was an intrenchment on the summit, and going down into the fosse I walked round it slowly to recover breath. The Story of My Heart An Autobiography At the gateway this fosse is spanned by a primitive drawbridge, which was let down by the guard to allow us to pass in. King Solomon's Mines But, in the vicinity of the gate of Benjamin, the wall arose by no means from the margin of the fosse. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 The walls are of solid mud and sun-baked bricks, carefully loopholed for musketry, while a deep fosse, by which it is surrounded, is a safeguard against a sudden surprise. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs He guided me carefully among the tan-pits—those deep fosses of abomination, with a slender network of pathways thrown between—until we reached the lower end of the yard. John Halifax, Gentleman For in the rout some of the chariots were carried into the fosse, and the Persians sprang down after them and slew man and horse where they fell. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus Half an hour later, amid the shouts and cheers of the Buffaloes, the bridge was dropped across the fosse, and the gates upon the further side were flung open. King Solomon's Mines They were encamped in tents, constructed of the old sails and spare spars of the squadron, within the limits of a redoubt mounted with a few nine-pounders, and surrounded with a fosse. Typee The eighth circle is divided into ten concentric fosses, or gulfs, in each of which some variety of fraudulent sinners is punished. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Dead leaves are wet among the moss, With weed and thistle overgrown - A ruined barge within the fosse, A castle built of crumbling stone! Ban and Arriere Ban A fosse, flooded by the waters of the Angara, was dug between the scarp and counterscarp. Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar And thus they came to occupy the old fosse, and took possession of the great orchard of the hospital, lying tranquil and sunny in the hollow below the rampart. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Our feet, we three leading, with some twenty in a clump hard behind us, rang loud on the drawbridge over the dry fosse. A Monk of Fife She had a suspicion that the corpse was in the fosse. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Life, that is its warden, Sits behind the fosse of death. New Poems And Nicolette flees, and leaps into the fosse, and thence escapes into a great forest and lonely. Letters on Literature Besides, as the fosses were lower than, or on a level with the sea, these fosses could be instantly inundated by means of subterranean sluices. Ten Years Later But she set herself, as before, to consider the walls and the fosses, bidding me write down in my little book what things were needful. A Monk of Fife It was a lucky thing for Don Marcelo that he had lingered a few moments on the bank of the fosse, sheltered by the bulk of the edifice. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse So I even abode by the fosse, and having found an arbalest, my desire was to win a chance of slaying Brother Thomas, wherefore I kept my eyes on that archère whence he had shot. A Monk of Fife Howbeit, we sprang into the fosse, under shield, wary of stones cast from above, and presently three ladders were set against the wall, and we went up, the Maid leading the way. A Monk of Fife “The place is ours!” she cried again, and spurred towards the fosse. A Monk of Fife Soon the side of the palisade towards us was all down, as if one had swept it flat with his hand, but there stood the earthen wall of the boulevard, beyond the fosse. A Monk of Fife So went the war, company after company staggering thinned from the fosse, and re-forming behind the cover of the vineyards; company after company marching forth, fresh and glorious, to fare as their friends had fared. A Monk of Fife Belike they are good, peaceful friends at the bottom of the fosse together.” A Monk of Fife On the other side of the fosse, howbeit, men were launching a pleasure-boat, which lay by a stair at the foot of the further wall of the fosse. A Monk of Fife It is true that they who would most eagerly have sought my life deemed me already dead, drowned in the fosse, and so would make no search for me. A Monk of Fife I turned my back to guard her, and felt a bolt strike my back-piece; then we were in the fosse, and all the Scots that might be were between her and harm. A Monk of Fife |
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