| 单词 | bastioned |
| 例句 | Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And on the eastern side, over their heads, the little stone town with its bastioned walls was colored in bars of salmon and pearl. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Fort George, a square, bastioned work, is the best preserved earth-work of its years in New England. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They found it entrenched in constitutions, statutes, and decisions—barricaded and bastioned by every department and by every party. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z Every absurdity has been bastioned and barricaded by the power of the state. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z The bells were tinkling peacefully for mass as we crossed the little river flowing close behind the backs of the houses, and climbed the grassy height on which the citadel stands bastioned. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z To landward the bastioned turrets known as the “Twelve Apostles” soared into a blue sky; from seaward the rollers were thundering up, in front of a steady north-west breeze. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The town is surrounded by a bastioned enceinte. The Franco-German War of 1870-71 2011-05-26T02:00:14.447Z Belgium, having some money in hand, rebuilt and improved in detail a number of bastioned fortresses which had fallen into disrepair. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z 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 It was a leafy way, and here and there between the trees we had splendid glimpses of the bastioned walls and castle-crowned heights of Avignon. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z But yonder, impassive above this scene of persecution and confusion, towered the bastioned crags of the great mountain. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z It was not the Tibet of his imagination, the Tibet of drear, waterless stretches shut in by bastioned mountains, unscalable, snow-helmeted guards. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z It will be observed that the bastioned trace is abandoned, the ditches, like those of the German fort, being defended by caponiers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z It is a very ancient place, set upon a hill and bastioned round with walls that are too high to scale, and were once impregnable. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Crossing the Loire and entering the city, with its ancient bastioned walls, carried one back a good way into the centuries. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z As an engineer Chasseloup was an adherent, though of advanced views, of the old bastioned system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" Without sharing Montalembert’s antipathy to the bastioned trace, and his predilection for high masonry caponiers, he followed out the principle of retarding the development of the attack, and provided for the most active defence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The gorge has a very slight bastioned indentation, which allows for an efficient flanking of the ditch by a couple of machine guns placed in a single casemate on either side. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z In various bastioned systems of fortification a caponier served merely as a covered means of access to outworks, the bastion trace providing for the defence of the ditch by fire from the main parapet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" East of Suez men do not build towers on the tops of hills for the sake of the view, nor do they stripe the mountain sides with bastioned stone walls to keep in cattle. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Adela sighed; for three long nights had passed, Since her brave brothers left these bastioned walls, And marched, with the confederate host, to York. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 “London is paved and bastioned with clever young men,” he would snarl. An Ocean Tramp He appears to have been the first who frankly advocated the tenaille alone, chiefly on the ground that the flank, which was the most important part of the bastioned system, was also the weakest. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z It had nine square towers, a bastioned keep on the east, and a barbican with unequal sides, which covered the Porta a Mare, or of S. Rocco. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia The close is surrounded by various ancient houses, and the embattled wall with its bastioned towers and moat encloses about fifteen acres. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel In every view of Palma, it towers solidly above the houses and bastioned walls, and insists upon having the sky as a background for the light Gothic pinnacles of its flying buttresses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A few hundred yards away stands Fort Vredenburg, a moated, bastioned, four-square fortification, garrisoned by half a thousand Dutch artillerymen, whose guns frown menacingly upon the native town and the palace of the Sultan. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China For a dry and level site he recommended a bastioned trace; but for wet ditches and for irregular ground, tenaille traces. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Its form is triangular, and the entire city is enclosed by a bastioned line of ramparts and several outworks. Eric or, Under the Sea It was in no spirit of military aggression that the Company's agents enclosed their settlement with a bastioned rampart, from whose battlements big cannon frowned on all sides round. The Story of Madras In fortification, the largest definite form of outwork, having for its head two contiguous bastioned fronts, and for its sides two long strait faces, flanked by the artillery fire of the place. 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. On the Missouri shore a bastioned redoubt, called Fort Thompson, with fourteen guns, stood below the town, and an earthwork with seven guns, called Fort Bankhead, just above the town. From Fort Henry to Corinth Next the detached forts, begun by the French engineers in 1868 and still unfinished in 1870, can be readily recognized by their bastioned trace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z It was a square bastioned affair, with walls of stone, each face eighty feet in length, and within it stood magazines, barracks, and, until destroyed by fire, the mansion of the colonial governors. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn This was a square bastioned work of three hundred feet on the side, standing on ground elevated above the reach of floods on the left bank, at the head of a horse-shoe bend. The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. In fortification, a form of outwork having for its head a bastioned front, and for its sides two long straight faces, which are flanked by the guns of the body of the place. 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. The next and still more improved form of work is the bastioned fort, which consists of projecting bastions at the corners, the fire from which enfilades the ditches. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy In practice such niceties of course disappeared, though occasionally when the ground allowed of it star forts and bastioned fronts were employed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Just without one of the massive bastioned gates of the city of Fathpur-Sikri there stood in the year 1580 a caravanserai that afforded accommodation for man and beast. Tales of Destiny The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book A slightly bastioned wall or rampart line of defence, which sometimes surrounds the body of a place; when only flanked by turrets it is called a Roman wall. 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. Fort Santo Antonio, a tall white house upon a bastioned terrace, crowns proudly enough a knob of black rock and low green growth. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative For those who objected to casemate fire, the bastioned trace was the way of salvation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Sweetness was brought for her forth of the bitter Sea’s strength, and light of the deep sea’s dark, From where green lawns on Alderney glitter To the bastioned crags of the steeps of Sark. A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems We already possessed Pera; the Golden Horn itself, the city, bastioned by the sea, and the ivy-mantled walls of the Greek emperors was all of Europe that the Mahometans could call theirs. The Last Man The Disdar Aga now accompanied me to the gate, and bidding me farewell, with graceful urbanity, re-entered the bastioned miniature citadel in which he lived almost alone. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Further on, and where the beach has widened considerably, is Fort Kinburn, a square bastioned work, extending to the sea on the south, and to the waters of the estuary on the north. Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. Before leaving the bastioned system it will be of interest to study a couple of actual and complete examples, one irregular and one regular. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z It was an irregular bastioned square, built of gravel and earth, crowned by a rampart of heavy logs, and guarded by ditches on three sides, and by the lake on the north. French and English A Story of the Struggle in America The great rock was scarped and bastioned, every line of it. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India Major Croghan and I watched the parley from one of the blockhouses that bastioned the place. Lazarre He had not brought prosperity to Ehrenstein, but he had fortified and bastioned it against extravagance, and this was probably the larger feat of the two. The Goose Girl The elements of the plan are those of the early bastioned trace, but we find added both ravelins and lunettes, very regular in design. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z To the left was a flat-topped mesa eroded to fantastic mockery of some bastioned fort. Mavericks Dresden, in 1813, had for a keep a bastioned enceinte, one front of which, however, was dismantled and had no other parapet than such as was suited to a field-work. The Art of War It was evidently a rectangular, bastioned work, and the location of the bastions and magazine can be readily made out. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation A few years later the Grand Master de la Sangle supplied the obvious deficiencies of St. Julian by enclosing it on the west and the south by a bastioned rampart. Knights of Malta, 1523-1798 Those of Paris were simply fortresses in miniature, square or pentagonal figures with bastioned fronts and containing defensible barracks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Never was tyranny so invincibly bastioned to the cowed and conquered eye. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays On the left, in an angle formed by the junction of a rivulet with the St. Lawrence, was a square bastioned fort of stone. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 It has the usual bastioned defences, besides some detached works of more importance. Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute These, erected in Elizabeth's time, are interesting as being, I believe, the only existing sample in England of the bastioned system of the 16th century…. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 The larger works were irregular four- or five-sided figures with bastioned fronts; and practically the whole interior space was taken up by a large keep, with its ditch, on the 694 polygonal system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Their men—the greater part serving without pay— labored with admirable spirit, and before winter had built a square, bastioned fort of solid masonry, with a deep ditch, and walls about twelve feet high. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century At this time there was a square bastioned fort at Pentegoet, mounted with twelve small cannon; but after the Dutch attack it fell into decay. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV Here are no castles, here no bastioned walls Divide me from a people I can bless. Wilhelm Tell It seemed almost that the bastioned wall was sensate, as if the small portholes here and there were living eyes, cold and hard with indifference, nay, even a-glitter with selfishness. The Maid of the Whispering Hills In the bastioned trace there is no “dead” ground, provided the flanks are so far apart that a shot from the rampart of a flank can reach the ditch at the centre of the curtain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z Before you opens the small lake from which the stream issues; and on your left, a stone's throw from the shore, rises a range of palisades and bastioned walls, inclosing a number of buildings. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Heigh-ho! the world went very well in the springs of old; care was in bondage, and all the many gateways to the heart were bastioned and sentineled. Half a Rogue They wound up out of the magic valley of Wind River, through the bastioned gullies and the gnome-like mystery of dry water-courses, upward and up to the level of the huge sage-brush plain above. Lin McLean She could no more move than the bastioned wall behind her. The Maid of the Whispering Hills They were soon in the majority; perhaps because the symmetry and completeness of the idea The bastioned trace. captivated the imagination. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z A sea; nor stays that sea the bastioned beach. Poems — Volume 3 To her no more the bastioned fort Shot out its swarthy tongue of fire; From bay to bay, from port to port, Her coming was the world's desire. Poems — Volume 1 The natural criticism of this arrangement is that it combines some of the defects of both the bastioned and polygonal systems without getting the full advantages of either. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The bastioned system was the 17th-century solution of the fortification problem. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z At all events the bastioned trace, once fairly developed, held the field in one form or another practically without a rival until near the end of the 18th century. 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