How To Use Breastwork In A Sentence
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Upon further inspection of the breastworks, I have come to the conclusion that the town was almost impregnable.
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The "plunderers," if such they may be called, were not the fiery South Carolinians who, under Kershaw, had so fearlessly and fiercely stormed and carried the Union breastworks at dawn.
Reminiscences of the Civil War
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But if you know the trail through the paddies, you can walk among the weeds, cross the shallow dip which was a moat, pass by lumps of rain-pressed earth once called breastworks and stand on a flat place so hard packed the grass does not grow.
The Village
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_Devastation_ type of turret-ship were retained, mounted fore and aft, but instead of placing them in turrets, the turret armour was fixed to the deck, forming what is known as a "barbette," or breastwork, over the upper edge of which the gun fired.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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One of the shells landed on the breastwork of our shelter and did not explode.
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Everything the actor owned formed a crude breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step.
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He ordered soldiers to tear down breastworks and use the logs to feed the fires.
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Militiamen dug in their heels behind meager breastworks and awaited the arrival of their adversaries.
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It was absolutely necessary to get time in which to throw up some kind of breastworks or defenses for the city, and he at once resolved on a night attack against the British.
Hero Tales from American History
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I have a hundred axmen in my charge, felling timber on the mountain, and constructing rough breastworks to protect our left flank.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
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From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.
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They worked to erect small semicircular breastworks from the many rocks that dotted the terrain.
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Is it to be found in the shell-windowed streets of Java towns -- beside the low breastworks of Saigon -- along the ice-flinted slopes of Northern China?
Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
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Calis gave orders for a defensive perimeter to be established, and a company began digging a breastwork.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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The mountain side, as he well knew, was thickly strewn with dry branches, dead limbs, uprooted trees and all manner of combustible material, and the very warriors who, when around their own "rancheria," would have disdained doing a stroke of work of any kind, were now laboring like so many beavers to add to the great pile that was already almost on a level with the breastwork and not more than eight feet away.
Sunset Pass or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land
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‘Take it slow, guys,’ a sergeant of the Pennsylvanians called out as the troops approached the fortifications and breastworks.
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Any man who burns his picket stake, section of breastworks, or pilum shaft will be flogged and beheaded—we may need them to fight Parthian raids off.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door.
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The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees.
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Round the corner of an old building pour forth a company of soldiers in "undress" — very "undress" — costume, looking like a troop of navvies, though one-half may be men of fortune and position, who at home command their hundred servants and their carriages and horses, but here willingly, eagerly, shoulder their axe, and sally forth at dawn of day to throw up breastworks and erect batteries.
Yorktown, Virginia
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In front of the breastworks was another chain -- a wider and thicker one.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
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When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains.
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This was a cremaillere infantry breastwork of strong profile, with heavy enclosed redoubts at distances of 700 and 800 yards, having defensive relations to each other.
Memoirs of the War of Secession
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The few warriors in the camp used their horses for breastworks, standing behind them when they were on their feet, and lying down behind them after they were shot down.11 In the midst of the struggle, the white soldiers found themselves under attack from fifteen or so dogs from the Indian camp, who tried valiantly to defend their Indian masters.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
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Glory apart, I could think for a long time without hitting on anywhere beastlier to be except perhaps just the other side of a breastwork thirty yards off where the Bosch has been dropping heavy crumps in threes with monotonous regularity since an indecent hour this morning.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916
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The cavalry horses were watered at the spring, and the men settled in their breastworks.
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Calis gave orders for a defensive perimeter to be established, and a company began digging a breastwork.
SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks, throwing up great clouds of dirt.
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Behind these natural breastworks, the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen.
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The regiment gained the enemy's breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over.
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There was probably a timber breastwork along the top.
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With this branch of their work, Captain Tempe was determined that they should be thoroughly acquainted, and they were taught how to use cover of all kinds with advantage; how to defend a building, crenelate a wall, fell trees to form an obstacle across roads, or a breastwork in front of them; and how to throw themselves into square, rapidly, to repel cavalry.
The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
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It threaded through the hills which surrounded the Empire's capital like a huge, natural breastwork.
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Up ahead were gentle country hills, picket fences - and what looked like breastworks and fortifications.
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Yet I still felt muddled, as the breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.
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A submachine-gunner delivers more accurate fire using the breastwork to steady his weapon.
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The Indians improvised breastworks on nearby hillsides and fought back but could only watch helplessly as soldiers burned tepees, blankets, and sacred objects, destroyed tons of dried buffalo meat, and seized 750 ponies and a thousand buffalo robes.
Between War and Peace
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Stockard and Bill attacked the few standing pines with their axes, felling them into convenient breastworks.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
