How To Use Enfilade In A Sentence

  • Meanwhile the enemy, desperate but still confident, poured in a heavy fire from his line and from a battery which enfiladed the Brook road, and made Yellow Tavern an uncomfortably hot place. She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
  • Charlotte Moss This window in a hornbeam hedge at d'Orsan provides a view of the enfilade of outdoor rooms. Stately French Gardens
  • The master bath, dining space and living space are arranged enfilade about a centerline that leads through a double-height window wall to a sculpture garden and the park beyond. Vanguard Way House by Morrison Seifert Murphy
  • Set within an arch above the grand staircase, it had as a backdrop a dramatic enfilade of columns. Michael Henry Adams: Saluting the Met's Gay Gala!
  • On their left flank, Stuart pushed forward at least a dozen cannon, which enfiladed the Federal ranks. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
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  • Architecturally, the original house had a very strong enfilade, which he extended with a new dining area and courtyard, treated here as an outdoor room.
  • When fully open, there is a wonderful journey from the grand first gallery to the cross-axial connection to galleries two and three, and then on to the stepped enfilade of galleries three, four and five.
  • Sullivan lifted the second story of his house onto piers holding it over the enfilade of the first floor and its high brick basement.
  • Soane's enfilade at Dulwich Picture Gallery is one of the great jewels in the world," says gallery Director Ian Dejardin. Dulwich's 200-Year-Old Jewel
  • He insisted that the column of attack would be enfiladed from Round Top. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
  • The ditch was enfiladed by cannon mounted on triangular bastions. Champlain's Dream
  • In the morning we expected orders to advance, but as soon as we could use our glasses we found that we were far ahead of our neighbours, and were, in fact, enfiladed from the Turkish positions on our left. The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919
  • The east and west ditches are enfiladed by small, two storey demi caponiers whilst the main ditch is covered by a full caponier.
  • Charlotte Moss This window in a hornbeam hedge at d'Orsan provides a view of the enfilade of outdoor rooms. Stately French Gardens
  • For now I saw what Lew had seen - the fool was never going to wheel, he was taking the Light Brigade straight into the heart of the Russian army, towards those massive batteries at the valley foot, that were already belching at us, while the cannon on either side were raking us from the flanks, trapping us in a terrible enfilade that must smash the whole command to pieces. The Sky Writer
  • There is a wonderful flow of space and light, with enfilades leading the eye through double doors and wafting curtains to the azure sea.
  • I've been setting up enfilade fire from defilade positions, with aspects of grazing/plunging speculative fire suppression all morning. Warning! Time Waster Ahead!
  • Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
  • Thence he made his way, with the kitten skirmishing along beside him in the grass, to a staircase that led to a lump of projecting rock that enfiladed the huge green majesty of the Horseshoe Fall. The War in the Air
  • To evoke the enfilade, two long galleries were divided into rows of rooms, the doors between them fixed open, their interiors cosseted by paneled wainscoting, velvet walls and tufted furniture.
  • Though the two made a point of being cordial to each other after World War I, Donovan confided to Putzell that he always resented MacArthur being so slow to protect his right flank from the murderous enfilade at Landres-et-Saint-Georges. Wild Bill Donovan
  • The master bath, dining space and living space are arranged enfilade about a centerline that leads through a double-height window wall to a sculpture garden and the park beyond. Vanguard Way House by Morrison Seifert Murphy
  • Routes through the galleries are arranged to encourage wandering, with some openings arranged enfilade, but with occasional departures from axiality.
  • Bellini has also introduced heavy and disturbing portals between galleries, that distract attention in views of the enfilade.
  • The overall design of each battery was that of an irregular pentagon surrounded by a deep ditch, which was enfiladed by three caponiers and a counter-scarp gallery.
  • Davout deployed all of his artillery on the French side of the river which was not fordable, so it could only be crossed at one of the two bridges spanning the water so that it could enfilade any Russian attack on the long ridge that was perpendicular to the Russian cavalry, thereby screening the advancing French infantry. Archive 2009-05-01
  • The can get a perfect enfilade on the redoubts so we are going to strengthen the traverses. The 5th Seaforth Highlanders in the trenches
  • Meer Baber Beg has placed his fortress in a very respectable state of defence, quite adequate to repel the desultory inroads of his predatory neighbours; but commanded by and exposed to enfilade from the hills about it, on one of these hills he has built a tower as a kind of outwork, but it is very weak and of insignificant size. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
  • But 'enfilade' is in my top 5 most awesomest things ever, and 'one armed scissor' rocks my world. Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • Pierre at first failed to distinguish anything, but, when he was installed at the little table -- a garden-table which had been brought indoors for the occasion, and on which there was scarcely room for two covers -- he felt quite upset, almost sick, in fact, at the sight presented by the _table d'hote_, which his glance now enfiladed from end to end. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
  • Nineteen exhibition spaces are arranged as an enfilade of rooms that define an L-shaped route through the building, with its Italian marble columns and high ceilings.
  • Views through doorways, echoing traditional enfilade arrangements, permit comparisons. Irascible Still
  • The following year, after Waterloo, work began on the improvements planned by Samuel Ware, who renovated and amended the great enfilade of Palladian reception rooms.

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