The mutineers were endeavouring to force a barricade of carts which the escort of the convoy had thrown across the street, and which was flanked on each side by a house.
The barricade at the foot of the winding stair had been blown up, and a fierce contest was now going on.
If it was so, still greater was the necessity for speed, since at any moment the attack on the tower might be begun and the frail barricade forced or blown up.
A body of Normans having given way, the Kentish men in their eagerness overleaped the barricade and gave chase to their flying foes.
Others struggled onward, to be received by savage cries from the Britons, who tore stones from the barricade to hurl at their advancing foes.
Barricade the city, the streets, and the houses; make bullets, and put your arms ready.
Deafening cheers responded to him, and then the Tyrolese rushed through the streets to barricade the city in accordance with Teimer's orders.
We must barricade the gates, and erect barricades in the streets.
The situation looked critical until a brawny Highlander sprang upon the captured barricade and, holding unsupported a ponderous Lewis gun, pumped in a tray of ammunition over the heads of his comrades.
Setley soon had evidences of the desperate courage of the Prussian Guard, for on approaching the barricade at the outskirts of the village scores of Germans boldly quitted shelter and attacked the Tank with bombs.
Beyond the barricade the advance came to a standstill.
Before the terrific fire from the windows and from behind the barricade the whole column of royal troops at first recoiled and fled back in confusion.
The dead body of the man shot while defending the barricade was paraded in blood-stained ghastliness through the streets, exciting frenzied passions.
He was snoring before I had finished building a barricade of cloak between us to keep as much as possible of his touch and smell away.
All about the sides and rear of the house were laid boughs, one upon another, and on the top of this barricade was stretched a long cord threaded with hawk's bells.
He was better looking, she reflected, now that she had an unobstructed view of him, even than he had appeared when she had peered at him from her concealment behind the log and barricade of rushes.
Nothing daunted, they obtained help from the artillery, who man-handled a gun into position and blew the barricade to pieces, scattering the defenders.
Illustration: From out of our barricade whistled three bullets, and every one found its mark.
From, out of our barricadewhistled three bullets, and every one found its mark!
They understand barricade fighting particularly well in their large well-built dwellings, and if it comes to the worst fly by subterranean passages.
This is the case at least with the rufibarbes, while the rather less timid fuscae try, even at the last moment when it is useless, to stop up or barricade the entrances.
There is, as Forel tells us, a regularbarricade fight.
We at once brought in our horses and mules, and tethered them in the rear of the camp; then calling on our Indians to assist us, we felled a couple of trees, which we placed so as to form a barricade in front.
I was returning, when what was my dismay to see half-a-dozen dark forms leap over the barricade and place themselves between Dick and me.
He unhesitatingly pledged his honour, and immediately the barricade was partially removed.
The people immediately erected a barricade at the farthest extremity of the principal street.
The moment the troop entered the street, a similar barricade was constructed in the rear.
The officer in command made no demonstration of active resistance; and as he approached the last barricade he was surrounded by a great multitude.
The road leading to this great destiny can only be blocked by injurious legislation, and the good sense of our citizens may be confidently relied upon to prevent the creation of such a barricade against national prosperity.
The other day I watched it at work on a heavy barricade being constructed by night and day by the methodical enemy.
Another five minutes passed, and then a piece of curved bamboo moved over the barricade and hunted about.
You remember the V-shaped barricade garrisoned by Russian sailors, I spoke about a few days ago?
The meeting took place under the American barricade on the Tartar Wall itself, apparently to give confidence to the men and to make them ashamed of themselves.
So the doomed Russian reached the first Chinese barricade unmolested, put a leg over, and then fell back with a terrible cry as a dozen rifles were emptied into his body.
We dug a broad moat behind the gate, and threw up a respectable barricade with the earth we had gained.
This barricadefaces in both directions in the shape of a V, and under its protection this part of Legation Street is supposed to be safe from a rush, if the men stand firm.
He passed a first French barricade and reached an outer second barrier manned by volunteers, who challenged him roughly and then refused to let him pass.
There was barricade for barricade, loophole for loophole, and sandbag for sandbag.
Very soon there was a partial explanation of why this immensebarricade had been built.
The same evening that the boys reached the rocky pass, a messenger pigeon arrived at Rockburg, bearing a note which concluded in the following words: "The barricade at the Gap broken down.
A systematic scheme of defense was now elaborated, and the erection of the barricade occupied us for at least a month, as it was to be a firm and durable building, proof against all invasion.
This barricade was the first check that had been placed by hand of man upon the wild free will of nature in this lonely place.
Forrest attempting to get to the rear of his force, encountered the camp guard of some hundred men left by Lester to protect his camp, posted behind a strong barricade of wagons and some large ledges of rocks, difficult to carry.
Then all the seven were put up against the barricade and shot.
We caught sight of the Apaches bearing down upon us, and had just time to take shelter in the hut and barricade the doors and windows, before they readied it.
The barricade at the end of the passage that communicated with the ring was opened and the noises of the multitude and the echoes of the music were borne in with more intensity.
As soon as it had passed the barricade at the entrance of the village, a heavy fire was poured into it from the houses at both sides of the main street.
An ambulance cart went up to a barricade this morning which crosses the main street, when a Prussian sentinel emerged and ordered it to go back immediately.
Here I found the barricade which had formed our most advanced post removed.
A few days ago, some French soldiers, behind a barricade a little in advance of the Moulin Saqui, saw a Bavarian crawl towards them, waving a white flag.
I drove this morning through the fighting faubourgs with a member of the Barricade Committee.
This was no easy task, for with four times the number of men that were at his service the officer would have found it difficult to bar and barricade the lower windows of the plantation house and secure the doors back and front.
The middy loosened his hold of the cutlass just in time, and catching hold of the black's hand with both his own, dragged him over the barricade right into the room.
Meanwhile, they dealt successfully with the barricade which threatened the Porte Drouaise.
Under cover of this bombardment, a party of soldiers massed themselves behind the barricade in preparation for the assault.
In order, if possible, to destroy the barricade which protected this trench a gun-platform was hastily erected, and some heavy pieces placed in position.
For windows they had cloth soaked in oil, but now the curtains of fur were dropped within and a barricade raised without.
The whole of the 200 men who had been placed behind the barricade were armed with muskets, and each hidden behind the leafy screen rested his piece on a branch, and prepared to pour his fire into the column as it advanced.
I will place a hundred of my best men at the barricade to defend the guns should the column press forward in spite of our efforts; but I believe that we shall have an easy victory.
