By that assistance they reduced the fort, and got sufficient command of the river to move some of the late sunk Chevaux de frise.
He set up the frame exactly as he found it on the day of Margaret's adventure, and showed him the very crotch with which she had fixed the line on the chevaux de frise.
The gaol wall was nearly twenty-two feet high, and the chevaux de frise three feet from the point of one revolving spike to its extreme point.
She looked up at the narrow spot where the iron spike had been broken, and which was close to the shoulder or prop of the chevaux de frise.
It was six feet high on the side facing the water, with two embrasures for the guns, four feet high on the sides covered by the chevaux de frise.
In front of Colonel Haskins' position, on the north side of the town, the chevaux de frise was constructed with the two thousand pikes which were captured at Cumberland Gap early in the fall.
A few rods in front of the chevaux de frise was the abatis, formed of thick branches of trees, which likewise were firmly set in the ground.
As we stood at the parapet in Fort Rice, peering into the mist, we could see little or nothing of the assault; but we could hear the blows of the pioneers' axes on the chevaux de frise, and the shouts of command.
Immediately in front of the rifle-pits a chevaux de frise was constructed.
Some chevaux de frise, protected by the forts, and some galleys, stopped the fleet, magazines, and detachments which had been sent from the Chesapeak.
These two forts defended the chevaux de frise of the Delaware; they held out for a long time, against all the efforts of the English troops, both by sea and land.
When engaging a "chevaux de bois," you must turn off your motor instantly, for neglect to do so will probably cause your machine to fall over sideways on its wing.
The first entertainment was the Chevaux au Galop, a delightful merry-go-round with the most fiery prancing horses, three abreast, and all jumping at different moments.
A fireball danced down the steep slope of the breach and blazed brightly, showing the faces and figures of the enemy plainly, the muskets they were levelling, and an appalling chevaux de frise erected at the top of the breach.
Gallant souls, driven crazy by the hazard they endured, and filled with fearful determination, clambered to that chevaux de frise and were there slaughtered.
Fifty feet beyond the outside wall of the moat rose a chevaux de frise built of squared cedar logs twelve feet long, set in the ground and fastened together by longitudinal timbers.
Beyond the chevaux de frise was another ditch, fourteen feet wide, of which the outer bank was a high earthwork.
The lightning flared again, a long quivering stroke, and the heads of half a dozen men appeared at the crest of the chevaux de frise, not twenty feet away.
The danger itself gave them new strength, and they quickly crossed the ground to the chevaux de frise, where they crouched against the tall cedar posts.
The walls surrounding the prison were thirty feet high and were crowned with a chevaux de frise to prevent escape.
From this he reached the boundary wall headed with its chevaux de frise and creeping along till he found a foothold made fast a rope he had brought with him to one of the spikes just over Fleet market.
Watch-towers had been built and roofs and walls were sometimes protected by putting nails in the building points outward,--a sort of chevaux de frise.
At the bottom of the ditches chevaux de frise of long panjis were fixed.
First it was necessary to find my poilus---- I followed the line of chevauxde frise, my revolver in hand.
We had to install certain wire entanglements and chevaux de frise[16] in front of our trench of the first line.
The roads are broken up, fields flooded until they resemble marshes, and sometimes there are trenches, chevaux de frise, reminding the traveller that the barbarians are still very near.
At the entrance to Rheims there are defences of all kinds: stone barriers, trenches, chevaux de frise, sentinels with crossed bayonets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chevaux" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
