If those views had been the sole cause, the decree would have been more comprehensible and defensible in view of the opinions of the age.
Cannot you close with him, or else occupy a defensibleposition which will obstruct his advance?
There was to be a cluster of inhabited dwellings which as a whole was to be made defensible by ditch and mound, by palisade or wall.
He hears reports of what has been done to make Essex defensible and of two famous burgs built in Mercia; but the military system of Wessex he knows[1685].
The term burh seems to spread outwards from the defensible house of the king and with it the sphere of his burh-bryce is amplified.
At least, if the appointment be not defensible upon this principle, I am at a loss to discover any other tenable point.
The seizure was a high-handed act, hardly defensible in law, and of the same class with many acts rendered, or supposed to be rendered, necessary by the inefficiency of the Spanish administration in Florida.
Whether his treatment of Duane was to be equally defensible became more and more a subject of vital consequence to Mr. Gallatin.
O'Donnell reached the neighbourhood first, and encamped in a strongly defensible position, "plashed on every quarter" for greater security.
The policy of the Protector towards Ireland is even less defensiblethan his military severities.
The armistice was granted, on condition that Montmartre, the only defensible part of the line which the French still continued to occupy, should be delivered up to the allies.
It was now determined to seek a more defensible position on the banks of a creek seven miles nearer Camden.
I am greatly mistaken, notwithstanding, if there be any article in the whole plan more completely defensible than this.
It would never do to sustain a siege on the rock or kop, which, however defensible if provisioned, was sure to be taken by starvation in the long-run.
From the Umlatoosi to St. Paul's Mission Station used to be a bad and most difficult road, but all the dangerous places were now levelled, and a strong and defensible position was given.
A detachment of all arms under Colonel Hale of the Eighty-Second was placed in the jail and its enclosure as the most defensible position, and the army resumed its march on the 2nd.
The treaty must be allowed to be more defensible on the score of policy, than of good faith.
He did not reach a defensible point in time; his vanguard was defeated and he retreated along the highroad to Santiago, leaving San Martin to reunite his two divisions at his leisure in the broad Aconcagua plain.
In the meantime, Albuquerque, the Brazilian commander, had retired to a defensible ranch commanding the road between Recife and Olinda, and whence communication could be kept up with the sea by way of Cape St. Augustine.
By the latter part of April the work was in a partially defensible condition, and the 7th infantry, Major Jacob Brown commanding, was marched in to garrison it, with some few pieces of artillery.
General Worth reached a defensible position just out of range of the enemy's guns on the heights north-west of the city, and bivouacked for the night.
That the courtes of guard and the rayles or barrs at the utmost partes of the freedome be made defensible and turnepikes placed there in lieu of the chaynes all muskett proof.
This end being less defensible than the northern, Jack had already placed the greater number of his men in cover here in anticipation of the arrival of the Russian turning column.
The sylphishness of Le Mari Sylphe is only an ingenious and defensible fraud; and the philtre-flasks of Alcidonis are little more than "properties.
Thus, my lords, without paying any regard to the determination of the other house, I think the bill sufficiently defensible by reason and policy; nor can I conceal my opinion, that those who oppose it are the real enemies of their country.
Besides, the position of Ladysmith is no more defensible than that of Dundee.
