If a defensive zone of the same importance is disposed on the north, a point becomes very dangerous, especially if the capital is provided with an enceinte de preservation, and an enceinte de combat allowing an army to manoeuvre.
The interior zone would consist of permanent works, forming an enceinte de preservation; a line of forts at intervals sufficiently strengthened, in case of war, by field works.
The subjects treated in this lowest enceinte are of the most varied description, forming a picture-gallery of landscapes, scenes of outdoor and domestic life, mingled with mythological and religious designs.
The general enceinte is formed by an impervious hedge of bamboos 40 to 70 ft.
Out of these groves rise the towers and domes of Sassari, the enceinte of its grey battlemented walls, and the lofty masses of its white houses.
The walls of the enceinte and the four towers at the corners are in good preservation, and show marks of the wooden buildings formerly erected against them for accommodating the soldiers.
The inner enceinte is square in shape and of very great height, thus commanding the ramparts of the outer; it has the usual towers, of immense strength, and is finished with a grand array of battlements.
The Motte is now crowned by a Shell Keep, seen towards the right of the picture, while some of the other buildings erected upon the enceinte form an effective group in the centre.
There are three wards within the enceinteof the Castle which encloses about 5 acres of land, the middle ward and that to the east being at one time covered by the buildings of the ancient town.
The Keep at Oxford stands upon the enceinte at some distance from the Shell Keep, while at Rochester and Canterbury the new additions were erected outside the original castle.
A circular barbican protects the main entrance to the Castle, while in the south-east angle of the enceinte wall an imposing rectangular tower has been built, containing the remains of an ancient postern.
Portions of the wall of enceinte are to be found upon the south and east.
The outer enceinte is an almost regular octagon, strengthened by towers at each of the angles and in the centre of each curtain, excepting the one in which the entrance gateway is placed.
The new enceinte encloses the old communes of Esquermes, Wazemmes and Moulins-Lille, the area of the town being thus more than doubled.
The present enceinte is pierced by numerous gates, including water gates for the canal of the Deule and for the Arbonnoise, which extends into a marsh in the south-west corner of the town.
Outside the enceinte populous suburbs surround the city on every side.
The meeting was held in the Grand Logis of the enceinte of the Château du Milieu.
A royal corpse reposed upon the state tester bedstead within the great Hall of Audiences in the enceinte of the Castle of Angers, and a royal widow knelt humbly at a prie-dieu at his feet.
Whilst theenceinte was in course of erection the Burggraf Frederic VI.
The rest of the enceinte consisted of the ditch and walls and towers.
Indeed the keep, in several crusader castles, is no more than a tower, larger than the rest, built into the enceinte and serving with the rest for its flanking defence, while the fortress was made strongest on the most exposed front.
It is impossible to mark out theenceinte of the ancient town, or indeed to emplace it with any exactitude.
The line of the ancient enceinte may still be traced around the three outer sides of the island.
After she had borne Shigemori she became enceinte and her husband, Kiyomori, looked eagerly for the birth of another boy.
The beautiful danseuse, being enceinte at the time, was kept in prison until her confinement.
When she became enceinte her husband dreamed that the sacred sword of the war deity, Hachiman, had been given to him, and the boy came to be called Hachiman Taro.
The line of the enceinte is broken with flanks and further flanked by the towers.
It will be noticed that while the large casemated caponier at Posen breaks the enceinte and flanks it both without and within, at Antwerp the caponier is detached--a much sounder arrangement--and flanks the front only.
The outer enceinte was next captured by surprise; and finally the gate of the main wall was breached by the pioneers.
It marks an essential difference between the fort and the old enceinte profiles; showing that offensive action is not expected from the garrison of the fort, and is the duty of the troops of the intermediate lines.
It has been proposed to construct the enceinte in sections in front of the salient portions of the place.
Here and elsewhere the enceinte was simplified on account of the advanced defences.
There is also the ditch at the foot of the glacis, and surrounding the rampart of the enceinte a continuous fausse-braie.
An enceinte is desirable, but need not be elaborate.
The vulnerable point of the enceinte facing the Versaillese was on the south-west, the salient of the Point du Jour, defended by the fort of Issy.
Its only decisive victories were against the houses of the enceinte and the suburbs.
He gave orders for the construction of a second enceinte of barricades, and of three citadels at Montmartre, the Trocadero, and the Pantheon, but never personally concerned himself about their execution.
The bastions of the enceinte supported it very little.
On the 8th May, in the morning, seventy marine pieces began to attack the enceintefrom the bastion 60 to the Point du Jour.
Five thousand Versaillese approached the enceinte from all sides, while the artillery of the bastion furrowed the interior.
It knows, it would have understood, even if you had not said so on all sides, that as soon as the soldiers cross the enceinte you will rally round the national flag.
The batteries in the rear continued to pound the enceinte of the Point du Jour and to confound Passy.
Women who were enceinte were ripped open, that the little Huguenots might be snatched from their wombs, to be thrown, to be devoured, to pigs and dogs.
In the year 436, Theodoric, King of the Visigoths, superseded both these parties; and it is during his oc- cupation that the inner enceinte was raised upon the ruins of the Roman fortifications.
In places, as you stand upon it, the great towered and embattledenceinte produces an illusion; it looks as if it were still equipped and defended.
A large part of the crumbling enceinte disposes itself over the hill; but for the rest, all that has preserved any traceable cohesion is a considerable portion, of the citadel.
Caponniers are works constructed to cover the passage of the ditch from the tenaille to the gorge of the demi-lune, and also from the demi-lune to the covered way, by which communication may be maintained between the enceinte and outworks.
The Fortress (which in early days must have comprised little more than the enceinte of the present ruined castle,) appears to have remained in the undisturbed possession of the Mussulmans for six entire centuries.
The summit of the crag, in the usual Moorish fashion, is crowned by an old castle, the enceinte of which is rather extensive.
Rashiduddin says the enceintehad a diameter of 11 parasangs, and that there were three post stages between the two extremities of the city, which is probably what Ibn Batuta had heard.
The city was 4 miles from its port, which the traveller calls Sarha; he describes the capital as a large and fine town, surrounded with an enceinte and bastions of timber.
They became enceinteby the Wind, or by eating a particular fruit [or by plunging into the sea; cf.
You may walk round the enceinte of Aigues-Mortes both outside and in; but you may not, as at Carcassonne, make a portion of this circuit on the chemin de ronde, the little projecting footway attached to the inner face of the battlements.
A large part of the crumbling enceintedisposes itself over the hill; but for the rest, all that has preserved any traceable cohesion is a considerable portion of the citadel.
In the year 436 Theodoric King of the Visigoths superseded both these parties; and it was during his occupation that the inner enceinte was raised upon the ruins of the Roman fortifications.
After the establishment of Belgian independence Antwerp was defended only by the citadel and an enceinte of about 2-1/2 m.
Nothing, however, remains of the formerenceinte or even of the famous old citadel defended by General Chasse in 1832, except the Steen, which has been restored and contains a museum of arms and antiquities.
Then if the city grew up to this extended enceinte the outer forts would be too near.
At Antwerp the old citadel and enceintewere removed.
As soon as the enceinte was finished eight detached forts from 2 to 2-1/2 m.
The enceinte is pierced by nineteen openings or gateways, but of these seven are not used by the public.
If it were removed there arose the further question, should a new enceinte be made at the first line of outer forts, or should an enceinte be dispensed with?
This enceinte still exists, and is a fine work of art.
An enceinte following the line of those forts would be 30 m.
The much-discussed removal of the existing enceinte in order to give Antwerp further growing space.
The other example related in the same work, is of a girl who fell into a trance and was regarded as dead, and became enceinte during this interval, without knowing the author of her pregnancy.
It is a square enceinte of rude stones about one hundred yards each side; and legends say that one Misr, a Galla chief, when dying, ordered the place to be filled seven times with she-camels destined for his Ahan or funeral feast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enceinte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
