Bassompierre strongly urged that the attempt should be made, and was supported by Lesdiguières; but the other generals opposed it, and Marillac declared that to descend into the fosse meant certain death.
He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed.
The Count is at this moment cooling his heels in the fosse cell.
Is he to lie in the fosse till the Sheriff sends for him or till the great MacCailen Mor has forgiven him for telling him he was a little over the age of thirty?
The fosse was wide and deep, girding the four-square castle, mantled on its outer walls by dense ivy, where a few birds twittered.
Many a time he looked out of his window into the fosse slow drifting full of snow; and though he could not from that point see the cell-door of his prisoner, his fancy did enough to feed his unhappiness.
The only place in the neighbourhood where he could obscure his footsteps in that white night of stars was in the castle itself--perhaps in the very fosse whence he had made his escape.
Bewcastle Church is a small edifice, standing on a rising ground near the castle, a fosse surrounding them both.
The wide fosse which encircled the prison at the foot of and within the wall is omitted, nor is there a sufficient space left between the wall and the prison buildings to admit of such a fosse being shown in the model.
He dug a deep fosse and raised a large 'mur' or rampart of earth all round the sacred enclosure, so that in future one or two faithful attendants could defend the narrow entrance of the fort against sudden attack.
It was situated on an isolated promontory rising high above the sea, and separated from the mainland by a wall and fosse about 220 feet in length.
Later on he discovered that the ardent lover used to row along the fosse and enter the garden that way.
His suspicion had been emphasised by the fact of his finding a handkerchief on the fosse bank, opposite the garden, only ten days before.
The fosse in the rock and the narrow platform at the foot of the wall were alike crowded with foes, who were planting a number of ladders side by side.
The outlines of the castle had been traced, and the ground dug for its foundations, while already the broad deep fosse which was to surround it had been dug to a depth of several feet.
The earthen wall is covered on the north side by a deep, on the south side by a shallow, fosse; each fosse is closed off by a bank.
A fosse lies also in front of the stone-wall to the north.
The south-most and probably oldest is a simple earthen wall with (singularly) a fosse in front of it towards the south; whether of Roman origin may be doubtful.
CLVII He bids forthwith the Moorish ensigns be Borne to the camp, which fosse and rampart span.
He stood not, he, to mark the bulwark's plight Nor if the fosse of certain bottom were.
Into the fosse below the paynim foes Return, amid a storm of strokes and blows.
I had but time to see that he was heading for the great fosse of the boulevard, when we were already on its brink.
At Fosse post the enemy managed, after a short struggle, to drive in the north flank, the remainder of the garrison being compelled to fight their way back to the Fosse Bridge.
The 7th Gordon Highlanders and the 6th Black Watch ultimately took up a position on the west bank of the Lawe from just north of Fosseto Lestrem inclusive, the 7th Gordon Highlanders being on the right.
At this period the shelling was intense, being particularly violent on Fosse village and on both banks of the Lawe.
Shortly after dark a heavy attack was launched from the village of Fosse northwards.
These troops withdrew to Fosse post, which, with the assistance of the battalion headquarters of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders, they occupied on three sides.
The defenders of the bridges were then driven back, and became absorbed in the line, held as a chord line to the Lestrem Loop, along the Lestrem-Fosse road.
There is, on a high mountainous ridge above the farm of Ashestiel, a fosse called Wallace's Trench.
Here he drew up his horse on the edge of a fosse that had a cuvette in the middle of it with a covered way along it, from which the French were still firing from platoons and muskets.
A dozen muskets were aimed at him; he seemed not to notice them, but set his horse at a little fosse that crossed his path, and leapt over the dead French and bloody gazons that filled it.
Boufflers sent to request a two days' truce that he might bury the dead who filled fosse and ditch.
Look, Mademoiselle, at the Fosse Way, stretching yonder across the hills: figure yourself a daughter of the old Roman homestead standing here and watching the little cloud of dust that meant the retreating column, the last of your protection.
They grew to believe that relief would never come, that for all time they must exist in the grim shadows of Maple Copse, of Fosse Wood and of Armagh Wood.
At its foot, too, a wide and deep fosse had been cut in the solid rock: rendering it impossible for the assailants to advance to the attack, until this was filled up.
Across this neck of land a deep fosse had been dug, so as to cut off all approach.
But, on the northwest, the walls had not been made equally strong; nor had the fosse been continued from Psephinus to the Jaffa Gate.
The 10th Corps had had to fall back with some loss, and were taking up ground known as the "Fosse Position," on the south side of the Sambre.
