It has been calculated that from the time of Philippe-Auguste over a million bodies had been interred in these fosses communes.
A bridge of planks thrown over the fosses for the greater convenience of the maneuvers connected with the barrows, joined the interior to the exterior.
Besides, as the fosses were lower than, or on a level with the sea, these fosses could be instantly inundated by means of subterranean sluices.
It is somewhat conical, and consists of two steps, or gradations, where two fosses scooped out of the hill go round it, one above the other, the lower one embracing considerably the most space.
Upon the glacis we halted, and tied up the animals, and the order came to take them down into the fosses behind the arsenal.
All day long the companies were coming back with their booty, so that the fosses were filled with cattle, which remained in the open air.
Can curtains and bastions--fosses and half-moons, exclude intelligence as effectually as they do an enemy?
Germans advanced between Louvemont and Hill 347, and though the French made desperate efforts to stay the advancing waves, Les Chambrettes, Beaumont, and Fosses and Caures Woods were occupied by the enemy.
Fosses Wood and Beaumont were deluged by German shells of every caliber.
Fosses Wood, then Beaumont, were captured, then La Chaume Wood.
We came within the fosses deep, that moat This region comfortless.
The Place as we behold it dates from 1854, when the deep fosses which surrounded it in Louis XV.
A more ambitious attempt was made on the same day to force the French from their positions that extended from the northwest corner of Fosses Wood to the eastern fringe of Chaume Wood, in the Verdun area.
To the east the Germans were driven out of parts of the Fosses and Chaume Woods.
This gave them possession of the Fosses and Beaumont Woods and brought them to the outskirts of Beaumont.
The association of "les Inglais" with the fosses in the forest of Tournehem may possibly throw some light upon the curiously persistent sixfold form in which our British dene holes seem invariably to have been constructed.
And he conducted him into the Rue des Petits-Fosses to visit Bernadette's room, that low, dark chamber whence she set out on the day the Blessed Virgin appeared to her.
The Rue des Petits-Fosses starts from the former Rue des Bois, now the Rue de la Grotte, and crosses the Rue du Tribunal.
Moreover, the result of the excavations leaves no doubt on this subject: the two fosses of the countervallation have both only a depth of from eight to nine feet.
Behind these fosses he raised a rampart and a palisade (aggerem ac vallum), having together a height of twelve feet.
We call the reader's attention particularly to the numerous Roman and Gaulish coins found in one of the fosses of the camp D, the list of which will be found in Appendix C, at the end of this volume.
None of the camps of the mountain of Flavigny having been attacked, the excavations have only brought to light in the fosses a small number of objects.
The excavations have led to the discovery in the fosses of a multitude of interesting objects, and, among them, more than 600 Roman and Gaulish coins.
The excavations have brought to light, in the direction of Q R on the slopes which shelve towards the Oserain, traces of fosses and remains of walls.
The besieged thereupon threw such a quantity of arms into the fosses that they filled them almost to the height of the wall and the terrace; yet, as was afterwards discovered, they had retained about one-third.
The fosses of the little camp are clearly defined in the calcareous soil.
A fosse is associated with the defence in question, and several other subsidiary walls and fosses are found.
Maiden Castle, Dorsetshire 9 This gigantic earthwork looms darkly in the distance, with indications upon its broken outline of the enormous mounds and fosses which render it one of the most impressive examples of its class.
Two great fosses may be traced reaching from the Thame to the Thames, thus cutting off a piece of land and entirely defending it by means of water.
The circumference of this vast work measures one and a half miles, and three enormous valla and fosses stretch this distance; in many places the crest of a vallum above the fosse beneath it amounts to 60 feet.
At the four angles of the protecting walls were the principal logis, and between the lines of its ramparts or fosses was an advance-guard of buildings presumably intended for the vassals in time of danger.
Des Fosses altered his opinion when he found he was to attend the representation of a drama acted in his honour by the Jesuits' pupils.
The latter just then making a journey to Montpellier, Hemery and the Marquis desFosses followed, intending to make him prisoner there; but they judged the people's love for him would render it impossible.
Shining threads of water spun down in the highest places, sometimes falling sheer to the river, sometimes sinking out of sight in forest depths midway down, like the famed fosses of the Norway fjords.
The fosses of the castle are planted with lofty trees, which shade and intermingle with the towers and ramparts; and on every side they groupe themselves with picturesque beauty.
The rest of the outworks, which were many, have now disappeared; but people are still living in the town, who remember to have seen the fosses filled with water.
They escaped safely and arrived in a state of pardonable excitement at the deep cave under Les Fosses Farm, where my Company Headquarters and many others were.
We have only asked the Fosses so far, and we want you to be sure to save that night to come with us.
He covered his face and pressed his eyes, in a way he had when the world seemed too hopeless and baffling; then as suddenly straightened up, remarking more quietly, "The Fosses are too wise.
He had been glad to find the Fosses sharing his point of view that to forbid Giglioli a sight of Brenda before the long parting would have been unnecessarily cruel.
All the persons she had seen at the Fosses on the first Friday evening at their house Mrs. Hawthorne saw again, and many more.
The Fosses kept their house at a more human temperature than most people, but yet after years of Italy did not heat very thoroughly: one drops into the way of doing as others do, and grows accustomed to putting up with cold in winter.
Fell the rain; And to the fosses came all that the land Contained not; and as mightiest streams are wont.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
