Beyond it the upcast earth is so disposed as to form the glacis proper, for about 50 feet before dipping to the general ground level.
With such a garrison, and the advantage of a strong position behind a glacis which could be swept from end to end by rifle fire, the fort was obviously secure against direct attack with a force of only eleven hundred and fifty men.
The whole force moved quickly through the woodland, gained the bottom of the glacis with a rush, and began the ascent.
First, the difficulty of reaching the island and landing my men; then the difficulty of storming a fort defended by such high outworks and a glacis to boot.
Between himself and the glacis the land was absolutely clear of trees.
The level of the glacis is higher than that of the covered way by seven or eight feet.
This covered way is about thirty feet wide, its outward boundary being the face of the glacis or sloping plane, this last so situated that men marching along it to attack the fortress are in the direct range of the guns.
The Germans labored up the glacis slowly at the most exposed places; now crawling on their bellies, now creeping on hands and knees, but, in the main, moving with erect and steady bearing.
Defn: The highest portion of the glacisproceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.
Defn: A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Inform him that he may examine my prison, double the sentinels, and give me his commands, stating what hour will please him I should make my appearance on the glacis of Klosterbergen.
This marsh was that green, flat sponge of mud and moss that stretched from this point to the glacis of Louisbourg.
The glacis sloped down to a vast marsh, which formed one of the best defences of the place.
The ball, skipping languidly out, had dropped down the embankment outside and rolled along the ground with hardly more force than if impelled down an alley by a passable player at bowls, barely reaching the glacis before coming to a full halt.
The pirates retreated a few steps in two parties, headed by the old chief and his young lieutenant, and, with a yell, rushed forward and up the human glacis to the quarter-deck.
A little wicket inserted in the Venetian blinds which surrounded this floral gallery she pushed open, and issued into the open air and upon a lawn that extended close up to the foot of the glacis that environed the Rondeel.
The whole of theglacis and of the ground before the fort for some hundred yards was burrowed up and pitted by the craters of bombs, which made prodigious holes in the soft sand on which they expended their force.
But a certain number of those glorious dead remained lying on the glacis or in the ditches of the place.
The attack was carried out across an open glacis by the 2nd Rifle Brigade and by the Inniskilling Fusiliers, the men of Pieter's Hill.
A ridge for their centre, a flanking kopje for their cross fire, and a grass glacis for the approach--it was an ideal Boer battlefield.
In the autumn of 1825 Beethoven moved to his last lodging, in what is called the Schwarzpanier House, situated on the glacis of the suburb of Waehring.
The morning was fine; and at an early hour crowds of people began to assemble on the Glacis of Alservorstadt, the quarter of the town in which Beethoven resided.
Neither ditch nor glacis exist on the eastern face, where the rapids of the Nile render them unnecessary.
Moreover, the crown of the glacis and the wideglacis itself were also reveted with stone.
But at a distance of thirteen feet from the walls there was a glacis similar to that at Semneh.
The glacis is formed of a bed of basalt in all stages of decomposition, with which this, like the other sandstone hills of Central India, was once covered, and of the debris and chippings of the rocks above.
If he took possession at all he soon gave it up and removed to one in the Walfischgasse looking out over the city wall and glacis directly upon the place where the Polytechnic Institute now stands.
Not a word to intimate that Beethoven had not occupied his rooms with him until at the usual time for changing lodgings he had crossed the Glacis to Pasqualati's house; not a word of complaint--nothing but deepest pity and heartiest sympathy.
There was the sound of a gentle chuckle from the glacis where Learoyd lay.
Ortheris took Mulvaney's tendered pouch and we three smoked gravely for a space while the dust-devils danced on the glacis and scoured the red-hot plain.
The glacis was very narrow, extending only 50 or 60 yards from the counterscarp, and covering barely one-half of the walls from the besiegers' view.
Medley handed him the ladder and rod, and followed him with two riflemen, the other four remaining on the crest of the glacis to cover their retreat.
Looking from the top of the glacis we could see the broad meadow of Eichmatt, and above it the hills of Mittelbronn covered with snow.
Upon the glacis we halted, and tied up the animals, and the order came to take them down into the fosses behind the arsenal.
Thirty years before we had been at Father Genaudet's school, and we had scoured the city, the moats, and the glacis together, as children.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glacis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
