This main wall carried a parapetloopholed for musketry 8 feet in height and 3 feet in thickness.
At either end rose towers of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
Kimberley could not at first believe war to be possible between the Dutch and English, though they saw the regular troops putting up earthworks and loopholed forts all round the town.
The exterior walls enclosing the palace are 60 feet high, and built of red sandstone, loopholed and crenellated, and make a noble appearance.
On the 25th a Maxim gun was run out of the fort to check the advance of the Ashantis; but they possessed themselves of the town, and loopholed the huts near the fort.
In the early morning of the 17th Peel's heavy guns were already in steady action on the Mess House, a place of considerable strength, with a ditch twelve feet broad backed by a loopholed wall.
Some distance beyond the Secundrabagh, and about one hundred yards right of the road towards the Residency, was the Shah Nujeef, a great mosque and tomb surrounded by a high loopholed wall fringed by trees, jungle, and enclosures.
There, however, the gallant Scots were brought to a stand in face of a loopholed wall twenty feet high.
Masonry blockhouses, loopholed for musketry, are provided as keeps of the re-entering and salient places of arms.
The essential feature is a bullet-proof loopholed wall, arranged for all-round fire, with enough interior space for the garrison to sleep in.
The Machicoulis galleries were gradually improved and loopholed inside, in a way that all the ground immediately under the tower could be well watched, and a sentry always lay in each of these galleries.
On that day, Captain Townshend demolished some remaining walls left outside the main gate, and he also built a stone loopholed tambour in front of the main gate.
All the forts built by Umra Khan were of the same pattern, that is, four-cornered, with one of these strong towers at each corner, and with high walls of great thickness and carefully loopholed forming the four sides.
The enemy was located in a loopholed house on the West side of the road (see Sketch B), and also in the near fields.
Eventually the Germans worked round to the rear and cut us off completely, the key of their position being a loopholed house.
Led by Captain Simms, they went forward to attack the enemy's main position, which was in the loopholed house that dominated the road.
We securely bolted and barred the main gate, and for safety loopholed a little, because that is an art in which we had become adepts.
In the Russian and American Legations it is everywhere the same story--barricades and loopholed houses and outworks, now mostly crowned with sandbags, succeed one another with a regularity which becomes monotonous.
Rushing round a corner, we suddenly came on the gun we had been sent to capture; it was perched high on a long, loopholed barricade, and stood quite silent and alone.
So quickly has the work been pushed on, that in some places there are already loopholed walls three feet thick stretching across our streets, and so cleverly constructed that carts can still pass in and out without great difficulty.
The Japanese have at least a thousand feet of loopholed and unloop-holed wall, and are quite ready to take another thousand if some one would be kind enough to give it to them.
It has its gorge closed with a ditch and loopholed wall.
The two outworks are closed at the gorge with a loopholed wall, flanked by a small guard-house.
The enemy was posted behind a high loopholed barricade, which was blown to pieces by British guns; whereupon our cavalry entered the town, but could not maintain themselves within it.
The British advanced across the marshy fields under a fierce and devastating fire with the utmost courage, fighting pitched battles in the villages, where every house had beenloopholed and turned into a miniature fortress.
This building was also situated in a garden with a strongloopholed wall, and this was lined with the insurgent troops; while the terraced roof of the mosque, and the four minarets which rose at its corners, were crowded with riflemen.
The next point to be carried was the messhouse, a very strong position, situated on an eminence, with flanking towers, a loopholed mud wall, and a ditch.
This wall was loopholed for musketry; the gate, which led through a fortified gateway, had been blocked with great piles of stones behind it, and a very strong garrison held it.
He got leave from the Five Nations to execute his plan, bought canoes, hired men, and built a loopholed house of stone on the site of the present city of Oswego.
The rear defences consisted of a loopholed wall of masonry, with a ditch ten feet deep and twelve feet wide, and also a covered way and glacis, which General Wolcott describes as unfinished.
The chiefs found a few Frenchmen in a small blockhouse, or loopholed storehouse, which they had just built near Lewiston Heights.
The walls had been loopholed for rifle-fire, but the thatched roof was practically intact.
Here trenches were dug, barbed-wire entanglements set up, barns and cottages loopholed and placed in a state of defence in order to keep in check the German hordes until the expected aid was forthcoming.
Each gate is surmounted by a square tower of many storeys, loopholed for archers and musketeers, and with quaint heavy black roofs, decorated often in gay colours.
Here we slew the forest and builded us giant habitations (astride the road from Nowhere to the southeast) commodious to lodge an army and fitly loopholed for discomfiture of the adversary.
There were other buildings in the enclosure, especially a large log-house on the south side, which seems to have overlooked the outer wall, and was no doubtloopholed for musketry.
A few auger holes here and there serve to carry off rain water or melted snow, and the log breastwork can be bothloopholed and fired over with ease.
Those walls, no less than a hundred feet high, were cunningly loopholed for defense.
It stood about twice as high as the outer, was also topped with live wires and lights, and was loopholedfor defense.
At either end rose towers, of red brick, loopholed for musketry and pierced for big guns, and the ramp of the road was being pushed forward to their haunches.
They loopholed the walls, and although continuously harassed by the Boer fire, they managed to maintain their position and the post they were placed in charge of.
Redoubts were built on the north, south, east, and west sides of the main camp, which was fortified with trenches and stone wallsloopholed and raised with sandbags.
Their parapet was loopholed in triple tiers and roofed with a bomb-proof protection.
On the bed, which was drawn to the middle of the chamber to get the air through the narrow loopholed windows, with the gauze curtains falling square on all sides, lay Lucia.
There are square towers at intervals along these walls, with loopholedapartments for the sentinels.
It is a picturesque yet venerable building, with many gables and curious chimneys, and surmounted by a square tower and loopholed turret.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "loopholed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
