The weaker men began to rabbit, the best of them saw a whole row of loopholes with projecting guns, the leaders were holding a council of war.
Ute, he lay low, saying nothing, but he sure grinned volumes while he whirled in with his axe, cutting twelve loopholes through the 'dobe walls.
At each of the four corners stands a bastion tower to command the flanks, and in the north wall low towers defend the entrance, which is a tunnel through the buildings, barred by massive doors, and commanded by loopholes for riflemen.
At first they kept to the shelter of the surrounding outbuildings, and blazed steadily away at the house, on the chance of sending a bullet through the loopholes or the chinks of the logs.
I had no sooner caught a glimpse of the party and divined their alarming purpose, than a straggling volley was fired from the loopholes right and left of me.
Sir, the Indians have been making strange signals," Baptiste answered, "and they were seen from the loopholes and the tower creeping along the edge of the timber in force.
The volley caught the savages at a range of twenty yards and as the smoke drifted up from the loopholes I saw the foremost, at whom I had aimed, sprawled on the snow.
This house, with its loopholes and heavy shutters, was constructed for such an emergency as the present.
Here there were good-sized loopholes commanding a view of the north and east fronts of the stockade.
Those who had no loopholes kept loading spare muskets and passing them to us, taking our own as soon as we fired.
I wandered from room to room, taking an occasional shot, and finally I stopped in the hall, where Captain Rudstone and three others were posted at the loopholes right and left of the door.
Sometimes they make loopholes in the parapet, or bolster up some redoubt that is being shelled to pieces.
The second or third day we occupied it, a detachment of engineers was sent in to make loopholes and prepare it for a stubborn defense.
The entrance was commanded by an old iron carronade, and a number of loopholes for the discharge of musketry.
Their attempts at resistance were confined to the fire from the loopholes and throwing over large pieces of earth, some of which appeared to be intended to knock off the port fire.
A few moments of silence succeeded, during which I could hear the wind rattling the windows and whistling boisterously through the loopholes and along the empty halls.
Harry now set his men to work to make loopholes in the cottages and inclosure walls, and to connect the latter by banks of earth, having thorn branches set on the top.
The few windows or loopholes are far apart and very narrow.
The first bodily testimony of the fear of the Carlists was at Tolosa, an old Spanish city, Mauresque in its surroundings, which was fortified with wooden stockades fitted with loopholes for guns.
At Allegria the Town Hall or Public Court House was fortified by the doors and windows being blocked up with rough stones coarsely mortared in, the necessary loopholes being left for firing through.
The loopholes lend this firing-line an appearance of mediaeval embattlements.
The Turks always opened a hot fire in the vicinity of the flags, and observation was very difficult, except by periscope, as the loopholes were most unsafe.
All night long they had peeped over the parapet, or fired through the loopholes at the German trench a hundred yards off.
Loopholes and Parapet: Ascertain the conditions of all the loopholes and have them repaired if need be.
The streets should be barricaded and loopholes provided in the walls of the houses.
Imagine the wind rising after you have gone to bed, sighing and sobbing like ghosts of tortured captives come back to the scene of their Mediaeval woes, whistling through the loopholes like the arrows of a besieging army.
Captain Fitzclarence and Captain Marsh worked up to the walls, but knowing the pleasant nature of the Boer, instead of storming the place or showing themselves, they bored loopholes with their bayonets.
The whole of the edge of the stadt was furnished with loopholes and trenches, and garrisoned by the native inhabitants.
Captain Vernon, who had been wounded in the advance, led his men most gallantly up to the work, to find it with three tiers of loopholes and an iron roof, the bushes in front concealing this until right on to the fort.
The building is small, of solid masonry, the walls two feet thick, pierced with loopholes for musketry.
The remains of a small tower, pierced with loopholes on one side of the opening, and the other ruined masonry, leave no doubt as to the defensive use to which this cavern was at one time put.
To reach the upper loopholes and parapet the men mounted upon oak beams resting crosswise between the masonry and the rock.
She took the loopholes of two sides of the cabin, I of the other two, and then began the fearful watching and waiting which the frontier knows so well.
After it came James Ray himself, and lastly Poulsson, and a great shout went out from the loopholes and was taken up by the women in the common.
The Arabs were at last free to climb the wall, beyond reach of the loopholes in door or window, and could make a hole in the roof of the dining-room.
Like Ben Halim's house, it was roughly fortified, with many loopholes in the walls, for it had been built to serve the uses of less peaceful days than these.
We can store Kate and the children back in there, throw up a little barrier of rock at the front with loopholes for our rifles.
Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
Judicious arrangements of loopholes and towers cover all dead ground.
The terreplein of each of these works was sunk, so that the loopholes were within one foot and a half of the level of the ditch.
Sandbag loopholes were constructed on the tops of each parapet, while large beams, supported at intervals by sods of earth, were used for the same purpose.
Harry at once set some of them to collect stones from the more ruinous parts of the castle, and to pile them up across the gateway, leaving loopholes for musketry fire.
Three men were stationed on the top of the keep, four at loopholes on the stairways half-way up each side, five behind the barricade of stones in the gateway, and one to carry orders from his own position on the keep to the men below.
None of our men were hit, but the stone loopholes and the parapet of the post were splashed with bullet marks in five or six places.
They completely commanded the loopholes with their long rifles; and although the distance is probably 300 yards, yet they seldom fail to put a ball through the clothes or into the body of any one passing them.
Two men of the 54th have made their escape out of the Bala Hissar; they passed a rope through one of the loopholes and let themselves down.
Just on the north of the site of this is a staircase leading down into a chamber lighted by loopholes in the outer wall of the Haram.
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