Supported by a strong body of Imperialists, the Franco-Chinese attacked and carried the outworks of the city a second time, the garrisons retiring within the walls after some hard fighting.
After much hard fighting the defenders were driven from all their outworks and strictly confined to the city walls, when the besiegers at once proceeded to effect several breaches.
In our day there is warm fighting about the outworks of Christianity.
Our defensive line over Balaklava was greatly strengthened, and its outworks and batteries were altered and amended considerably.
That this first castle had a motte is suggested by the narrative in the Brut which tells how Griffith ap Rhys burnt the outworks in 1115, but was unable to get at the tower.
The Hessian and the drummer rode hastily back to Donop, and the assailants began at once the erection of a battery within half cannon-shot of the outworks of Fort Mercer.
The outworks were unfinished, but the redoubt was a citadel upon which the garrison placed much reliance.
Finding the first advance post and the outworks abandoned, but not destroyed, the enemy imagined that they had frightened the Americans away.
A, British outworks taken possession of by the Americans on their arrival.
But on the land side it was not equally strong, and required extensive outworks and a considerable force to resist an attack in that quarter.
Every avenue to the outworks or to the city of Mobile was guarded by submarine torpedoes, so that it was impossible for any vessel drawing three feet of water to get within effective cannon-range of the defenses.
The move was well conceived and swiftly executed, but its success stopped short at the outworks of Smolensk.
They were cut to pieces by the Turks; but two outworks still resisted and fought off the besiegers until help arrived from Sicily.
They were now directly over the outworks of the Japanese forces besieging Port Arthur.
I will see that your wishes are carried out, Sir Eustace; assuredly these little outworks will add greatly to the strength of the castle.
Both Sir Eustace and Sir John Aylmer expressed great satisfaction at the manner in which the new outworks had been erected.
As soon as sufficient are prepared for one of these outworks you should proceed to erect it, as it would render one side at least unassailable and diminish the circuit to be defended.
Its western face, fronting the railway, has as natural outworks the heights of Table Mountain and Gun Hill.
Reinforcing these mounted troops, Porter made a determined effort against the outworksof the Schietberg at the south-western angle of the Colesberg heights.
These buildings and a patch of rocky ground to the west were strongly held as outworks by the Boers; and Major-General Pole-Carew, being convinced by a report from Captain E.
When the enemy saw the reinforcements coming, they began to retreat by odd ones, until at last the whole of them retired toward their outworks in double time.
The position of the Americans in the attack, and of the outworks and the abatis, will be better understood by a reference to the map on a preceding page.
Beverly and his father, who was wagon-master at Fort Montgomery, were ordered to take a large iron cannon to the outworks on the neck of the promontory.
At the foot of the hill, a few rods below where the fort stood, is a part of the trench and bank of a redoubt, and this is all that remains even of the outworks of the fortification.
The outworks are traceable several rods back into the stinted forest.
The fort and its outworks were quite extensive, though the main fortress was built chiefly of perishable materials, on account of the apparent necessity for its speedy erection.
Additional fortifications, to complete the works, were made to the fort on the west side of the river, and stronger outworks were added to Fort Ontario.
It is placed upon a rising piece of ground about a league from the Guadiana, and has two outworks to support the town.
The castle had been blown up, and some of the outworks destroyed.
The outworks adjoining these towers, in which was kept the menagerie, were surrounded by a smaller moat, communicating with the main ditch.
In that direction the united waters bid farewell to the grassy uplands, and enter the stony tracts which slope to the plain of Alexandropol between the outworks of the Chaldir system and those of the meridional border range.
But, unlike their big neighbour, the slopes of these outworks were covered with brushwood, which developed into dwarf trees as we advanced.
They are the outworks or spurs of the central mass of the mountain, from which they radiate outwards in a westerly direction towards the trough of the Arpa Chai.
So, one after another, the outworks of the slum have been taken.
In the meantime, we of the Tenth Corps had captured the enemy's outworks lying across the New Market and Darbytown roads, and were making ready to move on his main line a little over a half mile to their rear.
After very desperate work the fort and outworks were carried, the commander, General Whiting, being mortally and Colonel Lamb severely wounded.
Holding our quiet talk apart Of household things; till, all unsealed, The guarded outworks of the heart Began to yield; And much that prudence will not dip The pen to fix and send away, Passed safely over from the lip That summer day.
In spite of the habitable and more modern wing, neglect and decay had set their mark upon the outworks of the pile, unfitting them for a more positive light than that of the present hour.
Sometimes, in measuring the outworks of the castle, he ran against Havill strolling about with no apparent object, who bestowed on him an envious nod, and passed by.
No sooner had they left the last outworks behind them, than they were met by a portion of the enemy's forces, who were making an attempt to win the city by surprise.
We have met before,' said he; 'it surely was in the outworks before the new gate, by moonlight.
It is in the outworks of the habits that the defence must lie.
Nor can charitable donations, given indiscriminately to the poor, have any other effect than to sap the foundations of self-respect, and break down the very outworks of virtue itself.
It likewise might be intended to defend some little outworks and hutts that lay at the Skirts and on this side of the Hill.
These outworks were not intended as advanced Posts, but for such of the Inhabitants to live in as had not room in the Main works, but had taken Shelter under it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "outworks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
