The whole was buried in a rectangular mass of masonry and revetted internally with alabaster, but was wholly destitute internally as well as externally of decoration or even of mouldings.
The motte raised by Earl William has, in fact, been revetted with a stone shell of the 12th century, whose bold chevron ornament over the entrance gives evidence of its epoch.
Pontefract keep was copied from the royal experiment at York, though it differed from it in that it actuallyrevetted the motte itself.
The keep is placed on a lofty motte, which has been revetted with masonry.
Something had to be extemporized, and fortunately for them they had wet ditches to take the place of high revetted walls.
The counterscarp is not revetted if the ditch is wet.
In modern fortification if cupolas and deep revetted ditches were essential to permanent defences, the dividing line would be equally clear.
This was an outwork usually semicircular in plan, built of earth consolidated with timber and revetted with hurdles.
Also they provided it with a watering wheel whose well was revetted with alabaster[FN#190]--And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say.
The trenches were magnificently built, and revetted with wood or wattle-work, and provided with deep dugouts and concrete machine-gun emplacements.
The trenches themselves were well-built and revetted with sand bags, and dry enough even during the wettest weather.
Near the lines they had to leave the roads for the shelter of some communication trench or deep cut in the mud, revetted at the sides with wire to hinder it from collapsing inwards.
It ran via the Cabaret Rouge into the Talus des Zouaves, most of the way revetted with a wonderful "wedding arch" revetment, and thence to the front line, passing the left Poste de Commandant.
The inside of the breastwork was to be revettedwith frames of woodwork and expanded metal, and, in order that the parapet might be really bullet proof, the soil for it had to be dug from a "borrow pit" several yards in front.
The bottom, which would soon wear away, is revetted with rough planks and paved with hard stones, weighing ten to twenty pounds, the grain being placed vertically.
Many of the embrasures were revettedwith the common boiler iron ships' water-tanks filled with earth.
Interior slopes were revetted with gabions, crowned by fascines and sand bags.
If the scarp be of earth only, the sappers will soon prepare a passage for the escalade; but if revetted with masonry, the walls must be breached with hollow shot, or scaled by means of ladders.
Trenches of both classes are either formed entirely of sand-bags or very solidly revetted with sand-bags, wattles or bricks.
Besides this he planned works, only revettedat the base, along the river, to protect the lower town.
What the neveros call el hombre de nieve (the snow-man) proved to be a honeycombed mass of lava revetted with ice-drippings.
Barker Webb compares with the Church of St. Sulpice, is built of poor schiste and bad sandstone-rubble, revetted with good lava and basalt.
These fire bays, which were all numbered, had firing platforms made of wood or well-revetted sandbags.
They were revetted with hurdles and planks of timber which were kept in position by iron pickets, which were securely wired to anchor pickets driven sideways into the walls of the trench.
Nowhere had anyone seen trenches so well revetted and so neatly constructed as those occupied by this French regiment.
Close to the north-west is the other, revetted with cut stone, and measuring six metres in diameter.
They were ten to eleven feet deep, with the sides for the most part revetted with planks.
The German trenches were formed of enormous breastworks 12 to 15 feet wide, and were revetted with brushwood.
This was a trench revetted by sand bags, running some miles to the east of and running parallel to the Canal.
Steps were immediately taken therefore to fortify the whole of the Castle grounds with ditch and large revetted circular bastions.
Part of the ditch had been made and perhaps revetted as early as 1407, but it was not till twenty years later that it began to be dug to the enormous breadth and depth which it boasts to-day.
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