The operation of connecting the two salients was pressed during the day.
By this date the British had driven two salients into the German lines, one north of Festubert and the other to the south of it.
Earth-works sprang into being, salients for artillery—hardy and ready and in high spirits the Army of Tennessee faced the foe.
The cannon continued to thunder, and above their salients gathered clouds of coppery smoke.
Behind all the salientsthey made inner lines for time of need; they built traverses against enfilading fires.
Though salients are the bane of generals, the only thing to do in this case was to make a salient.
Nowhere might the defense invite the attack into salients with a better confidence, or feel more certain of the success of his counter-attacks.
To the north, Forts Salbert and Roppe form the salients of a long defensive line on high ground, at the centre of which, where the Savoureuse river divides it, a new work was added later.
These are the causes which little by little have flattened the salients and filled up the reentrants, and this is why our probability curves now show only gentle undulations.
This means that it not only presents no absolute hiatus, but that it has neither salients nor reentrants too acute or too accentuated.
At length the entire bank is scarred in this manner so as to present to the stream a series of concave scallops separated by sharp intermediate salients of cuspate form.
After having first straightened out the salients which the enemy had driven into the French line during June and July, it was only by a complete and simultaneous forward movement that they could make a really useful gain of ground.
But whenever these attacks succeeded in driving small salients in the line, the front was at once reunited and the enemy fell short of victory.
From the plan one can easily recognise the salients of Ypres and Arras, the indentation of Montdidier, and that of Chateau-Thierry intersecting the Vesle, the salients of Reims and Verdun and the break through at Saint-Mihiel.
How ought these isolated forts, which are destined to replace the salients of our old fortresses, to be planned?
They succeeded only at nightfall in remounting their guns in batteries 2 and 3; and having determined the range before night, discharged the balls of two guns on the salients of the redans.
However, the breaches made in the salientsof demi-lune No.
The evening was employed in charging three powder-mines under the salients A and B, and raising earthworks to protect themselves as well as they could.
How the mass seems to be resisting the siege of time, throwing out itssalients here and there, and meeting the onset of the foes like a military engineer.
Curtains and salients are alike built of crude brick, with beams bedded horizontally in the mass.
A large breach in the southward face, between the two salientsnearest to the river, marks the point of attack selected by the enemy.
About the projected salients many towering buttes, with pinnacles and minarets, are found.
First, canyons run from north to south through them, and where these canyons are found deep angles occur; then sharp salients extend from the cliffs on the backs of the lower plateaus.
Sometimes gorges of the second or third order have met before reaching the brink of the Grand Canyon, and then great salients are cut off from the wall and stand out as buttes--huge pavilions in the architecture of the canyon.
From the cliffs many salients are projected into the valleys, and within deep re-entering angles vast amphitheaters appear.
The lateral extension of such a line of cliffs is usually very irregular; sharp salients are projected on the plains below, and deep recesses are cut into the terraces above.
The faces of the cliffs are terraced and salients project onto the floors below.
The works are now gradually pushed forward to the third parallel, (C), which is constructed about sixty yards from the salients of the place.
The salient places of arms are the parts of the covered way in front of the salients of the bastion and demi-lune.
The value of its salients and reëntrant angles was not likely to be overlooked, for it had been only recently acquired by their crusading ancestors.
These low batteries did not find favour with other writers, being liable to be too easily destroyed by the besiegers' batteries crowning the salients of the covered way.
He provides a very large re-entering place of arms, also with a keep, the ditches of which are carefully traced so as to be protected from enfilade by the salients of the ravelin and bastion.
It was devoid in the main of salients and had become increasingly peaceful since the fierce fighting in the streets of Comines and Wytschaete in the autumn of 1914.
Salients are valuable as examples of the British soldier's willingness to die rather than to live.
These three sea-salients were greatly armed for defense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salients" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
