Only on the mossy plateau below the scarp at her feet lay a heap of stones.
Shifting her position to one of greater ease, she rested her aching head upon a tussock of sweet thyme that was shaded by a rugged scarp of rock.
Soon the river meadows with their high thorn hedges lay green on our right, while the scarp of red rock rose on our left, covered with the dark trees of summer.
They followed the scarp of the original mounds, and in many examples the water of the external fosse lapped their bases.
It declines to accept the outcome of exploration in the recovery of the Ophel wall; and it supposes walls and a rock scarp to exist where no traces are found of such walls and where such a scarp is impossible.
Bellew toscarp the banks of the canal, by way of rendering them easier for the camels to get over.
A few paces due west take us again to the edge of the moat, out of the rank grass where a few goats are browsing, and from among the brambles that spring out of the crannies in the ruined scarp and counterscarp, rise sturdy fig-trees.
Some of its battlements remain; they served to cover the movements of troops on the terrace between the scarp and the wall.
It was a precipice falling away abruptly to the general level from a height of two or three thousand feet, and the contours of the scarp bore a strong resemblance to a monkey's face.
They found that the scarp over which the torrent poured extended for miles on each side.
The wolves had overtaken the caribou on a scarp on the high ground that thrust itself out like a short fat thumb from the black and owl-infested forest, and the carcass lay in a meadowy dip that overhung the plain.
From where he sat Meshaba could also see a rocky scarp of the ridge that projected out into the plain a hundred yards away.
His eyes shifted slowly, and then they rested on the scarp of the ridge that shut out his vision.
The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
A narrow space between the foot of the rampart and the scarp of the ditch, serving to receive the earth that may crumble off or be washed down, and prevent its falling into the ditch.
He walked to the loop-hole and looked far down from the projecting wall and along the parapet of the curtain and the scarp to the opposite bastion with its tower-like block-house.
The ridge, or the top of the bluff, which looks from below like the scarp of a great plateau, lies at an average of a mile or more from the stream.
To add to the military value of such a barrier the edge of the scarp is heavily wooded, while the lower slopes are steep and grassy, with small woods at irregular intervals.
Then they reached a scarp of rock ground smooth by the slipping down of melting snow, and when they had crossed that their difficulties began.
There was a rock scarp in front of them, up part of which they went on their hands and knees.
The scarp broke off on the verge of an almost precipitous rift, and a torrent that seemed drawn out into silk-like threads roared in the depths of it.
Long billows of vapor rolled out from its edges and slid up the hollows, blotting out the somber ranks of climbing pines one by one until all had gone and rock scarp and rugged peak rose isolated from a vast sweep of mist.
At daybreak on the 15th the batteries resumed their fire, and at sunset the walls of the main scarp and fausse braye were visibly shaken.
He looked into the black and narrow mouth of the Gates of Death, cleaving the scarp like a wound, and the primitive ape-thing within him cringed and moaned, oppressed with a sudden sense of fate.
He stood beneath a scarp of black rock, notched with a single pass.
The sheer face of the scarp fell away beneath them, plunging down to the tiny trees and rocks below.
In these places they cut the upper part of the slope into a perpendicular, and afterwards hollowed a trench, the scarp of which thus gained an elevation of sixteen feet.
It was, properly speaking, a fosse, the scarp of which was higher than the counter-scarp.
A young officer with fifteen sappers and twenty-five Grenadiers, was ordered to mount to the assault and clear the tower fort; but a counter-scarp 15 feet high stopped them.
The scarpof the bastions is more than 30 feet in height.
It had rounded corners and a very wide ditch, with a bank on both scarp and counterscarp.
The court is defended by earthen banks, both on the scarp and counterscarp of the ditch, and these banks of course had also their timber stockades, the remains of which have sometimes been found on excavation.
And Clote Scarp led him down to the wood, And gave him the tender shoots for food.
Then to the west appeared a long red trail Over the wave; and Clote Scarp sailed and sang Till the canoe grew little like a bird, And black, and vanished in the shining trail.
Such broken material rolling down a uniform scarp would tend to reduce its steepness by the loss of material in the upper part and by the accumulation of a mound or scree against the lower part of the slope.
The entrance to the old fort is through a scarp gallery several hundred feet in length.
These sandstones exhibit an inclination which seems to be the effect of wind; for they conform to the direction of the sands which roll down a scarp occasioned by the primitive obstacle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scarp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
