Behind the earthwork was a small fire, and he knew that men would be sitting about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad] Reference
Typical masonry and earthwork dams of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
Not many miles distant is an earthwork still known as. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Every little hillock served the purpose of an earthwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
When he turns his massive glade, the earthwork shake-ups!. From Wordnik.com. [Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?] Reference
The rebels had an earthwork thrown up directly across the road. From Wordnik.com. [Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro (North Carolina) expedition, December, 1862] Reference
Down is an ancient earthwork of much interest to archaeologists. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
The stones are enclosed in a circular earthwork 300 feet across. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
My first experience was at Fort Powhatan, an earthwork situated on James. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
State the prismoidal formula; would you use it in calculating earthwork?. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886] Reference
My words only prompt you to throw up another earthwork at the point attacked. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
De Frontenac threw up an earthwork, or log fort, to fall back upon, and proceeded. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
They had thrown up a hurried earthwork and placed rails along the top of the parapet. From Wordnik.com. [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference
Powerstock Castle that was built within the ramparts of an ancient earthwork by King Athelstan. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
The modern village, built of some of the missing stones, is partly within the circular earthwork. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
And so he shockers and from the dry earthwork a flowering is born up and it curlews into the atom!. From Wordnik.com. [Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?] Reference
Three miles down stream from Blandford, near Spettisbury, is the earthwork called Crawford Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
On our left was an earthwork of strong profile, from which now the rebels turned their guns upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865] Reference
At the lower end of the city, covering the landing-place, rose a high earthwork crowned with cannon. From Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book] Reference
This point was cut by a road from the back country, across which was a heavy earthwork and a battery. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They were clearing away the trees in front of the earthwork which they had constructed the day before. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
When she brings a video-artist friend there, he calls it "the most beautiful earthwork I have ever seen.". From Wordnik.com. [An Artifice For America] Reference
Celliwig may safely be identified with the partially effaced earthwork near St. Kew St.tion, known as Kelly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Not far away, about a mile and half east of Stonehenge, there is the huge earthwork walls of Vespasians 'Camp. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
Nothing, however, like enough of the parapet and the earthwork above had been thrown down to fill up the fosse. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
We ran toward this earthwork, firing as we advanced, and the French cleared out as we were climbing over the bank. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
This conversion of earthwork into stone in the age of Severus can be paralleled from other parts of the Roman empire. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The big earthwork we all helped to raise near the river was covered with water, except a corner of the western parapet. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
General Sherman in person took Steele's division, and followed a road leading to the rear of the earthwork just mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The earthwork is now finished over two-thirds of the length, and the track has been laid for a length of 58 miles from Mendoza. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891] Reference
The earthwork made them as solidly entrenched as though they were behind their own lines, and only heavy shells could dislodge them. From Wordnik.com. [The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service] Reference
The walls of the house were chipped and pierced in every direction, and one corner of the earthwork had been carried off by a shell. From Wordnik.com. [With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train] Reference
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