This fort was of the kind called a blockhouse, which is a house built of logs made to fit close together. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of American Life and Adventure] Reference
The throne room of the blockhouse was a rough, frontier affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
Beside the blockhouse was the most amazing thing Derec had ever seen in his short memory. From Wordnik.com. [Suspicion]
Set in the wall opposite the blockhouse was a tall, arch-shaped doorway and a pair of solid wooden doors. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon Season]
What: B.ilt by TCHA founder Dr. Richard B. Wetherill, the blockhouse is a 452-square foot replica of the French fort. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I proposed that we should build a blockhouse on the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
He crawled up beside them to peer at the blockhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Tennessee ridge crest to scout a Yankee railroad blockhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
He it was built this blockhouse, and christened it the Bloody. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
"Four minutes to final countdown," blockhouse control replied. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
Philadelphia, where they built a blockhouse and called it Fort Nassau. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
The blockhouse of which he was in command was near a large straw pile. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
The blockhouse was of equal length and breadth, about forty feet square. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
In regard to the blockhouse system, we need only make these general remarks. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
Through this line we had to pass, as well as the blockhouse line extending from. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
The fort was on the left shore, and a very strong blockhouse was on the right bank. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
He then went to Mansfield, where they had a better blockhouse, but he heard so many stories of. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Swanton, Colonel Murray sending a detachment to Champlain to destroy the barracks and blockhouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Private Bell was in this blockhouse when it was hit and all the occupants killed or badly wounded. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Stern defense everywhere on that far-flung trench and blockhouse and fortified-village battle line. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
When we were all in the blockhouse, we pulled up the ladder, made the gate fast, and there we were. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The two Republics were divided, so to speak, into a great many little states by the blockhouse lines. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
Besides, there was a blockhouse-line to pass the following night, and this one was still 24 miles off. From Wordnik.com. [In the Shadow of Death] Reference
The destruction of the blockhouse and the trestle could be left to the army behind; the scouts moved on again. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
In its earliest form the castle was simply a wooden blockhouse placed on a mound and surrounded by a stockade. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The Americans got into the woods with the view of surrounding the blockhouse and of simultaneously assaulting it on all sides. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Haskins, on the latter reserve, and assigned to the duty of completing it and building a blockhouse for the police control of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The Yankee took us both by the arm, led us out of the blockhouse, and through the stockade to a grassy projection of the hillock. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
At first we could not make out what was the matter, but presently we heard a hissing and crackling on the roof of the blockhouse. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
This one access was guarded by a blockhouse, but the cold weather gave a footing to the invaders on the usually impassable morasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Sabada's dying words were instructions to his squad to hold their position in the rear of their blockhouse which had been destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
It was a strong blockhouse of logs, with portholes for cannon and loopholes for musketry, and surrounded by a picket of pine-saplings. From Wordnik.com. [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference
The women were now in the way -- we hadn't room for so many -- so I called out to them to get into the blockhouse and load the rifles. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Time after time exploding shells threw huge mounds of earth and debris into the loop holes of this blockhouse and all but demolished it. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
Red Cross officer, Major Williams, of Baltimore, saw doughboys on every front and sector of the far-extended battle and blockhouse line. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference
He fell like a brave American as he was, but not alone, for the dead bodies of thirty foes were lying round the blockhouse when he died. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
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