Her feet, of a kind that painters call abatis, rose above the varnished leather of the shoes in a swelling that was some inches high. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
High entanglements (known as abatis) may be made by felling trees toward the enemy, and similar entanglements made of brushwood are useful in emergency. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
"abatis" from the fallen trees, while earthworks commanding the position were soon erected. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
The right of the line became entangled in an abatis. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
This abatis was a formidable and fearful obstruction. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Fort Magruder and adjacent redoubts, woods, and abatis. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
The Rebel lines were much broken in passing the abatis. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Forsyth, on passing the abatis, took a direction to their left. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
Next moment, sounds of firing down by the abatis confirmed this. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
He also carried in and made an abatis between himself and the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The entire side of this ravine next to the works was one long abatis. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The pine abatis was a bauble, no more of an obstacle than a sheep hurdle. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Several more, escaping the abatis, ran over the caltrops we had scattered around. From Wordnik.com. [The High Crusade]
The gap between them was crudely but thickly barricaded with an abatis of untrimmed pine trees. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
Johnston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches, with abatis and finished batteries. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The limbs had been trimmed and pointed, and thus formed an abatis in front of the greater part of the line. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The enemy rallied in the woods behind a strong abatis, and from this position Rodes determined to drive them. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
But there was no guarantee that the enemy would let the abatis remain long in place unless it was covered by fire. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
A mile from the southern edge of the Heights Kershaw encountered heavy abatis and perforce halted for the night.35. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
Get engineers to build Pontoon bridges and abatis, and use sharpshooters to snipe at the enemy from a safe distance. From Wordnik.com. [Back To Gettysburg] Reference
When the house is built with a view to defense, trees are felled all around in such a way as to make a regular abatis. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Chapter V, the Manóbos occasionally slash down the surrounding forest in such a way as to form a veritable abatis of timber. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
In time of alarm he sets out bamboo caltrops, makes an abatis of fallen trees, and places human spring traps around his lofty house. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot which is still pointed out. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
Through abatis and forest at Seven Pines, dripping and miry, he had led part of his own command forward and had directed the operations of two other brigades. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
He was within a couple of hundred yards of the abatis of downed trees that protected the trenches ahead when one of the guns from Fort Stevens let go with a blast of canister. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
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