The cheval-de-frise was destroyed for fifty yards.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

He swung his sword at the cheval-de-frise and staggered sideways as a cobblestone hit his skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

Harper, Frederickson, and a dozen Riflemen were crouching high on the breach, just behind the cheval-de-frise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

Other men, sobbing and struggling, had been forced on to the cheval-de-frise that now lay canted on the breach's inner face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

There is a low wall there, and a cheval-de-frise on the top of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [With Frederick the Great A Story of the Seven Years' War] Reference

A high wall inclosed it, and on the top of this wall ran a miniature cheval-de-frise of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

During the floods, however, this cheval-de-frise of boulders must all be under water, and probably impassable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

He looked again and saw a great hôtel, surrounded by a high wall, along the top of which, ran a cheval-de-frise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

It was only when the Hôtel de Périgny loomed before him, with its bleak walls and sinister cheval-de-frise, that his sense of locality revived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grey Cloak] Reference

Page 43 of cheval-de-frise was placed, extending from near and opposite the battery of thirty-six cannon west, reaching very near, if not quite to the pike.    From Wordnik.com.  [John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ...] Reference

" Calvet was shoving the cheval-de-frise forward, forcing a gap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

Page 51 cheval-de-frise; here the battery of thirty-six guns a little to our right, and that of twelve guns on our left, all double charged with grape and canister, pointing down our lines from both directions, thus enfilading them both ways from end to end, sent a tremendous deluge of shot and shell through our ranks, and these seconded by a murderous sheet of fire and lead from the infantry behind the works, and also another battery of six guns directly in our front, made the scene of carnage and destruction fearful to behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ...] Reference

Look for the woman shérchèla-fám cheval-de-frise (singular), chevaux-de-frise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

This cheval-de-frise is a piece of timber, a long log, or several long logs, for instance, with one end of each placed together, the logs being traversed with wooden spikes, sometimes pointed with iron, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or make a retrenchment to check the advance of cavalry, but during the late war, was used against the advance of infantry as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ...] Reference