Another of a "fosse" or coal-pit about a mile away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front] Reference

To this last is to be credited the terrible device of throwing converts into the solfataras at Unzen, and under him, also, the punishment of the "fosse" was resorted to.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference

Lieutenant-Colonel Drummond, in the fatal fosse and bastion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

"The Count is at this moment cooling his heels in the fosse cell.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

For in the rout some of the chariots were carried into the fosse, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyropaedia] Reference

He looked over the railing of the fosse to find the old silence undisturbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

The ruined fosse, stagnant and moss - covered, speaks of ruin and desolation.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

Espera passar um tempo (cinco dias) e depois publica como se fosse furo deles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazil's Uncontacted Tribe Unleashes Enviro Controversy] Reference

Don Alfonso non fosse più obbligato di quanto voleva esserlo circa dette gioje.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

There was a road paved with white stone running on the outer brink of the fosse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fellowship of the Ring]

So they trooped this morning; and when they reached the fosse, all stopped but one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Browning's Heroines] Reference

At present the most interesting part of the great mound is the actual fosse and vallum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference

Nunca pensei que fosse ver deuses e homens aliados numa só missão: deitar o Kinaxixi abaixo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kinaxixi Market: Going, going, gone!] Reference

All round the city is a wide fosse; and there are four great canals inside, with many minor cuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference

Director of the Barricades, was insubordinate at Satory, and was shot by the side of the fosse there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference

"Take this gentleman to the fosse," said the Duke, with the ring of steel in his voice and his eyes snapping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] 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

Like a wise woman, she made up her mind to say no more, and she was saved an awkward pause by an uproar in the fosse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

Tudo se agravou ainda mais quando o Presidente tentou que o programa do governo de Carlos Gomes Júnior fosse chumbado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guinea-Bissau President's Assassination Sparks Alarm at Instability] Reference

Refreshed and recruited by the home campaign, and having now a double base for future operations — York city with the fosse of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Anerley] Reference

Oldbarrow, and in Lynton there are two more ancient 'castles,' each consisting of a single fosse and rampart, and other monuments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

The fosse was wide and deep, girding the four-square castle, mantled on its outer walls by dense ivy, where a few birds twittered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

An abattis or a fosse would have made this step futile; but as things were, it was not altogether impossible that they might surmount our low wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

Dragut brought up some of his largest yards and laid them like a bridge across the fosse, and a tremendous struggle raged for five terrible hours on Dragut's bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

When the apparition first vanished into the fosse opposite the corner of the fort, Marguerite was asleep, and dreaming that she was once more at Quebec, and listening to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference

He had rights of free-warren, saccage and sockage, cuisage and jambage, fosse and fork, infang theofe and outfang theofe; and all waifs and strays belonged to him in fee simple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference