My casemate was sometimes cold, generally damp, and always gloomy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Fig. 7 shows the state of a chilled iron casemate after a vigorous firing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference

It was with some emotion that I reached the casemate in which Mr. Davis was confined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

"Cumberland" and "Congress" finding their way into her casemate through the port-holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

A casemate wall of brick to support the foundation around the perimeter wall (Richard Jaeschke).    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2] Reference

The Merrimac's casemate was composed of four one-inch plates or two two-inch plates backed by oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference

Fired brick was chosen so that in future the casemate will not be mistaken for ancient construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2] Reference

This initial experiment will test the suitability of the fired-brick casemate construction for this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort: Part 2] Reference

Subsequently he discovered that one man had gone to the spring before the explosion, that four men were saved by a casemate and captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference

The latter are then transported to the position and, the casemate is established, hiding the work with the greatest care from enemy observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Military Instructors Manual] Reference

The muzzle-loading thirty eight ton guns were fired in a casemate at Shoeburyness repeatedly in less than twenty minutes for ten rounds, with careful aiming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882] Reference

This disk is movable around a horizontal axis, and its lower part and its trunnions are protected by the sloping mass of concrete that covers the head of the casemate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886] Reference

A sample granite casemate, with iron-lined embrasure, was built at Fortress Monroe, and 8 shots were fired at it from a 12 in. rifle converted from an old 15 in. smooth bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference

On the same morning I have taken them over a man-of-war, on the musketry-range to see a Maxim at practice and down into a twelve-inch casemate when the monster was about to fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pan-Islam] Reference

They were in casemate No. 13 with Nourry and Chopart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

It mounts eight guns in casemate, and eight on the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference

It mounts fifteen guns on the top, and fifteen guns in casemate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference

These hapless wights are confined in a big casemate of the fort.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

In the inner wall were two doors, and a third at the entrance of the casemate itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1] Reference

I've got one of the six-inch, and we get up quite a good fug in our casemate at night.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions] Reference

Captain went to the casemate, accompanied by the blacksmith carrying the fetters and his tools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

The bomb-proof barracks of the northern fronts mount in casemate two tiers of fourteen guns at the curtains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference

The vessel settles to the guards, to the ports, to the top of the casemate, reels, and with a lurch disappears.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference

Having duly inspected his defences and made his dispositions, he had sheltered in a specially constructed casemate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan] Reference

My dungeon was in a casemate, the fore part of which, six feet wide and ten feet long, was divided by a party wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1] Reference

It was erected at the end of the casemate opposite the door and below the venthole through which daylight penetrates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

Over the casemate forward was a pilot-house of conical shape, built of heavy oak, and plated on the forward side with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.] Reference

He had but little more than 100 men, and early in the engagement was forced to rely entirely upon his casemate ordinance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage] Reference

The sides of the casemate were stained with crimson drops, yet warm from the heart of a man who had been killed by a shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field] Reference

She had a thickness of six inches of iron on her casemate, and was otherwise superior to the other three iron-clads of the squadron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker] Reference

In the casemate are five camp beds and five rush-bottomed chairs; to this lugubrious furniture of the dungeon an altar has been added.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Victor Hugo] Reference

The casemate was pierced for thirteen guns, three in the forward end ranging directly ahead, four on each broadside, and two stern guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.] Reference