'circumvallation' are dim, and high authorities like Dr. Macdonald are sceptical about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Britain in 1914] Reference

That looked like the first step toward circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire In His Hands]

I went out to watch the circumvallation of the black castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadows Linger]

Athenians, and drew a line of circumvallation about the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

But the circumvallation was straight from the siege of Capua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

The Barbarians had no need of a circumvallation on the side of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

The talking stones were so numerous they formed a circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

He had the casualties cleared away from the break in the circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadows Linger]

Mrs. Wadman in form, and are marching round her house to mark out the lines of circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Syca, where they sat down and quickly built the Circle or centre of their wall of circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Arcadians had drawn their outer line of circumvallation, Archidamus proposed to himself to take it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Lines of circumvallation, or bombardment, or waiting the effect of famine, were successively urged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference

The hill had to be taken by the Athenians before they could effect the circumvallation of the place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

A line of circumvallation was drawn about the devoted city, and two Roman armies held it in close siege.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Leosthenes, who was then drawing a circumvallation about Antipater, whom he held close besieged in Lamia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

The Lieutenant completed the circumvallation, including the back slope, looping around One-Eye's excavation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadows Linger]

On June 17th the line of circumvallation was pushed to the harbour's edge, and St. Elmo was completely isolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

He stuck to his circumvallation, kept seizing provender as was convenient, and sent after other forces from home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference

Whereupon he invaded the territory of Phlius, and promptly drawing lines of circumvallation, commenced the siege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

Vercingetorix near Dijon and shut him up in Alesia (Mont-Auxois), which he surrounded with lines of circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

A small Spartan force under Gylippus arrived and prevented an Athenian circumvallation by taking the heights of Epipolae.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. The Argive War] Reference

It had three lines of circumvallation, and upon the heights which surrounded it there extended a wall fortified with towers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

While the circumvallation of Scionè was proceeding, Perdiccas, who, after what had occurred in the retreat from Lyncus, hated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

The eastern corner of this wall, as far as it can be made out, is 12 m. -- 39 ft. -- from the eastern wall of circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

Camillus at first prepared to surround them by lines of circumvallation, and to prosecute the siege by a mound and other works.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

At the time when Gylippus reached Syracuse the Athenian lines of circumvallation were all but completed on the side of the Great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from Thucydides] Reference

They also sent a detachment against the wall of circumvallation on Epipolae, supposing that it was undefended, and might be taken.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference

Harbour, examining the lie of the ground to discover how and where it would be easiest to draw lines of circumvallation round Piraeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hellenica] Reference

One of the most brilliant of his feats in this sphere was the completion of his lines of circumvallation around the city of New-Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

The Volscians, under the command of Clælius, an Æquan, came first to Ardea, and drew a line of circumvallation around the enemy's walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference

You owe your distinction, my dear, to that line of circumvallation which has, ever since your birth, intercepted all civilisation on its way to Bartram.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Silas] Reference

With great difficulty and not without danger we continued our tour of this circumvallation, where it seemed that nature had worked as man does, with careful regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Master of the World] Reference

There was a circle within each of the two circles, contained within the circumvallation; and according to Dr. Stukely, the antiquarian, the original was thus composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828] Reference

The Irthey ridge, which he had been steadily climbing, was now so heavily wooded that he had passed into the line of old Edmund's circumvallation almost without noticing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [War Game]

Here refuge shall ye find, and sure circumvallation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 2] Reference

After this, Pompey followed him to his new camp, and drew a line of circumvallation round him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference

The method of surrounding the enemy with strong lines of circumvallation, which he had twice employed against the.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3] Reference

The villages of the lower part of New Mexico had these walls of circumvallation, but to the northward such walls appear to have been rare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Colorado River] Reference