181 examples of embrasure in sentences

It had been placed in a coffin which was resting on the undertaker's trestles in the bay embrasure of the big room with the folding doors.

' 'There is one thing that puzzles me very much,' said Mary, still lingering near her grandmother's couch, the balmy evening air caressing her as she leaned against the embrasure of the wide Tudor window, the sun drawing nearer to the edge of the hills, an orb of yellow flame, soon to change to a gigantic disk of lurid fire.

The first of these consists in placing each gun under a masonry vault, which is covered with earth on all sides except the one that contains the embrasure, this side being covered with armor plate.

This niche is of concrete, and its walls in the vicinity of the embrasure are protected by thick iron plate.

The conical embrasure traverses this cushion by means of a cast-steel piece firmly bolted to the caisson, and applied to the armor through the intermedium of a leaden ring.

Externally, the cheeks of the embrasure and the merlons consist of blocks of concrete held in caissons of strong iron plate.

For closing the embrasure, Commandant Mougin provides the armor with a disk, c, of heavy rolled iron, which contains two symmetrical apertures.

A windlass and chain give the disk the motion that brings one of its apertures opposite the embrasure or that closes the latter.

The form of the dome has one inconvenience, viz., the embrasure in it is necessarily very oblique, and offers quite an elongated ellipse to blows, and the edges of the bevel upon a portion of the circumference are not strong enough.

In order to close the embrasure as tightly as possible, the gun is surrounded with a ring provided with trunnions that enter the sides of the embrasure.

In order to close the embrasure as tightly as possible, the gun is surrounded with a ring provided with trunnions that enter the sides of the embrasure.

For high aiming, the gun and the movable part of its carriage are capable of revolving around a strong pin, c, so placed that the axis of the piece always passes very near the center of the embrasure, thus permitting of giving the latter minimum dimensions.

One felt like a fool to rehearse to a Tahitian, telling one the tale, the statement of scientists that the embrasure had been worn by water when Afareaitu was under the ocean during its million-year process of rising from the mud.

" They paused for breath in an embrasure in the wall, where a section of a half-tower supported the wall, itself running down on to the cliff side.

"The more I think of it," said the General, "the more" Monsignor stepped suddenly aside into the embrasure at which they had halted on the way up.

A sample granite casemate, with iron-lined embrasure, was built at Fortress Monroe, and 8 shots were fired at it from a 12 in.

Suddenly she came forward from the embrasure of the window and stood once more beside the table, her face lighted up by the glow of the fire.

She hurried to her own casement, and pushed it open, kneeling in the deep embrasure, and looking with a stealthy and affrighted gaze towards her sister's window.

It was, perhaps, fortunate for Raoul and his associates that the English officers had so strong a desire, as Griffin expressed it, "to take the lugger alive"; else might she have been destroyed where she lay by removing a gun or two from its proper embrasure and planting them behind some natural ramparts among the rocks.

One of these guns, a twenty-four pounder, placed upon the breastwork in the third embrasure from the river, drew, from the fatal skill and activity with which it was managed, even in the heat of battle, the admiration of both Americans and British; and became one of the points most dreaded by the advancing foe.

Freeman looked through an embrasure.

Beyond, framed in the dark embrasure of the archway, stood Mistress Penwick in gleaming white.

He placed himself in the embrasure.

Smoke issued from an embrasure of a small fortress, that stood on the point of land where the river and the bay mingle their waters.

The sofa was placed in a deep embrasure, surrounded with sweeping curtains, for the convenience of reading in a reclining posture, by the light of the window, and quite shut away, by such means, from the remainder of the room.

181 examples of  embrasure  in sentences