181 examples of embrasured 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.

" CHAPTER XII AT THORS Below the windows of a long, low, stone house, in its architecture remarkably like a fortified farmbelow these deep-embrasured windows the river Oster mumbled softly.

The evening sun, shining through the small, deeply embrasured windows, fell on a face at no time joyous, now tired and worn.

The Turkish wall, with its sharp angles, its square bastions, and the long, embrasured lines of its parapet, is the most striking feature of the view.

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.

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

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

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.

The room was heavy-curtained, deep embrasured, for the house, beneath its clap-boards, was of logs.

The room, as always, was full of contrast; shafts of light, dust-moted, bewildering, crossed from the embrasured windows, throwing high-lights into prominence and shadows into impenetrable darkness.

From his embrasured windows he beheld the cassocked enemies of his creed passing to and fro about their business; he heard his sacred hour of prayer desecrated by their Christian bells, and could do no more than revile them for dogs, the while he awaited the will of Allah.

" 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.

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.

As their magazine-fire slackened, dwindled to a desultory popping, and ceased, the mob with a howl of triumph surged forward to the gaping gateway, trampled and scattered the glowing remnants of the fire, swarmed yelling through, andfound themselves face to face with a stout semicircular rampart of stone, earth and sandbags, which, loopholed, embrasured and strongly manned, spanned the gateway in a thirty-yard arc.

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.

It proved to be a round keep of gigantic strength and height, approached by two courtyards and surrounded by the weed-grown and fragmentary traces of an extensive stronghold, nothing of which now remained save a few broken walls, three or four embrasured loopholes, an ancient well of incalculable depth, and the rusted teeth of a formidable portcullis.

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.

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