| Everything the actor owned formed a crude breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step. |
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| Yet I still felt muddled, as the breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets. |
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| A submachine-gunner delivers more accurate fire using the breastwork to steady his weapon. |
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| Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door. |
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| It threaded through the hills which surrounded the Empire's capital like a huge, natural breastwork. |
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| When the Zouaves and policemen entered the house they found Garnier and Vallet crouching behind a breastwork of mattresses and furniture. |
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| A cannonproof breastwork, built during the previous war, extended along the beach from the hills to the rocks. |
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| Defensive wall which, coming out of the fortified area allows protected access to a nearby point with double thickness wall walk breastwork if it can be assaulted from both sides. |
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| To the northwest lie Holne and Scorriton on the southern breastwork of the Dartmoor upland. |
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| As Tom Hiney points out, the early missionary was only incidentally an imperialist, and his position in the breastwork of European empire was ambivalent. |
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| The surveys revealed significant surface remains in the area of the cooperage and some intact remains of the shoreline breastwork associated with the wharves. |
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| Strong batteries defended the extremities of this camp, and the interval was strengthened by a breastwork without entrenchments, constructed of the bodies of felled trees, logs, and rails. |
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| To cover the parapet or breastwork of a tower or bailey with a convex cylindrical surface, with the aim of deflecting direct shots at the wall and increase resistance to the impact. |
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| Before long we had flung enough sand-bags into place to make a low breastwork behind which the few men who were on this side of the position could lie down and fire. |
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| Dress shields, armed guard at breastwork, a hard mail covering. |
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