Sentence examples for the ditch between from inspiring English sources

In this 19th-century fortification, opposing walls, the scarp and counterscarp, are faced with granite and have rifle slits in them, enabling the fort's troops to create a cross-fire to fend off attackers in the ditch between the walls.

In response, outworks were developed, such as ravelins (detached outworks in front of the bastions) and demilunes (semidetached outworks in the ditch between bastions), to shield the main fortess walls from direct battery.

In the 19th-century fortification on the north coast of Staten Island, opposing walls, the scarp and counterscarp, are faced with granite and have rifle slits in them, which enabled troops to create a cross-fire to fend off attackers in the ditch between the walls.

Loud music plays and football matches are often shown on small TV sets; and in the early evening prostitutes gather on the other side of the ditch between the beer parlours and the road.

The caponier (rifle gallery) extends into the ditch between the rampart and glacis from the fort's north west corner.

On the south side of the bailey were the western lodgings, well-equipped accommodation for guests, built by in-filling part of the ditch between the motte and the bailey, and later converted into a bakery.

Someone would order a piece of cake and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like "Cut the cake and lie face down in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl".

Instead, the waterway became a fortified ditch between the two warring sides.

There is just enough space between the ditch and the wall for a steady stream of schoolchildren and commuters to squeeze past and make a dash for their bus.Boarding buses in Delhi is often an athletic event, worthy of inclusion in the Commonwealth games, which the city is preparing to host in 2010.

A 10 feet wide cobbled berm ran between the ditch and the wall.

Quilt "in the ditch" along seam lines between colors of fabric, or do an "overall" quilting design which ignores the quilt design and simply stitches over the fabric in it's own pattern.