"outer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Forts in Audh - The low bank of earth was the outer parapet of the fort of Amethi (insouth-east Audh), with a very deep ditch of irregular profile separating it from the level of the field.
- Sharpe was dimly aware of a cacophony of musketry from his left, the fire of the thousands of redcoats on the other side of the ravine, but the gatehouse defenders were sheltered by the outer parapet.
- The outer parapet came up to her chin, but along the inner edge of the walk was nothing, nothing but a long plunge to the bailey seventy or eighty feet below.
- The heavy mass of metal swayed, inclined forward, toppled to slam against the outer parapet, and then overbalanced, to fall.
- The castle was of the stone of the crags on whose knees it rested, like-hued, like-framed, in its stretches of biind wall and megalithic gauntnesses of glacis and tower and long outer parapet overhanging the sea.
- Questor led the way up a stairwell to a walk overlooking the outer parapets at the front of the castle.
- Its gate, upon the near south-eastern side, opened on a broad road, the outer parapet of which ran upon the brink of a precipice, until it turned southward and went winding down into the darkness to join the road that came over the Morgul Pass.
- In traditional artillery tactics, either a cannon, a howitzer or occasionally a mortar would fire a shot that would just clear the outer parapet of a fortification, and then would bounce or ricochet inside the fortification's bounds.
- Once they emerged from the shelter of the buildings, the chill air bit at them, and the black flagstones and rough-hewn blocks of the outer parapet glittered with frost in the icy starlight.
- The air was dead calm and bitterly cold, and the stone blocks of the outer parapet were covered with a lacy filigree of rime frost.
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