Escalades

Word ESCALADES
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What do we mean by escalades?

An act of scaling walls or fortifications

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The word "escalades" in example sentences

With an auto industry on the precipice, the old Cadillacs, gas-guzzling escalades the size of tennis courts, will soon disappear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nothing wrong with escalades, as it is a consumer best buy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

SANCHEZ: As this conflict escalades, we care because much of the world's oil comes from this region. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How do ambitious pygmies, reared on their hind legs on mountains of arguments, continue escalades? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Incidentally, your new land DOES, indeed, have an official language ... ebonics. unfortunately, not enough of the native ebonic-speaking population can get out of their escalades, and put down their bling-bling long enough to go and friggin 'vote. yet they continue to complain. hmmm. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of escalades, of surprises, of breaches stormed, of camisades and ambushes, of dark treacheries and great heroisms did he descant to fire my youthful fancy, to fill me first with delight, and then with frenzy when ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

In the rear was a badly closed orchard which rolled down to an abandoned path, favorable to escalades of lovers. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)

Now, with his talk of adventures, and with high hopes, I was so heartened up, that, to my shame, my grief fell from me, and I went to my bed to dream of trenches and escalades, glory and gain. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

There was more frequent firing upon the town, and feints were made with ladders and ropes for escalades at different points. ❋ John Lesp��rance (1864)

Mrs. Lake, too, had no confidence in any one but Abel as a nurse for her darling; the consequence of which was, that the little Jan was constantly trotting at his foster-brother's heels through the round - house, attempting valiant escalades on the ladders, and covering himself from head to foot with flour in the effort to cultivate a miller's thumb. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

As for military escalades, the author extols the ladder of Bois-Rosé, so called from the captain who surprised Fécamp in former days by climbing up the cliff. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

With a simple inflexion of the brow, a mere flash of the pupil, more terrible than the thunder of Zeus, they precipitated you from the heights of your most ambitious escalades into depths of nothingness so profound that it was impossible to rise again. ❋ Th��ophile Gautier (1841)

The works had this peculiarity, that instead of rising above the earth, as did the ancient ramparts destined to defend a city from escalades, they, on the contrary, sank into it; and what created the height of the walls was the depth of the ditches. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

The capture of Sizeboli in 1828, the unsuccessful attack of General Petrasch upon Kehl in 1796, the remarkable surprises of Cremona in 1702, of Gibraltar in 1704, and of Berg-op-zoom in 1814, as well as the escalades of Port Mahon and Badajos, give an idea of the different kinds of _coup de main_. ❋ Henri Jomini (1824)

Among attacks of this class may be mentioned the memorable assaults or escalades of Port Mahon in 1756, and of Berg-op-zoom in 1747, -- both preceded by sieges, but still brilliant _coups de main_, since in neither case was the breach sufficiently large for a regular assault. ❋ Henri Jomini (1824)

Those gymnastic exercises are very useful which prepare soldiers for escalades and passing obstacles; and the engineers may with great advantage give their attention to providing means for facilitating the passage of the ditches of field-works and climbing their parapets. ❋ Henri Jomini (1824)

These are adapted to offence and defence, with and against the effects of bombs, balls, escalades, he. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

These are adapted to offence and defence, with and against the effects of bombs, balls, escalades etc. ❋ Unknown (1760)

When: Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. great, we'll have 300 people hopping into their escalades and hummers to drive to the event. registration. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At least they provide lower octane fuel so their luxurious escalades can get even worse gas mileage. ❋ RB (2010)

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