Fosses

We went up to the citadel, which crowns the hill, and is composed of an agglomeration of granite walls, fosses, and casemates, mounds, ditches, barracks, and water-tanks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

All the fortifications were strengthened; the fosses carefully filled with spikes and water; large stones placed over the gates, convenient to tumble on the heads of the assaulting parties; and caldrons prepared, with furnaces to melt up pitch, brimstone, boiling oil, &c., wherewith hospitably to receive them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Most of the bones came from the fosses aux pauvres, the great common graves of the poor in the center of the atrium. ❋ John Connolly (2005)

It is somewhat conical and consists of two steps or gradations, where two fosses scooped out of the hill go round it, one above the other, the lower one embracing considerably the most space. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Both these fosses are about six feet deep, and at one time doubtless were bricked, as stout large, red bricks are yet to be seen, here and there, in their sides. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The table – cloth represented the invaded country, and round it they built barricades of baskets, set up the wine bottles in a rampart, made fortifications of bread and dug fosses of salt. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Cuves d'pandage, lagunes, fosses septiques et autres installations de traitement des immondices ❋ Unknown (1973)

Southwards and south-west were the mining villages of the Lens district with their huge conical fosses. ❋ S. J. Wilson (N/A)

"My old establishment has sunk into the fosses of the fort: it was a transaction between the government and myself." ❋ Various (N/A)

Just above the village the rapids and fosses were finished by a broad pool pouring over a fall, and creating the particular pool about which something has been said. ❋ William Senior (N/A)

Baynard Castle, "adjoining the wall of the City, with all walls and fosses thereunto pertaining, as also the Tourelle called Montfichet," to ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The walls are lofty and broad, the towers numerous, and the fosses deep. ❋ Lt-Col. Pinkney (N/A)

Antiquarian Society of London was firmly established; men began to collect armor and relics: in this period grew up such an antiquary as Mr. Oldbuck, who curiously sought out every relic of the Roman times, -- armor, fosses, and _prætoria_, -- and found, with much that was real, many a fraud or delusion. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)

The table-cloth represented the invaded country, and round it they built barricades of baskets, set up the wine bottles in a rampart, made fortifications of bread and dug fosses of salt. ❋ Unknown (1915)

There were at least four-and-twenty towers; and the fosses were puddled with clay outside and in. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The eighth circle is divided into ten concentric fosses, or gulfs, in each of which some variety of fraudulent sinners is punished. ❋ Porter Lander MacClintock (1906)

If the enemy would not come out, they were ready to charge over the fosses and rampart and rush the camp, for it was not as though they had to fight with so many thousands of men, but rather to slaughter so many thousands of cattle. ❋ Unknown (1905)

Nor were the only traces left those of ramparts and fosses, more conspicuous still were those which attested the devastation and depopulation of all the country round. ❋ Unknown (1905)