escalade

The escalade of masonry escarpments eighteen feet high can never be successful without much preparation.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth

And three more squads of 'em missing, sir—looted, your honour's arternoon by means of escalade t'other side party-wall.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

Here again the defenders had not waited for the escalade, and this lunette, too, was immediately prepared for being held.

From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Count Helmuth

While this was going on, a fresh body of Turks, bursting into the ditch, through a breach in the counterscarp, endeavored to carry the fortress by escalade.

From History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

He stopped suddenly, and gazed for a moment at the riband on the top of the escalade.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

He escaladed the path, left it, returned to it, quick and venturous.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

The cart on my right, defended by George, was escaladed by three wolves, one of which was immediately disabled by a thrust of the vigorous old man's pike.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various

Meanwhile the first column under Nicholson escaladed the breaches near the Cashmere gate, and pushed along the ramparts toward the Kabul gate, carrying the several bastions in the way.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

The cat escaped once more and Mahony began to throw stones at the wall she had escaladed.

From Dubliners by James Joyce

They collided with terrific force and, telescoping being out of the question since both were loaded with minerals, escaladed each other in Eiffel-tower fashion.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

He was a fortress that required to be stormed, but there was considerable local curiosity about him, so that by-and- by escalading parties were formed, some of which were partly successful.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Edmund Gosse

The walls of the peaceful Mission garden and the warlike presidio were alike lost in the escalading vines or leveled by the pushing boughs of gnarled pear and olive trees that now surmounted them.

From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte

"When you promised me—" stammered Nicky-Nan, escalading the stairs and holding his staff before him as if storming a breach.

From Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

This was not discovered till the assaulting party arrived without bridges, and with nothing but escalading ladders, which they attempted to use as bridges.

From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

It might be thought that this manner of building offered considerable facilities to an escalading enemy.

From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton