escalade

Example Sentences

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He was the same composed and self-possessed being in a besieged garrison, in the moment of a threatened escalade, as amongst his cronies by a winter fire-side.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

The assailants had no heavy artillery, nor any material for escalade; but they had money, and gold proved a better battering-train than lead.

From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

Impatient, however, of the delay of his fleet, which was detained by the weather, he determined not to wait for the artillery, but to attempt to carry the fort by escalade.

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

Moreover, he felt that escalade hardly became either his age or habit of body.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Seizing one of the axes, I attacked the lower rigging vigorously, cutting through shrouds, slings, braces, and halyards, everything that came within reach, thus making my position secure from escalade.

From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)