By the side of each of these batteries other workmen were strengthening gabions filled with earth, the lining of another battery.
"Ten Years Later" by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
In the Fort of Rosny a sailor working at the gabions was carrying a sack of earth.
"The Memoirs of Victor Hugo" by Victor Hugo
By the side of each of these batteries other workmen were strengthening gabions filled with earth, the lining of another battery.
"The Vicomte de Bragelonne" by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
They required one million sand-bags and fifty thousand gabions.
"The Art of War" by Baron Henri de Jomini
They are making fascines and gabions.
"French and English" by Evelyn Everett-Green
It is used in the double sap in connection with gabions.
"Elements of Military Art and Science" by Henry Wager Halleck
Reliquiae Trottosienses, or Catalogue of the Gabions of the late Jonathan Oldbuck.
"Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature" by Margaret Ball
Good gabions protected them in front, and there was a plentiful supply of fascines lying all about.
"The Insurrection in Paris" by An Englishman: Davy
Miniature mountain ranges they seemed, deeply ditched, and revetted with sods, fascines, hurdles, gabions or sand bags.
"Campaigns of a Non-Combatant," by George Alfred Townsend
Gabions are like large round hampers, without top or bottom, to be filled with earth.
"Taking Tales" by W.H.G. Kingston
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