What is "casemates"

Usage examples of "casemates".

A moment after, coming out of one of the casemates, her head-dress got slightly out of order, and she begged that I would remedy the accident, but, having to bend her head down, the state in which I was could no longer remain a secret for her.

As the fleet had to cease firing to allow the charge, the Rebels ran out of their casemates and, manning the parapet, opened such a fire of musketry that the brigade from the fleet was driven back, but the soldiers made a lodgment on the land face.

Captain Otei returned to the top of the rear wall, then slowly walked the circuit of the walls before descending to tour the casemates and praise the tired gunners, all gunpowder-black now, no matter their original colors.

Representative Miot was reserved for the tortures of the casemates of Africa.

For three weeks we played every night in the venerable casemates of Metz, long a city of garrisons and once a Roman outpost.

These were, he knew, the casemates, the places where the big guns had sat overlooking the Narrows.

Hours later, after he had rested in the palace, changed his bloody, befouled clothing, and washed his faceblood having sprung from his ears, nose, and even the corners of his eyes as he had lain on the ground outside the wallshe and Captain Otei returned to the top of the rear wall, then slowly walked the circuit of the walls before descending to tour the casemates and praise the tired gunners, all gunpowder-black now, no matter their original colors.

The entire fleet bore marks of the handiwork of the rebels, in the shape of battered casemates, broken chimneys, and shattered upper works.

Both chimneys had either been broken off by branches of trees or shattered by a shell, and her casemates were pierced in a hundred places.

Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric, Mystical, Bored For three weeks we played every night in the venerable casemates of Metz, long a city of garrisons and once a Roman outpost.