escalade
Example Sentences
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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
"I so did, sir—same being in the act o' scaling wall—taking my lady's garden by escalade as ye might say."
From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
The escalade was managed by means of a ruined tree which projected from the wall.
From The Unveiling of Lhasa by Candler, Edmund
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)
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