A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification.
1 The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp .
2 The ladders were immediately seized by their comrades, who, after one or two vain attempts, succeeded in placing them against the escarp .
3 The smooth and verdant escarp of the river-berg guided us, while the river itself was sometimes at hand and sometimes four miles off.
4 It placed one ladder, by which the General descended into the ditch, and was, it is said, the first up the escarp of the work.
5 He discovered D'Hérouville leaning against a cannon, contemplating the escarps and bastions of the citadel.
6 As I approached Montbrun, the next village, the rocks which hemmed in the valley became more boldly escarped .
7 Its course was almost due west, and the valley in which it flowed was deep and boldly escarped .
8 In this I was nevertheless mistaken; for although the valley was well escarped , it did not contain even the trace of a watercourse.
9 On either side of the gorge rose abrupt stony hills thinly wooded, chiefly with stunted oak, or escarped craggy cliffs pierced with yawning caverns.
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