(1) It threaded through the hills which surrounded the Empire's capital like a huge, natural breastwork .(2) Everything the actor owned formed a crude breastwork ten yards from the chipped cinder-block front step.(3) Yet I still felt muddled, as the breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.(4) Russell sent his family to safety, then made a breastwork from a pile of shingles at his front door.(5) There was probably a timber breastwork along the top.(6) A submachine-gunner delivers more accurate fire using the breastwork to steady his weapon.(7) He ordered soldiers to tear down breastworks and use the logs to feed the fires.(8) When the fighting died down, the Confederates hastily constructed breastworks to protect their gains.(9) The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees.(10) The regiment gained the enemy's breastworks and the affair at Boykin's Mills was over.(11) ‘Take it slow, guys,’ a sergeant of the Pennsylvanians called out as the troops approached the fortifications and breastworks .(12) From this cover, they swept the flats in front of their breastworks with withering gunfire.(13) Up ahead were gentle country hills, picket fences - and what looked like breastworks and fortifications.(14) They worked to erect small semicircular breastworks from the many rocks that dotted the terrain.(15) Behind these natural breastworks , the company fired repeated volleys at the approaching horsemen.(16) The bombs exploded in the air and sailed into the breastworks , throwing up great clouds of dirt.
