Lexicographical Neighbors of Scarpings
Literary usage of Scarpings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1899)
"Hence these scarpings may be identified as their work. ... They cannot have been
for culture, as the scarpings are frequently on the north and east only—the ..."
2. The Life of Wellington: The Restoration of the Martial Power of Great Britain by Herbert Maxwell (1899)
"Wellington directed that this should be made stronger than the first line by
scarpings, retrenchments, redoubts, and works for artificial inundation. ..."
3. Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History by Alexander Hosie (1904)
"... forcing the railway into the intervening valley and here and there into the
hillsides to the east, where one or two rock scarpings ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1868)
"... of numerous cuttings and scarpings, and other evidences of defence, which mark
the combes or valleys ascending from this level towards the high country. ..."
5. Exeter by Edward Augustus Freeman (1887)
"The earth from these ditches and scarpings was used to form an earthwork to defend
the highest point of the hill. On this primaeval stronghold the Roman ..."
6. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1881)
"Thus the area of the High Sanctuary exhibits a confusion of structures belonging
to every age, from the first : rock-scarpings of the Kings of Judah to the ..."
7. The Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland by Michael Waistell Taylor (1892)
"On the north, south, and east, the scarpings are sharp and well defined.
The excavation from the moat probably afforded material for raising the mound in ..."
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