"Talus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ought to project beyond the walls of the towers to defend the outer talus; so that they may not be taken by ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... themselves protection enough, their inhabitants did not neglect other means of defence, from which we may gather that they were engaged in constant and terrible struggles. The TERREMARES were generally surrounded by a talus or rampart of earth, with an external fosse which protected the approaches to the dwellings. The rampart of Castione (Parma), which dates from the Bronze age, was even strengthened inside with large timber caissons.[223] In Switzerland, some works recently undertaken to deflect ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac
... the left, and keeping along its top for a little way, I then struck across the semi-circular head of a wide glen, in the middle of which, a little lower, lay a snow-bed over a long steep slope of loose broken stones and sand. This slope, a sort of talus or "screen" as they say in the Lake country, was excessively fatiguing from the want of firm foothold; and when I reached the other side, I was already so tired and breathless, having been on foot since midnight, that ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various |
