scance

Example Sentences

• "As for the state of Antwerp, the enemy has fortified so strongly that their ships cannot possibly remove him; for he bends half his force to defend the scance of Calloo, upon the Fladers' side of the bridge, and the other half on the brabant side, which is full of scances, so that one hundred men can defend it from five hundred."
• "We are making up fast—almost within shot now. The scance, too, is a good hundred yards off."
• "It was by that time dark but proceeded to build scances and prepare to hold the position on a front of about half a mile."
• "While engaged in building a “scance” (an erection of stones in crescent formation to afford cover), amid the constant sniping of the enemy, and while in a stooping position a Mauser bullet struck him under the left eye at the infra-orbital foramen, passing through the antrum and making its exit drove before it the second bicuspid tooth, splitting the first bicuspid."
• "In silk an' sattin ilk ane scances, An gauze beside, They've loupit o'er a' sort o' fences Wi perfect pride."
• "And look at the scance that comes frae his bonny een."