Lexicographical Neighbors of Insconced
Literary usage of Insconced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"insconced.—In the military art, when any part of an army has fortified itself
with a sconce, or small work, in order to defend some pass, etc., ..."
2. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"... when any part of an army has fortified itself with a sconce, or small work,
in order to defend some pass, etc., it is said to be insconced. ..."
3. The Military Encyclopaedia: A Technical, Biographical, and Historical by Joachim Hayward Stocqueler (1853)
"insconced.—In the military art, when any part of an army has fortified itself
with a sconce, or small work, in order to defend some pass, &c., ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... therein insconced, knoweth not whether he is sitting on his head, kneeling on
his heels, or standing on his elbows. ..."
5. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... the very safe and reputable cause of despotism, in which he insconced himself
as an impregnable fortress, which it did not require much skill to defend. ..."
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