Crossword-Solution: EMPLACED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

They set themselves to labour like the damned at those ponderous guns emplaced to command the narrow passage out to sea.

Among these are walls in the style called “Cyclopian,” built of a very hard material, and more than thirty-two feet thick, which seem to have surrounded the ancient Byrsa or citadel, and which are still in places sixteen feet high.[592] The Roman walls found emplaced above these are of far inferior strength and solidity.

There was also an internal ornamentation of the roof, consisting of a winged circle of an Egyptian character--a favourite subject with the Phoenician artists[620]--the circle having an uræus erect on either side of it, and also of another winged figure which appeared to represent an eagle.[621] The monolithic chamber was emplaced upon a block of stone, ten feet in length and breadth, and six feet in height, which itself stood upon a much smaller stone, and overhung it on all sides.

They turned, Peter laughing at his desire to run--as they found another group of machines emplaced in a rocky shelter a little higher than the spot where the shrapnel had struck three days before.

They were alone, and now the Russian machines were on the German batteries not yet emplaced, none unlimbered.