Unrelieved by the green foliage of bush or palmtree, it rose from the bare, stony, sandy soil, with its wooden palisades, its rampart, its Escarped walls, and its lookout, with broad, flat roof, swarming with armed warriors.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
From the summits of the strong projections, which jutted like galleries from every direction along the entire height of the Escarped walls to prevent the planting of scaling-ladders, soldiers looked through the embrasures at the advancing convicts; yet the archers had replaced their arrows in the quivers, for the watchmen in the towers perceived how few were the numbers of the approaching troop, and a messenger had already delivered to the commander of the garrison an order from his superior authorizing him to permit the passage of the prisoners.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
150. They were discovered by General Sir F. Grenfell in 1885. Noting the remains of two parallel walls running up from the water's edge to a part of the cliff which had evidently been Escarped and presented a vertical face, General Grenfell caused the sand to be cleared, thus disclosing the entrances to several rock- cut tombs dating from the Sixth and Twelfth Dynasties, as well as two flights of steps on either side of an inclined plane leading from the Nile bank to the door of one of the tombs.
"Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt"
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
