She stayed not to witness more; but, with brain distraught, and bosom filled with fell fancies, she glided across the Glacis of the old encampment, and in hurried steps sought the sacred shelter of her father's roof.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
It is a regular Square, with four Bastions well built, and was capable of making a stout Defence if well garisoned, and would have been much stronger had the Glacis and Counterscarp been finished.
"An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations"
Sir Charles Knowles
This Castle is a regular Square with four Bastions, strong and well built, and defended to the Land by a wet Ditch and Glacis proper, and one Face towards the Sea has a Raveline, and a double Line of Guns.
"An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations"
Sir Charles Knowles