| They crossed the street and went down the glacis of the cobblestoned wharf. |
| We then crawled on our stomachs across the glacis till we arrived at the rampart. |
| The moats and glacis which surrounded it are still visible to the south, where, covered with trees, they adjoin the gardens. |
| On 21 May, having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, which heavy bombardment had almost made untenable, Versaillais troops entered the city. |
| The wormlike thread of men wound round picquet after picquet, and throttled the sentries on the glacis, and at the gate. |
| Abutting the glacis of the Acropolis at Athens is the great theatre of Dionysis. |
