scaling ladder

Building scaling ladders and using them must be second nature.

We'd need scaling ladders if we go alongside and try to board.

The first scaling ladder was already on the walls.

He has sent work parties to the woods to cut trees and make scaling ladders.

We don't want to have to carry scaling ladders in the boats.

There were scaling ladders three and four stories high.

"They brought one of their scaling ladders and drew me through the window.

Here he equipped the soldiers with ropes and scaling ladders.

A large hall lies the south of the castle with great, high windows and scaling ladders.

The scaling ladders are too close together,' she shouted.

"They don't have enough scaling ladders to swamp us, either.

They carried three scaling ladders, which they threw up against the wall.

Why did they lay up so few stones to push down on the scaling ladders?"

The scaling ladders arrived, and the first wave ascended the walls.

He saw scaling ladders appearing at the rear of the attackers, moving forward.

They'd been building rams and scaling ladders ever since they settled into their siege camp.

There the front rank of the enemy was charging in with scaling ladders to begin the battle.

Matching command with act, he seized the sides of the scaling ladder and climbed out.

He personally helped to place a scaling ladder over an anti-tank ditch and was the first across.

Scaling ladders were not unknown, and were occasionally brought into use.

While they were helped by the mist, their scaling ladders proved unwieldy.

Besides, the walls are thirty feet thick, and no scaling ladder in the world could reach the top of them."

It's a way to cut down on the sort of casualties they'll take with scaling ladders.'

A half-dozen times men fell, dropping scaling ladders, only to have others grab them up and continue.

Scaling ladders leaned drunkenly against the wall to either side of the gate.