The soldiers will be undergoing bayonet training next week. From LearnThat.org.
He added, clearly the issue bayonet is also a no-no - you could have someone's eye out with that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
"The Baker rifle, " Sharpe said, 'the sword bayonet, and me. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Havoc]
The cry of the country was against what was called bayonet rule. From Wordnik.com. [Frederick Douglass The Orator. Containing an Account of His Life; His Eminent Public Services; His Brilliant Career as Orator; Selections from His Speeches and Writings] Reference
His bayonet is a useless weapon for slaughter; its purpose is a moral one. From Wordnik.com. [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1] Reference
No, the only ones that had a bayonet was the National Guards that morning. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Jefferson M. Robinette, 1977 July. Interview H-41. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Jefferson M. Robinette] Reference
No pause had been made for firing for the bayonet was the weapon our men trusted. From Wordnik.com. [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference
However, I led the way, holding my candle high, and keeping the sword bayonet very handy. From Wordnik.com. [Carnacki, the Ghost Finder] Reference
Harper used the hilt of his sword bayonet, the dull clang echoing forlorn in the fetid blackness. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
And I particularly dislike the looks of that bayonet, which is half a yard longer than it need be. From Wordnik.com. [Alone] Reference
Mr. Ulyanov down the hall reminds us that the bayonet is a tool of state with a worker on each end. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary Cupboard : Tide by Karim Rashid] Reference
He calls his bayonet his "little Rosalie," and lays its ruddy edges against his cheek with a caress. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference
The huge Irishman used his sword bayonet to cut the wet ropes which bound the flagpole to the merlon. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
He moved ponderously over to Roberts, drew from its scabbard the sword bayonet the other had at his hip. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
One of our soldiers saw the situation, and ran and drove his sword bayonet through this second assailant. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
During the whole action not a single musket was fired on our side -- the bayonet was our sole dependence. From Wordnik.com. [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference
They are master hands with that, too -- and the bayonet is the one thing the Hun has no stomach for at all. From Wordnik.com. [A Minstrel in France] Reference
In battle they were formidable opponents, and in using the bayonet were the equal of the best trained troops. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference
And of them all the bayonet is the counter which is at once the most deadly and the most intolerant of mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Land] Reference
Rarely is a charge with the bayonet made in the course of a war, though the bayonet is the most terrible of weapons. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Harper used his sword bayonet and, because that was a shorter blade than Sharpe's sword, worked farther up the steps. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Escape]
= The bayonet is a cutting and thrusting weapon consisting of three principal parts, viz, the blade, guard, and grip. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition] Reference
The bayonet is a cutting and thrusting weapon consisting of three principal parts, viz., the blade, the guard, and the grip. From Wordnik.com. [The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training] Reference
The bayonet is a weapon peculiarly British; at least it is a weapon which in the hands of a British soldier is irresistible. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815] Reference
More and more it is proved that the bayonet is the weapon that wins the trench, the rifle the defensive weapon that holds it. From Wordnik.com. [With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917] Reference
The bayonet was the secret of the French, and the Germans were shuddering with terror before its fatal, glistening point. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
"a bayonet is a weapon with a worker on both ends.". From Wordnik.com. [PrairiePundit] Reference
"It ought to have a name," said I. "The poilu calls his bayonet. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Planet] Reference
"Aye, Mr. Birch, the bayonet is the thing for the British soldier, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
We have come a long way from the infantryman's pike, to the bayonet, to the Tomahawk. From Wordnik.com. [From Bayonets To Tomahawks] Reference
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