And our men on the wall fired a volley, and rained bullets on them as thick as hail.    From LearnThat.org.  [Ambroise Paré (1510 - 1590). French surgeon]

volley a string of curses.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The answer to this was a withering volley from the Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

No, this volley is being fired by Peter Paul, and it's a doozy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls: Clinton, Obama tied in Indiana] Reference

There was a ragged volley from the rocks; shouts, exclamations, and a scream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Churchill On The Frontier - Mamund Valley II] Reference

The first volley from the English line had mowed his soldiers down like ripe wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference

­Hesselink did well to connect with a ­volley from the German's pass, the home goalkeeper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference

A scattering volley from the Russians, who were coming on in force, quickened their movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Track of the Troops] Reference

The interpolated excitatory volley is found to lessen the inhibitory effect upon the final excitatory volley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference

An excitatory volley is interpolated between the inhibitory volley and a subsequent standard excitatory volley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The 20-year-old midfielder-forward struck a volley from the top of the area that just went wide of the right post.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Cup Soccer - USA vs. South Korea] Reference

The final's winning goal was scored by Zinedine Zidane, with a left-footed volley from the edge of the penalty area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

A-Rod stretches for a volley, which is called out on the sideline.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

The volley from the automatic rifle sends Kenway’s body into his monitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [NaNoWriMo Post 1: Talos’ Story « The Graveyard] Reference

Cay with full honours -- that is, a volley of guns and colours flown at half-mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers] Reference

Then he floats up a half volley, which is creamed through long-off for four by Collingwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

The volley was a fearful one; but the British still came on doggedly, until the fire of the battery became too terrible to be endured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference

We need you to put your tennis shoes on for a "volley" of typing in support of the FMLA.    From Wordnik.com.  [maternity leave - my experiences so far and a call to help] Reference

So he has really been trying to take advantage of this kind of volley, this back and forth.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2008] Reference

Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a "volley" and then we post that to the site.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Dream in Colors] Reference

Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a "volley" and then we post it to the site live.    From Wordnik.com.  [RVABlogs] Reference

Cole also hit the crossbar with a sumptuous volley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chelsea too powerful for Stoke, with Florent Malouda in rampaging form] Reference

Each wave a volley you stumble through, churning and folding over you.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Catch a Glimpse of, Forget As Soon] Reference

Stump could find the right volley to lob back, three Mohawks staggered in.    From Wordnik.com.  [SHADOW TREASURES] Reference

The first volley, earlier this month, was a proposal from Google and Verizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [OK Go on net neutrality: A lesson from the music industry] Reference

The winged man flew around the air as the volley of fireballs chased after him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arcana Magi Zero - v.2: Megumi's Fable, the Advance] Reference

Follow the script: Then the SHOTS: A volley sounding like a motorcycle backfire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twisted History] Reference

If you can't quite hit the perfect swinging volley, maybe Anna Kournikova can help.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPORTS: FLAWLESS, UM, FORM] Reference

That Reaganesque volley hung in the air for a few minutes, until Obama struck back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad Man] Reference

With their uncanny marksmanship they raked the oncoming fleet with volley after volley.    From Wordnik.com.  ['His Name's Dutch Reagan'] Reference

Often he'll volley between pure tones and split ones, for self-contained call and response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Newsome: A Soprano Sax 'Soliloquy'] Reference

Within 15 minutes another volley of RPGs sizzled aloft and once again Aidid's gunners scored.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Naked' Mission] Reference

This subsided, and on the third time that the volley of shootings occurred, my father shot back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voices Of Brown] Reference