The enemy had not turned their fieldpiece on this bank of the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Bart made out a long fuse trailing three feet or more over the side of the old fieldpiece. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
Drew rounded a fieldpiece which had been manhandled off the firing line, one wheel shattered. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
I took my way to the dockyard, where, on arriving, I found a fieldpiece brought up against the gate. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir] Reference
Instead, dismounted men came at a careful, suspicious pace, cored around a single fieldpiece, a small answer to their trap. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
After the massive ordnance and extreme mechanization of North Africa it was strange never to see a mortar or a fieldpiece; just Owen guns and rifles, with bayonets in place all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
After the last hot fieldpiece was hauled out and the casualties of the campaign reckoned, the roll showed that Pegram had lost 7 killed and 53 wounded, a total of 60, in a battery of 80 men. From Wordnik.com. [Lee’s Lieutenants] Reference
English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the clan of. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
From time immemorial, a small fieldpiece had been kept solely for. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a Southern matron,] Reference
He referred to an ancient fieldpiece located on the front lawn of the school. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine] Reference
Sevier raised a hundred and fifty men and marched to take them back, carrying a light fieldpiece. From Wordnik.com. [The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790] Reference
They artfully caused an old brass fieldpiece to be left on a wharf near the scene of our late operations. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Bad Boy] Reference
Meanwhile, the fellow who was driving the mules attached to the fieldpiece, turned his head, and saw what was going on. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
Before it grew too hot, they took me out to see the barracks and a ramshackle old fieldpiece which they seemed to idolise. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
But General Foch's troops were well supplied with that terrible engine of destruction -- the French 3-inch fieldpiece, known, as the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne] Reference
A modern fieldpiece could easily throw a shell from Napoleon's headquarters over La Haie Sainte to Mont St. Jean, and far beyond into the forest. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
Page 117 and one or two discharges from the small fieldpiece, and the arena of conflict was shrouded in impenetrable darkness, save from the momentary glare which preceded the explosions. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
So sudden and so impetuous was this movement, and so skilfully executed, that the brave but ill disciplined combatants, against whom it was directed, gave way before the solid phalanx of the enemy, leaving the long disputed fieldpiece surrounded by the Insurgents. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the clan of Mac-Ivor, the nearest group of Highlanders within his aim. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
It was at this moment of confusion and terror that Waverley remarked an English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the clan of Mac-Ivor, the nearest group of. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
(link) I think Mary McDonnell behind an 18th Century fieldpiece would be compelling cinema. (. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: John Sayles pays up.] Reference
16th March, when only irregular levies and detached bodies of tribesmen were in the vicinity of Khartoum, he sent out a force of nearly 1000 men, chiefly Bashi-Bazouks, but also some regulars, with a fieldpiece and supported by two steamers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference
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