A terrific cannonade had meanwhile been in progress. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
A heavy cannonade produced no effect on the walls, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
Evasive answers were given, followed by a sudden cannonade. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The mutter of the thunder in the distance was like a heavy cannonade. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
The rebels pushed buoyantly forward and opened on us a heavy cannonade. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
As soon as our guns were in place, a sharp cannonade began from both sides. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59] Reference
One horse fell, then another; sixteen lay dead before the cannonade ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
The cannonade all day was something tremendous, 'Long Tom 'firing 125 rounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference
The enemy's cannonade was terrible, but the result shows what a small number of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
As soon as one wall crumbled before the cannonade, a new work appeared behind it. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
The cannonade began now to be returned by the lugger, and the captain's spirits revived. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
For two hours before the charge 120 guns kept up a fearful cannonade upon the Union lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
A little after six o'clock the next morning, the enemy suddenly opened a furious cannonade. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
From time to time, the sound of a cannonade reached us, and heightened our eagerness to advance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
I have sustained a continued bombardment and cannonade for twenty-four hours and have not lost a man. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The old ruins still remain, mute witnesses of the completeness of our cannonade during the Chinese war. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
At last, after supporting a six years 'persistent cannonade, Bunn determined to strike a blow for liberty. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Tried a little sparing, which was summarily ended by a cannonade from Buttons directly in his countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The incessant cannonade went on until sometimes the men wondered how it would seem not to hear bursting shells. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886] Reference
Would the Khalifa succeed, in the face of such an awful cannonade, in reaching the zereba with a corporal's guard?. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Minnie-something street, when a shrill siren and the cannonade of a powerful exhaust warned me to stay my tootsies. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
But none of these breaches in the Englishman's castle-house can be made without a cannonade of books and pianoforte music. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
The attacking columns were covered by a furious cannonade, and yet, wonderful to relate, none of the defenders were struck. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
Probably from want of ammunition, the cannonade had been suspended from seven o'clock in the morning until about eleven, and. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Sometimes, when I was positive that a furious cannonade coming from a certain position was German, it turned out to be French. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
For upwards of an hour the cannonade was terrific, the fire of the enemy being very feebly maintained, from two twenty-four pounders. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
During this cannonade it seemed that the very heavens were in agitation and the earth in violent commotion, but no reply was received. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
Watered by 'war's red rain,' one Bishop tells us, virtue grows; a cannonade, he points out, is an 'oratorio' -- almost a form of worship. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
General, who, because the Enemy's Ships fired at his Battery, desired the Admiral would send Ships to cannonade the Castle, though there was. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations] Reference
Living men could not stand before that heavy and direct musketry, and the deadly enfilading cannonade from batteries upon the right and left. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
D. Porter, with a formidable fleet, bombarded the stronghold from the river, while Grant's kept up a cannonade day and night from the land side. From Wordnik.com. [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference
Although the number of dead was in utter disproportion to the terrific six-hour cannonade, yet small as it was the torn and mangled bodies made such. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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