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Sentences starting with cannon

Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front--it was Balaclava come again. [5]
Cannon and musketry, mingling together, thundered on the right and in the center, while the capotes of Lannes' sharpshooters were already seen crossing the milldam and forming up within twice the range of a musket shot. [2]
Cannon were useless, gun-carriages overturned. [11]
Cannon are booming as he steps into his open carriage that evening on the levee, where the piles of river freight are covered with people. [9]

Sentences ending with cannon

The delirium of the people went on the rest of the night, and with it the clamor of the joy-bells and the welcoming cannon. [5]
Prince Andrew and the battalion were already within twenty paces of the cannon. [2]
Bring us nice news of a victory by the Archduke Karl or Ferdinand (one archduke's as good as another, as you know) and even if it is only over a fire brigade of Bonaparte's, that will be another story and we'll fire off some cannon! [2]
On the fighting line, when there was a lull, our backwoodsmen stood up behind their trees and cursed the enemy roundly, and often by these taunts persuaded the furious gunners to open their ports and fire their cannon. [9]
And when at last he grasped the reins and gave the word, the men sprung suddenly away from the mules' heads and the coach shot from the station as if it had issued from a cannon. [5]
Ulrich stood, as if intoxicated, amid the shouts, shrieks of joy, military music, and thunder of the cannon. [10]
The fact is, he fatigues the market with that cannon. [5]
By this I had come in sight of her house, and suddenly I trembled like a green horse before a cannon. [9]
It was a great step when the two last misunderstandings were settled by arbitration instead of cannon. [5]
They've loaded goods even on the cannon! [2]

Short sentences using cannon

Have they fired cannon? [6]

More example sentences with the word cannon in them

A brass cannon was on the tender hitched behind it. [9]
You see, they was firing cannon over the water, trying to make my carcass come to the top. [5]
The high stockade walls with stout bastions and small cannon looked formidable, yet there was no man of them but was better pleased that the odds were against him than with him. [11]
When having limbered up the only two cannon that remained uninjured out of the four, they began moving down the hill (one shattered gun and one unicorn were left behind), Prince Andrew rode up to Tushin. [2]
I took exception to the introducing of Mr. Cannon as a great financier, as if he were the only great financier present. [5]
Drowsiness presently began to settle upon his senses; the faint and far-off boom of cannon was wafted to his ear, and he said to himself, "The new King is crowned," and straightway fell asleep. [5]
Petya soon came to himself, the color returned to his face, the pain had passed, and at the cost of that temporary unpleasantness he had obtained a place by the cannon from where he hoped to see the Emperor who would be returning that way. [2]
As she stood there, with this tragedy enveloping her, the dull boom of a cannon came across the valley. [11]
No musket-shot welcomed them, no cannon roared on the night; there was no sentry. [11]
Then Tarboe brought the Ninety-Nine close to the wreck, and with his little cannon put a ball into her. [11]
Around the cannon the men moved still more briskly and busily. [2]
In the machine-shops the injured guns and cannon are repaired. [9]
As soon as the firing of cannon began, all the people ran into the streets, and the street-cleaners, who were sweeping up the tiles and broken bits of slate that the storm had torn from the roofs, leaned on their brooms and listened. [10]
If I had the command of the campaign I would go with rifles only, no cumbersome Maxims and cannon to spoil good rocks with. [5]
When George entered the capital he found flags flying, heard bells pealing, the explosions of mortars and firing of cannon, sometimes one shot after another, sometimes a deafening salvo of many guns together, and a thousand voices shouting "Hurrah, hurrah! [10]
Wants it where the cannon is. [5]
At eight o'clock the booming of cannon was added to the sound of musketry. [2]
We left on the 6th and stopped over at Romorantin; then on the 9th Joan entered Orleans in state, under triumphal arches, with the welcoming cannon thundering and seas of welcoming flags fluttering in the breeze. [5]
Mr. Cannon says that there are three cardinal rules of business success; they are diligence, honesty, and truthfulness. [5]
I'm making a study of a sausage-wreath to hang on the cannon, and I don't really reckon I can do it right, but if I can, we can break the butcher. [5]
Their brazen voices stirred my soul and heart, and presently the cannon in the citadel and on the wails rattled out a thundering welcome to the Emperor, rending the summer air. [10]
Signs and scars still remain, as reminders of Vicksburg's tremendous war experiences; earthworks, trees crippled by the cannon balls, cave- refuges in the clay precipices, etc. [5]
The firing was still proceeding when officers, generals, and gentlemen-in-waiting came running out of the cathedral, and after them others in a more leisurely manner: caps were again raised, and those who had run to look at the cannon ran back again. [2]
Near the linden-shaded square at the shooting house were posted the cannon and howitzers, which were to receive the distinguished guests with loud volleys and lend fresh animation to the festival. [10]
Suddenly the strange sound of a far-off whistling and thud was heard, followed by a boom of cannon blending into a dull roar that set the windows rattling. [2]
By ten o'clock some twenty men had already been carried away from the battery; two guns were smashed and cannon balls fell more and more frequently on the battery and spent bullets buzzed and whistled around. [2]
They got a small cannon in readiness, and without waiting for the going down of the sun, began firing rapidly, upon which the Rev. [6]
Look at the sixty big cannon on Fort Augusta! [11]
On the French side, amid the groups with cannon, a cloud of smoke appeared, then a second and a third almost simultaneously, and at the moment when the first report was heard a fourth was seen. [2]
I can not say any thing about the stone column that projects over Jehoshaphat from the Temple wall like a cannon, except that the Moslems believe Mahomet will sit astride of it when he comes to judge the world. [5]
But the guns remained loaded, the loopholes in blockhouses and entrenchments looked out just as menacingly, and the unlimbered cannon confronted one another as before. [2]
Now--but here Barbara's quiet observation suddenly ended; the air was shaken by the roar of cannon from the bastions of the citadel, and the signals of the warders' horns blended with the thunder of the artillery. [10]
He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, and mingling with one another. [2]
Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with the agreeable intermittent whistle of a shell, flew over people's heads incessantly, but not one fell close by, they all flew over. [2]
Besides, an eventful period, full of the beating of drums, the blare of trumpets, the rattle of musketry and roar of cannon might be expected. [10]
Then I went over to the great arms factory and learned my real trade; learned all there was to it; learned to make everything: guns, revolvers, cannon, boilers, engines, all sorts of labor-saving machinery. [5]
Prince Andrew took out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the position. [2]
The thunder of our two brave cannon announced the Fourth of July, at daylight, to all who were awake. [5]
At the head of the square is an artillery station, and a row of cannon frowns on it. [4]
Already twelve troops of Spaniards who had served in Hungary, and other bands of soldiers had entered Ratisbon; cannon came up the Danube from Austria, and the city, had gained a warlike aspect. [10]
Presently a puff of smoke shot out from the hillside where she stood, and the sound of an old cannon followed. [11]
You little handful of people here--little more than half a million--imagine that you can defeat thirty-five millions, with an army of half a million, a hundred battle- ships, ten thousand cannon and a million rifles. [11]
In 21 hours of industrious fighting, Jameson's 530 men, with 8 Maxims, 3 cannon, and 145,000 rounds of ammunition, killed an aggregate of 1. [5]
Suddenly the sound of a firing of cannon was heard from the embankment, to celebrate the signing of peace with the Turks, and the crowd rushed impetuously toward the embankment to watch the firing. [2]
He could see nothing more, for immediately afterwards cannon began firing from somewhere and smoke enveloped everything. [2]
To the left, not far from the farthest cannon, was a small, newly constructed wattle shed from which came the sound of officers' voices in eager conversation. [2]
It is a noble lesson, and nothing less noisy than the voice of cannon can teach it so that it shall be heard over all the angry cries of theological disputants. [6]
Those who stood nearest him attended to him, unbuttoned his coat, seated him on the raised platform of the cannon, and reproached those others (whoever they might be) who had crushed him. [2]
On the first morning of the sixth month cannon thundered from the citadel of the capital. [10]
He had 8 Maxims--a Maxim is a kind of Gatling, I believe, and shoots about 500 bullets per minute; he had one 12 1/2-pounder cannon and two 7-pounders; also, 145,000 rounds of ammunition. [5]
An upright cannon marks the spot where a scrawny oak once stood on a scarred and baked hillside, outside of the Confederate lines at Vicksburg. [9]
Auxiliary to these main points, to be sure, are their thunderings of cannon, their marching and music, their fizzlegigs and fireworks; but I will not waste time with them. [7]
The cannon roar loud, the sword flashes bright, Who'll dare meet the stroke of my falchion? [10]
But there's more light now, sir,--it's shining through the darkness, brighter than the flashes of the cannon over there. [9]
The R. E. Lee was commanded by Captain John W. Cannon, and the Natchez was in charge of that veteran Southern boatman, Captain Thomas P. Leathers. [5]
A cannon ball killed someone behind them, another fell in front and splashed Dolokhov with blood. [2]
Through this opening John imagined an army might appear, perhaps British, perhaps Turks, and banners of red and of yellow advance, and a cannon wheel about and point its long nose, and open on the valley. [4]
Nesvitski realized that it was a cannon ball. [2]
Near the square is the old cannon, Mad Margery, used in 1382 at the siege of Oudenarde,--a hammered-iron hooped affair, eighteen feet long. [4]
Shattered gun-carriages lay in the ditches, modern cannon that had cost priceless hours of skilled labour; and once we were confronted by one of those monsters, wounded to the death, I had seen that morning. [9]
He was continually imagining that a cannon ball was flying toward him with a terrific whizz, and then he shuddered and sat up. [2]
How easily could I turn my cannon and my men upon you! [11]
More than a hundred cannon were already in the hands of the French. [2]
There for several hours amid incessant cannon and musketry fire, now Russians were seen alone, now Frenchmen alone, now infantry, and now cavalry: they appeared, fired, fell, collided, not knowing what to do with one another, screamed, and ran back again. [2]
Cossacks, foot and horse soldiers, wagons, caissons, and cannon were everywhere. [2]
Meanwhile Tarboe trained his one solitary little cannon on the enemy, roaring his men into place. [11]
Five paces from him, a cannon ball tore up the dry earth and disappeared. [2]
Ney, who had had a corps of ten thousand men, reached Napoleon at Orsha with only one thousand men left, having abandoned all the rest and all his cannon, and having crossed the Dnieper at night by stealth at a wooded spot. [2]
On the high ground where the enemy was, the smoke of a cannon rose, and a ball flew whistling over the heads of the hussar squadron. [2]
Judge Douglas is going back to the era of our Revolution, and, to the extent of his ability, muzzling the cannon which thunders its annual joyous return. [7]
Thirteen cannon thundered from the blockhouses--one for each colony that had braved a king. [9]
Though he saw French cannon and French troops on the Pratzen Heights just where he had been ordered to look for the commander in chief, he could not, did not wish to, believe that. [2]
Yes, it remained for us to add church-bells and cannon to the orchestra. [4]
In this action for the first time trophies were taken: banners, cannon, and two enemy generals. [2]
A cannon ball, flying close to him, caused him to duck and bend over his horse. [2]
The cannon balls flew just as swiftly and cruelly from both sides, crushing human bodies, and that terrible work which was not done by the will of a man but at the will of Him who governs men and worlds continued. [2]
At last the firing of cannon announces the coming of royalty. [4]
He had expected firing of cannon and ringing of bells--there was not even a flag out anywhere; the celebration of the Fourth seemed to have shrunk into a dull and decorous avoidance of all excitement. [4]
Now the rain falls--now the wind is let loose with a terrible shriek--now the lightning is so constant that the eyes burn, and the thunder-claps merge into an awful roar, as did the 800 cannon at Gettysburg. [5]
The Russians might fall on his left wing, might break through his center, he himself might be killed by a stray cannon ball. [2]
He opened his eyes, hoping to see how the struggle of the Frenchmen with the gunners ended, whether the red-haired gunner had been killed or not and whether the cannon had been captured or saved. [2]
I want to explain to you a few points of difference between the principles of business as I see them and those that Mr. Cannon believes in. [5]
I recall with especial pleasure the army of tin soldiers with which we fought battles, and the brass cannon that mowed down their ranks. [10]
Did you hear 'em shooting the cannon? [5]
Peril around, all else appalling, Cannon in front and leaden rain Him duly through the clarion calling To the van called not in vain. [6]
We also have eighteen cannon on the road to Harper's Ferry, of which arm there is not a single one yet at that point. [7]
We heard the dull booming of cannon to the front, and knew that Talbot was beginning his attack on the bridge. [5]
This whole mass droned and jostled in confusion under the dismal influence of cannon balls flying from the French batteries stationed on the Pratzen Heights. [2]
Everything had been done to soften their refusal to admit the Englishmen, nay they had had free choice to encamp beneath the protection of the walls under the cannon of the city. [10]
The French cannon did not reach there and the musketry fire sounded far away. [2]
The silver crescent decked its scarlet pennon, rows of cannon poured destruction from its sides, and its lofty deck was doubly defended by bearded wearers of the turban. [10]
They went one day by invitation, Irene and Marion and King and the artist--as if it made any difference where they went--to Lonesome Lake, a private pond and fishing-lodge on the mountain-top, under the ledge of Cannon. [4]
Impelled by the crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a cannon and the crowd were dragging it out. [2]
All about us cries and cheers, and the chanting of the choirs and groaning of the organ; and outside the clamoring of the bells and the booming of the cannon. [5]
The noise was comparable to nothing; there is nothing resembling it but thunder and cannon, and these are feeble in comparison. [5]
A cannon ball, cleaving the air, flew over the heads of Bagration and his suite, and fell into the column to the measure of "Left... [2]
The figures show clearly, and with mathematical violence, that the only way to save Jameson, or even give him a fair and equal chance with the enemy, was for Johannesburg to send him 240 Maxims, 90 cannon, 600 carloads of ammunition, and 240,000 men. [5]
He heard the clash of sabres, the distant roar of cannon, the beating of horses' hoofs--the thud-thud, tread-tread of an army. [11]
Once his sword clanged against the chair as it slipped a little from its position, and he started almost violently, though the dull booming of a cannon in no wise seemed to break the quietness of the scene. [11]
Then the coronation ceremonies were resumed; the true King was anointed and the crown set upon his head, whilst cannon thundered the news to the city, and all London seemed to rock with applause. [5]

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