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Example sentences for "cannonades"

Lexicographically close words:
cannisters; canno; cannon; cannonade; cannonaded; cannonading; cannonball; cannonballs; cannoned; cannoneer
  1. The French replied by opening fire, and the Russians instantly began one of the fiercest cannonades we had ever heard.

  2. I was woke up shortly after two o'clock on the morning of the 24th of February by the commencement of one of the most furious cannonades since the siege began.

  3. The noise was terrible; and when the shells began to explode, the din was like the opening crash of one of the great cannonades or bombardments of the siege.

  4. In the middle of the night, however, we were all awoke by one of the most tremendous cannonades we had ever heard, and, after a time, the report of a rolling fire of musketry was borne upon the wind.

  5. His solicitude was now awakened for the safety of Lord Stirling and his corps, who had been all the morning exchanging cannonades with General Grant.

  6. It was the thundering of these cannonades which had reached Washington's camp at White Plains.

  7. The Russians commenced one of the most furious cannonades we have heard since the siege began.

  8. I have often seen her passing along the covered way to Sainte-Catherine, while the arquebusades and cannonades rained shot around her, and her paying no attention to them.

  9. I have often seen her passing along the covered way of Sainte-Catherine, the cannonades and arquebusades raining round her, and she caring nothing for them.


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