battering ram

“She said cavalrymen have the patience of a battering ram and the delicacy of an elephant.”

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“When they rounded the corner into a wide corridor, they found a dozen sinha using a bench as an improvised battering ram as they tried to break down a wooden door.”

Simon & Schuster: Shadow Lord

“One of his armored ships with a battering ram at last broke a hole in the wall, then backwatered to allow a trireme with crack Macedonian marines to anchor at the gap.”

Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

“Returning to Halicarnassus, Alexander redoubled his efforts at taking the wall and brought up a huge tower on wheels to shower the defenders with missiles while a battering ram pounded the stones beneath them.”

Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

“Out of the corner of his eye he could see Sisters Donna Lou and Betty Jo help­ing the three Security men use a chair as a battering ram against the invisible barrier that kept them off the set.”

Prayers To Broken Stones

“Aaargh!" said Ron as another twisted limb punched a large dent into his door; the windshield was now trembling under a hail of blows from knuckle-like twigs and a branch as thick as a battering ram was pounding furiously on the roof, which seemed to be caving in -”

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“The door was made of solid oak, with heavy hinges to match and a draw-bar on the outside, but against that solid battering ram propelled by four powerful men with their lives at stake it might as well have been made of plywood: the shattered door was smashed completely off its hinges and the wine-press, released at the last moment, went cartwheeling through the doorway into the darkness beyond.”

The Satan Bug

“The light hit Atrig square in the back, hurling him across the corridor as if a battering ram had struck him.”

Simon & Schuster: MILLENNIUM