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“An admirable traverse,” observed the Captain; “and if commanded by a field-piece, or even a few muskets, quite sufficient to ensure the place against a storming party.”

A Legend of Montrose 2008

From his first novel, the wildly best-selling "Pickwick Papers," written by a prodigy of 25, he had the fecundity of Mr. Jingle, who claimed in that book to have written an "epic poem, ten thousand lines -- revolution of July; composed it on the spot; Mars by day, Apollo by night -- bang the field-piece, twang the lyre."

'The Inimitable' 2008

You missed fire with the pistol, and you are aiming at him with a field-piece.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The Chevalier had expressed a wish to leave this useless piece of ordnance behind him; but, to his surprise, the Highland chiefs interposed to solicit that it might accompany their march, pleading the prejudices of their followers, who, little accustomed to artillery, attached a degree of absurd importance to this field-piece, and expected it would contribute essentially to a victory which they could only owe to their own muskets and broadswords.

Waverley 2004

But the Highlanders of 1745 had got far beyond the simplicity of their forefathers, and showed throughout the whole war how little they dreaded artillery, although the common people still attached some consequence to the possession of the field-piece which led to this disquisition.

Waverley 2004

Senhor Carvalho, who was returning, with a detachment of fifty men and a field-piece, from an unsuccessful search after some rebels.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

This was the report of a field-piece in its time, cried Friar John.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

This was the report of a field-piece in its time, cried Friar John.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A desperate conflict ensued, the issue of which hung doubtful until the colonists succeeded in manning their brass field-piece, which was mounted upon a raised platform, and turning it upon the dense ranks of the assailants.

History of Liberia Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science John Hanson Thomas McPherson

Lieutenant Tansil, thirty-four men; artillery, consisting of one field-piece, under the charge of Master William F.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant