field-pieces

More Uhlans followed, the hoofs of their magnificent horses ringing like thousands of steel hammers breaking stones in a road; and after them the giant siege-guns rumbling, growling, the mitrailleuses machine guns with drag-chains ringing, the field-pieces with creaking axles, complaining brakes, the grinding of the steel-rimmed wheels against the stones echoing and re-echoing from the house front.

Advance into Belgium de Brantigny........................ 2008

More Uhlans followed, the hoofs of their magnificent horses ringing like thousands of steel hammers breaking stones in a road; and after them the giant siege-guns rumbling, growling, the mitrailleuses machine guns with drag-chains ringing, the field-pieces with creaking axles, complaining brakes, the grinding of the steel-rimmed wheels against the stones echoing and re-echoing from the house front.

Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Why not also assert that the Greeks were possessed of better muskets and field-pieces; that they threw bomb-shells farther, had better printed books, and much finer engravings?

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

For our amusements, besides the games in vogue, which were pretty much in old times as they are now (except cricket, par exemple — and I wish the present youth joy of their bowling, and suppose Armstrong and Whitworth will bowl at them with light field-pieces next), there were novels — ah!

Roundabout Papers 2006

Wellesley would have been beaten but for me — me alone: I headed nineteen charges of cavalry, took (aided by only four men of my own troop) seventeen field-pieces, killing the scoundrelly

Burlesques 2006

There was a fine old stock of deadly weapons — mostly machine-guns and some field-pieces, and enough shells to blow up the Gallipoli peninsula.

Greenmantle 2005

I guessed we could not be very far from the front, for the noise of guns sounded very near, both the sharp crack of the field-pieces, and the deeper boom of the howitzers.

Greenmantle 2005

Turkish artillery exercise, he having with him two small field-pieces mounted on camels, and three soldiers.

Travels in Nubia 2004

They were followed by a train of field-pieces, which, when they reached the flank of the dragoons, were also brought into line and pointed against the heights.

Waverley 2004

It could not be expected but what. this should be the case, for they made their attack in the face of two field-pieces and a discharge of musketry, from a body of men quite as numerous as their own; but

La Vend�e 2004