four-pounder

• ““What do you want, sir?” asked Godeschal, swallowing as he spoke a mouthful of bread big enough to charge a four-pounder, flourishing his knife and crossing his legs, throwing up one foot in the air to the level of his eyes.”

  Le Colonel Chabert

• “Everyone was told to take home several boxes and Zach took a gigantic four-pounder in gold gift wrap that was embossed “The Gift of Elegance”.”

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• “George occupied the breach, and as he waved his arms and shouted, a four-pounder, leaping high, struck him on the forehead.”

  My Tropic Isle

• “The Spaniards had built earthern ramparts that faced the valley, and behind the ramparts were two of the four-pounder guns that dominated the steep slope of the hill to the north.”

  Sharpe's Enemy

• “First they had brought the small four-pounder as close to the British as safety allowed.”

  Sharpe's Eagle

• “Sharpe had seen the four-pounder fire, watched the horsemen cut down in a bloody swathe, then he had turned to the Chasseurs attacking his own formation.”

  Sharpe's Eagle

• “It was probably a small four-pounder, so why only one?”

  Sharpe's Eagle

• “Jack fell asleep on the carriage of a four-pounder, like Marshal”

  Willis the Pilot

• “Just so; he is there, I see him distinctly; he is recharging our four-pounder.”

  Willis the Pilot

• “On the beach were the remains of several huts; but they did not appear to have been recently occupied: in order however to avoid surprise or loss, the stores and provisions that had been landed in the evening were placed at a distance from the grass and trees and covered over with a sail: near this pile our four-pounder was planted, loaded with musket balls, ready to be fired at”

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1

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