fusilade

• “Instead of defending the assertions made about McCain, she simply launched into her word fusilade and pretended the question never happened.”

  Reidblog [The Reid Report blog]

• “Maria Clara, in alarm, started toward him, but before any one could speak a fusilade sounded in the street; then random pistol shots, and cries and clamor.”

  An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere

• “Some hours later a furious fusillade [Transcriber: original 'fusilade'] was heard in front of our line, though no bullets came over our trenches.”

  The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915

• “Shots were kicking up the dust all about us, a horse screamed and went down, thrashing-by George, that had been a regular volley, at least thirty rifles together, which you don't expect from savages; across the river a perfect mob of them was closing on their ford, halting to bring up their pieces and bows for another fusilade, a scarlet-clad figure ahead of them, arms raised, to give the word.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “It's not worth the drama or the coming fusilade of allegations of corruption and misconduct about the clintons that is sure to come.”

  Secretary Of State Hillary: Some Obama Backers Fret, But Obama Camp Sees Her As Team Player

• “This is part of the reason for the fusilade from clinton II over the last week or so.”

  Obama Camp: Hillary Campaign's Attacking Us Because She's No Longer Frontrunner

• “As if in a hurry to get to the showers, Duncan, when wound up, dumps a fusilade of platitudes along a desolate stretch of disordered sentences that are too impatient to hold separate ideas apart, that roll out of his mouth or onto the page as instant bundled cliches that would have been better off had they never been put into a position to need forgetting.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “One of the incidents he was prosecuted for involved person X pulling up outside his house and letting off a fusilade of gunfire into the house where defendant, his wife, and kids were.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » I Beg Your Pardon:

• “A few of the hardier spirits were running up the rocky path towards us, turning to fire a last shot at our fellows, and getting a fusilade in return.”

  Flashman on the March

• “Two stun-grenades exploded in rapid succession, followed by a fusilade of shots.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

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