gun

• At last the attempt to fire the gun was abandoned The French ship now getting a breeze, began to forge ahead. —  From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure
• The principal stockade commanded the only landing-place, on which also a gun was at the time mounted. —  Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign
• This took the mutineers so completely by surprise, that not a gun was then fired at us. —  Happy Jack and other Tales of the Sea
• "It's as dange'ous as a gun, and a gun is dange'ous widout lock, stock, er bairl: I knowed a man oncet w'at beat 'is wife ter def wid a ramrod, an' wuz hung fer it in a' ole fiel' down by de ha'nted house. —  The Colonel's Dream
• A shot at that moment heard by Hamersley would give him more uneasiness than if the gun were aimed at himself Thank God!" —  The Lone Ranche

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