sixty-pounder

All of a sudden the crappy cargo ship hoists the British ensign, drops its side and has like a sixty-pounder stashed in its guts.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

One of our aeroplanes reconnoitred and came back with the news that a viaduct might profitably be destroyed, and a sixty-pounder battery, which had casually come up while we were waiting, started leisurely to work and laid the bridge in ruins, after which they dropped a few shells on a Turkish train farther down the line and demolished that, which concluded their part in the entertainment.

With Our Army in Palestine Antony Bluett

With the first expeditionary force we sent to Great Britain 21 thirteen-pounder quick-firing guns, 96 eighteen-pounder quick-firing guns, = o breech-loading sixty-pounder guns, a large number of machine guns, motor lorries, transport wagons, and vast quantities of ammunition.

Canada and the Great War 1914

Mercury has only two-fifths as much gravitation as the earth; a man weighing a hundred and fifty back home would be only a sixty-pounder there.

The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life Homer Eon Flint 1908

"Oh, don't shrug your shoulders, Captain," said Mr. Mathew, in a serious tone; "two out of those eight guns are rifled, one is a sixty-pounder on the forecastle, and the other a hundred-pounder on deck."

The Blockade Runners 1876

What the poor fellow said was -- 'He murmured the sixty-pounder adjective, as in the belly of the whale, to rightly emphasize his noun.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

He murmured the sixty-pounder adjective, as in the belly of the whale, to rightly emphasize his noun.

Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868

What the poor fellow said was -- 'He murmured the sixty-pounder adjective, as in the belly of the whale, to rightly emphasize his noun.

Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868

The shot from the sixty-pounder which had struck on the quarter of the

A Victorious Union Oliver Optic 1859