cannon-balls

For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls" -- big lumps of the most delicious lastingness.

Chapter 5 2010

I refused to play and pay, and returned to my cannon-balls and taffy-slabs.

Chapter 6 2010

Marbles at one end and cannon-balls at the other, Maz was all about convexities.

Warthearm 2010

One or two old cannons graced the entrance, with one or two symmetrical piles of cannon-balls; the brass was very brightly polished, and the long flight of steps that led up to the main door were very white.

In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs 2010

It was like the firing of many cannon, only there were no cannon-balls or other missiles to be seen; it was like the rolling of mighty thunder, only not a cloud was in the sky; it was like the roar of countless breakers on a rugged seashore, only there was no sea or other water anywhere about.

Love Letters 2010

Maz was on his elbows and knees, his fat ass sticking out in their air like two cannon-balls ready to be shot off.

Warthearm 2010

Along similar lines the Times reviewer asks, about the "spherical objects" in this print, "Are they cannon-balls to be stewed into cannon broth, or Dutch cheeses about to be fired from a mortar? ... the culinary and combative emblems are so mixed that our judgment is perplexed and we stumble over our history."

Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef 2007

“They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls.”

Les Miserables 2008

How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon-balls?

Les Miserables 2008

Nothing had had any effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where he was.

Les Miserables 2008