cannon-bullet

A cannon-bullet (fired low, and ploughing the marsh slowly) met poor Winnie front to front; and she, being as quick as thought, lowered her nose to sniff at it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

A cannon-bullet (fired low, and ploughing the marsh slowly) met poor

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

Now came a higher wave, and the water reached above the window-sills of the bedroom floor and swept away the ladder; yet, driven forward like a cannon-bullet, did not yet pour into the bed-rooms from the main stream; but by degrees the furious flood broke, melted, and swept away the intervening houses, and then hacked off the gable-end of Grace's house, as if Leviathan had bitten a piece out.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

Cannon-bullet; a prince's shoulder kindly kissed by a cannon-bullet, ii.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

I ran for haste under an old ash-tree, and immediately the cannon-bullet came hissing quite over us.

William Lilly's History of His Life and Times Lilly, William, 1602-1681 1715

I ran for haste under an old ash-tree, and immediately the cannon-bullet came hissing quite over us.

William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641

a _bird-bolt_ to a _cannon-bullet, _ the lightest to the heaviest of missive weapons.

Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746