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My father is the faint echo of my grandparents 'need to cling to everything they ever owned, and I am the faint echo of that cannonshot of packrattery, and even so I am still made as happy by possessions as my wife is made unhappy by posessions.

Vive La Difference! clothing5 2006

Like Teresa Heinz, Michelle Obama has a whiff of loose cannonshot about her.

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He was trying to figure what to do next when he heard a musket go off, loud as a cannonshot, the sound hanging on in the heavy summer air.

Prentice Alvin Card, Orson Scott 1989

Every growing thing had burst forth at once, as if it had been stored up not only for months but for years: the baby leaves shot out of the branches like cannonshot, daffodils and irises erupted from the soil and exploded in flowers, and overnight the matted last-year's grass was overgrown with a velvety carpet of new grass so sweet the rabbits hopped about in it deliriously, stuffing themselves on the tender green shoots.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

Every growing thing had burst forth at once, as if it had been stored up not only for months but for years: the baby leaves shot out of the branches like cannonshot, daffodils and irises erupted from the soil and exploded in flowers, and overnight the matted last-year's grass was overgrown with a velvety carpet of new grass so sweet the rabbits hopped about in it deliriously, stuffing themselves on the tender green shoots.

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

M. le Duc Horace had a cannonshot on the elbow, which carried off his arm one way and his body the other, before he could say a single word; his death was a great disaster to us, for the high rank that he held in the town.

The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

These red spectres are born of earthquake, and are more given to shaking thrones than are hostile cannonshot.

Vittoria — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

These red spectres are born of earthquake, and are more given to shaking thrones than are hostile cannonshot.

Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868

These red spectres are born of earthquake, and are more given to shaking thrones than are hostile cannonshot.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868