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The German workmen had been measuring the charges, but the Ab gunners manned the pieces, and the first salvo almost caught Napier himself, a chain-shot landing a few yards behind him.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

While this was happening, Theodore was pounding away with his Fala battery, which I realised was unlikely to damage anyone (the chain-shot that almost did for Napier must have been a great fluke), but on the right the baggage of the second brigade was in mortal peril.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

In the bows of some stout but handy boats he had rigged up a mast with a long spar attached, and by means of a guy at the end of that spar, a brace of heavy chain-shot could be swung up and pitched headlong into any boat alongside.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Red-hot cannon-balls, and shrapnel, langrage, chain-shot, and Greek-fire — these and the like were all fair warfare, and France might use them freely.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

Crowe, who used at such pauses to pour in a broadside of dismembered remarks, linked together like chain-shot, he spoke not

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

And by this stratagem, without which they could not have succeeded, they struck a terror into the inhabitants, as at the appearance of artillery, and the town was surrendered upon articles; nineteen cannon of a thicker make than ordinary, and in a room apart; thirty-six of a smaller; other cannon for chain-shot; and balls proper to bring down masts of ships.

Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth 2003

Poetrie, yet is it indeed a chain-shot {110} against all learning or bookishnes, as they commonly terme it.

Defence of Poesie 1992

And so it has happened to me and to every person, often and often, to be hit in rapid succession by these twinned facts or thoughts, as if they were linked like chain-shot.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

Spanish shot, which are of four sorts: pike-shot, star-shot, chain-shot, and link-shot, all admirably contrived, as well for the destruction of the masts and rigging of ships, as for sweeping the decks of their men.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

He disposed of six doughnuts that forenoon, and as these, if tied together, would have made good chain-shot for the monitor, and yet did not affect him unfavorably, it was proof that

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand