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  • verb Present participle of fusillade.

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Examples

  • With fusillading references to "White Heat," "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and other films that starred the often tough-talking screen icon, the play -- by actor-director Kenneth Branagh -- has a cin? aste's perspective that this flat Scena Theatre production, directed by Robert McNamara, fails to open up.

    In Scena Theatre's 'Public Enemy,' you may smell a dirty rat Celia Wren 2010

  • It is the end of the golden weather as the last lazy day sinks sweetly into a pink sunset blooming up out of the west, fusillading the canopy of remnant sclerophyll which I detest, piercing these tired eyes with its pastel softness; it is the end of a much needed rest, the beginning of another test.

    The Trees Grow Green With Envy Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • In 1872 and '73 the Carlists held the mountains and more or less fusillading was going on.

    Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell

  • Nothing now was heard but denunciations of fusillading, burning, razing, and annihilating; and while the catholics were feasting and murdering at Nismes, the flames of the country houses of the protestants, rising one hundred feet in the air, rendered the spectacle still more awful and alarming.

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

  • I was so appalled by their stories and by the incessant cannonading and fusillading that one evening I attempted to go down into a cellar and stay there.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • This morning two Bears appeared on the high bank -- and there was the usual uproar and fusillading; so far as could be learned without any effect, except the expenditure of thirty or forty cartridges at five cents each.

    The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

  • It cost the lives of about two hundred on each side; at least, that is the usual estimate, which seems somewhat incongruous with the stories of fusillading and cannonading at close quarters, until we remember that it is the custom of memoir-writers and newspaper editors to trick out the details of a fight, and in the case of civil warfare to minimise the bloodshed.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • And they hung off in the deep water of the lagoon inside the barrier reef, feebly fusillading the pilot house.

    A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Accordingly alongside of these bonfires of Church balustrades, and sounds of fusillading and noyading, there rise quite another sort of fires and sounds: Smithy-fires and Proof-volleys for the manufacture of arms.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Revolutionary Tribunal here, and Military Commission, guillotining, fusillading, do what they can: the kennels of the Place des Terreaux run red; mangled corpses roll down the Rhone.

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

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