round-shot

This as a cloud of dust, thrown up by a round-shot hitting the parapet, enveloped us.

Fiancée 2010

Up on the slope others were firing at the boats, and in the shade beneath the trees there was the triple flash of cannon, sending grape and round-shot smashing down into the helpless lumbering boats.

Fiancée 2010

I told him - and in the short time I took to tell him about Meerut and Jhansi, no fewer than three round-shot hit the building, shaking the plaster; Wheeler just brushed the debris absently off his table, and then says:

Fiancée 2010

To-morrow the pebbles, which were now rattling down with each retreating wave, might be leaping to the ridge top, and hurled like round-shot far ashore upon the marsh by the force of the advancing wave, fleeing before the wrath of the western hurricane.

Westward Ho! 2007

He cowered down with a spring, as I can fancy a man ducking under a round-shot, and glanced speechlessly, and still in his attitude of recoil, upon the speaker.

Wylder's Hand 2003

This last imprecation was caused by a round-shot that must have gone within two feet of the Colonel's head, forcing him to duck hard down.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

An occasional French round-shot that had been fired too high came bounding across the nearby fields, but the three horses plodded on as patiently as though they were harnessed to a plough instead of lumbering into battle.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

One of the round-shot must have taken off the head of the Spanish officer, for the hall's dusty floor was decorated with a monstrous fan of freshly sprayed blood.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

The British Battalions were ordered to lie down, but the French gunners had the range to perfection now and their round-shot skimmed the ridge to plough bloody furrows through the prone ranks.

Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

The round-shot rumbled like giant barrels on planks overhead, the canister whistled, the screams of the wounded riding over it all.

Sharpe's Honour Cornwell, Bernard 1985