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Fig. 59, or a little longer both ways, to allow for working down to the same area as the wall-piece.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

Douglas, however, seized a wall-piece that was mounted in the hall, and was about to discharge it on the crowd that was pouring in upon him, when the chief seized him by the arms, and held him fast.

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. John M'lean

This rancho is situated on the margin of a lake of brackish water, and we found the people actual prisoners within its walls, the gates being closed, and a man stationed on the azotea with a large wall-piece, looking out for Indians.

Wild Life in the Rocky Mountains 1916

In places, too, at the corner of a house, a hole had been knocked in the masonry through which peeped the dark muzzle of a carronade or wall-piece.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

McPherson was in the possession of a wall-piece, but he had not been able to adapt it for use before the investment took place.

The Life of Francis Marion Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 1844

And when he loaded his rifle -- a sort of culverin or wall-piece, which no one but himself knew how to manage -- gracious powers! he was something to see.

Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Henri de Crignelle 1840

Painkillers, by David McCandless, is a huge wall-piece which contrasts the market-values of legal and illegal drugs, and the amounts spent on policing them.

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Scarcely had he spoken, when a second discharge from the same wall-piece that had killed Cranstoun passed through his throat.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

Scarcely had he spoken, when a second discharge from the same wall-piece that had killed Cranstoun passed through his throat.

The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824

The four corners of the wooden frame have each a silken banner on a short pole, and a gunner sits within, to shoot as occasion serves, managing the gun like a harquebuss, or large wall-piece.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Robert Kerr 1784