At the inspiriting call, each side of the square advanced at the double with bayonets at the charge.
The long row of glittering bayonets and the gay uniforms of the officers bewildered the astonished natives.
Pushing through the narrow wicket gateway, I formed some thirty or forty men in line and led them at full speed with fixed bayonets against the enemy.
The bugle sounded the 'taboor,' and upwards of 100 men immediately fell in with bayonets fixed, to the no small dismay of Quonga and his sheiks, who began to look very uneasy at the scarlet uniforms.
Nor were his precautions vainly taken; for in a short time a large force was seen moving towards him from Piacere, the rays of the setting sun irradiating their glittering bayonets and the steel helmets of a corps of cuirassiers.
When our regiment arrived a few shots were heard, and the bayonets and bright barrels of the enemy's guns could be seen on the hills.
At length the populace, exasperated by impatience, hunger and sleeplessness, with brandished bayonets rushed into the very chamber of council, with furious cries, and with threats which were well nigh accomplished.
Both advanced--bayonets were crossed--blood was about to flow.
The neighbouring streets were also full, and the bayonets glittering in the sun filled the Place with brilliant flashes like miniature lightning.
On the Place de la Bourse a great crowd discusses, and gesticulates around the piled bayonets which glitter in the sun.
Unable to bring French bayonets against us, they have opposed us with the Imperial Guard and Pontifical Zouaves.
The column is like the ancient honour of France, that neither decrees nor bayonets can intimidate, and which in the midst of threats and tumult, holds itself aloft in serene and noble dignity.
This orgie has the most telling effect, I tell you, in the midst of the city loaded with maledictions, a few steps from the battle-field where the bayonets are dealing their death thrusts, and the shells are scattering blood.
Ten miles more, and many hostile bayonets gleam ahead.
They fix their bayonets firmly, throw aside their knapsacks and all that encumbers them.
The shrill commands of the little officers in frantic endeavor to steady their men, the patter of many shoeless feet, the breaking of rifle-stacks, and the clanking of bayonets and swords, made a medley of camp music that was hideous to hear.
The unhurt members of the detachment rallied around their gallant leader with bayonets fixed.
And suddenly was heard the thunder of Russian drums, and the bayonets of Russian soldiers glittered as they wound over the hill.
This threat, enforced by the bayonets of some of the soldiers, succeeded immediately: they who were timid took to their heels--the bolder held their tongues.
Bayonets slid from his tawny skin, taking his clothes.
The men had been standing there tense and calm, their needle-like bayonets pointing straight up.
See the regiments on dress parade; long lines of dark blue, with bayonets that flash brightly in the waning sunlight.
They had indeed been completely taken by surprise, many having hurried out without bayonets fixed, others with unloaded muskets, some only with pikes or swords in their hands.
The British bayonets gleamed brightly in the sun, as, with steady tramp, the line of redcoats and bluejackets advanced at the charge.
The charge with bayonets took place without his orders, as did also the firing on the prisoners.
Muskets were clubbed, knives and bayonets used, and parties clenched in deadly conflict.
Sooner than turn traitor to my tribe, I will rush against thebayonets of my jailers, and perish upon the spot.
On looking up we saw that we were hemmed in by a circle of men in blue uniform, whose glancing barrels and bayonets formed a chevaux de frise around us.
With such headlong fury did he make the assault, that the rush of his troops took the outlying redoubt, whose defenders, regulars and artillerymen, fought to the last with their bayonets and clubbed muskets, and were butchered to a man.
The Greenbacks were watching the Terrans, fingering their bayonetseagerly and hugging their rifles.
At his word three hundred big clumsy hands reached for three hundred bayonets and fixed them to three hundred rifles.
Their bayonets flashed for a few seconds and then flashed no more, the steel was covered with blood.
A hand-to-hand fight, of the most desperate character, was kept up between them and the Guards for a few minutes; but at last the British bayonets prevailed.
In 1830, the dynasty which foreign bayonets had imposed on France was shaken off; and men trembled at the expected outbreak of French anarchy and the dreaded inroads of French ambition.
The Gurkhas followed suit; but the Fore and Aft were killing on their own account, for they had penned a mass of men between their bayonets and a wall of rock, and the flash of the rifles was lighting the wadded coats.
They strove to stay where they were, though the bayonets wavered down the line like the oars of a ragged boat.
It was clearly apparent to him that the French were making straight for him through an open space, and that masses of them, with their bayonets glittering in the sun, were moving in the nearest trenches.
With bombs and bayonets the Germans were killed or driven out of their holes, and as they were all picked men selected for their courage and long experience in warfare they made a gallant resistance.
Bayonets were freely used whenever the Germans attempted to make a stand in the streets.
One prisoner was shot in the leg by his own officer because he hesitated confusedly between the American guns and bayonets and the pistols in the hands of the German officers.
The men ran some ten yards and dug their bayonets savagely into dummy Germans made of sacks, which swung in the wind, and disappeared in the first trench.
Paul, who had taken his position in the bow of the boat with Dick Stone, both of whom were armed with muskets, while two men with sword-bayonets were ready to follow them.
I recollect also, from an account published in relation to the battle of Buena Vista, that during a sultry evening electrical flames were seen on the points of the bayonets among the sentinels stationed in the mountains.
As we approached Dieppe in the morning sun, we could see the glistening bayonets of the ubiquitous Prussian sentries.
By a dim light, which some one held behind me, I discovered that I was standing in a circle of these irregulars with bayonets set.
Hence, every few minutes we were halted, and made to advance until their bayonets almost touched our shirt-fronts.
The whole range of hills which commanded the town was occupied by the Prussians; and we could see their artillery and battalions in dark blue, with their spiked helmets and their bayonets flashing in the sunlight.
They cursed and swore at us, and flourished their bayonets about as if they had been walking-sticks.
The sun shone through the frosty air, and, as the mist had now cleared off, the helmets and bayonets of that mighty array flashed and glistened everywhere.
The troops entered with bayonets set, flags flying, bands playing, and all the pomp and circumstance which are usual on such occasions, and the air resounded with a storm of military music.
Unless he does this, the South will bristle with bayonets in vain.
The spear and the bayonet frequently crossed each other; perhaps more frequently than the bayonets of Europeans do; and, in not a few instances, the long spear was more than a match for the shorter bayonet.
But the actual number of bayonets in the field was only about one thousand five hundred.
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