The Spaniards had fired a volley from their calivers and a dense cloud of smoke hung above the bulwarks; through this surged now the corsairs, led by a tall, lean, elderly man with a flowing white beard and a swarthy eagle face.
Trumpets blared and drums beat on the poop, and the Spaniards in morion and corselet, armed withcalivers and pikes, stood to defend their lives and liberty.
Before we could ship our oars to get away, they shot at us again, but did us no harm; the negroes came to the rocks close beside us, whence they discharged calivers at us, and the Portuguese shot off their base twice more.
Coming on courageously, they shot very fast from their calivers upon the Centurion, which they boarded somewhat before ten o'clock A.
Drake's men at once replied with a volley from their calivers and a flight of arrows, "fine roving shafts," which did great execution.
Two lines of soldiers, with calivers on their shoulders, were drawn out from the banks of the river to the entrance of the Hall, and between them the conspirators marched.
Escorted by a dozen soldiers withcalivers on their shoulders, Guy Fawkes was led through the archway of the Bloody Tower, and across the Green to the Beauchamp Tower.
An instant afterwards calivers were thrust through the other loopholes, and several shots fired upon the rebels, while some dozen armed men appeared upon the summit of the tower, and likewise commenced firing.
One after another they quietly left the canoe, carrying the climbing apparatus, and their calivers and ammunition, which had fortunately lain on the raised stern of the vessel and had escaped a wetting.
They were unarmed save for their swords; they had left their calivers in the passage of the round tower, and the weapons were no doubt now in the hands of two of the released prisoners.
Those of them who had loaded calivers ran along the quay, firing ineffectually at the moving vessel.
The calivers flashed from the belt of trees; several of the enemy fell; the rest, startled and confused by this sudden and unexpected attack, rushed back instantly upon the main body, while the men who had fired began in all haste to reload.
We would take two, or even three, calivers apiece, whereby we twenty become sixty, and I warrant me we could do so much damage among them that they would pause ere they resolved to bring it to a push.
The jolly-boat had already been stored with provisions, water, and a number of calivers with their ammunition.
Dennis and the sailor, picking up the calivers they had laid down when they boarded the vessel, dropped down behind a coil of rope towards the forecastle.
Instantly they all seized theircalivers and bows and arrows, and hastened to the trackway, where, as before, they posted themselves in the long grass on either side.
Another shot will tear it away, and we shall have no defence against the calivers of the enemy when they again appear on the cliff.
The intrepid band was met by a hot volley, to which they replied with their caliversand a flight of arrows; then, not waiting to reload, they charged with a fierce shout, to do the rest of the business with pike and sword.
In that brief interval it might be possible for him and Turnpenny to find the loopholes in the cabin wall and thrust the muzzles of their calivers through.
Half a dozen of the men leapt forward, and, heedless of the enemy's bullets, discharged their calivers at the men on the deck of the pinnace.
But they were now within range of the calivers of the defenders.
Yonder is a thick clump of bush where with our calivers we may perchance give pause to the enemy.
Some were discharging their calivers through the loopholes at the besiegers, while others were carrying ammunition to the roof of the building.
As he drew near the Surrey side of the water, Wyat's sentinels presented their calivers at him ; but as soon as they perceived he was attended by a herald, they allowed him to approach.
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