The line emerged from the woods, the enemy opened with cannister upon the steadily advancing column, which, without stopping, replied with a volley of Minie bullets.
Our cannoneers, standing firm and taking in the situation, drove double-shotted cannister into this advancing line.
Hallers and Mayson's sections were moved up at a gallop and established on the hill at Brice's Quarter and opened a destructive fire with double-shotted cannister upon the enemy's fleeing columns and wagon trains.
The advancing troops must come out from the woods, rush up the slope and carry it at the point of the bayonet, exposed to the tempest of musketry and cannister of the battery.
That night, when all was over, I slept sound enough, with a box of cannister shot for my pillow!
We gave them a Cannister of Powder and a Bottle of whiskey and delivered a few presents to the whole after giveing a Br.
KATE goes to the dresser and brings the teapot and cannisterover to SARAH at the table.
Kate, get Miss McMinn the tea cannister till she shows you how to measure.
She takes the cannister from KATE, opens it and ladles out the tea with a spoon into the teapot.
At the foot of the hills were thousands of the enemy, pouring into them volleys of musketry, and on the heights were their lines of earthworks, with their artillery, from which poured grape and cannister in a frightful storm.
Here the creek and the almost impenetrable abattis checked their progress, and a murderous fire of shot, shells, cannister and musketry was opened upon them, which threw them into confusion, and repulsed them with fearful loss.
At night showers of cannister and grape would fall in our camp, and fortunate was he who had a good tree or stump between him and the rebel works against which to lay his head while he slept.
Shells and cannister tore through the Union ranks, making in parts of the line fearful havoc.
From higher grounds, back of his lines, the enemy threw shell, solid shot, grape and cannister into our position with great fury, but being fairly well protected by the crest of the ridge our casualties were not very great.
Shot, shell, grape and cannister tore through the ranks of men and artillery horses.
Shot, shell, grape and cannister poured into these brave troops was horrible to behold; but they never flinched nor wavered, but pressed forward until recalled.
Grape and cannister would slay and wound groups and squads, while minnies did an effective but indiscriminate work of destruction.
The enemy poured grape and cannister into our retreating columns, mowing down the men like grass.
As they fell back they were literally slaughtered by our men, as grape and cannister were poured in their retreating ranks.
Illumination flares were fired over the battlefield, allowing the Marines to use 37mm cannister shells, machine gun fire, and mortars to good effect.
The strange thing the Japanese did here was that they executed one wave of attack after another against a 37mm position firing cannister ammunition.
They were repulsed and killed in great numbers, largely through the effective use of 37mm anti-tank guns using cannister shot.
Our cannoneers got their guns in position, and enlivened the scene by throwing shell, grape, and cannister into the flying fugitives.
On the hill beyond the enemy was placing batteries, the infantry in squads and singly blazing away as rapidly as they could load and fire, the grape and cannister falling and rattling upon the ground like walnuts thrown from a basket.
The enemy kept close to our heels, just as we were rising one hill their batteries would be placed on the one behind, then grape and cannister would sweep the field.
Mr. Cannister had been making unnoticeable motions of withdrawal, and by the time this farewell remark came from his lips he was just outside the door of the room.
Here Mr. Cannister held his walking-stick scrupulously vertical with his left hand, and struck a blow with great force on the knob of the stick with his right.
Mr. Cannister spread his hand over the top of the stick, completely covering it with his palm.
The cannister was inside now, coating up with frost.
Shrapnel, cannister and grape were freely showered into the ranks, while we leaped down to the casemates and bomb-proofs, driving the enemy before us in great confusion.
Speidel were both struck with cannister shots while bravely leading the men.
Our gunboats shelled the batteries with good effect, and the enemy discovering our position in the boats, scattered grape and cannister among us with fearful rapidity.
At Pocotaligo he received a cannister shot in his right thigh, but recovered sufficiently to join us again in April, when for a time he was placed by Gen.
This aroused laughter, and an excited discussion of the burglary followed, during which Mr. Cannister quite forgot his orders on the stove and was only recalled to them by an odour of scorching eggs.
Cannister was the name on the door," explained Amy.
On they went; grape and cannister ploughed through their ranks, but they closed up the gaps and moved on up to the mouth of the rebel batteries, whose guns were captured, and the firing that had been so disastrous ceased.
In each two Earth-weeks of working, the mine-colony nearly filled up a three-gallon cannister with greasy-seeming white crystals shaped like two pyramids base to base.
He wanted to make the memory permanent and to extend it-- If it had not been for his vacuum suit and the cannister he carried, Pop would have rubbed his hands.
Yet here on the Moon Pop kept a waiting cannister on a shelf in his tiny dome, behind the air-apparatus.
Sattell to come up, with what diamonds had been dug since the regular cannister was sent up for the Lunar City ship that would be due presently.
But his eyes were on the cannister whose contents should weigh a hundred pounds on Earth.
So a thermware-lined cannister kept them at mine-temperature once they were warmed to touchability.
He took down the cannister of diamonds which were worth five millions or more back on Earth.
In this state she was exposed to a murderous raking fire of grape and cannister shot, from such of the Albatross's guns as could be brought to bear upon her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannister" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
