The cannonierin his turn was fastened on, and tripped instantaneously by the side of his master.
Is it possible this stupid cannonier hath either the wit or the spirit to hatch me a brood of treason, to help the kites of Mexico?
I have all along distrusted that infidel cannonier to have some mischief in him.
Unable to overcome the opposition of the captains to attacking the enemy on Sunday morning, Joan again proceeded at break of day and in the company of John the cannonier to examine the enemy's position.
Our merry cannonier was not ignorant of their hatred, his cannons seemed to be the objective point for the best aimed bolts of the enemy's archers.
Just before daybreak, and punctual to his appointment made the previous evening, Master John the cannonier was at James Boucher's door.
Master John, together with several determined men, attacked with hatchets the iron studded door, while a shower of arrows, shot through a narrow slit in an adjoining building, rained upon the cannonierand his companions.
Dunois leaned over towards Joan and said to her in a low voice: "This worthy fellow is Master John, the ablest and most daring cannonier in the place.
Joan, astonished the cannonier no less by her calmness and bravery than by the relevancy of her observations.
Joan Darc minutely questioned the cannonier upon the manner in which the English fought in the redoubts, which she frequently approached with tranquil audacity in order to be able to judge by herself of the besiegers' means of defence.
Due to his extensive experience at the siege of Orleans, the cannonier had acquired profound skill in matters connected with the attack and defence of fortifications.
More and more astonished at such a martial instinct, the cannonier cried: "Well, countrywoman, in what book did you learn all that?
Thrown back by the force of the projectile, the Maid fell into the arms of the cannonier who followed close behind her, and who, with the aid of a few militiamen, carried her fainting beyond the moat.
He had well earned the reputation of being the best culverin-cannonier of the town.
That blasted sun of Egypt has spoiled my complexion, else you'd remember Duchemin, once cannonier in the Army of the Rhine and Moselle, where we served together.
The cannonier touched off the fuse with his match, and Carmagnole's discharge rang out several seconds ahead of the general volley of the battery.
Then John Lebrenn, noticing for the first time the cannonier whose patriotism had so strongly touched him a year before, cried out: "Citizen James Duchemin!
Go tell thecannonier Duchemin to meet me in the courtyard.
Two or three different times he was scolded at by citizens, but especially by a cannonierof the same district as himself, who reproached him, with military vigor, for his perfidy and scoundrelism.
There was absolutely nobody in command of the gun, but Baillie Pegram was serving as number one at the piece--that is to say, as the cannonier handling the sponge and rammer.
The gun to whose detachment he belonged as a cannonier had been detached and sent to an exposed position on the Martinsburg road.
In the meanwhile the English archers, while engaged in keeping down the fire of the cross-bowmen, had marked the fugitive cannonier as he sped back to gain the entrance.
The cannonier of the period was usually without any defensive equipment whatever.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cannonier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
