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Example sentences for "constant fire"

  • To keep crisp, they must be hung up in the kitchen, or where there is a constant fire.

  • Take it out, rub a little bran over it, and dry it in a wood fire chimney, where a constant fire is kept: it will be fit for eating in a month.

  • The cannon could be loaded only under a constant fire of musketry, 110 which the enemy briskly returned.

  • The Spaniards turned to the westward under full steam, pouring a constant fire on our ships, and evidently hoping to get away by their superior speed.

  • For several days the gunboats pressed forward up the crooked stream, meeting with no opposition, save from the sharp-shooters who lined the banks on either side, and kept up a constant fire of small-arms.

  • Through the heroic efforts of its garrison, under eighteen months of constant fire, the stronghold was maintained as an effective part of the city's defenses.

  • A constant fire on Sumter is more than my guns can stand very long.

  • The Portuguese and mandarines followed, keeping up a constant fire.

  • The Ladrones chased them two or three hours, keeping up a constant fire; finding they did not come up with them, they hauled their wind and stood to the eastward.

  • The batteries in the town and on the adjacent hills kept up a constant fire of shot and shells on the men of war, as they advanced towards the town, which was returned with great spirit.

  • The cannon could be loaded only under a constant fire of musketry, which the enemy briskly returned.

  • The artillery on both sides, and the gunboats, keep up a constant fire.

  • Hill's batteries kept up a constant fire of shells.

  • There was a constant fire of musketry from the woods.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    among birds; certain rate; color light; constant fire; constant occurrence; constant pressure; constant quantity; constant state; constant stream; constant succession; constant supply; constant temperature; constant tendency; constant voltage; constant volume; constant wind; dear brethren; get you; her country; hide their; once commenced; other ways; proper position; strong breeze; this paper; whereupon quoth