Experiment with a whole Culverin in brass, of 5300 lbs.
But I noticed the crafty John quitting the culverin which he so loved to fire, and creeping away like a cat into the darkness.
A shot from the culverin replied to it, and the alarm trumpet shook the gloomy walls of the keep with its dismal note.
See, the flag is going up on the staff of the turret, and old Martin is getting ready to fire off the culverin in honor of your arrival.
It was his custom, every Sunday forenoon about nine of the clock, that day and hour having been commended to him by one well skilled in astrology, to fire off a culverin upon the Spaniards from the parapet of his own ward.
Early in the sixteenth century the culverin gave place to the serpentin, which, in turn, was slightly modified and became the famous match-lock.
The culverin may be seen in a variety of makes; some possess a touch-hole and flash-pan at the side, whilst the earlier kinds have no flash-pan at all.
Besides, the culverinof Maison-Forte had, as we have seen, killed four of the galley-slaves.
Pog, "once out of this channel I will go and anchor at the foot of the rocks within half-range of the musket, and there shall not remain one stone on another of the house where that culverin is in battery.
He claims English cast-iron culverin are the best in the world.
The artillery was composed of the old culverin of the château, taken in 1339 at the attack on Quesnoy, one of the first occasions of the use of cannon in history, and which had not been fired off for five centuries.
If the old culverin of the château, which had not been used since 1385, had been let off in the parlour, the dwellers in the Van Tricasse mansion would not have been more dumbfoundered.
Pray you one be the saker stolen by the knaves from the Jesus; t'other might be the demi-culverin you fired so famously.
Meanwhile Dennis had spied the muzzle of a demi-culverin projecting from the roof of the round tower, and summoning to his assistance a white man who was among his party, he ran up and began with all haste to load the gun.
But certainly one ship would be easier to deal with than two; might not another fortunate shot from the demi-culverin cripple the vessel in chase, and so enable the Mirandola to get away from one of her pursuers?
With their assistance he slung the demi-culverin by its pomelion, and the men above hoisted it to the deck; the carriage followed, then its ammunition, and Amos set about mounting it.
The vessel had swung round a little, so that her stern-chaser, a culverin twelve feet long, pointed full at the fort.
Our demi-culverin is bigger, I'se warrant, than any gun she has aboard.
On the summit of the White Tower floated her standard, while bombard and culverin kept up a continual roar from every lesser tower.
It was soon known in Roehurst that Captain Culverin had returned from his voyage, and Sir Mark ground his teeth with rage as he heard the news.
She loves Culverin Carr with all her pretty little soul, but he shall not have her unless--" "Unless what?
Captain Culverin Carr," said Tom, striking the table with the haft of the knife.
They say he be, mistress, and that he pooked Captain Culverin about her, and the captain was nearly drowned as well.
Then Abel Churr has been taken away through the tricks of that white witch Mace, who has forced Culverin Carr to slay him, that I might not battle against her.
At first no change took place, and the founder shook his head; while Sir Mark, as he gazed at the stern, handsome countenance of Culverin Carr, felt that a dangerous rival had been removed from his path.
It be Culverin Carr," muttered the girl, pressing her hand to her throbbing heart.
Do you think our friendCulverin will show himself at the wedding to-morrow?
Culverin Carr and his men work by night, when such as we are asleep.
Besides which, if Master Culverinis in favour, then a little revenge upon him by tasting the sweet lips of his other love would not come amiss.
The balls from the culverinand the bombards made furrows among them; shouts were heard, and the assailants, separating into two columns, set up their ladders on the two flanks of the boulevard.
They had been obliged to abandon the culverin they had seized.
They brought away the culverin D, which was mounted at the extremity L; but they were obliged to leave the piece C after having spiked it.
On the 18th the besieger had terminated his earthwork as far as the point I, and there he brought up a veuglaire to dismount the flank culverin C.
When he saw his men sheltered behind the second retrenchment, he discharged the pierrier placed at M, and the culverin mounted at I, so that the assailants fell back in disorder.
Hogshead is a prettier fellow than Culverin, by two quarts; and Culverin than Musquet, by a full pint.
It is to be feared Hogshead is so often too full, and Culverin overloaded, that Musquet will be the only lasting very pretty fellow of the three.
As he rolled, the near shoes of the Culverin flashed High in air for a moment, bright iron in strain: Then he rose with no rider and tripped in his rein.
It was out of no friendship, they sent you to be murdered by them Taranteens, nor will they fire a culverin at your return.
He saw that her forecastle was crowded with soldiers, and that on that same forecastle she carried a culverin round which were grouped the gun's crew, while behind it stood the gunner with linstock in hand.
Almost at the same instant the galley's culverin spoke again.
Then he signalled to the mate to fire the culverin of which he had charge.
The vessel's vast prow, which ended in a steel ram and was armed with a culverin on either quarter, was crowded with lounging corsairs, who took their ease there until the time to engage should be upon them.
The most formidable gun was a gigantic culverin standing on the north.
The bursting of the gigantic culverin had really a crushing effect upon Miller, for all his hopes had rested hitherto on that gun.
A breach such as the culverin would make could not be filled with beams or earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culverin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
