The old churches had turrets on their walls and loopholes in their doors for shooting with culverins and blunderbusses.
If she be a ship of war--no; for what are our defences against the culverins and demi-culverins of your ships, and how shall we match perhaps four hundred sailors with our slender company?
The culverins of his uncle were gone, but he had six muskets--a loan from the city--and there were four pounds of powder in the magazine.
Siaó] and Tidore, a goodly number of bronze culverins and much other artillery could be brought in their caracoas.
Before the arrival of the Spaniards they had bronze culverins and other pieces of cast iron, with which they defended their forts and settlements, although their powder is not so well refined as that of the Spaniards.
On the land there were five or six culverins in a little fort, which was captured.
This vessel was said to have three or four hundred fighting men and rowers on board, with many culverins and large pieces of artillery.
The natives, confident of their strength, refused to listen, and began to discharge their culverins and a few arrows.
Their artillery, judging it by some culverins I have seen that came from China, is of excellent [S: better] quality and better cast than ours.
It contained much iron and copper, as well as culverins and cannon which had melted.
With him I send your Majesty two bronzeculverins [versos] made by the Moros of this land, so that your Majesty may see what dexterity they possess in working and casting artillery.
The two principal forts were square in form, with ten or twelve culverins on each side, some of them moderately large and others very small.
He routed them, and took from them some culverins in their possession and they were left pacified.
They again declared that they did not desire this friendship, and began to fire their culverins and discharge arrows; and in return the soldiers discharged, on all sides, their arquebuses.
He has lowered the portcullis and pointed his culverinsover the gate and will not yield it or listen to reason.
Spanish double-fortified culverins were charged with the full weight of the ball in powder; four-fifths that amount went into the legitimate, and only two-thirds for the bastard culverin.
At that period, incidentally, culverins were the only guns with the range to reach the harbor bar some 3,000 yards away.
But these digressions should not obscure the fact that both culverins and demiculverins were highly esteemed on account of their range and the effectiveness of fire.
Culverins are mentioned occasionally and demiculverins rather frequently, but most common were the falconets, falcons, minions, and sakers.
When this car was seen entering the street, the blessed sacrament received a joyous salute from the nine ladled cannon and the twenty-seven culverins and falcons which stood in the Plaza de Armas.
On the bastions were planted culverins and sakers.
The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart.
As they worked across the Santa Martha bay the culverins in the city batteries opened fire.
One of the culverinswhich they had tumbled to the ground was remounted by some of the garrison, "so as they made a shot at us.
The large majority of our guns were culverins and demi-culverins of about the same calibre as the guns carried by the Spaniards.
The retrenchment leading from C to D, which had been made of earth and the debris of the houses demolished at this point, was armed with threeculverins at C, at E, and D.
The besieged replied only with their small cannon and the twoculverins of the epaulements, C and D, and their arbalisters.
The great boulevard, E, of the defence was armed with a bombard and two culverins, and two other culverins flanked the intrenchment C, D.
Two of the five culverins were placed on the platforms of the great towers, and the three others on terraces raised behind the curtain, together with three pieces taken from the reserve.
At R and P two culverins were mounted, protected by strong gabionades.
The tower, G, then began to fire on the assailants as well as the culverins brought up at L and P.
But from the platform of the tower, F, which had remained in the power of the Burgundians, twoculverins fired simultaneously on this column.
By evening the wall was dismantled, the gabionades tumbled down, and only one of the three culverins was available.
Those who served the bombards and culverins of the tower, H, seized the right moment for discharging volleys against this column of assailants, which made deep lanes in the battalions.
As soon as he saw this column begin to move and pass the intrenchment, he directed upon it a simultaneous fire from the pieces of the two towers G and H, the two culverins mounted on the boulevard, and all the small cannon.
The bombard, remounted, swept the point C, and the two culverins the exterior.
From the boulevard, E, the besieged, in spite of the projectiles they received in their rear, sheltering themselves as best they could, discharged volleys of stones with their culverins on the point occupied by the enemy.
The men at the machines and culverins cowered to the floor.
Culverins were on the hulk, with ammunition in store.
Provisions became scarce, and the diminution of powder threatened to silence the culverins and arquebuses.
Arrows and javelins pierce them; stones crush them; the culverins spout fire in their faces, and, lifting them off their uncertain footing, hurl them bodily back upon the heads and shields of their comrades.
The culverinswere a species of hand-gun in general, fired from a rest, or from the shoulder.
Master John and his cannoniers landed the two culverins from the barges, and these then returned and returned again bringing over the rest of the army from the right bank of the Loire.
To ring the bells madly night and day, and fire off the old culverins from the water-gate, was all they seemed to know how to do.
Several men were also engaged in drawing a couple of culverins to the place of audience, which was to be in the open air.
As Winthrop took his place, the ranks in front were further opened, and the two culverins belched out with fire and smoke a loud and sudden welcome.
Two small culverins [moyanas] of the said casting, caliber one libra.
Many of the cannon, smallculverins and swivels of Italian make, were dismounted and lay askew, frowning inboard.
Presently, when within range of their ordnance they opened fire with their culverins from a projecting bastion.
Then, the Spanish demi-culverins again opening fire upon us to our great disadvantage, the word was given to discharge another broadside, the gunners then to crouch behind the bulwarks and cubbridges and prepare to board.
Occasionally they heard the boom of the culverins at the castle, and knew that the natives were showing within range; but as these shots were only heard at times, they were assured that no persistent attack was being made.
There were in store four smallculverins and several light wall pieces.
As soon as it was fairly light the enemies' fire opened, and was answered by the culverins on the roof of the house.
Two of the culverinswere placed on the cliff, one at each side of the path, so as to command the landing.
Heaven help us, Admiral Hawkins, who has put fire to your culverins in this fashion?
Had we not the ways filled with poisoned caltrops, guarded by Indian archers, barred with butts full of earth, raked with culverins and arquebuses?
Three culverins on yonder hill, and three on the top of this one, and we have them under a pestle.
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