When daylight broke the breeze began to slacken, but she was by this time hull down from the corvette, a long way beyond the reach of her long eighteens in the bow ports, and eating her way to windward, with no chance of being taken.
Accordingly General Taylor ordered the supply train to be parked at its position and left under the guard of two twelve-pounders and the fatal eighteens which had done such signal service on the 8th.
Unless we attempt something of the sort, we shall have nothing heavier than the eighteens to depend on, should Monsieur de Vervillin see fit to begin.
One of them French eighteens aboard the prize just cocked its nose up, as the ship lurched, and let fly a round 'un and a grist of grape, right into our faces.
At this first fire, two of the old eighteens in the American frigate burst, killing a dozen men.
Leaving these eighteens out of the account, the force of the Bon Homme Richard was about equal to that of a thirty-two-gun frigate.
The sailors fought nobly, using their heavy long twelves and eighteens with great effect.
The British came on gallantly, and were greeted by four shots from the long eighteens of the "Eagle," that had no effect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eighteens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
