When she was well inshore a puff of smoke came from the bow of the cruiser, followed by a dull report, then another and another, until four shots had been sent from one of the small, rapid-fire guns.
For armament there were rapid-fire guns, supplemented by 3-inch, muzzle-loading field guns turned over by the departing militia garrison.
As in the case of Stage Fort, the request of Colonel Pfaff for two 8-inch converted rifles was ignored, and reliance had to be placed upon the rapid-fire guns brought to the post by the incoming troops.
I am going down into the compound to send up men and rapid-fire guns," Dave announced to his chum.
Each man, as he went, carried up a case of one thousand cartridges, either for the rapid-fire guns or for the infantry rifles.
Whatever we do, the rapid-fire guns can't be placed on these walls a moment too soon.
We could now hear quite plainly the grunting belch of the big pieces and, in between, the chattering voice of rapid-fire guns.
Quite near us was ranged a battery of small rapid-fire guns; and the big rawboned dogs that had hauled them there were lying under the wicked-looking little pieces.
After the fight of the Rough Riders at Guasimas, for example, General Wood found himself short of ammunition for his Hotchkiss rapid-fire guns.
In abandoning it General Shafter voluntarily deprived himself of the aid that might have been rendered by three or four hundred high-powered and rapid-fire guns, backed by a trained fighting force of six or eight thousand men.
Long before they could get across the mile and a half or two miles of water that separated the harbor entrance from the nearest battleship, they would be riddled with projectiles from perhaps a hundred rapid-fire guns.
But I propose to give the quaint ancestors of our modern monster cannon and rapid-fire guns a chapter to themselves later on.
Besides the torpedoes, she carried two rapid-fire guns, and these made her an engine of destruction greatly to be feared.
The way in which this interesting procedure is done is as follows: The submarine, let us say, has sighted a ship, and seeing that it is to all intents an unarmed merchantman she rises to the surface and trains her rapid-fire guns on the craft.
It is easy to see, then, why her armament[23] should and does include a couple of rapid-fire guns.
The use of rapid-fire guns is, then, a very good stroke of business, everything considered.
Her armament consisted of a main battery of four 13-inch and eight 8-inch guns and four 6-inch slow-fire guns.
As soon as the Spanish destroyer stopped the Gloucester simply raked her fore and aft with rapid-fire guns, and the Furor again headed west to escape the terrible punishment.
The Gloucester finally got in between them and rained shell upon them from her rapid-fire guns.
She is a fast and entirely unprotected auxiliary vessel--the yacht Corsair--and has a good battery of light rapid-fire guns.
Rising from the car behind the locomotive, is a conning tower from which an officer takes observations and directs the fire of the rapid-fire guns.
It is a train of armored cars with rapid-fire guns, conning towers and fighting tops.
The machines were all equipped with rapid-fire guns, and when we got within 100 yards of each other, both sides opened fire.
A mine command is a portion of submarine defenses and rapid-fire guns, all commanded by one man--the mine commander.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fire guns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
