The old man's vehemence and his words fired Kenkenes.
This he fired after many failures by striking together his chisel and a stone.
He would surely befired from North Valley, so he might as well send word to his family to come to Pedro.
Hal tried again: "Evidently these men wouldn't have minded killing me; they fired at me just now.
Wrought up as the crowd was, it might not stop till it had fired every company building, perhaps not until it had murdered every company representative.
After they had fired you, I made another speech to the men, and made them swear they'd stay on strike.
Every man that comes to see us is followed back to his camp and fired that same day.
Swift Fancy fired anticipates their growth; And, while the milky nutriment distils, Beholds the kindling country colour round.
When I fired my guns, they hurtled down like mad, occasioning all sorts of unexpected mischief in the trenches.
On the day when I shot it, the pigeon scarcely showed its head, being suspicious because it had been so oftenfired at.
He then begged me, if I should be asked, not to say that he was with me when I fired the gun; and for the rest bade me be of good cheer.
The citadels fired salutes as she passed; the Spanish Court went out to meet her as far as Burgos; the King and Queen received her at some two leagues from Madrid.
How the same Aidan, by his prayers, saved the royal city when it was fired by the enemy [Before 651 A.
By his songs the minds of many were often fired with contempt of the world, and desire of the heavenly life.
As I thought they might be troublesome, and was unwilling that they should suffer by another unequal contest with our people, I fired a shot over their heads, which produced the effect I intended, for they all disappeared in a moment.
As this was the birth-day of his Britannic majesty, our sovereign, we afterwards fired one-and-twenty guns more on that occasion.
Our people endeavoured, in vain, to make them desist, till they fired a musket cross the nose of the man that was most active in the mischief.
Then he ran to one side, fired again, and a third time and then taking shelter behind a rock awaited developments.
Throwing up his revolver, Frank fired over their heads to scare them.
The judge fired before he could get out of sight, and he dropped with three ribs broken and a bullet lodged behind his right shoulder.
The farmers firedat her again and again, but they were too wildly excited to hit anything until finally the trapper pulled up alongside her and threw a noose over her head.
It was his first chance at a genuine wild beast, and he fired away all his cartridges as fast as he could load them into his gun.
The Mississippi pond was in sight, and she was just slanting down toward the water, when a hunter fired at her from behind a clump of trees.
Once, when he had ventured a little too close to the house, and was making an unusual racket with his teeth, the mossback came to the door and fired a shotgun at him, cutting off several of his quills.
Once he fired before the deer knew that he was at hand, and if a hanging twig had not turned the bullet a trifle from its course, the still-hunt would have ended then and there.
Besides, they would probably have hunted every inch of the ground to see if they could find anything that would give them a clue as to who had fired the shot.
The servants heard a gun fired close by, and a minute later his horse galloped up to the door.
We know that the shot was fired from behind that tree--and if my brother's footsteps miss this spot altogether, I think the case will be absolutely proved.
Julian had his double-barrelled gun with him, and had been rabbit-shooting; and if it had been he who fired it would have been with a charge of shot.
Close as they were they could not have seen us, for we could scarce see them and we were under the shadow of the cliffs, but I suppose they fired at the voices.
Six shots were fired alternately with the right and left hand.
Julian never fired a bullet in his life, as far as I know.
It was half an hour after the first shots were fired before we heard the Boxer at it again.
He would have had small shot with him, but young Wyatt said that he did not think his brother had ever fired a bullet in his life.
A party of militia fired at the advanced dragoons and light infantry as they entered the town, and a more considerable body appeared drawn up near the courthouse.
The cavalry pursued, and turning to the right out of the road, they rode up within thirty steps of the line and fired at the Tories.
Being unable to stand up he lay on the ground, loaded his musket, and fired several times.
The picquet of the Americans challenged the enemy; receiving no reply, the guard fired at the advancing enemy.
Hunter, with equal promptness, exchanged sides, being fired at a second time by his would-be conqueror, but again without effect.
Soon after they commenced retreating the Indians again fired upon them and unfortunately one of the party, Richards, was dangerously wounded.
The musketeers immediately, by platoons, fired upon him.
After proceeding a short distance the Indians approached somewhat nearer and fired upon the party but without effect.
They fired from this piece eight-inch shells full of lead, or twelve or eighteen-pound shot, with an outer case of copper.
It was agreed among the different chiefs that not a shot should be fired until the enemy reached the counterscarp, on pain of the immediate loss of the delinquent’s ears.
The Persians had tried their artillery upon the walls of Herat in answer to the guns which the garrison had fired in support of their skirmishers: and the rotten parapets had fallen like tinder even to the light shot that was poured upon them.
Minute guns were fired from the ramparts of Fort William.
The troops had presented arms to him on his ascending the musnud, and a salute of a hundred and one guns had been fired in honour of the occasion.
The vanguard, lying down in the road, fired at the assailants and drove them back, and the march proceeded.
It was also rumored that this would take place at dusk, and that under cover of the darkness the legation would be fired by the foe.
Hovering on their flanks, these fired at the ferry boats as they passed over; but the Japanese rear-guard shot at and killed some of them, and so succeeded in keeping the others at bay.
At the cross-roads and wherever a side-street offered an opportunity for attack were gathered bands of braves, mixed masses of soldiers and populace, who fired upon them or hurled stones, according to the character of the individuals.
The cavalry being fired upon, they fell back, and formed a line of battle, and a battery of light artillery was brought forward and opened on the rebels, where they were supposed to be, and the place was soon made too warm for them.
They rose and fired a volley into their ranks and charged bayonets, but the rebels could not stand the cold steel.
The rebels fired a volley, and charged with terrific yells on our advancing columns, but Waterhouse's and the 2d Iowa batteries were soon in position to receive them.
Our train had proceeded but a short distance from Memphis when it was fired into and a negro killed in the 11th Missouri, and two of the 5th Minnesota wounded; also a negro in the second Iowa battery was killed.
They fired a volley into our advance as they were marching past a heavy piece of timber and took our men partly by surprise, but they soon recovered and drove the enemy from the timber.
The 11th Missouri regiment was formed in line of battle within a short distance of a rebel battery which was shelling our men with pretty good effect, but they never fired a shot at us.
A heavy volley was fired into the boat, when the Monitor opened her broad sides.
Blank cartridges were fired from our side, and they replied with shot and shell, doing no damage, as they shot over us.
A heavy volley was fired and every man sprung to his gun, but as there was no more firing we lay down again and tried to get some sleep, but that was out of the question, the air was too cold for that.
Several shots were fired at the rebel cavalry, but they did not offer us battle, they did not know our numbers.
A few shots were fired from the boats, but the fort was taken by this time.
Our ears were startled by hearing a sound like the report of a hundred cannon being fired at once.
But the romantic nature of the adventure had fired Mr. Opp's imagination.
He and Hamp lifted their shotguns, and fired together, straight at the glaring eyes and hungry jaws.
We chased him a short distance, and he firedat us twice.
As the rest of the herd scurried by, the lads fired several shots apiece, but without visible effect.
Instant joy Flushed lively in his cheek, and fired his heart With all the rapt'rous bliss of mutual love.
A feu-de-joie was then fired in the port, and oft repeated by the responsive echoes.
The opprobrious term, which galled him the more because it was true, fired his blood, and he challenged the "grimme barone" to mortal combat.
The ‘click’ of the curtain is unheard in the noise made by the pistol, and the effect is as if the watches and plate had been fired from it.
He first fired gunpowder by electricity, then he mixed camphor with gunpowder and discharged muskets by electricity.
Even a small soap-bubble blown with this mixture and fired is deafening.
Though the Arab firmly believed the weapon to be really deadly, he took careful aim and fired point blank at Houdin.
This tube runs inside the cone, and affords a free passage for the loading and discharge of the pistol, and between the tube and the outer case any object supposed to be fired therefrom reposes in perfect security.
Then hydrogen and spirits of wine were firedby the spark by means of a drop of water or a lump of ice.
A member of the party searched for the leak with a lighted candle, and the explosion that resulted firedsome woodwork.
It had been arranged that a gun should befired from the relief ship when she got near the island," said Wild.
The defenders of the works could not have fired upon us without endangering their own men.
I wonder that he was not fired upon, but I believe he was not; at all events he was not hurt.
On entering the city the troops were fired upon by the released convicts, and possibly by deserters and hostile citizens.
The Mexicans were armed about as we were so far as their infantry was concerned, but their artillery onlyfired solid shot.
Jesmond, who had drawn a pistol, would have fired at him, but this Sir William Lorraine would not allow.
Scarcely were the words spoken, than several shots were fired from a farm-yard near the town, by which an orderly near the general was killed, and another officer wounded.
Immediately on his arrival, General Carpenter rode up an eminence, and was looking at the Windmill barricade, when a shot fired from the cannon planted on that barrier fell very near him, and caused him to shift his position.
Soliman Kaschef had no sooner observed this than he fired a couple of shots at Feizulla Capitan, so that I myself, standing before the cabin door, heard the bullets whistle.
After all, then, my father was not so wrong--he placed his guns right, and fired a good shot.
When the soldiers had ransacked the dwellings, and smashed to atoms all they could not carry off, or did not think worth seizing as spoil, they heaped the remnants and the mattings together and fired them.
A sentinel has fired at a horse-thief and broken his leg, and now, mindful of the ten francs, tries to cut off the head of the wounded man, who objects and screams.
By day the cannon thundered; at night the garrison made sorties, and fired the city: all was wrack and ruin.
I can pluck him to-night like a winged pa'tridge;" but he too fired almost as quickly as his companion.
You'll swar that you fired the quickest; and of course I'll swar the same, and there's nobody here ter jedge.
I've cut my eye-teeth since you used to fleece me, and I'll swear you fired only five shots.
Zeb was so close on the Britisher when he fired his pistol that we saw the faces of both in the flash; and a lot of bullets sung after us, I can sell you, as we dusted out of those diggin's.
The shots fired at Bunker Hill had echoed in every nook and corner of the New England colonies, and the heart of Zeke Watkins, among thousands of others, had been firedwith military ardor.
So far as many obstacles permitted, Marlow kept his proper distance from the others on the line and fired coolly when he caught glimpses of the retreating Confederate skirmishers.
The Britisher fired his pistol right under Zeb's nose; but, law!
There were no loopholes in the walls through which the muzzle of the deadly rifle could be thrust and fired from within.
The fact that she was the banker's daughter only fired his ambition to be and to do something to make her proud of him.
Five minutes after two shots werefired in quick succession, and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came.
One of the persons present in the parlor says that after Laura Hawkins had fired twice, she turned the pistol towards herself, but that Brierly sprung and caught it from her hand, and that it was he who threw it on the floor.
Latterly, however, as if suspicious of our intentions or tired of our protracted stay, they fired the grass on the hill at the entrance of the creek, possibly to deter us from entering.
At length, just as my patience was becoming exhausted, I saw the bird enter the bower and disappear, when I fired at random through the twigs, fortunately with effect.
Several musket shots werefired into the canoe from a distance of six or seven yards, but, regarding the effect, conflicting statements have been made.
So closely had we concealed ourselves latterly, and so silent had we been, that a kangaroo while feeding actually hopped up within fifteen yards, unconscious of our presence until fired at.
By Captain Stanley's orders two musket shots were fired over the canoes, while about 300 yards distant, to show that although in fancied security they were still within reach.
Another swam off apparently as active as ever, although a musket ball had been fired through its head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fired" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
