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Example sentences for "five guns"

  • The forts were garrisoned by about six hundred men, and mounted twenty-five guns; but they were not very strong, and their bomb-proofs were not constructed properly.

  • Fort Jackson, on the right bank, mounted seventy-five guns, fourteen of which were in bomb-proof casemates.

  • With its connected batteries, Fort Fisher mounted seventy-five guns, and was stronger than the celebrated Malakoff at Sebastopol.

  • In the casemates and on the parapets were mounted seventy-five guns of all calibres.

  • When she was well out in the river, Ingle ordered a salute of five guns, and then bade his men give three cheers for the Mistress Peggy Neville, the handsomest girl that ever trod the deck of a vessel.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carry the; five children; five copies; five degrees; five grains; five guns; five horizontal; five hundred; five leagues; five lines; five louis; five marks; five minutes; five points; five regiments; five volumes; five weeks; five were; five years; grew angry; had formerly; high society; only five; right wing; shell holes; thou shalt surely die