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Example sentences for "four pounders"

  • In the parapet are forty embrasures and forty guns, from six to twenty-four pounders, are lying on the wall near them, now partly hidden by low willows, currant and gooseberry bushes.

  • On the fourth day (notwithstanding they were obliged to employ a considerable party in making the road more complete) they got the two howitzers above mentioned, and two more twenty-four pounders, to the heights of Sourier.

  • They disabled two twenty-four pounders, threw five hundred pounds of ball into the river and wells, and broke in pieces about sixty barrels of flour.

  • On the morning of the 24th of February two twenty-four pounders, placed in battery on the left face of bastion VIII.

  • The number amounted to thirty twenty-four pounders, ten twelve-and four-pounders to arm the demi-lunes.

  • A little farther on was the Tour d'Ordre, with a powerful battery composed of six mortars, six howitzers, and twelve twenty-four pounders.

  • Every other afternoon, while at sea, the Professor assembled his pupils on the half-deck, near the long twenty-four pounders.

  • Imagine some midnight craft sailing down on her enemy thus; twenty-four pounders levelled, matches lighted, and each captain of his gun at his post!

  • They were in different parts of the gun-deck, between the long twenty-four pounders.

  • They spurned the proffered mercy; so to show them that we were in earnest, we commenced by giving them a salvo from our twenty-four pounders, accompanied with three cheers.

  • When we were in complete view, they indulged us with a few sixty-four pounders; so that we were obliged to give them a much wider field.

  • On her main deck she carried no less than 30 twenty-four pounders, while on her upper deck she had 24 thirty-two pounders, and two eighteens.

  • For upwards of an hour the cannonade was terrific, the fire of the enemy being very feebly maintained, from two twenty-four pounders.

  • Here a battery of two twenty-four pounders commanded at once the road and the river back to the swamp.

  • He caused two more batteries to be constructed, one on the opposite bank of the Mississippi, and the other half a mile above, with twenty-four pounders in position, thus fully guarding the approach by the mouth of the river.

  • Battery 3, fifty yards from Battery 2; Captains Dominique and Bluche, of the Baratarians; two twenty-four pounders.

  • She carried twenty-four pounders on her upper deck, there being only fourteen ships, out of 100 of the same nominal force, which were so heavily armed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    beat the; court etiquette; four books; four brothers; four cases; four corps; four members; four minutes; four nights; four plates; four points; four pounders; four prisoners; four shillings; four sons; four thousand; four times; four times the size; four winds; four years; fourscore years; fourteen years; fourth brother; fourth teaspoon; looked like; second time