I am quite well, but had a narrow escape; two horses were killed under me, and a grape shot passed through my cap.
Against boarding, elaborate preparations were made, which would prevent a steamer attempting it from getting nearer than twenty feet to the side, where she would remain an easy victim to the shell and grape of the Hartford's guns.
His first intention, an advance in two columns, the heavy ships leading and closely engaging the forts withgrape and canister, while the two-gun vessels slipped through between the columns, met the tactical demands of the proposed operation.
A discharge of grape from one of the enemy's guns to our left sent a grape through the right arm of Walling and another into the left side of Warf.
Shot, shell, grape and cannister poured into these brave troops was horrible to behold; but they never flinched nor wavered, but pressed forward until recalled.
Shot, shell, grapeand cannister tore through the ranks of men and artillery horses.
From higher grounds, back of his lines, the enemy threw shell, solid shot, grape and cannister into our position with great fury, but being fairly well protected by the crest of the ridge our casualties were not very great.
Grape and cannister would slay and wound groups and squads, while minnies did an effective but indiscriminate work of destruction.
A Grape Vine extended its roots down to their habitation, and gave them a view of the light.
In some countries, theGrape is believed to have been the forbidden fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
All these rivers take their rise from the tree Tooba; some flow with water, some with milk, some with honey, and others even with wine, the juice of the grape not being forbidden to the blessed.
When grown under glass Tomatoes need to be trained in much the same way as Grape Vines.
He ate the wholegrape vine, roots, tendrils and all, and then he ate the grape arbor for good measure.
Even in France, the land of the vine, one farm will produce a grape which the very next will not: no man can satisfactorily say why.
The batteries of the Union army had moved forward just before dark; and volleys of grape or shell would have made a fearful slaughter among the disordered bodies of the retreating enemy, and they had fled in the utmost confusion.
The enemy poured grape and cannister into our retreating columns, mowing down the men like grass.
As they fell back they were literally slaughtered by our men, as grape and cannister were poured in their retreating ranks.
The Venusian grapeis proper for [preserving in] pots.
They advanced to within fifty yards of the intrenchments, received a shower of grape and canister without flinching, and were driven back only when the Ohio brigade poured a full volley of musketry into their ranks.
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.
And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
They swept the populous declivity with gusts of grape and canister, the whirring of which could be heard through the thunder of the explosions.
My escort fought deployed in the woods on both sides, but Thurston remained in the center of the road, which at intervals of a few seconds was swept by gusts of grape and canister that tore the air wide open as they passed.
There are grape harvests, with the mad dances that follow them.
They seem to prefer to the pure juice of the grape in crystal glasses poisonous potions in cups of gold.
But the same instant a terrible discharge of grape tore through the ranks, killing three and wounding eight others.
The slaughter was fearful as the discharges of grape and round shot cut channels through the jammed-up mass, and tore the dense columns, as it were, into fragments.
As I looked, the supporting columns halted, wheeled, and retired; while a tremendous shower of grape was poured upon them from the village, which now seemed to have been retaken by the Allies.
Subsequent to the engagement it was attested by the mass of officers in the squadron that, about eight o'clock, the Alliance raked the Bonhomme Richard with grape and cross-bar, killing a number of men and dismounting several guns.
Bid her not shed one tear of sorrow To sully a heart so brilliant and light; But balmy drops of the red grape borrow, To bathe the relic from morn till night.
Now and then a basket would be refused, the quality of grape being inferior; when the wild people would enter into a fierce discussion with many gesticulations, but were peremptorily told to move on, as their noise was useless.
Save your powder for the boats--round shot when they are coming to the shore, and grape as they are landing.
Then as a cannon sent its charge of grape hurtling up the narrow pass, the two little parties cheered, dashed on, jumped over the rough wall cutlass in hand, and in less than a minute the place was once more in English hands.
Yes, sir, with a round shot; but I've gotgrape and canister ready.
Within pistol-shot distance, grape and canister enfilading the dense lines of men and horses, carried destruction through their ranks.
For the first shot I usually had a long musket, loaded with grape cartridge, and a wire one; the effect of this amongst a closely packed flock, often within sixty yards, may be easily imagined.
The loss of the pirates must have been heavy, especially from the salvo of grape and canister at close quarters.
No notice was taken of this, but a heavy fire of rifles and grape was kept up on them for about two hours, when they retired with a loss estimated at two hundred.
The gunboats surrounded them, and poured in showers of grape and canister; the lorcha had but three guns of small calibre to reply with, and soon lost so many men that those remaining could no longer beat the enemy off.
As de patty rollers hit de grape vine, stretched across de trail, dey jus' piles up in one big heap.
Guns, hidden among the trees, belched red-hot shot and grape at them, and the smoldering straw of the thatched roofs burst into flames.
The one on which we had camped we called Fox Island, and one fine densely wooded island surrounded by deep water and overrun by grape-vines, which looked like a mass of verdure and of flowers cast upon the waves, we named Grape Island.
I am the autumnal sun, With autumn gales my race is run; When will the hazel put forth its flowers, Or the grape ripen under my bowers?
