Field ordnance was unknown to this country of mountains.
It was a well-known fact that there was no heavy ordnance at the Castle.
Exeunt marching; after the which a peal of ordnance are shot off.
Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?
Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege; Behold the ordnanceon their carriages, With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.
To intercept this inconvenience, A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have plac'd; And even these three days have I watch'd If I could see them.
Only two machine guns per battalion are being brought by the City of London battalions, the balance, by order of General Officer Commanding, Egypt, being handed over to Chief Ordnance Officer, Egypt.
At Gaza the Turks were simply crushed by our overwhelming artillery, fed from inexhaustible Ordnance parks and dumps.
On the assumption already made it might be possible for you to arrange to forward to Ordnance Stores, Marseilles, the ammunition asked for to be here by 1st August.
Camp kettles will be handed to the Ordnance Officer of the camp at which units concentrate before embarkation.
The above monthly scale includes ammunition for the following additional ordnance which I should like to get, namely, two batteries of 4.
Next enters the Master-General of the Ordnance with a polite bow and K.
Also, that "half my anxieties would vanish" if only the Master-General of Ordnance would see to it himself that the fortnightly allowance could be despatched regularly.
The detonations of the ordnance were of immense service to Hamerton.
But it did not know that the ordnance consisted chiefly of fifteen-inch guns, conveyed under the most elaborate conditions of secrecy to the island.
Eastmead, of the Ordnance Store Department, and Lieutenant George S.
This had become temporarily the base of the British operations as well as the permanent chief depot of commissariat and ordnance stores for the expedition.
After being discharged at the close of the war, he was reinstated (1816) as first lieutenant of ordnance with brevet rank as captain.
Great numbers of spectators lined the banks of the river, and their acclamations were occasionally noticed by the discharge of ordnance on board the boat.
The ceremonies were commenced by a discharge of ordnance from the steamboat; the flags were hoisted in their appropriate places, a council flag being placed near the chair occupied by the agent.
When he had viewed our ship, with our ordnance and defensive preparations, we sent him and his train on shore in oar boats, in all courtesy.
After viewing all our ship, with our ordnance and warlike preparations for defence, I gave him four Spanish pikes, and some other things of my own, and saluted him with eleven guns at his departure.
Desiring to see some of our ordnance shot off, and how far they could carry their balls on the water, I caused three guns to be fired.
They made many bravados, daily shooting off forty, fifty, or sixty pieces of ordnanceat Nero and Puloway, thinking to frighten us.
He was lifting weights from a book similar to the one the girl ordnance officer was restoring.
The girl ordnance officer, Sachiko Koremitsu, between two droplights at the other end of the table, her head bent over her work.
The Ordnance Survey maps in England are somewhat of an approach thereto, but they are in no way as interesting to study.
In England, as an alternative to the Ordnance Survey maps, there are Bartholemew's coloured maps, two miles to the inch, and the Half Inch Map of England and Wales.
Two loose-leaf books in which are listed, in one all articles of quartermaster property, and in the other, all articles of ordnance property, issued each soldier for his personal use.
The cleaning agent issued by theOrdnance Department is castile soap; the oiling agents are neat's-foot oil and harness soap.
In this connection company commanders and supply sergeants should be thoroughly familiar with Ordnance Department pamphlet No.
No; not unless they have the permission of a commissioned officer, and even then only under proper supervision and in the manner prescribed in the descriptive pamphlet issued by the Ordnance Department.
However, since the European War its issue has been discontinued by the Ordnance Department.
Slip one of the 2-inch sections of rubber hose over the muzzle down to the sight and fill with the standard Ordnance Department solution to at least one-half inch above the muzzle of the barrel.
Use only materials furnished by the Ordnance Department.
What has just been said contemplates the use of the solutions furnished by the Ordnance Department.
Ordnance Department is made especially for washing cloth fabrics liable to fade.
Powder fouling may be readily removed by scrubbing the bore with the soda solution (hot) furnished by the Ordnance Department, but this solution has no effect on the metal fouling.
The front sight cover issued by theOrdnance Department protects the front sight.
Anyone who examines the one-inch ordnance map of that part of Cornwall which lies between Redruth and Camborne, cannot fail to be struck with the strange lines and markings that appear upon it.
Royal Engineers, Army Service and Army Ordnance Corps, Army Veterinary and Army Pay Departments, and R.
Lancers; a detachment of Royal Engineers; Army Service and Army Ordnance Corps; Royal Army Medical Corps.
It still required time to bring up the heavy train of ordnance and the military wagons; and the president encamped on the strong ground which he now occupied, to await their arrival, and to breathe his troops after their extraordinary efforts.
Gonzalo, who had no scruples as to Indian labor, appropriated six thousand of the natives to the service of transporting this train of ordnance across the mountains.
Supplies of all kinds were sent by Mayor Joseph Beard to Fort Drane and the posts on the St. John's, which were poorly equipped with ordnance and quartermaster's stores.
From New Orleans General Scott had written the Secretary of War that he approved of the rendezvous at Pensacola rather than at Brazos for the ordnance and ordnance stores.
At this point was a number of very large buildings known as Molino del Rey, which had formerly been used for the manufacture of ordnance stores.
E) Copy of report of Brigadier-General Worth announcing the occupation by his division of the castle and town of Perote without opposition, with an inventory of ordnance there found.
General Worth was ordered to make the attack, carry the enemy's lines, and destroy the ordnance works and return to his former position.
His supplies of ordnance were very limited, and the greater part of those on hand were unfit for use.
There was great scarcity of ordnance stores, but, happily, an abundant supply of subsistence stores.
Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings; undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund.
He did so reluctantly, for he had gained great renown in our army for his gallantry in Mexico, and he knew he would soon have been promoted to the position of Chief of our Ordnance Department had he remained with us.
They were kept back once through the exertions of Colonel Benjamin Huger, of the Ordnance Department of the United States Army.
A piece of ordnance soon was shot 145 By this proud pirate fiercely then, Into Lord Howard's middle deck, Which cruel shot killed fourteen men.
Christmas Day arrived, and the Turks greeted it with a more than usually heavy shelling of both beaches, the Sappers' and Ordnance Store Depots suffering considerably.
They also had time to peg off the site for the naval camp with ropes, just below the Ordnance Store Depots, and to lay down some strips of canvas on the sandy ground.
Going off to soak the stores with petrol," he said, and hurried on up to the Ordnance Depot.
So they went across to theOrdnance Stores and hunted out the stock sizes of the soldiers suits in store, which would fit them best.
Perhaps they were Ordnance stores or Army Service stores--each had to be kept apart--the coloured stripes on the boxes would be scanned by the light of a lantern or of the flares.
Then, that done, return to your ordnance and prepare to fire, for the time will be at hand.
Meanwhile, the strange ship, having cleared the land, revealed herself as a craft of probably quite a hundred tons bigger than the Adventure, and carrying four more pieces of great ordnance than the latter.
Don't let 'em bring their ordnance into use, or it will be all up with us," he shouted.
There are eight of these pieces of great ordnance, besides falcons and swivels which I did not stay to count, the heavy ordnance being all that caused me any anxiety.
We'll run both craft in at theordnance dock at Fort Craven.
And up above one, as one lies at anchor, amongst the most modern and destructive of weapons, with its muzzle directed seaward, stands that beautiful piece of ordnance known as Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket Pistol.
BM for naval ordnance (from marine); a figure is added to show the size.
I feel a conviction if it goes through the Geological part of Ordnance Survey it will be swamped, and as it is a case for mere accurate measurements it might, I think without offence, go to the head of the real Surveyors.
The survey was undertaken by the Government Ordnance Survey Office under Col.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordnance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
