They used to be the favorite lap-dogs, but somehow the Poms and the Pekes have come in to take their place.
Most of the big guns go with the first flight; one or two, which can easily be shifted, are kept to hold back our advance, and the deadly little pom-poms are dodged about from kopje to kopje.
The spiteful little pom-poms cracked away and kept us on the alert, until one grew weary of the everlasting noise of cannon.
The muzzles of the two-pounder pom-poms moved slowly after their target, and when the range-indicator told that it was within reach of their shells the first gun opened with a trial beltful.
Cypherfontein; here, during most of the afternoon, we heard shells and pom-poms and other indications of a brisk fight going on towards the north.
The pom-poms came from the far right, where we could just distinguish the rocky tops of some elevated ground, and had they been closer would no doubt have done considerable damage, as they were quite on our right flank.
Quickly following this, I heard the distant booming of artillery, and then the rattle of musketry and pom-poms became general, but not in the neighbourhood where I was.
This turning movement, or rather the preparation for it, was carried out under an extremely heavy fire from pom-poms and other quick-firing guns.
The whole company was halted, while we chatted, within easy fire of the enemy's position; a few pom-poms would have made a shocking mess amongst the men and horses.
At various points behind the Riet, epaulments had been thrown up for the six field guns which the enemy had with them, while among the foliage on the bank three or four pom-poms were cunningly concealed.
Two pom-poms were mounted on this side of the defences.
The Boers had five field guns, distributed along their line; two pom-poms were posted on Magersfontein Hill; while three more pom-poms were allotted to the defence of the low ridge.
Always the same extended advance, always the same rattle of Mausers and clatter of pom-poms from a ridge, always the same victorious soldiers on the barren crest, with a few crippled Boers before them and many crippled comrades behind.
A fifteen-pounder, the one taken at Tweefontein, and two pom-poms were captured, with thirty prisoners and a considerable quantity of stores.
Up to the foot of the berg our men met with no resistance, but at last a furious fire of rifles and Pom-poms broke out on our right centre from Boers concealed in dongas and trenches on the spurs.
The Boers were evidently in possession, judging by the warm greeting of Pom-poms and the Creusot 5", which played on us without much damage.
For Cactus Dahlias they should be five or six feet long, and for Pom-poms four feet; and at least one foot of this length must be driven firmly into the ground.
The pretty little Pom-poms are rather shorter, and can be placed in front of their big brothers.
She was fond of cats and had a favourite smoke-blue Persian, between whom and the Poms there was an armed neutrality.
She had almost forgotten that Shot had come with her when she had left the Poms at home because of the muddy roads.
As she stood up the Poms bristled and Shot suddenly barked and listened.
She clapped her hands to her ears when she arrived, and the Poms broke out into shrill chorus.
Eileen, poking viciously at the Poms with her umbrella.
I don't think there ever were such beautiful dogs as your setters, not even my Poms or yours.
While we were doing this the enemy fired two pom-poms at us from about 3,000 yards, vastly to our inconvenience.
The beating of the pom-poms in the Selkirk could be heard above the roar of the cannonade; and seeing that the liner was now doomed, the British destroyers drew off a little.
Some could be seen heaving heavy weights overboard; others were busy at the torpedo tubes; but in the blaze of light the pom-poms mowed them down, and tore the upper works of the destroyers to flinders.
As the Pom-Poms continued to bark, the sailors pulled the plane close.
The Messerschmitt One-Nines tried to drop down and machine gun him murderously, but the destroyer's Pom-Poms kept them at a respectful altitude.
Next to toy Poms I will mention toy Schipperkes, because, though they are not as yet so fashionable, and probably never will be, they resemble Pomsin many ways.
Poms are, perhaps, the most excitable of small dogs, and pugs certainly the least so.
Happy is the owner whose Poms or Pugs require no such improvement!
At about the moment when the attack was to begin, it was found that the pom poms and the Vickers guns were not working.
The thermometer at this time stood at fifty below zero and the intense cold had frozen the oil in the buffers of the pom poms and machine guns, rendering them worse than useless.
Jones and Richardson came along presently with their two pom-poms and five or six hundred riflemen they had brought from San Fernando.
Chym na poms are very well disposed, much more So particular their women than they were when we decended the river last fall.
The row made by the firing was terrific, for pom-poms and artillery were joining in, and a fair amount of bullets came by us with the led horses.
This ben't Turkey leather, but it is a piece from Spain, and they learnt the trade of the paynim, so I reckon 'twill do.
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