For a whole year the General held this post, and on October 5th commanded the second column while Bonaparte with the first column ended the reaction of the Terror with a few rounds of grape shot.
One day as James Gray was on his rounds looking after his sheep, he happened to fall in with Clashnichd, the ghost of Aulnaic, with whom he entered into a long conversation.
He tells us of "A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen children, so to make them free From dying flesh and dull mortality.
The bird's appetites will vary from day to day so that it is best to make the rounds twice in feeding to make sure that they have enough and that none is left.
During such weather conditions it is necessary to make the rounds of the yards frequently and to loosen any ducks that have frozen fast.
After a few rounds Tex went out, mounted bareback and, leaving Graves in front of the stable, rode to the hotel to get his saddle.
Tex dealt in turn and after a few rounds of betting Williams dropped out and the game resolved itself into a simulated fiercely fought duel between the miners, who really cared but little which of them won.
On our way back you may try a few more roundsif you wish.
The Duke of Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee boat.
Of the former commodity we had only three rounds for each piece.
The gun detachments at this time rose to a high pitch of proficiency and could get 10 rounds a minute out of the howitzers, which, considering the double load and triple movement, was by no means a bad performance.
The day had been an exhausting one for the gunners, and, in order to give some indication of the work and labour they had been called upon to do, our battery alone fired over 4000 rounds of ammunition.
The battery dropped into action on innumerable occasions during the course of the day, and had only time to fire a few rounds before the enemy had decamped out of range.
There is little trouble in effecting this, but, at first, there is some difficulty in following the rounds as they fall, through a periscope, owing to its small field of vision.
Throughout each night a continual stream of teams and wagons conveyed thousands of rounds of ammunition up the line to battery positions, and fresh dumps were placed in forward localities.
The camera squads have been formed to make rounds of the precincts and take certain pictures.
We didn't allow any fighting in camp so when there was an argument, those involved were scheduled for three one minute rounds in the ring.
The evening of June 4th we received orders to be in readiness to march the following morning, at half-past four, each man to be provided with sixty rounds of ammunition, and eight days' rations.
I had heard carols beneath my window by the choristers of the neighboring village, who went their rounds about the ancient Hall at midnight, according to immemorial custom.
The ancient black-looking portrait of this family worthy, which hangs over the door of the great saloon, was said to descend occasionally at midnight from the frame, and walk the rounds of the state apartments.
The Atua, on which I had sailed from Suva, was a fairly large inter-island steamer that made the roundsof all the important groups.
There are no tenements in Sydney, in the New York sense of the term, but the average home as I saw it on my usual rounds in search of quarters, was ordinary.
Nourishment and reproduction make up the rounds of life.
This surprise was changed almost into discouragement when the fortress haughtily hoisted the Mexican flag, saluting it with several rounds of grapeshot, which fell into the centre of the camp, and killed and wounded some fifteen men.
To make sure of it I fired several more rounds at it, then, hailing my boat, crossed over to where it lay.
In that case he had still nine rounds of ball ammunition, and, if he wished to run amuck, held as many lives in his hand.
That two rounds were fired into the prison door, which killed one man and wounded another.
The mouldings of this style differ from those of the Early English mainly in not having the rounds and hollows so deeply cut--a characteristic feature being the introduction of fillets or small flat bands.
Such a combination of projecting rounds and deep hollows would present to the eye the appearance of alternate bands of light and shade, the depths of the hollows causing them to appear almost black.
The bases are usually moulded only, consisting of two or three rounds or roll-moulds, and stand upon a plinth, the height of which varies very much.
The finish of this exciting dance brought rounds of deafening applause and "bravo!
At their first pause in the dance, the audience, who had witnessed nothing of this description in the amusements of the Ojibbeways, being excited to the highest degree, encouraged the strangers with rounds of applause.
As after the first, they were complimented byrounds of applause, and sat down to their pipe with peculiar satisfaction.
This strange and comic song drew roars of laughter, and many rounds of applause for the Doctor, and left him, sure enough, the lion of the evening.
While he's talkin' all this, I recalls how Spanish Bill rounds me up that night in Taos, so I don't hesitate.
Once, so they tells the story, Curly Bill rounds up this Slim Jim in a Red Dog hurdy-gurdy an' concloods to have some entertainment with him.
You-alls should have asked me,' says Faro Nell, who comes in right then an' rounds up close to Cherokee.
After a while I rounds up the Colonel an' herds him back to camp.
Cherokee Hall, one day, when Texas Thompson is relatin' how his wife maltreats him, an' rounds up a divorce from him down at Laredo.
He shakes hands with the Arkansaw gent, an' we-alls rounds up to Bob Step's an' gets a drink.
All the British could do was to bang away at Taubes with thousands of rounds of rifle-bullets, which might fall in their own lines, and with the field guns.
War or no war, that old man who wound the clocks was making his rounds softly through the halls from door to door.
When Aunt Maude went to the meeting of her favorite organization, she wore always black velvet which showed the rounds of her shoulders, point lace in a deep bertha, the family diamonds, and all of her badges.
Making therounds was also an easy operation--except that it required considerable time, as there were so many of them.
As I continued my rounds I came upon a man sitting on the edge of the ditch surrounded by naked branches, busy cutting them into two-foot lengths and tying them together in the shape of a "cross.
We had a light but powerful sporting rifle, with telescopic sights, and several hundred rounds of ammunition.
Mr. Hendricks, make the rounds of all duty posts, please, and give special attention to the disintegrator ray operators.
Twenty roundsthere were to clear; and at the top, one who was swinging his sword to cut the cords.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ambit; beat; circle; circuit; cycle; lap; loop; orbit; patrol; revolution; round; tour; turn; walk
