Platt carefully scrutinized the Japanese ship movements offshore, and noted with satisfaction that McAlister’s 5-inchers sent three salvoesslamming into the Hayate.
She straddled continually, but none of the salvoes came into the position.
Eight or ten times in the night they gave us salvoes of a dozen whizz-bangs.
Farther away on the other flank the Boche artillery was unusually busy, and, at intervals, sent over bursts of heavy stuff, the opening salvoes of which rather jangled one's nerves.
He crowded to a port I had had opened,' said the Surgeon, 'just in time to see one of the last salvoes from the Carmania go crashing into the side of the heeling enemy.
The Liepzig's gunnery had not begun to go to pieces at this juncture, and every little while one of those beautifully bunched little salvoes of four-point-ones would throw up its pretty nest of foam jets in the near-by water.
The first of their salvoes (volleys) to get home set the Good Hope blazing fore and aft.
Now she caught another German battleship with fourteen salvoes running and drove her out of line.
On rising, the Grand Duke Constantine took off his hat, and immediately salvoes of artillery were heard.
The whole Assembly accompanied the King on his return, amidst the people's cries of happiness, military music, and salvoes of artillery.
A few days later, Henri IV, in celebration of his bloodless victory over the Duc de Bouillon, made a sort of triumphal entry into Paris, where he was received with salvoes of artillery and loud acclamations from the populace.
Immediately afterwards two salvoes of shrapnel were fired, and appeared to burst in the neighbourhood of "Mary Redan," while enemy search lights could be seen near Serre.
Several salvoesof shrapnel managed to do considerable damage to our inspection trench and Whit Church Street.
However, we learned afterwards that the musketry and salvoes proceeded from the troops stationed near the drilling-ground, who were receiving their general on his return from parade with a salute.
Once he took Captain Macfarlane on board the Queen Elisabeth, now anchored off the River Clyde, and waited for him whilst the big ship fired salvoes of 6-inch shell into Sedd-el-Bahr village and the earthwork on Hill 141 above it.
For a long time nothing happened, but eventually a German field battery fired several rapid salvoes of shells enfilading the road.
Later on the enemy's guns became more active on the roads, and the road leading back to Essarts received salvoes all day.
Their guns had been well laid, and the salvoes of shell played about the French gun-vessels and torpedo boats, causing frightful destruction among the crews.
He was met at a short distance from the town by the British escort, and conducted to the palace amid salvoes of Artillery.
At the appointed hour the troops were again under arms, and salvoes of artillery announced the Shah's departure from his tent.
On approaching the city his Highness was received with loud acclamations by the populace, who gave expression to their satisfaction in barbarous music andsalvoes of small fire arms.
Up to now the German gunnery has been good; our ships have not often been seriously struck, but the shells in bunched salvoes have fallen very closely beside us.
Between Hill 10 and the sea there were salvoes of shrapnel falling and about every thirty seconds a big fellow, probably a six incher, made a terrible hullaballoo.
Griffiths had his parapet blown away by salvoes of these very disagreeable little shells.
The coming of daylight and several salvoes of Boche shells dissuaded us from lingering in the Salient, and, after once more stumbling along the Railway Line, we reached our motor buses and returned to the huts, arriving at 5-30 a.
Archer, firing salvoes of rifle grenades, eight at a time, always had a quietening effect on any Boche bomber who ventured to try his luck in this way.
Salvoes of whizz-bangs were arriving at frequent intervals, and there was just time to mount and gallop 300 yards down the road between the bursts.
At the same time severalsalvoes were fired into Fresnoy.
The enemy had fired several salvoes towards the Chateau during the afternoon, and at 8-15 p.
All through the night and the following day there were continual short artillery bombardments by both sides, and on four occasions the Copse was shelled with salvoes of shrapnel in rapid succession.
Thundering salvoes of artillery announced that this historic ceremony was concluded.
The evening before the day of this ceremonial salvoes of artillery had been fired.
It hung above the dumpy freighter, and there were salvoes of all the guns in the fleet.
Salvoes of the heaviest projectiles in the Fleet had been fired to explode a thousand feet above it.
All went well and thesalvoes were duly fired, although, at the battery end, there did not appear to be any difference between them, which fact was unanimously agreed upon.
They might be--as he estimated at least three full salvoes had been aboard since the first shot.
The German leader had a glimpse of a high bow swinging round towards him in the midst of salvoes of bursting shell--then came an increased burst of firing from down the line astern, followed by a great crash and a dull booming explosion.
They're devilish quick on the salvoes in this longitude, and 'pon my soul I don't blame 'em either.
The inhabitants of the city were stirred with joy when the salvoes of artillery announced from the fort the approach of the English relieving army.
The Pasha ordered what remained of the garrison to fire, but the infantry refused to do so, and passed over to the enemy, while the artillery fired a few salvoes in a direction that could do no harm to the assailing force.
She was firing fast in salvoes wi' all the guns that would bear on the burnin' Killarney.
A few salvoes and volleys shook the looser attacking columns of dervishes.
There were salvoes of two or three guns, and huge chunks were knocked out of the wall.
Not for one second did the hellish din cease, as the death-dealing salvoes hurtled into the opposing ships.
At first the German gunnery was excellent, several direct hits being received by the British battle-cruisers, but in a few moments the steady, rapid, methodical salvoes from the British 13.
They were German light cruisers, which, having had a taste of the salvoes of the leading ships of the First Cruiser Squadron, had thought it prudent to sheer off.
So every day and many times a day their guns fired a few salvoes of shells on the huge quadrilateral.
And meanwhile, the two batteries went on firing salvoesof four at a time.
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