Eyre, therefore, spiked the gun, which it seemed impossible to carry off, and then secured the capture of the other.
The Chinese guns were spiked, but none were carried away, and the whole of their troops were dispersed, nor did they afterwards approach the Barrier, except to carry off the spiked guns.
Having spiked the guns in the fort, the boats returned with their crews to their respective ships.
The rails were of wood with flat bars of iron spiked on them, and from the tendency of this class of rail to curl or bend upwards as the wheels passed over it, it became known as the snake rail.
Gore left behind him thirteen of the defenders killed, and of his own, six dead, five wounded, and a spiked howitzer.
He spiked the guns and burned the bateaux he could not use and caused the munitions, provisions and baggage to be loaded on the three armed sloops.
Across the Gate rose the sheer gray cliffs of Marin County and beyond those the rugged greens and blues of the mountains, spiked in the center by the peak of Tamalpais.
He was a tall man and pale, with a high, bone-like brow, a longspiked chin, and gray moustaches that drooped placidly over a balanced mouth.
Reformed afresh, they carried it a second time, spiked it and pressed on.
The harbour is full of fish of every kind, from the little New Zealand herring to the flat stingaree resembling an enormous skate with a formidable spiked tail.
Wellington, with the book between his teeth, sat next her, firmly secured by a rope through the steel ring in his spiked collar to the back of the seat.
I wonder if she put it inside that book," she muttered; then gave a little cry as she caught sight of the paper twisted in the steel ring of the spiked collar.
The Presidio batteries at San Francisco are spiked by Fremont and daring Kit Carson, The cannon and arms of Castro are soon taken.
The messenger's heels are adorned with two inch spiked wheels, bloody with spurring the jaded beast.
If it's Clyde at the bottom of this, I've as good as got him spiked to the track.
It's shut in by a rusty iron fence with high spiked pickets.
It warn't long afore I hed spiked up as much o' thet ere cane as wud a streetched twenty yurds into the river.
I spiked the catfish on the blade o' my bowie, an' drawin' it torst me, I slid back down the tree to the fork whar I had passed the night.
In dragging the gun down through the tangled vegetation after dark, the men, who had had no food, became exhausted, and it was found necessary to abandon the gun, which was spiked and thrown into the river.
The Invincible, at the same time, sent ashore and spiked the guns at Fort Saleh Aga, and the other vessels landed men to destroy the guns in the Lighthouse Fort at Ras-el-Tin.
In the St. Jerome battery Morgan left a guard, but in all the other forts the guns were spiked and the gun-carriages burnt.
The cannon he spiked or threw into the sea, in places where he might recover them, intending to return and fortify the place, as a stronghold if his design on Panama failed.
When they had once examined the place, the Buccaneers broke down the parapet, spiked the cannon, threw them over the walls, and burnt the gun-carriages.
Across the stage, five feet back from the footlights, ran a snaky-looking fence with high-spiked posts.
Three tall screens, hastily unfolded just in front of the spiked fence, hid the orchard from view, and a fourth screen served the double purpose of forming the side wall of the room, and hiding the ogre's tower.
Finn, bearing the head, passed through the sleepers into the palace and spiked the head on his own spear, and drove the spear-end into the ground at Conn's end of the great hall.
Like a scarlet lightning-bolt spiked with two-edged knives the red wrath of the girl descended then and there on Sagner's ugly head.
The Governor fled, and the daft Spaniards, watching the river, spiked the cannon, preparing to fly the moment the British landed.
In the War of 1812, above the roaring Falls of Niagara, Sergeant Gass spiked the enemy's cannon at the battle of Lundy's Lane.
And it is worthy of note that when the Exchange was pulled down in 1792 the two iron rods on which they had been spiked remained fixed in one of the stones.
A Long-spiked Wooden Roller, known as a 'Spiked Hare.
Well, I daresay they won't mind if you sit down in one of these spiked chairs for a minute or two.
Just think of the amount of innocent pleasure you would afford by getting into this spiked cradle and letting me rock you.
They are represented as holding a pagoda, sword, two swords, and spiked club respectively.
That night as the scouts walked home, behind each wall and hayrick they saw spiked helmets.
Four scouts in uniform, and a patrol leader in baseball clothes and spiked shoes, and riding a bicycle.
Without lessening his speed each planted one spiked toe on a brace that helped to support the fence, gained the top bar in two strides, and cleared the hedge.
To-day the ground, which had been frozen hard the week before, was soft and treacherous from the noonday thaw, and even spiked shoes found slow and difficult going.
In response ten boys dressed in white shirts bearing the crimson H, white running pants, and spiked shoes disentangled themselves from the crowd about the dressing-room door and assembled at the corner of the grand stand.
That tree has been spiked and spiked good and plenty.
Howells was especially interested in the matter of the spiked tree, and was indignant at the fact that Collins had been discharged.
