Even had Firestone succeeded in spiking the guns, our position was indeed desperate.
While at breakfast--the last meal I was fated to partake of within those walls--I questioned the colonel concerning the spiking of the guns.
The party who had been first in the saddle succeeded in cutting down some brave fellows who were spiking the guns, when they were met by Reginald and Burnett's horse.
The instant the scouts returned with the satisfactory report that they had seen the enemy moving off, the order was given to advance, and the little army, after spiking all the guns in the fort, commenced their perilous march.
Frazer was severely wounded by a musket ball while spiking a gun on the second battery.
The circumstance of spiking them being trivial it was omitted altogether.
I had the pleasure myself of spiking two guns which were turned on us.
Lieutenant-colonel Brereton, landing, took two of them by a coup de main, blowing in the gates with gunpowder, and instantly seizing and spiking the guns.
The next operation is to fix spiking cribs f, to the rock, about 10 or 12 feet from the lower crib, according to the length of the planks to be used for the tubs.
A better plan than spiking the door in place is to hang it on hinges, as shown in Fig.
After spiking the guns, the force crept under the walls of the Kaiser Bagh, being exposed to a belching fire from the palace, and was at last successful in rejoining the main body.
Fighting every inch of the way, and subjected to a heavy musketry fire from walls and gardens, the Highlanders advanced, and after spiking the guns, hurled them into the canal.
Here it was found that no garrison had been left in charge, and after carrying off some guns, and spiking others, and destroying all the enemy’s stores they could lay hands on, the expedition returned to Rangoon.
The 93rd Highlanders did noble service in spiking the guns and repelling assaults.
The indomitable Hungarians made many sallies, cutting down the gunners and spiking the guns, but they were always driven back with heavy loss.
The besieged made frequent sallies, spiking the guns of the besiegers, and again retiring behind their works.
But hardly had the need of support become manifest, and a gun or two again flashed from the embrasure, than there was another run in, another sharp fight, and this time the Russians went out spiking their guns.
The Russians charged, bore down all resistance, drove away or bayoneted the gunners, and succeeded in spiking four of the guns.
The thought that flashed through Dick's mind that here was an instance of what Howells had told them, of the spiking a tree in the upper part where it would hit the saw.
Besides, I am still wondering how your knowledge of the spiking seemed to prove so accurate.
Immediately I knew that he was on to the fact that I was aware of the shortage and was spiking my guns before I could do or say anything.
The first thing I would like to know is what did you mean by 'spiking a tree'?
One morning I found them 'spiking a tree,' and forthwith sent a report to the office with a demand that they be fired.
Spiking a tree' means to take an estimate where the sawyers will start, and then drive several spikes in, using a nail set to drive them into the tree out of sight.
Pryor had retreated in safety, after spiking his guns.
Jones had seen it all, and spiking his gun followed Pryor's men to the same place.
After spiking the guns, they returned to the city.
He was already but a few miles up the river, and an officer was immediately dispatched, directing him to land one-half of his force on the opposite side, for the purpose of forcing the enemy's batteries and spiking his cannon.
He had volunteered for the spiking party at the assault on the Redan, on the 8th of September, and while thus engaged he was severely wounded; still he refused to go to the rear.
He also volunteered and formed one of the spiking party of artillery at the assault on the Redan.
Five sorties were made during the siege by the British, for the purpose of destroying buildings which commanded the intrenchments, and of spiking guns.
That is a mine, and its claim runs down across the track where Misteh Winton is just now spiking his rails.
In briefest time the hammermen were spiking the rails on the rough-and-ready trestle, and the Italians were bringing up the crossing-frogs.
We next lashed him, neck and heels together, in such a way that he could not possibly move, and then set about spiking the guns, passing the word along at the same time.
Lieutenant Hadden was the only officer unhurt, and he had his cap shot from his head by a musket-ball while spiking the cannon.
The British burned the barracks, and, after spiking some of the guns, evacuated the fort, and retired to their ships at three o'clock on the morning of the 7th.
After a desperate resistance on the part of the enemy, he succeeded in spiking the guns of the fort, and taking prisoner the commanding officer.
Mr. Bertram succeeded in driving the enemy from the battery, and spiking the guns; he then made the best of his way by the shore to take possession of the schooner, which had been run upon the rocks.
Then he retraced his steps along the ramparts, passed over the gateway, and saw to the spiking of each gun as far as the next angle of the wall.
He went along the wall spiking each gun until they reached the half company drawn up in the bastion.
A clump of tall pines spiking against the sky afforded a webwork of flickering shadows under which to sit as in a balcony hung over the blueness of Golfe Juan.
When at last they came to the Villa of Little Days it was to find the others gathered together in the garden, sitting under the spiking pines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
