She had some swivels fixed in her tops, which would have done us considerable mischief, had they not been drove from them early in the action, which was Captain Skinner's first object at the beginning of the engagement.
As the afternoon waned, though there was some cessation in musketry fire, many guns being rendered useless by the rain, the smoking little swivels were made to do double duty.
Backward over the rough, new road the little army plodded, the Virginians hauling their swivels by hand.
The discharge of one of the swivels was the signal for opening fire.
Percy, who had been employing his swivels with great effect, at length shouted out to Lionel to go and get some more powder.
They accordingly fastened them to the rope by which the swivels had been hoisted up, and let them all quietly down, one by one.
The jesses are made fast to the swivel when the hawk is not intended to fly; and swivels are of two kinds.
The ship was armed with sixteen four-pounders, and four six-pounders, besides swivels and cohorns.
This fort was situated at the water edge, on a slight eminence on the right bank of a river; a few swivels and a gun or two were in it, and around it a breast-work of wood, six or seven feet high.
We, one morning at daybreak, captured a row-boat with twenty-two men, armed with swivels and muskets.
She had also four brass swivels mounted on her gunwales, which we took in the boats.
We put on board her a twelve-pounder carronade and mounted four half-pound swivels on her gunwales.
James Skaw led them by the head; the hammock on its bar and swivels swung gently between them; Professor Bottomly slept, lulled, no doubt, to deeper slumber by the gently swaying hammock.
No matter in which way the mules turned, sliding swivels on the hollow steel frames regulated the hammock slung between them.
The four guns on the quarter-deck had in them fifty balls each; some of the swivels had ten balls.
Sidenote: Swivels and Snells] Next, with a sharp knife, cut up toward the backbone, commencing just behind the vent with a slant toward the tail.
The fairies have beautiful flower-gardens in the castle grounds, and in the centre of the garden there is generally a golden summer-house which swivels round on a pivot.
Before retiring for the night, we loaded our swivels to the muzzle, and fired them, to let our neighbors know that we had the wherewithal to give them a warm reception, should they see fit to make us a visit.
There were two swivelsin the camp, which we mounted upon wheelbarrows, to serve as flying artillery.
The quick eye of Montcalm saw the most effective moment had come, and giving the word of command, a sudden and incessant fire of swivels and small arms mowed down brave officers and men by hundreds.
Incensed by insulting language, Captain Baker fired a shot, which immediately drew on his boat a discharge of swivels and small arms.
Figure 17 shows two hooked rods, as in the former case, attached by swivels to two opposite corners of a frame formed of four rods jointed together at their ends.
The swivels allow the frame, gyrostats and all, to be turned about the line of the hooks.
Swivels were trundled with all speed back to the decks.
All the swivels of the dismantled ship were lying on the bank.
Got the guns and ammunition up, and while fixing them opened a fire from one of our swivels to overbear the fire of the enemy.
At this moment there are not more than eighty soldiers left in garrison, nor more than three pieces of cannon and some swivels mounted.
Here the Virginians, exhausted by fatigue, hunger, and vexation, declared they would carry the baggage and drag the swivels no further.
In the mean time, Colonel Johnson fortified the baronial hall by plantingswivels around it.
These do not require to be more than two yards in length, but in ordering them take care that the swivels are sufficiently large to insure the minnow--natural or artificial--spinning nicely.
The engineers had calculated that the wire rope might part, or that the Cable itself might break at the bight, but no one had thought of the stout iron shackles and swivels yielding.
I examined the swivels which were very green with decay, and tried to revolve one on its pivot, but found that it was not to be stirred.
We carried six twelve-pounders and four brass swivels and a plentiful store of small-arms and ammunition.
Shortly afterwards the complement was increased to 280 men, 9-pounders were placed on board instead of the sixes, the swivels were omitted, and carronades substituted.
He set his rifle against the wall and with Beverley's help rolled one of the swivels alongside the guns already in position.
Swivels were mounted in boats, ammunition and provisions stored abundantly, flags hoisted and oars dipped.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swivels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
