Two larger guns can be seen protruding from their turret in the deck below.
However, up got Sir John, and entered at the turret door, where his body stopped the only little light that was in the bit turret.
His fiddle and music were in thisturret as well; so it was all very nice and snug indeed.
The littleturret chambers were a source of both interest and curiosity to Allan's companions.
At one corner of it was a kind of turret recess; this had been originally used as a dressing-room, but Allan had gone to some trouble and expense in fitting it up as an own, own room for Rory.
Do you know, Allan, my boy, what particular deed of darkness was committed in this turret chamber?
We know that the lad was recently placed in the forward turret of the Manhattan, and would have had an opportunity to examine the breechblock of the Varian gun.
Because, my boy, he has been relieved from duty in the forward turret and the two recruits put there in his place.
For through the turretdoor there now emerged a second figure, but this one bore a head of fiery red above his sooty countenance.
The officer had felt himself blown back across the turret and smashed against the steel wall.
In the breast of the latter dark feelings of hatred burned, and a keen sense of humiliation over his deposition from the forward turretrendered him oblivious to any better feelings.
In fact, an hour later Herc and Ned found themselves consigned to a painting squad, working, side by side, on the big forward turretwhich housed the twelve-inch guns.
Suddenly the small door in the barbette of the turret opened, and four half-crazed, reeling men staggered out, bearing a limp form of a fifth.
During the time that had elapsed since Herc's rescue, the Dreadnought Boys had been participating in their capacity as two of the crew of the forward turret in battle practice.
The boys and the rest of the crew sprang to the back of the turret and crouched low, as did the others as the command was given.
This concluded the great-gun drill, and the boys and the crew of the forward turret joined the other tars assembled on the forward deck, awaiting the sounding of the supper call.
Instantly the great turret itself began to quake, and then, with a soft rattling of cogs, commenced slowly to revolve.
From the turret door there staggered a black, weird figure; its clothes hung in shreds and blood streamed from a dozen cuts and bruises.
From the turret ventilators little smoke was now issuing.
Dick returned by the way he came, and descending the turret staircase, found a sentry standing at the outlet into the guard-chamber.
As he spake he seized on the miserable wretch in their presence, swinging him round by the waist like an infant, and bore him off, up the turret stairs, to the summit.
Every little turret is different in architectonic form, and statues of saints are to be seen standing within these.
On the top of a turret opposite St. Hugh is the statue of the Swineherd of Stowe.
The access, as usual in castles of the period, lay through an arched barbican, or outwork, which was terminated and defended by a small turret at each corner.
At length, with a terrific crash, the whole turret gave way, and she perished in the flames which had consumed her tyrant.
One turret was now in bright flames, which flashed out furiously from window and shot-hole.
After much consultation we determined to see what the affair meant, and making our way on to the walls which, indeed, were entirely deserted, we took refuge in that turret where you saw us.
We knew, however, that before this turret was carried we could show these Germans how five Englishmen, when brought to bay, can sell their lives.
Two bodies were then drawn up, and proceeded at a rapid pace toward the staircases leading to the wall, one on each side of the turret in which they believed that the little body of audacious assailants were still lying.
The backplace which separated the engine compartment from the turret and steering room became almost red hot.
The aeroplane approached close enough to see the signal on the turret of the tank, and signalled back that reinforcements would be sent.
Breaking the Spell We were in a twelve-inch gun turret in a ship during the Dogger Bank action.
The bell turret is situated at the south-east corner of the building, which, as a whole, gives a singular impression, due to the fact that it is nearly as broad as it is long.
Should it ever happen in action that the free movement of the turret should become impeded from some cause, then the only means of changing the direction of the guns would be to turn the whole ship.
In the centre of the turret there are two cylinders, the one fitting over the other in a manner which keeps the whole steady even in rough weather.
Rising, and taking with him a lamp, he proceeded to the after-turret to see if the guns were all right.
When it is desired to alter the direction of the guns, the change is not effected by moving them in the ports, but by revolving the turret itself.
Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
For the Sun behind yon Eastern height Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night; And, to the field of Heav'n ascending, strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.
On board the "Monitor" the only hurt was received by a gunner, who was leaning against the iron wall of the turret just as a shot struck outside; he was carried below, disabled.
A large monitor lay anchored up the harbor, and the "Hattie" was running so close to her that the commands of the officers in the turretcould be clearly heard.
All that was to be seen of her above water was a low deck about a foot above the water, bearing in the centre a large round iron turret pierced with two great portholes.
When the time for the first battle actually arrived, it was found that the turret would not revolve properly; but in later ships of the same class this trouble was avoided.
It showed Ypres when there was no town save a few tiny houses and a triangular stronghold, with a turret at each corner, built on a little island in the river Yperlee.
On the turret she paces to and fro in deep meditation, whilst occasionally she steps upon the stone platform and peers anxiously towards the adjacent wood, and waves her handkerchief.
Meanwhile, on the turret a lonely figure paced round and round its battlemented heights in the shivering cold, but all unconscious, and insensible to its chilling influences.
So together they descended the turret stair and sought De Montfort's room.
From turret to foundation stone" it is all perfect.
The sole remainingturret of the Lungess Tower, eighty-eight feet high, is called John O'Gaunt's Chair.
As the two vessels approached each other about half-past eight on that immortal Sunday morning, the men within the turret waited anxiously for the first shot of their antagonist.
Then the gun-ports of the turret were triced back, and it began to revolve for the first time in battle.
In the picture, taken in July, 1862, only four months afterward, one of the nine famous dents on the turret are visible.
She had twelve twelve-inch guns, with turret piled on turret in an exotic fashion--one of the two Turkish battleships building in England at the time of the war and taken over by the British.
In the final alternative, eachturret could go on firing by itself.
Then they learned that the fire of the guns of the starboardturret midships over the wardroom, which was on the port side, had deposited a great many things on the floor which did not belong there; and their expression changed.
The turret would still rotate; the other gun kept in action and the one under the shell-burst was soon back in action.
It was according to the programme laid out for each turret and each gun in a turret.
A turret out of action means two guns out of action; a broken knuckle for the pugilist.
The turret is the basket which holds the precious eggs.
None of all the men serving these guns from the depths to the turret saw anything of the battle, except the gun-layer.
An armour patch on the sloping top of a turret might have escaped attention if it had not been pointed out.
But if one out of twenty is on at eighteen thousand yards, it may mean a turret out of action.
The Corporal who stood next to him pointed to the sights in the turret and then to his forehead, and McKnutt realized that a bullet must have slipped in through the small space, entering the man's head as he looked along the barrel of his gun.
A moment's pause, and she moved forward relentlessly, crushing everything in her path, and sending out a stream of bullets from every turretto any of the enemy who dared to show themselves above the top of the trench.
Raynor, the Engineer Sub, came along too, and went down into our turret to see if the hydraulic machinery was all right.
La Buena Presidente, with the water running through her upper works and the top of her foremost turretjust showing above the surface like the back of a whale.
Inside my turret I could hear the Gunlayer, who had his eye to the telescopic sight, talking to the Sight Setter.
We went to 'General Quarters' before we were abreast Marina and the Casino, and I sat on the top of my turret with the long 9.
Clegg came cheerily along from under the fo'c'stle, and stopped near our turret to look at her too.
The turret was large enough to seat six, 'and round about roome for fourteene more.
There was a door in the trunk of the tree, and a turreton the top, the ascent to which was in the hollow of the tree.
When he had got about half-way up he saw the house, of which one turret only surmounted the cliff.
On theturret opposite, about the distance of a gun-shot, is as pretty a sight as eye could wish to see.
They are merry and happy, and the gray-beard turret has not the heart to thrust a foolish moral upon them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turret" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
