| 单词 | grapeshot |
| 例句 | We left our tent, as it was too torn from grapeshot for salvage. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Particle beams called hell lances as well as missiles and grapeshot: “little metal ball bearings, a great kinetic weapon in space.” We crashed a science-fiction writers convention to ask about Trump’s ‘Space Force’ 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In the Guardian, Orwell expert Tim Crook, a communications professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, wrote that Trump's first days in office have been "an explosion of propagandist grapeshot." Not an 'alternative fact': George Orwell's '1984' tops Amazon's bestseller list 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Some of the bones display wounds from musket balls and from grapeshot that would have been fired from cannons inside the fort or from ships in the river. A Battlefield From 1777 Yields a Dozen Mercenaries’ Remains 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Art Cullen, 59, acknowledges his editorials may be mere grapeshot to King’s bombast. In a small Iowa town, a Pulitzer-winning editor defends immigrants and tries to bring a community together 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s good stuff, all that political and romantic intrigue, but most readers will doubtless be drawn by the whiff of grapeshot. Book review: ‘Napoleon: A Life,’ by Andrew Roberts “He would pick up something and say, ‘Oh yeah, I remember when I found this when I was 14,’ or ‘I found that stand of grapeshot right over in Terrell’s Battery,’” said Baas. Civil War collection to be sold at auction 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z But he did say that the objects appear to be canister shot or grapeshot, based on their size, material and mold markings, called sprue. Sitka roof project raises echo of 1804 battle 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z In her memoir, she described one colleague as "deserting at the first whiff of grapeshot". Witness: Thatcher's dramatic 1990 fall - "Stabbed in the front" 2013-04-08T13:36:42Z Lots of high-velocity grapeshot will be thrown across their orbits. Cometary billiards: Have you heard, it’s in the stars 2013-03-07T16:08:25Z Three men were hit by the grapeshot, but beyond this there were no casualties. A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti 2012-02-06T03:00:13.023Z At this critical moment a grapeshot struck him on the throat, and he sat calmly down on the tackle of a gun and252 died. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.207Z The Hercules, set on fire by grapeshot, continued to fight until her commander had been mortally wounded and the flames had reached the powder-house, forcing the men to throw their ammunition overboard. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 2012-01-19T03:00:20.007Z All that, however, had been of small account compared to the effect of that tempest of grapeshot. The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution 2012-01-09T03:00:21.297Z The porter who was on the summit of the ramparts cried out to them that if they did not put an end to this hubbub he would spray them with grapeshot to cool their impatience. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Bombs, balls, and grapeshot were flying; at the heads of the besieged flew rubbish, bricks, plaster; smoke was mingled with dust, the heat of fire with the heat of the sun. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z The first ardours of the political brigands had been cooled by machine gun practice—Napoleon's old prescription of "the whiff of grapeshot." A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Yes, it is all over!" said the soldier, in a low voice: "the grapeshot has mown them down. The Pl?biscite or, A Miller's Story of the War 2011-07-27T02:00:38.240Z You may grow for your neighbour, at your liking, grapes or grapeshot; he will also, catallactically, grow grapes or grapeshot for you, and you will each reap what you have sown. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z It needs another quake, another whiff of fire, and—more than all else—a steady tradewind of grapeshot. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Over their extended line flew grapeshot with whistling and noise like flocks of birds. Pan Michael An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey. 2011-09-10T02:00:24.983Z All the flank pieces are loaded with grapeshot. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z We were as much knocked down by this piece of information as if we had been prostrated on the battle-field by a discharge of grapeshot. Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z Even before the latest whiff of grapeshot, the U.N. declared the year beginning last August as the International Year of Youth. The Youth Unemployment Bomb 2011-02-03T04:40:04Z Why not simply dismiss Congress with a whiff of grapeshot? Mrs. Jellyby goes to Washington 2010-11-23T12:01:00Z Ultimately, says Barnes, "you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map". FA makes rod for its back by insisting on English coach 2010-08-16T23:05:00Z The shells, the bombs, battered the casemates, the grapeshot paved the trenches with iron. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z For some minutes no one in the room spoke; there passed before them the vision of a column of infantry charging with fixed bayonets, amidst a shower of grapeshot. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico He had now perhaps finished the fight very desperately if Death, who took a swift passage in a grapeshot, had not interposed and struck him directly on the throat. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Consomm�s, ragouts, p�t�s, potages, jellies, with an infinity of that smaller grapeshot of epicurism with which fine tables are filled, all here met a fair and a candid appreciation. Jack Hinton The Guardsman He had to sweep the shores continually with grapeshot, to clear it of the Confederate sharpshooters, who succeeded in capturing two of the transports and blowing up another with a torpedo. The Greater Republic A History of the United States The statue of Lille was beheaded, that of Strasbourg pitted by the grapeshot. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z But I went around a small farm house and crept back again, and saw the grapeshot scatter the "rebs." The Bull-Run Rout Scenes Attending the First Clash of Volunteers in the Civil War The enemy, too, poured down a deadly discharge, and grapeshot tore through us at pistol-range. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune That was done before daylight, and the gun, loaded with a half-charge of powder and a double charge of slugs and grapeshot, was completely masked. Elsie on the Hudson Despite a destructive fire of grapeshot, the horsemen galloped over the Mexican batteries, cut down the gunners, and captured the commanding officer. The Greater Republic A History of the United States And so did he retire step by step, marking the time with his sword, while the shot flew past and about him, and the earth was scattered by the torrent of the grapeshot. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The grapeshot from two cannon, and the bullets of Colonel Thompson's riflemen, so raked the decks that the men could not stay at their posts. Hero Stories from American History For Elementary Schools These were the ever-present arguments against surrender; and the judgment of their comrades was far more terrible to them than the grapeshot of the enemy. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Slug and grapeshot streamed along that ditch overflowing with human life, and spread awful havoc there. Elsie on the Hudson Also, I have seen peasant boys—unripe crops of the later levies—mown down by grapeshot—raise themselves on their elbows to cheer for France and the little man in grey. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Volley after volley sent back our leading squadrons, wounded and repulsed, when, unlimbering with the speed of lightning, the horse artillery poured in a discharge of grapeshot. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II But Napoleon Bonaparte––he who snuffed out Revolution later by whiff of grapeshot––nods gravely yes. Orphans of the Storm Annandale grapeshot" into that sophisticated London audience: "Men speak too much about the world.... The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures He had been so sure that storm of grapeshot from the Victory would finish off the Indians. Shaman One townsman, seeing a cannon loaded with grapeshot, abandoned in an alley, aimed it at the gate and fired. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 I took it from the ground amid the grapeshot and the musketry. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II They stood at the abattis, hacking away at the stakes, falling in heaps before the shower of grapeshot. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 What Niemcewicz, who lived through it, describes as a hailstorm of bullets, grapeshot and shells, poured down upon the Polish lines. Kościuszko A Biography Beside the cannon were stacked canisters of grapeshot and flannel bags of powder. Shaman And every French child knows how he led the charge through the grapeshot, on foot, with his hat at the end of his sword. Lectures on the French Revolution Alas! a grapeshot had torn through his chest, and cut asunder that noble heart whose every beat was honor. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The breastwork zigzagged along the ridge in such a manner that if troops attacked it, the French could rake them with grapeshot, and it was too high to climb over. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 Then he ordered out the artillery End of revolt and had them fire grapeshot into the square. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) With hand signals to Captain Bill in the pilot house, Raoul had the Victory's bow swung to starboard and then to port, so that the grapeshot struck the island in a wide arc. Shaman The frigate's guns, which were charged with grapeshot, were discharged full upon them, and a frightful carnage ensued. The Huguenots in France As the grapeshot tore through the ranks of the veterans, they closed up again, and, to every summons to surrender, gave the stern reply, "The Guard never surrender—they die!" Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The French raked them with grapeshot, and soon they came running back nearly frantic with fear. Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Another pushed a canister of grapeshot in after it. Shaman The tricolour flag is riddled with grapeshot and Général Michel has fallen. The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days A verbal message was sent, and before it could be executed Lawrence was a second time struck, receiving a grapeshot in his body. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The discharge of grapeshot again fell in the thicket, but it hurt no one, and the five did not reply. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods A round of grapeshot consists of three tiers of cast-iron balls arranged, generally three in a tier, between four parallel iron discs connected together by a central wrought-iron pin. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Probably this was a piece of what the long knives called canister shot or grapeshot in Wolf Paw's shoulder. Shaman Then the Green House struck the door like a salvo of grapeshot. The Varmint A hundred cannon opened fire upon their barracks, and in an hour twenty-five thousand Janissaries were mowed down by grapeshot and scimitars. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy They retreated hastily and lay down behind the great trunks, none too soon either, as the cannon roared and the grapeshot whistled all about them, cutting off twigs and leaves and ploughing the earth. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Neither balls nor grapeshot: everything has its end! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Reluctantly, because he wanted to see where the grapeshot was hitting, Raoul crouched down behind a hay bale. Shaman Silliman speaks of the "incessant fire on our lines" with grapeshot as being "so hot" that the militia were compelled to retreat. The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Lieutenant Aitcheson of the Artillery plied the foe with a withering fire of grapeshot. Six Months at the Cape "They can't get any new supply of gunpowder and cannon balls and grapeshot, in these woods." The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods Meanwhile the German workers are quite aware that the absolute monarchy does not and cannot hesitate one moment to greet them with a whiff of grapeshot in the service of the bourgeoisie. Selected Essays Kingsbury changed elevation with each shot, so that showers of grapeshot blanketed the island from side to side. Shaman Out of the focal and foremost fire— Out of the hospital walls as dire— Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene— Eighteenth battle and he sixteen— Specter such as you seldom see, 5 Little Giffen of Tennessee. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year First a grapeshot caught Jenkins' left arm, and it hung in bloody splinters. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom The ammunition wagons carrying the powder and the balls and the grapeshot are drawn up between them. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods He silenced the batteries with grapeshot, destroyed the Confederate squadron, and on the following day captured the forts with the assistance of a land force of 5000 men from New Orleans. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country After that bombardment with grapeshot, after so many Indians had been shot trying to swim away, there probably wouldn't be many left alive on the island. Shaman "According to teleology," he says, "each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot, of which one hits something and the rest fall wide." What is Darwinism? He refused to be taken below, but loss of blood soon made him incapable of command, and presently his first lieutenant was stunned by a grapeshot which grazed his scalp. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 The grapeshot tore through it, and twenty-two of the English troops fell dead and wounded. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire The lashings had been cast off the guns, the boatswain had opened the magazines, and a pile of shot stood by each gun, together with cases of canister and grapeshot for close work. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib The piece of grapeshot had gone entirely through, but the loss of blood had been large, and there was inflammation. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis Others plunged into the Niagara, essaying to swim its irresistible eddies, only to be blown out of the green water by Holcroft's grapeshot or sucked down by the river's silent whirlpools. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 It was here that Winder's artillery and his steadiest regiments were placed and they offered a stiff resistance, ripping up the British vanguard with grapeshot and mowing men down right and left. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 The grapeshot swept along the empty street, and through the gateway; and Charlie, leading one of the troops, at once dashed down the street. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire The rifle fire was heavy and the big guns of Early were sweeping the roads with shell and grapeshot. The Tree of Appomattox The said Nikola then exclaimed, 'Curse the bloodthirsty hounds,' and fired the grapeshot into the boat. Romance While training a quarter-deck gun on the Trekroner battery his hat was blown from his head and he was knocked down by the rush of wind from a grapeshot. The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 Nelson had been struck by a grapeshot in the right elbow, as, with sword drawn, he was stepping from the boat to the landing. The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain On this latter leaf may be seen standing a cigar-lighter made out of grapeshot picked up in camp during the siege. The Story of the Guides Answering a question on the part of one of the prisoners, a German officer told them that they were going to taste some of the Belgian grapeshot before Antwerp. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? She remained standing there alone and unnoticed, for the street was swept clear as if by grapeshot of the very few persons who might otherwise have been in it at that hour. Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers It enfiladed the assailants, sweeping them at a distance of thirty feet; slugs and grapeshot hissed, spreading fan rays of death! Lazarre The troops at the Point, amazed at the sudden eruption, the din of the explosions, and the showers of grapeshot that rattled among the trees, lost their wits and fled. Montcalm and Wolfe The "whiff of grapeshot" crushed a movement which could have led only to present anarchy, and probably would have brought France back to royalism of an odious type. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) An entire company of infantry in wagons, with a mountain howitzer and several rounds of grapeshot, was hastened to their relief. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 They could not have been casemated, and might indisputably have been silenced by the grapeshot of the ships that could have been brought against them. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 While in this position, a bomb, loaded with shrapnel and grapeshot, came ripping and tearing through our ranks, wounding General Lucius E. Polk, and killing some of his staff. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show The batteries of the 18th Division, which had suffered most, could now be withdrawn in succession, but even in their retreat they had to defend themselves against their pursuers by grapeshot. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle I who speak to you, I have seen him with his feet among the grapeshot, and no more uneasy than you are now,--standing steady, looking through his field glass, and minding his business. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 War-god Broglie is at work, but grapeshot is good on one condition! The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History What an honor and privilege to be standing in the presence, and even pressing the hand or rushing into the embrace, of an officer who had really seen bayonet-charges and heard the whistling of grapeshot! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 06, April, 1858 They kept on, as Pickett's men did when the Federal guns riddled their ranks with grapeshot. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form From the account of the dying Louis XV. to the "whiff of grapeshot" which closed the last scene of the great drama, there is not a dull page. Thomas Carlyle A murderous discharge of grapeshot proceeded from the garrison, and many of the besiegers were killed and wounded. History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 To suppress whom, a young artillery officer is named commandant; who with whiff of grapeshot does very promptly suppress them; and the thing we specifically call French Revolution is blown into space. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History If you fire again," he cried, "I shall sweep you with grapeshot. The Second Deluge Never give up!—though the grapeshot may rattle, Or the full thunder-cloud over you burst, Stand like a rock—and the storm or the battle Little shall harm you, though doing their worst. The Canadian Elocutionist Then comes, in the language of the picturesque historian of the French Revolution, the type of them all—then comes at the end 'the whiff of grapeshot' and the despot. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The skipper had been killed by a grapeshot, but the mate he led the men; and if fighting could have saved us the ship would not have been captured. The Bravest of the Brave — or, with Peterborough in Spain Poor Johnstone was indeed going; a grapeshot had struck him, and torn his belly open. Tom Cringle's Log Suddenly they burst forth, vomiting a deluge of grapeshot and canister upon the Austrians. The Companions of Jehu Unlimbering the cannon, they loaded and took aim, and began to shower the unmoving Highlanders with grapeshot and thundering shells. Highland Ballad British plutocracy has its cannoneer; but if the cannoneer happens to take fancies into his head the "whiff of grapeshot" goes the wrong way. Lectures and Essays Questions poured and crackled like grapeshot, while the truth slowly emerged from the explanations the parents were occasionally permitted to interject. A Prisoner in Fairyland The Russians were in possession of Studzianka, and thence were raking the plain with grapeshot; and by the first dim light of the dawn the major saw two columns moving and forming above the heights. Farewell "Oh, yes," said one of the monks, gayly; "at Quiberon they got bullets and grapeshot." The Companions of Jehu The grapeshot whined and shrieked, and the ranks of the sepoys wilted, mown down as though a scythe had swept them. Told in the East He was in the hottest of the fight, and for a long time exposed to showers of grapeshot.- Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11 Twice they had attempted to attack this point, but on each occasion had been driven back by grapeshot from the four isolated guns on the hillock. War and Peace The gunners, sleeping beside their guns, grabbed their slow matches, and fourteen canons belched grapeshot at the regiment. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn. The Life of the Spider Cruel uncertainty is here: war-god Broglie sits yonder, inaccessible in his Olympus; does not descend terror-clad, does not produce his whiff of grapeshot; sends no orders. The French Revolution The Zaporozhtzi attacked the wall fiercely, but were met with a shower of grapeshot. Taras Bulba and Other Tales The French had time to fire three rounds of grapeshot before the hussars got back to their horses. War and Peace The Emperor then ordered the advance of General D'Hautpoul's terrible Cuirassiers, who crossed the bridge under a hail of grapeshot and fell on the Russian line with such ferocity that they literally flattened it. The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware. War and Peace Arms are the one thing needful: with arms we are an unconquerable man-defying National Guard; without arms, a rabble to be whiffed with grapeshot. The French Revolution Twice they noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot at them. War and Peace "Colonel," interrupted the officer of the suite, "You must be quick or the enemy will bring up his guns to use grapeshot." War and Peace Good is grapeshot, Messeigneurs, on one condition: that the shooter also were made of metal! The French Revolution There grapeshot still threatens; thither all men's thoughts and steps are now tending. The French Revolution The whiff of grapeshot can, if needful, become a blast and tempest. The French Revolution Thus Broglie's whiff of grapeshot, which might have been something, has dwindled to the pot-valour of an Opera Repast, and O Richard, O mon Roi. The French Revolution Smoke appeared again but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the bridge. War and Peace Let Jacobinism and Revolt, with one wild wail, fly into Infinite Space; driven by grapeshot. The French Revolution |
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