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• The firing deadened. (10)
• I ventured to urge that the firing cease. (1)
• The guns had ceased firing, as though puzzled. (8)
• He then called in a loud voice, and the firing instantly ceased. (19)
• Montcalm, deceived by the firing of the English fleet, was far away. (19)
• He made a sign to the bugler, who sounded the command to cease firing. (1)
• Was this new dodge of firing till the last second going to do them in? (8)
• The sound of the firing reached Fort George, where General Brock then was. (19)
• Argument with Mrs. Doria was like firing paper-pellets against a stone wall. (10)
• No; the firing was a military execution; the condemned, a herd of galloping swine. (7)
• A brisk renewal of the firing broke out and stray bullets came flitting and droning by. (1)
• A furious outburst of firing followed, lasting perhaps a minute, then ceased as if by magic. (8)
• As soon as the head of our straggling column had reached the spot a desultory firing had begun. (7)
• The firing was lively, and of such a nature as to make one surmise that battle had been given. (10)
• Suddenly Romara knocked up the rifles of the couching Swiss; he yelled to the houses to stop firing. (10)
• The bank was a parapet, behind which the gunboats crouched, firing up the bayou as through an embrasure. (7)
• The procession of missiles no longer streamed into that defile of death, for the enemy also had ceased firing. (1)
• Colour flooded the beautiful dark face, as of the funeral hues of a sun suffusing all the heavens; firing earth. (10)
• Early on the 6th, the firing began all along the line, the Italian 16-pounders having been the first to open fire. (10)
• It was General Granger with two strong brigades of the reserve, moving soldier-like toward the sound of heavy firing. (7)
• Dieskau reproached him for firing on a wounded man, but the fellow answered that it was better to kill the devil than be killed by him. (19)
• Port Royal had not expected an attack; both powder and provisions were low, but Subercase was not a man to yield without firing a shot. (19)
• Well, sir, we built a kiln, and we kept a lot of that paint-ore red-hot for forty-eight hours; kept the Kanuck and his family up, firing. (9)
• At that instant, the cannon having ceased firing, a burly Confederate trooper on a spirited horse dashed like a thunderbolt down the road with drawn saber. (1)
• Our gallant enemy audaciously followed, and fortified himself within rifle-reach, where he remained for two weeks without firing a gun and was then destroyed. (7)
• The word still rankled, and thoughts of enlisting jostled his aching head; of riding over the veldt, firing gallantly, while the Boers rolled over like rabbits. (8)

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