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• I worship cannon! (10)
• Oh, that we had cannon! (10)
• She heard the cannon at intervals. (10)
• Tom told what the cannon had done. (10)
• The cannon had taken a hand in the game. (1)
• At eleven I shall come like a charged cannon. (10)
• Rain and cannon filled the weary space of that day. (10)
• The river-banks echoed with the hoarse note of cannon. (19)
• Cannon his name, Cannon his voice, he came. (10)
• Then the second gathering, the roar of cannon; betrayal, capture, death. (8)
• They saw in a few short weeks the bastions of a fort and cannon set up. (19)
• Now commenced the fight with small arms, when the cannon could not bear. (18)
• He replied that he would surrender when forced to by the cannon of the foe. (19)
• It was like walking against the muzzle of a loaded cannon suddenly unmasked. (10)
• No bell tolled, no cannon fired a salute as Montcalm was laid to eternal rest. (19)
• On the enemy were trained the rows of cannon, and 2700 men firmly awaited the onslaught. (19)
• On the first morning of the sixth month cannon thundered from the citadel of the capital. (5)
• When they retreated to the ships, five of their cannon were left sticking in the Beauport mud. (19)
• On a little island opposite Louisburg there was a battery mounted with thirty-two heavy cannon. (19)
• The artillery were practicing at La Fère, and soon the cannon of heaven joined in that loud play. (2)
• The English fire grew hotter every day from the 150 cannon which had been planted upon the walls. (19)
• There was really no reason for excitement; it is not much to point a cannon into a fog and fire it. (1)
• Even as the silence after explosions of cannon, that which reigned in the room was deep and dreadful. (10)
• The cannon had not yet been placed, being temporarily accommodated outside on the slope of a redoubt. (19)
• The great cannon whose muzzles stared grimly from the battlements had been woven into Indian legends. (19)
• On the point of land thus projecting into the bend of the river, six redoubts were bristling with cannon. (18)
• The result was that 2500 troops and 33 cannon and the whole territory of Michigan was surrendered to Canada. (19)
• From far down the river by which they rode came the sound of a cannon, breaking the Sabbath repose of the air. (9)
• The site was quickly enclosed with palisades and several cannon brought from the ship {65} and put in position. (19)
• By daybreak half the English garrison, with ten pieces of cannon, were hurled on the French columns at St. Foye. (19)
• Six times did the English doggedly come on, and six times did the cannon of the French sow carnage amongst them. (19)
• He drew Mr. Dale away while the conflict subsided in sharp snaps of rifles and an interval rejoinder of a cannon. (10)
• As to a meaning, she holds that it does not conduce to making merry: you might as well carry cannon on a racing-yacht. (10)
• Cannon, rockets, musketry, and now the run of drums, now the ring of bugles, now the tramp of horses, and the field was like a landslip. (10)
• The cannon was fired and roared; the band struck up a pompous slow march: and the tent-veil broke apart and rolled off. (10)
• Two lofty heights opposite West Point protected the eastern bank with frowning cannon that overlooked the whole valley. (18)
• Two hours later the booming of cannon was heard, and soon afterwards a couple of skirmishers were sighted at a distance. (19)
• At first, terrified by the French cannon and muskets, they did not venture to approach too near the walls of the French forts. (19)
• A peal of a cannon from the little fort testified to the joy of its inmates that the long-expected succour was at last at hand. (19)
• On the 18th of October 1690 Major Walley, the second in command, with 1300 men and some small field cannon, landed at Beauport. (19)
• Troyes found in the fort twelve cannon, chiefly six and eight pounders, three thousand pounds of powder, and ten pounds of lead. (19)
• After writing his son a letter urging him to obedience, Sir Claude bethought him of the effect of cannon and muskets as arguments. (19)
• But the stone buildings, the cannon and muskets in the hands of the determined Frenchmen {43} daunted them and they beat a retreat. (19)
• Abercrombie foolishly thought that by his superior numbers he could force Ticonderoga without cannon, but Montcalm knew his strength. (19)
• The prison, strongly palisaded, the workshops for casting shot and cannon and the mills for making powder were maintained at this convenient spot. (18)
• The town and citadel on the summit of Cape Diamond which Champlain had founded and Frontenac guarded so well, seemed to laugh at cannon and bayonet. (19)
• 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)

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