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I just remember Cortez ordering his cannon to fire and the Spaniards marching around the bloodstained teocallis and little else.
Our cannon, baggage and sick, were drawn by Mexican oxen, in Mexican carts.
Over 80 police and soldiers used truncheons, tear gas and a water cannon on protestors, including women and children.
When police moved against the crowd they gave only two minutes warning before using water cannon and tear gas.
There he made the first brass cannon in the United States, and in 1839 he produced the first babbitt metal, for use in steam engines.
The Achinese installed his son as Sultan Muzaffah Shah and he rebuilt Kota Batu, ringing its walls with cannon.
Her comrades were much broader in size, both carrying enormous cannon weapons that dragged along the ground behind them as they marched on.
We've also requisitioned every watt of power within the city to power the positron cannon.
Security forces fired water cannon and tear gas at protesters after ralliers refused to halt a demonstration in front of parliament.
The front launcher was recently changed from a missile launcher to a twin laser cannon.
Crooked fingers of lightning nearly lit the sky afire, and the thunder crackled like shots from a cannon.
The Indians attacked again at dusk, but they were held off by rifle and cannon fire.
It is armed with new powerful air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, a cannon, and an increased weapon payload.
It is armed with new powerful air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles, an off-axis cannon, and an increased weapon payload.
The distant sound of automatic cannon fire could be heard, and then there was a tremendous explosion above them.
The redcoats fell as they ran, musket fire and cannon booms sweeping out the men successfully.
To the west the clouds appeared black and rolls of thunder boomed like familiar cannon fire while lightning lanced the empty ground.
Miss Potential, who suffered a broken cannon bone last year, crossed the line last, and was found to be lame in the left foreleg.
Machine shops for the Georgia Railroad turned out cannon weighing between 600 and 800 pounds each.
It feels like a cannon ball has just slammed into my stomach and my guts are all strewn over the place.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He thought of George as clay to the hand of a sergeant, not as cannon fodder.
This cannon is a duplicate of the one used for the ballistic pendulum, details of which have already been given.
The Duke of Montebello had the honor of receiving him at Bromberg amid a salute of twenty-one cannon.
A strong guard was placed all around, and a charge of cannister put in the cannon.
Christina is a soldier's daughter, and must learn to bear the noise of cannon.
And the thunder of galloping hoofs was more menacing than that of the cannon.
Cannot one hear the skirl of the pipes amid that din of cannon and musketry?
The cannon bone extends from the knee or hock to the fetlock, is cylindrical in shape, and stands nearly or quite perpendicular.
The hind-limbs are provided with a cannon bone, while the metacarpals of the fore-feet are still free.
As a general rule the third and fourth metacarpals and metatarsals become united to form a cannon bone.
The suspensory ligament is the fibrous cord which lies between the cannon bone and the back tendons.
England utilizes the refuse of her domestic establishment as cannon fodder.
Soviet communism is trying to make these nations into colonies, and to use their people as cannon fodder in new wars of conquest.
A moulding formerly round a cannon, at a little distance from its breech, the cascabel, and another near the muzzle.
The thing was chinless, and its small, foreheadless head surrounded its colossal body like a cannon ball on a hill top.
The Spanish cannon, also mounted on the clumsiest carriages, are placed in battery.
A bald black head round like a cannon ball, devil a bit of nose but only a pair of slits like a common seal.
Here also was a fort with its cannon, with a Dayak or Malay sergeant and a dozen men in charge.
The debarkation of the troops will be covered by the cannon of the vessels.
Here we had planted the greatest continuous row of cannon I ever saw set for work in a battle.
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