| A desultory cannonade began at about 14.00, and as it seemed likely that there would be no battle that day Newcastle retired to his coach. |
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| Melba's initial trill possessed the ballistic force of a cannonade. |
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| What we need is a cannonade to knock out whoever might be there. |
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| Three times the German armor attempted to break through, but, as more battalions of American artillery joined the cannonade, the enemy at last gave way. |
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| In the 2000 ceremony, to make up for lost time, the Church created 860 additional saints, making this by far the biggest cannonade of saints ever set off in Russia. |
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| Enjoyment will depend on how you get on with the voice and its hooting cannonade of mannerisms. |
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| Osborne's cannonade was aimed at the body politic as well as at the people around him. |
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| The French cannonade was intense and continued for days, pausing only long enough to let the gun barrels cool and the artillery crews rest. |
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| The cannonade from the fleets was so violent that people along the west coast of Jutland were prevented from sleeping during the whole night, and foregathered on the beach. |
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| Opal laughed again and let loose a cannonade of bullets, all steel-tipped for the armor of the truck, and stood his ground as the truck continued to slew towards him. |
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| A Scottish army crossed the border in August and the king's troops panicked before a cannonade at Newburn. |
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| So let the Tea people keep launching their cannonade, and let the establishment overrate Christie. |
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| Brown intends to put this right in his budget speech next week, however, when he will launch a cannonade against what their cuts in services would mean. |
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| None of them were present at the famous cannonade, but their main forces were certainly caught up in the rain-soaked and disease-ravaged retreat which followed. |
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| A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle of batteries on the devoted town. |
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| That may sound like just another cannonade from Rudy Giuliani in the mayor's bitter new battle to wrest control of New York's schools from Rudy Crew, the schools chancellor. |
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| Despite a cannonade from British men-of-war in the harbour and from a battery across the river in north Boston, the colonists continued to strengthen their position. |
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| From 1:00 to 3:00 PM a cannonade boomed across the New Jersey farmland. |
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| The Manchus arrived on July 18, 1686 and began a tight siege and a steady cannonade. |
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| The French directed a cannonade at the British for three hours. |
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