Sentence example with the word 'volleys'

volleys

Last update: June 29, 2015


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The steady volleys of Kempts light infantry were fatal to the French, who fell back in disorder under a bayonet charge of the victors, with the loss of some 2700 men.   [Please select]

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Now the Mexicans pressed closer, firing heavy volleys.   [Please select]

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A wild confusion followed, the enemy advancing, until the American regiments charged them in face of their volleys.   [Please select]

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Perhaps they were broken automobiles, or artillery carriages destroyed by the force of their volleys.   [Please select]

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Another minute fled away, and the island was close ahead, wrapped in the roar and the mist-volleys.   [Please select]

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But they did not care to go far, and soon stopped, again firing volleys and hallooing.   [Please select]

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The volleys from the Mexicans ceased, and silence came again in the woods.   [Please select]

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Some of the distant echoes, coming in after the others were exhausted, gave an odd, dropping character to the volleys of sound.   [Please select]

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When he spoke it was in quick, short volleys, in a voice that seemed to come from the depths of a megaphone.   [Please select]

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The two volleys fired at close range had mowed them down like grain.   [Please select]

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The air was full of cracklings and hissings--an inarticulate background to murderous yells, terrified screams, horrors without end; but no more volleys came to tell of retribution.   [Please select]

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