Significats de bristle with cannon en anglès

The ridges confronted one another, bristling with cannon but the armies were motionless.

This work rose above the water level, and in former times bristled with cannon.

A redoubt, held by the famous Guards, bristling with cannon, covered the French position.

A long blue line, bristling with cannon on either flank, appeared across the fields.

The half moon, whose existence they had not suspected, rose before them bristling with cannon.

The bank of the river, for miles a high craggy wall, bristled with cannon at every landing-place.

The harbor was crowded with European ships bristling with cannons and flying Christian banners from every spar.

That formidable stronghold bristled with cannon, which could be trained on any part of the advancing army.

When Dick beheld this formidable position bristling with cannon, rifles and bayonets, his heart sank within him.

Fort San Carlos, in spite of the fact that it bristled with cannon, seemed like an abandoned castle.

It was a foolhardy attempt, for the hill was strongly held, the summit of it bristled with cannon.

A large force of marines was on shore, and the hills commanding the city and harbour were bristling with cannon.

This was surrounded by high and very strong walls, bristling with cannon; and with strong circular bastions at each corner.

She pointed to the animal with one hand, to the gaunt pile of stone that bristled with cannon with the other.

Her ports bristled with cannon, her marines wore formidable cutlasses, and the law on board was military in the strictest sense.

The vast pile, reared of stone, was situated thirty-six miles from Moscow, and was encompassed with deep ditches, and massive ramparts bristling with cannon.