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Meanings of grapeshot in English
Usage of grapeshot in English
1
Had they raked the ravines with grapeshot the day might have been saved.
2
The Zaporozhtzi attacked the wall fiercely, but were met with a shower of grapeshot.
3
Suddenly they burst forth, vomiting a deluge of grapeshot and canister upon the Austrians.
4
The literary critics John Carey and George Steiner added a whiff of Oxbridge grapeshot.
5
The grapeshot tore through it, and twenty-two of the English troops fell dead and wounded.
6
Smoke appeared again but at irregular intervals, and grapeshot cracked and rattled onto the bridge.
7
How much more suitable was grapeshot than the beatitudes.
8
Twice they noticed the French appearing below them, and then they fired grapeshot at them.
9
They pock the sledge like grapeshot, they ricochet and ring in the air like faery-bells.
10
Specters volleyed out, followed within moments by hell-lance fire and grapeshot as the two forces clashed.
11
I say we have now fired enough grapeshot.
12
The said Nikola then exclaimed, 'Curse the bloodthirsty hounds,' and fired the grapeshot into the boat.
13
They kept on, as Pickett's men did when the Federal guns riddled their ranks with grapeshot.
14
The hussars will get it hot!" said Nesvítski; "they are within grapeshot range now."
15
What a difference a whiff of grapeshot makes!
16
He thought of the dying man aboard the dismasted dhow, wounded in the stomach by grapeshot.
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