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Meanings of single gun in English

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Usage of single gun in English
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Five days later every single gun in the Island Battery was dumb.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
2
At Montretout it was impossible to get a single gun into position.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris
3
The only thing left, the story goes, was a single gun.
News.com.au
4
Our first intention was to load and fire a single gun.
The Story of a Bad Boy
5
At seven o'clock, the Alexandra began the engagement by firing a single gun.
With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
6
There was not a single gun fired from beneath her eyelids.
The Last Chronicle of Barset
7
Jason searched the man; there was a single gun strapped to his chest.
The bourne identity
8
They did not break a single square, nor permanently disable a single gun.
Deeds that Won the Empire / Historic Battle Scenes
9
The Allies retreated in perfect order, and without the loss of a single gun.
A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
10
Far off a single gun spoke into the subsiding sky.
The Young Lions
11
She had a single gun mounted in her bow, and one or two amidships.
The Boy Allies with Uncle Sam's Cruisers
12
As he spoke, the enemy rushed upon the single gun.
Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
13
The last time, the shots had sounded like rapid fire from a single gun.
Funland
14
The bitter humiliation to be here, master of a fortress without one single gun!
Major Vigoureux
15
Had we a single gun how different it would be!
Indiscreet Letters From Peking / Being the Notes of an Eye-Witne...
16
Molins said the bullets had "most likely" been fired from a single gun.
Reuters
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