A solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon.
1Path of cannon ball; weight of fish in water; hitting distant mark.
2A well-directed cannon ball carried away the hinder half, of his horse.
3Suppose a cannon ball of sufficient weight and speed strikes an object.
4The air's resistance is such that a cannon ball of 3 lbs.
5Wolfe's cane was knocked out of his hand by a cannon ball.
6He was killed by a cannon ball-struckin the breast before our regiment.
7This cannon ball is not a memorial of the Civil War.
8Augustus was struck by a cannon ball, and died in a few minutes.
9Another cannon ball flew through the air and struck a tree near by.
10A cannon ball struck the ground quite near to a company of soldiers.
11My heart began suddenly to feel like a cannon ball, in my breast.
12Suddenly a cannon ball hissed so low above the crowd that everyone ducked.
13Terence tossed me a loaf the size of a cannon ball, and another.
14The palisade will afford but trifling resistance to a twelve pound cannon ball.
15Some of its statements tear away old fallacies as by a cannon ball.
16A cannon ball, too, would only fly a few yards, said Lieutenant Procope.
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