Word: cannoneer
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...Carlist revolution the churches of the Spanish provinces were called upon to contribute their bells for the founding of cannon. The fate of the melodious chimes of Bilbao, famous even in that country of bells, is the subject of the poem...
...annoying, the stupid explosion of gunpowder in different forms. Work on examinations and late hours set the nerves of all of us on the stretch, and interruptions such as the above, although at other times harmless, become horribly annoying. Blue lights are very pretty, and bonfires mildly exciting, but cannon-crackers are neither...
...lookin' occasionally at the redcoats thro' a small spyglass, occasionally a stampin' of his foot and a kickin' of his unoffendin' 'oss, vich had nothink for to do with his defeat! In the foreground you vill hobserve the Duky Vellinkton a valkin' amid the cannon-balls, him not carin' one straw for the smell of powder or the flying bullets, a wavin' of his 'at and a laffin' at the French soldiers, vich makes them pecooliarly morbid, - a big word, meaning sick at the stomach! SCENE NO. 5: The Gorilla, 'Ippopotamus, and Dodo, bein' the most wonderful specimens of beast...
...Freshman Class numbered seven thousand fighting men, each of whom was armed with a Wiard rifled cannon, loaded with five hundred kegs of carving-knives, and one thousand barrels of dualin...
Above, the cannon's snowy breath...