Word: volleyings
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Wrathful, beside themselves, the officers summoned the Assen Barracks Guard, ordered an admonitory volley fired in the air above the mutineers. They, heedless, continued their potations. The guard trained their rifles lower, fired, killed a non-commissioned officer who had taken no part in the mutiny, sobered the mutineers into obedience...
...singles, sweeping past Howard Kinsey. Paired with Richards, Kinsey lost the doubles to Jacques Brugnon and Henri Coehet, champion of France, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 2-6. Richards played very badly. Both he and Kinsey showed a tendency, indeed, a habit, to serve double faults and to volley from the service line...
Last week "Frau von Tschaikovski," who has been suffering from a well nigh complete nervous breakdown, was reported to be nearing convalescence. She declared that she lost consciousness after the volley which killed her family and wounded her, and awoke to find herself jolting along in the peasant cart of one Tschaikovski, a Red guard, who later told her that he was a member of the firing squad but had subsequently covered her with a pile of rags, while the corpses of the murdered Romanoffs were dragged away to be destroyed by acid...
...story goes on say the rioters braced up at this point and it seemed as though the play might go on when, "out from the boxes suddenly flew a volley of lemons. The players in danger ducked opportunely and the missals either flattened themselves against the wings or rolled harmlessly alone the floor of the stage...
...Volley firing presently skirmish firing with lemous and cases individually aimed without much regard to joint effect...