"Cannonball" Quotes from Famous Books
... more hesitation, and a cannonball, the first which the Imperialists had fired, at that moment crashed into a house hard by, and ... — The Lion of the North • G.A. Henty
... English gunners had been equally careless, Mir Madan ordered his horse to charge; but the Englishmen had kept their powder dry and received the cavalry with a deadly fire that sent them headlong back. At this moment Mir Madan himself was killed by a cannonball, and his followers, dismayed at his loss, began a ... — In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang |