21 adjectives to describe bayonet

He writhed off the bloody bayonet, falling toward Dorn, showing a white face that changed as he fell, with quiver of torture and dying eyes.

Sudden bayonets.

Louis XVIII has been hustled into Paris, and now occupies the throne of his ancestors under the protection of a million of foreign bayonets, and the bannière des Lis has replaced the tricolor on the castle of the Tuileries.

Some of the French fought with unfixed bayonets, like the stabbing swords of the Roman legions.

They feinted, swung, and cracked their guns together, then locked bayonets.

The risks were great, a big force would create suspicion, a small force must rely upon something more than mere bayonets for its safety.

Then, in the town house of the Prince de Caraman-Chimay just alongside, the double doors opened, and the light streaming out fell upon the naked bayonets over the shoulders of the sentries and made them look like slanting lines of rain.

The Russian Tommies looked quite smart, and except for their long, narrow, triangular bayonets, might easily have been mistaken for English troops.

Two roughly clad natives walked between the lines of bared bayonets.

It is only occasionallywhen ground down beyond endurance by the rent-racking classes above him, or threatened beyond endurance by an enemy from abroad, that he turns his reaping-hook into a sword and his muck-fork into a three-pronged bayonet, exchanges his fowling-piece for a rifle, and fights savagely for his home and his bit of a field.

The youth died and slid back off the rigid bayonet.

Rusty bayonets will be turned up by their plowshares; strange coins, as puzzling as some of those of Roman times that we in Britain have found, will puzzle them.

amidst the willow boughs The serried bayonets gleam; They've flung their bridgethey've won the isle; The foe have crossed the stream!

He longed to live, to have a hundredfold his strength and fury, to be gifted with a genius for time and place and bloody deed, to have the war-gods set him a thousand opportunities, to beat with iron mace and cut with sharp bayonet and rend with hard handto kill and kill and kill the hideous thing that was German.

There was an awe, and a thrill of satisfaction in his heart as he looked at his stained bayonet, but, as he suddenly recognized with a tremendous joy, not the faintest sensation of being afraid.

The blade more resembled the triangular bayonet.

Fix and unfix bayonet are executed, with promptness and regularity but not in cadence.

On the Place de la Bourse a great crowd discusses, and gesticulates around the piled bayonets which glitter in the sun.

The idea that they preferred their own way of life and their own religion, that they would not embrace civilization till they were forced to do so at the point of benevolent bayonets, never entered his head.

" The red sunshine struck the three-cornered bastions of the rectangular fort; a distant bayonet caught the light and twinkled above the stockaded ditch like a slender point of flame.

Some think that the return to nature is achieved by beating swords into ploughshares; some think it is achieved by turning ploughshares into very ineffectual British War Office bayonets.

21 adjectives to describe  bayonet