62 adjectives to describe cannons

As we walked along we thought we heard peals of thunder; but, after listening more attentively, we found they were the sound of distant cannon repeated by the echoes.

They implored the General for mercy, and, finding it hopeless, began to reproach their comrades; but no one dared to strike a blow in the presence of loaded cannon and rifles.

There was a crowd of little black cannon on deck and looking out of her port-holes, and she was anchored at each end to the hard ground.

Meanwhile, on that same day, to change the scene of the campaign two hundred and ten leagues, 'a distance,' as Humboldt says, 'equal to that between Vesuvius and Paris,' 'the inhabitants, not only of Caraccas, but of Calabozo, situate in the midst of the Llanos, over a space of four thousand square leagues, were terrified by a subterranean noise, which resembled frequent discharges of the loudest cannon.

The white lambs are looking, with their soft, meek eyes, into the grass-choked mouths of the rusty and dismantled cannon of the war of nationalities between England and Scotland.

In one reach, a "war-junk," her sails furled, lay at anchor, the red and white eyes staring fish-like from her black prow: a silly monster, the painted tompions of her wooden cannon aiming drunkenly askew, her crew's wash fluttering peacefully in a line of blue dungaree.

He may chance to be killed with a double cannon before he come home again.

That vessel met them with a broadside which sank four at once, and the other two were riddled by shell from Hotchkiss revolving cannon from the decks of the Spaniard; their machinery was crippled, and they drifted helplessly out to sea.

This vessel is considered invulnerable by balls discharged from rifled cannon at the distance of four hundred yards.

In that list the saker is described as a light cannon of only 5-1/2 pound ball, now looked upon as one of very small importance; we may therefore conclude that the other cannon used on the present occasion could hardly exceed falcouns, or two-pounders.

All night long the great guns played upon the fort without any serious effect, occasionally answered by the solitary six-pound cannon of the garrison, which was rapidly shifted from one block house to another, to give the impression that the fort was armed with several guns.

The wrecking of Antwerp's outer and inner forts in ten days proves that solid, massive concrete, chilled steel and well-planned earthworks afford little or no security against the monstrous cannon of the Kaiser's armies.

How much more pleasant is the sound of the woodman's axe, than that of the booming cannon!

We will put more of these logs at the portholes where they can be made to counterfeit cannon.

For some time there was a continuous rattle of musketry, with rapid detonations of deeper-mouthed cannon,at each roar shaking our suspended hearts,for we knew that our own men were using small arms only.

The Mir mounts a few primitive, muzzle-loading cannon, and the citadel is garrisoned by a thousand men, chiefly Afghans, deserters from Cábul, Kandahár, and other parts of the Ameer's dominions.

Numerous cannon, standards and prisonersamong the latter several generalswere captured.

Jap taking picture of obsolete cannon in front of statute [i.e. statue] (In The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 1941)

The torrent flows on each side, as if shot out from a gigantic cannon, fall after fall: we look out over them all, and are filled with the harmonic sound, which since time began, has ever been the same.

Our cannon, almost all old-fashioned and of short range, are at once dismounted by the fearful and exact aim of the Prussians.

I shall not attempt to do thisheaven preserve Americans from being judged by their musical comedies !and doubtless the children even of our most devoted advocates of universal peace have played with lead cannon and toy soldiers.

Half an hour or so afterwards the blowing of trumpets and the thunder of the new leathern cannon announced that the Princess and her train were entering the palace.

You can reason with a bulldog, astonish a bull, fascinate a boa, frighten a tiger, tame a lion; but you have no resource against this monster, a loose cannon.

The true epoch of the use of metallic cannon cannot be ascertained; it is certain, however, that they were in use about the middle of the 14th century.

He had a foundry, where he cast miniature cannon, kettles and curious things, and his rifle-practice was a neighborhood wonder.

62 adjectives to describe  cannons