More than one of Harry's informants described the action to the poor lad,the passage of the river, the long line of advance through the wilderness, the firing in front, the vain struggle of the men to advance, and the artillery to clear the way of the enemy; then the ambushed fire from behind every bush and tree, and the murderous fusillade, by which at least half of the expeditionary force had been shot down.

This battalion, hurled on the barricade at the double, was received by a brisk fusillade; several soldiers were wounded.

This action immediately brought upon the standard bearer and the prince a violent fusillade.

They could hear distant fusillades.

Onistah built a fire of poplar, which presently crackled like a battle front and shot red-hot coals at them in an irregular fusillade.

From somewhere in another direction came a sharp, continual, crackling fusillade, like the snapping of dry bamboo-joints in a fire.

In the still twilight, far away through the steady fusillade from the outposts, he heard the dull boom-booming of cannon, and the heavy shocks of the great guns aboard the Union gun-boats.

His present assignment as rear-end brakeman on a passenger train places him in the observation car, where he is the target for an almost unceasing fusillade of questions from tourists who insist upon having the name, and, if possible, the history, of all the mountain cañons and points of interest along the route.

In front, Commissionnaires are busy loading rifles for keen sportsmen, who keep up a lively but somewhat ineffective fusillade.

As the match, with a miniature fusillade of sharp reports, burst suddenly into flame, the nine startled heads instantly disappeared, and from beyond the curtain we could hear a chorus of long-drawn "tye-e-e's" from the astonished natives, followed by a perfect Babel of animated comments upon this diabolical method of producing fire.

Early in the evening a regiment on our right broke into a busy fusillade at some fancied movement of the enemy.

From the stair platform came a rapid fusillade of rifle shots that sang through the air above Howland's head, and mingled with the fire was a hoarse voice urging on the cur that followed within a leap of his heels.

He whispered to me, "You will bring about a useless fusillade.

but it was not a bomb, only part of the absurd fusillade that now began.

When he came sailing back the three victorious commanders paraded all their men and fired off many straggling fusillades of joy.

Five seconds more and they were sending a terrific fusillade of shots into the edge of the cedarsten in alland by the time he had reloaded his own gun Rod could see nothing to shoot at.

From somewhere in another direction came a sharp, continual, crackling fusillade, like the snapping of dry bamboo-joints in a fire.

That night we were fired on from all sides, and for eight weeks we were exposed to a daily fusillade from an enemy that counted more on reducing us by starvation than on carrying our defences by storm.

Conches brayed somewhere, followed by an unaccountable, sputtering fusillade as of tiny muskets, and then by a formidable silence.

In a few seconds there was a furious fusillade, accompanied by the rattle of machine guns.