9 Metaphors for cannon

Truly those cannons are a wonderful, a refined invention! LXII.

" "But Mr. Cannon isn't a foreigner?"

George Cannon was not a journalist; he could compose a letter, but he had not the trick of composing an article.

He had set Hilda on her feet; and he was doing the same for his half-sister, and with such skilful diplomacy that Miss Gailey was able to pretend to herself and to others that George Cannon, and not Sarah Gailey, was the obliged person.

"The cannon of yesterday was no target practice," thought I. The men all seemed so hopeful, though, that we never felt a qualm.

Only yesterday George Cannon had been a strange, formidable man, indefinitely older and infinitely cleverer than she.

She had only come downstairs in response to her mother's direct summons, and instantly on seeing her she had known that Mr. Cannon was not a traitor.

A cannon that breaks its moorings suddenly becomes some strange, supernatural beast.

One day, a fortnight earlier, while George Cannon, in company with her, was bargaining for an old London Directory outside a bookseller's shop in East Street, she had seen Cranswick's History of Printing (labelled "published at £1 1s., our price 6s.

9 Metaphors for  cannon