Shakespeare ("Henry VIII.," v. 4), alluding to the custom, says: "'Tis as much impossible, Unless we sweep them from the doors with cannons, To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep On May Day morning.

The Trumpet to the Cannoneer without, The Cannons to the Heauens, the Heauen to Earth, Now the King drinkes to Hamlet.

Thence our captain led us to the Cassanabah, a huge, heavy, square, brick building, surrounded by high, massive walls and defended by a hundred pieces of ordnance, cannons, and mortars, all told.

It put me in mind of the firing of cannons as an accompaniment to the Anvil Chorus.

I hear the cannons roa'" Interviewer:

He had heard of such warnings, but had he not left her in safety behind cannons and stockades?

Whirled by the cannons' rage, in shivers torn, His thighs far scattered o'er the waves are borne; Bound to the mast the godlike hero stands, Waves his proud sword and cheers his woeful hands: Tho' winds and seas their wonted aid deny, To yield he knows not; but he knows to die.

We have cannons employed by Cymosco king of Friza (bk. iv.), and also in the siege of Paris (bk. vi.).

The cannons roar from shore to shore, The small arms make a rattle; Since wars began, I'm sure no man E'er saw so strange a battle.

Their laser cannons were rapidly destroying the outlying parts of the mining base.

Joe looked out the window again and saw that laser cannons had begun to destroy the ships.

After a few days Skeffington's cannons made a formidable breach in the walls.

Sarsfield accordingly slipped out of the town under cover of night, fell upon it while it was on its way through the Silvermine Hills in Tipperary, killed some sixty of the men who were in charge, and filling the cannons with powder, burst them with an explosion which startled the country round for miles, and the roar of which is said to have reached William in his camp before Limerick.

The pagoda was in flames, the disconsolate Brahmins were still wandering round about their temple; the general took them for spies, and had them tied to the cannons' mouths.

The Czar of all the Russias, he is strong, with so many bayonets, Cossacks and cannons; and does a great feat in keeping such a tract of Earth politically together; but he cannot yet speak.

His cannons and Cossacks will all have rusted into nonentity, while that Dante's voice is still audible.

I should, however, propose, while our Ammunition lasted, that instead of Tartary, we should always keep two or three Cannons ready pointed towards the Cape of Good Hope, in order to shoot our Unbelievers into the Country of the Hottentots.

When heavy cannons, carrying balls of twenty-four pounds, are raised from their carriages, one may imagine what would become of a ship which has no other point of support than an unsteady sea?

Let him be wakened by the cannons' thunder!

We fancy that the endless debate, emphasized by the crime and by the cannons of this war, has brought the Free States to some conviction that it can never go well with us whilst this mischief of Slavery remains in our politics, and that by concert or by might we must put an end to it.

" 'Tis as much impossible, Unless we sweep 'em from the doors with cannons To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep On May-day Morning.

Then the joy of gallopading with a helmet and a sword, While the thunder of your cannons wakes the echoes from afar.

But then there was such a thundering and cracking noise, just as if it were cannons.

These priests were dressed in long black mantles like sheets, hanging down to the ground, with hoods hanging on their shoulders like our cannons, and other smaller hoods resembling those of our Dominican friars.

Sooner than become the latter, he had better retire to the billiard-room and practise cannons by himself, or pretend an engagement and walk about the neighbourhood.