114 examples of fusillades in sentences

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

And in truth, if we can believe what has since transpired through the quarrels of accomplices, it appears that in the event of a sudden attack being made by us upon Mazas to deliver them, a fusillade had been resolved upon, and that St. Arnaud had in his pocket the written order, signed "Louis Bonaparte.

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

This extermination, which an English witness, Captain William Jesse, calls "a wanton fusillade," lasted from two till five o'clock.

The massacre seemed to be at an end; the fusillades were heard no longer.

They could hear distant fusillades.

The flashing of the fusillades suddenly delineated in the darkness the outlines of the houses, which appeared as though they themselves were affrighted.

The fusillades at the Prefecture took place sometimes in the courtyard, sometimes in the Rue de Jérusalem.

Esquiros, hidden in the Gros-Caillou, heard the fusillades on the Champ de Mars every night.

The shots did not come in a fusillade.

Both heard the fusillade and saw Mocka streak of flying bluepass within a few feet of them.

A terrible anxiety had just taken possession of me; it, seemed as if the sound of the fusillade was approaching, and I thought with terror that our army was perhaps retreating, and that in its flight it would descend to the plain and pass over my body.

She will, assist you in your work" The sound of the fusillade had gone farther away.

What is this fusillade?

For a moment the Japs were completely off their guard, but they soon recovered, and dropping flat in the grass, they opened a brisk fusillade.

The Spaniards, from their advantageous position in the block-house and trenches on the hill top, had located the American forces in the bushes and opened a fusillade upon them.

If you could only see me mornings, in a circle of cackling feathers, throwing fusillades of corn about to keep the roosters away.

See "Mitraillades, Fusillades," a recriminating pamphlet, addressed by Tallien to Collot d'Herbois.

Carrier superintended the fusillades and noyades at Nantes, while Lequinio dispatched with his own hands a part of the prisoners taken at La Fontenay, and projected the destruction of the rest.

See "Mitraillades, Fusillades," a recriminating pamphlet, addressed by Tallien to Collot d'Herbois.

Carrier superintended the fusillades and noyades at Nantes, while Lequinio dispatched with his own hands a part of the prisoners taken at La Fontenay, and projected the destruction of the rest.

Now southern sportsmen were hiring up "the shooting" for many miles on both sides of the line, making the hills and glens echo with their fusillades.

The abolition of rotten boroughs brought down a thousand ominous references to noyades, fusillades, and guillotines.

He burns homesteads and villages, fusillades men and women, and makes the war a war without quarter or grace.

Then he pushed the button communicating with the cabin wherein Rrisa was still quivering as a result of having heard the fusillades and the terrific tumultunseen though they had been to himat Mecca.

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