Which preposition to use with bayonet

of Occurrences 34%

Down the road and over the ditch, through the field and hedge and swamp, in tumult and panic the Mexicans are flying from the bayonets of the Sixth and Garland's brigade.

in Occurrences 27%

Citizens reminded each other, that when, during the rebellion, a certain PENDRAGON of the celebrated Southern Confederacy met a former religious chattel of his confronting him with a bayonet in the loyal ranks, and immediately afterwards felt a cold, tickling sensation under one of his ribs, he drew a pistol upon the member of the injured race, who subsequently died in Ohio of fever and ague.

at Occurrences 25%

Again I looked up, and I saw the gleam of two more bayonets at the other end of the bridge.

into Occurrences 19%

Rammed their bayonets into my armsmy backmy sideand there

with Occurrences 12%

Even as Dorn crossed bayonets with this inspired Frenchman he heard a soldier comrade say that Delorme had let daylight through fourteen boches in that memorable victory of the Marne.

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" Of the deadly work beneath that pall of smoke, as steel met steel and the new soldiers of Britain fleshed their bayonets for the first time, and fell by the thousand under the murderous fire of machine-guns, history will tell the tale long after the survivors have ceased to recount the deeds of the day to their grandchildren wherever the English tongue is spoken.

on Occurrences 11%

I put a soldier with fixed bayonet on the footplate to see that the driver held to his post and did not play tricks with the train, and started on our journey.

to Occurrences 11%

He explained that the losses on the German side were light because the trenches were well constructed and because there had been no hand-to-hand, bayonet to bayonet fighting.

against Occurrences 10%

It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers in the last war, when he told them:"Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggling, and deaththe chill of the cold night, the open air, and the burning sunno lodgings, no munitions, no provisionsbut forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and continual struggling with bayonets against batteries.

from Occurrences 8%

General Pollak M'Call decided to assault the village with the bulk of his brigade, and seizing a rifle and bayonet from a wounded man, led the charge himself, took the village, and gradually cleared the enemy out of the cactus-enclosed gardens.

through Occurrences 6%

Then a soldier with the utmost coolness sent his bayonet through the heart of the helpless creature.

under Occurrences 3%

Here, sit on the cot, so that I may slip this bayonet under the blanket.

without Occurrences 2%

The enemy's casualties amounted to upwards of 300, and they left many wounded on the ground, who were shot and bayoneted without mercy.

over Occurrences 2%

How easily, Dorn thought, could this soldier slip the bright bayonet over his guard and pierce him from breast to back!

than Occurrences 1%

"They're telling us they don't like the sight of our kilts, Harry, and that a Hun's got less stomach for the cold steel of a bayonet than for anything else on earth.

out Occurrences 1%

All his volunteers and regulars were expert in its use, and with his usual ingenuity he had trained several of his loyalist companies in a similar manner, improvising bayonets out of their hunting-knives.

like Occurrences 1%

As she talked to two young Tommies they blushed and fiddled with their bayonets like girls with their first bouquets of flowers.

toward Occurrences 1%

From such an eyrie in the same grove, perhaps from this same tree, a Southern friend of mine, on the battle-day, caught sight more than two leagues away of the glint of sunlight on cannon and bayonets toward Sudley Springs, and sent timely notice to Beauregard that a Federal column was turning his left.

towards Occurrences 1%

Not knowing where to fly, he was for going back into the prison; but a body of Vengeurs de Lutèce, in full flight, drove him before their bayonets towards the Pont-au-Change.

between Occurrences 1%

I would prefer any day anarchy and chaos in India to an armed peace brought about by the bayonet between the Hindus and Mussalmans.

until Occurrences 1%

The attack quickly drops the point of his bayonet until clear of his opponent's rifle and describes a semicircle with it upward and to the left and engages.

up Occurrences 1%

Here, also, was a German charge with bayonets up a steep and well-defended height; and after that a hand-to-hand melee with the French defenders on the poll of the hill.

whichwith Occurrences 1%

Roy finished his food, brushed the crumbs from his tunic, and taking the bayonet whichwith the automatic pistol captured from Kempwere the only weapons they had, walked off along the ledge.

before Occurrences 1%

Some soldiers crossed their bayonets before the unarmed prisoner, three sergents de ville pushed him into a fiacre, and a sub-lieutenant approaching the carriage, and looking in the face of the man who, if he were a citizen, was his Representative, and if he were a soldier was his general, flung this abominable word at him, "Canaille!"

within Occurrences 1%

But the pistol hand might evade his grasp, and there would be brief time to struggle for it with those bayonets within arm's length.

Which preposition to use with  bayonet