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"Volley" Quotes from Famous Books

... a volley; Lieutenant Wormwood was killed instantly, while Jacob's father was so seriously wounded that he fell from his horse, and, a few seconds later, found himself a ...

— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis

... Prince Rupert falls back into the lane a little, to lead the other forces into his ambush of dragoons. These tactics do not come naturally to him, however; nor does he like the practice of the time, that two bodies of cavalry should ride up within pistol-shot of each other, and exchange a volley before they charge. He rather anticipates, in his style of operations, the famous order of Frederick the Great: "The King hereby forbids all officers of cavalry, on pain of being broke with ignominy, ever to allow ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

... upon which the brig rocked and swayed heavily while her lofty trucks described wide arcs across the paling sky overhead, from which the stars were vanishing one after another before the advance of the pallid dawn. And at every lee roll her canvas flapped with a rattle as of a volley of musketry to the masts, sending down a smart shower from the dew-saturated cloths upon the deck, to fill again with the report of a nine-pounder and a great slatting of sheets and blocks as the ship recovered herself and rolled ...

— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood

... us," she laughed. "Two of the fishermen from Wells sailed in a little too close to the shed yesterday and the soldiers fired a volley at them." ...

— The Kingdom of the Blind • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... that side," said the policeman, while Mr. Filer discharged at the door a volley of sharp knocks, at the same ...

— The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) • Henry James

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