"Maxim gun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Turk since the last Crusade received an Anglo-Saxon bayonet in him at 5 minutes after 5 a.m. on April 25th. It was over in a minute. The Turks in this first trench were bayoneted or ran away, and a Maxim gun ...
— A Source Book Of Australian History • Compiled by Gwendolen H. Swinburne
... The deck and mast were conductors which magnified every sound and made the tap-tap of every rope's end resemble the blows of a hammer, and the slapping of the halyards against the mast the rattle of a Maxim gun. The whole tumult beat time to a rhythmical chorus which ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers |
