The only casualties of the day were six Americans who were killed when their own cannon blew up.
As it drops, bellies shake, tonsils quiver, and four paper cannons blow.
Bonaigua, too, has its own character: No snow cannons blow here, and fewer people make the trek to reach its slopes.
The record rallies with its shortest, fastest song, "Jump," beginning on three cannon-blow hits of the snare drum and ending with 23 repeats of the melody's final phrase and a final period.
Two artillerymen close to the cannon were blown to pieces.
There was fear that the ship's cannons might blow out the windows, but we crammed into those tall, thin windowsills to watch.
d) Strap natives to cannons and blow their guts out.
And so Tibira was strapped in front of a cannon and blown to pieces.
In retaliation, the Egyptians used their two cannons and blew up the tower.
When he learned that a comparatively large British force was moving in his direction, he spiked the fort's cannons and blew up its main bastion in order to deny their use to the superior force.
Or this, when the original castle was besieged by the forces of Queen Elizabeth I in 1600: …Sir George Carew, the Lord President of Munster, captured the Knight's six-year-old son and, tying the child to the mouth of a cannon, threatened to blow him to bits if the Knight did not surrender.
