Sentence examples for cannon pointing from inspiring English sources

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This was dropped after the move to Highbury in 1913, only to be reinstated in 1922, when the club adopted a crest featuring a single cannon, pointing eastwards, with the club's nickname, The Gunners, inscribed alongside it; this crest only lasted until 1925, when the cannon was reversed to point westward and its barrel slimmed down.

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Craig Harper, who was at the match with his 17-year-old son, said the group of Hull City fans were met by a "cordon of riot police with water cannon pointed at us with dogs".

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Columns of heavily armed trucks roll through town, the business ends of their cannons pointing at the populace.

Like almost all visitors, we started at El Morro, the great fortress with its cannons pointing out to sea.

Several tanks were stationed there, their cannons pointing in the direction of the crowd, but, as Sherif watched, the tanks turned their turrets — it seemed, he said, to happen in slow motion — so that the cannons were pointing at the palace.

And two and a half hours beyond sits the former Danish port town of Tranquebar, its yellow fort blending into the sand, its rusty cannons pointing at the ocean.

Several tanks were stationed there, their cannons pointing in the direction of the crowd, but, as Sherif watched, the tanks turned their turrets it seemed, he said, to happen in slow motion so that the cannons were pointing at the palace.

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