Sentence examples for grape shot from inspiring English sources

Small iron balls called grape shot, meant to be shot out of cannons, were found in the posthole of a plantation house discovered in the British Virgin Islands.

Ball, canister, and grape shot took a terrible toll of Union men," he remembered.

A witness, Toll tells us, compared the combined effect of the English grape shot, canister shot and musketry to a "pelting gale" as it swept the Chesapeake's quarterdeck.

One of the armory's two cannons was loaded with grape shot and rolled into position near the entrance, aimed directly at the closed doors and the protesters on the other side.

"The roar of the artillery was deafening; the rushing sound of the descending bombs; the sharp, whizzing noise made by the jagged fragments of exploded shells, the whirring of grape shot and hissing of canister balls — all this was well calculated to disturb the equanimity of the strongest nerved man," recalled General Duncan's aide, William Seymour.

Facing a withering barrage of grape shot and rifle fire, Clinton abandoned the attempt.

Oswald's next career move was to join the French Revolution with a proclamation that the republican fraternité should be extended to the animal kingdom, before grape-shot laid him and his utopian dreams to rest.

One of the pieces that first struck me was from his essay "Letter From Britain", where he describes watching starlings in London:  "They swept the sky like bursts of grape-shot, they bombarded Nelson's statue with black confetti, they settled thick on rooftops, then blew away like dust.

As the range closed the Allies became easy targets for the Franco-Bavarian musket- and grape-shot; the confusion exacerbated by fizzing hand-grenades thrown down the slope by the defenders.

As he moved in advance of his troops across the flooded ditch, Confederate artillery opened up with solid shot, grape and canister, while the infantry rained down lead.

He then ordered a full double-loaded broadside of grape and round shot fired, which took out Guerrieres mizzenmast.