Sentence examples for murderous fire from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the Tigers pushed the Yankees back through what one soldier called a "murderous fire which thinned our ranks at every step".

"I knew that if we ceased firing at once, & undertook to go down the ravine as we came up, that the rebels would pour up over the fort and open a murderous fire upon us".

Stafford's men stood under this murderous fire for 15 minutes, but then the Virginia brigades on their left withdrew and Yankees poured into the gap, forcing the Tigers to pull back as well.

Napoleon then allegedly ordered Nansouty to assault a redoubt, under the most murderous fire.

Meanwhile, the retreat of Viceroy Eugène's Corps had left Montbrun's II French Cavalry Corps to fill the gap under the most murderous fire, which used and demoralized these cavalrymen, greatly reducing their combat effectiveness.

Until I heard the racist and anti-American tirades of Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it hadn't occurred to me that the murderous fires in the black community were being stoked from the pulpits inside black churches.

"So tenaciously did these men fight on orders to stand firm at all costs that they could not be dislodged despite murderous enemy fire and the breakdown of communications," the citation said.

She was delirious, but the event she was reliving was real: The marines of Company F, cut off and under murderous Iraqi fire, had not meant to kill the Kachadoorians, and when they saw what they had done, they went out into the street to bring them in.

Bessières's charge, hastily organised with only the division of Nansouty, through murderous artillery fire and against masses of infantry prepared to receive them, had less tactical effect than at Aspern-Essling, but it did win Napoleon valuable time, allowing him to retake the initiative in this battle.

Then, when you see Ban Ki-Moon with moon-sized craters under his eyes from lack of sleep, and you see Erdogan even more unpleasant and irritable than he already is (if that's even possible) due to insomnia, you'll understand why no country should be asked to live under the constant barrage of murderous rocket fire.

Many of the stories I share include the civilians who were forced to evacuate their homes, or else were caught in the murderous cross-fire.